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Skriven 2004-08-20 23:27:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ED CONNELL
Ärende: Another analysis
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-=> Quoting Ed Connell to Frank Scheidt <=-
 
 TR>> RJ>> -> You don't elect a man like that as president of -> the
 TR>> RJ>> most powerful nation on earth.
 
 TR>> RJ>> Right!  You have him appointed by the supreme court.
 
 TR>> EC> heh heh heh
 
 TR>> EC> Get over it.
 
 TR>> SH>As November approaches, I want these idiots to center their
 TR>> SH>campaigns on t things, 1) the carrier landing and 2) the 2000
 TR>> SH>election.
 
 TR>> They might still be `fetching' the 1968 Christmas Eve in Cambodia,
 TR>> too.
 
 JM>> When they find that they can start on this one
 
 JM>> It looks like Kerry has contradicted himself in his own diary.  In
 JM>> Douglas Brinkley's "Tour of Duty," which is Kerry's official, approved
 JM>> war biography, The Poodle writes an entry after a mission.  In that
 JM>> entry he says that after several missions he has not yet taken any
 JM>> enemy  fire.  Ok .. big deal. Big whoop, right?  Sorry .. but actually
 JM>> this is  a big deal.
 
 JM>> The problem here is that this particular entry in Kerry's diary was
 JM>> made  concerning the mission which followed that mission where he
 JM>> earned his  first Purple Heart.   Now .. think this one through.
 JM>> Kerry goes on a  mission and earns a Purple Heart.  Then, after his
 JM>> next mission, Kerry  writes in his diary that he has not yet
 JM>> experienced any enemy fire.   Tell me .. if Kerry had not yet
 JM>> experienced enemy fire then how did he  earn a Purple Heart?  Boortz
 
 FS> When John Kerry made his Vietnam Service the centerpiece of his
 FS> speech during the Democrat convention he probably though of a
 FS> simple comparison:  "Brave John Kerry fighting the enemy in
 FS> Vietnam while a cowardly George W. Bush hides in the U.S. in the
 FS> Texas National Guard."  The comparison would certainly make Kerry
 FS> look like a better potential Commander-in-Chief than George W.
 FS> Bush would.
 
 FS> Kerry made two major mistakes in this approach:
 
 FS> (1)  George W. Bush has *experience* as Commander-in-Chief of our
 FS> armed forces for almost four years now, and has done a fine job.
 FS> John Kerry, OTOH, commanded perhaps a dozen men in a war which
 FS> has been *over* for three decades.  GWB easily comes out ahead in
 FS> that comparison.
 
 FS> (2)  It didn't occur to Kerry, apparently, that there were
 FS> probably many hundreds of other combat veterans who had either
 FS> observed his actions directly or who had served under similar
 FS> circumstances at that time.  They could examine his claims
 FS> critically.  Up to now it seems Kerry hasn't refuted any of the
 FS> charges being made against him -- he merely rejects them while
 FS> giving no proof.

 EC> One thing I've noticed about combat veterans is that they will forgive
 EC> most anything but lying about one's service in combat.

Since my Service during WWII didn't involve combat is it OK for 
me to lie about it??  Sounds like a reasonable approach ... take 
for example ... but *wait* I don't know yet if it's OK ...

... "Life's full of mysteries.  Consider this one of them."

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