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Skriven 2004-08-12 20:12:28 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
     Kommentar till en text av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: Another analysis
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* Originally by: Ed Connell (1:379/1.6), 12 Aug 04 15:31.


12 Aug 04 15:31, Ed Connell wrote to FRANK SCHEIDT:

 EC> Hey, FRANK.

 RJ>>>> This article can be found on the web at
 RJ>>>> http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040816&s=williams
 RJ>>>> Bush's Military Past
 RJ>>>> by IAN WILLIAMS

 RJ>>>> Even allowing for the usual military-bureaucratic incompetence,
 RJ>>>> records relating to George W. Bush's National Guard Service have 
 RJ>>>> a suspiciously low survival rate, so there has been 
 RJ>>>> understandable incredulity about the recent revelation that a 
 RJ>>>> crucial quarter's pay records from 1972 did not survive the 
 RJ>>>> Pentagon's alleged attempt to transfer the microfilm to a more 
 RJ>>>> durable medium. That incredulity was enhanced rather than allayed 
 RJ>>>> when they eventually were discovered behind whichever filing 
 RJ>>>> cabinet they had been dropped.

 RJ>>>> At issue is whether Bush was, technically at least, a deserter 
 RJ>>>> in his fourth year of National Guard service, when he requested 
 RJ>>>> a transfer to Guard duties in Alabama so he could assist a 
 RJ>>>> Republican senatorial campaign there.
 FS>>>                               ... [snip] ...
 FS>>> This kind of activity is known as "Flogging a dead horse".  So
 FS>>> let's cut out the nonsense and start studying Kerry's "brilliant"
 FS>>> U.S. Senate career ... I wonder why Kerry is so silent about that
 FS>>> ... also about the fact that he was Dukakis's Lt. Governor ...
 FS>>> heh heh heh ... now *there's* a horse which can really gallop!

 FS>>> ... "I need a home-run hitter," Tom said ruthlessly.

 JH>>> Don't bet on it, Frank.  Cal Thomas had a rather long column in 
 JH>>> the paper today about how these questions about Kerry's military 
 JH>>> and Vietnam service are legitimate questions.  Why?  Two reasons:  
 JH>>> 1. He has been trying to sell his leadership ability and courage 
 JH>>> under fire based on his alledged Vietnam record, and 2. He has 
 JH>>> made a big deal of Bush's record, trying to get traction by saying 
 JH>>> he was AWOL, etc.

 JH>>> He can't have it both ways, and I have to tell you, we 
 JH>>> conservatives would WELCOME him into a courtroom to try to take 
 JH>>> legal action for what the Swift Boat guys are saying.  WELCOME 
 JH>>> IT!

 JH>>> This is not going away and it won't do him any good.

 FS>> I'm certain it won't go away, but, from my standpoint the closer
 FS>> his actions are to *today* the more important.  After all the
 FS>> Vietnam War was three decades ago while his Senate record is
 FS>> fairly recent.

 FS>> I think his Vietnam record is largely a wash.  People can use the
 FS>> swift boats challengers to knock him down while supporters can
 FS>> use his official record in that war to build him up.  I don't
 FS>> care much for his Vietnam record in general.

 EC> But it is TODAY that Kerry is making a big deal about his war 
 EC> record.

As some of the more astute columnists have noted, Kerry has hung his whole
campaign on the fact that he's a war hero.  HE has brought it all into the
light, and now he's bitching because others are coming out of the woodwork to
say the emperor has no clothes.  So sorry, but he brought it all on himself.

John 

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