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Skriven 2004-08-29 07:05:00 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JOHN HULL
Ärende: Dole then and now
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-=> Quoting John Hull to Alan Hess <=-

 AH> When Bob Dole Said No
 AH> By Noel Koch
 
 AH> "They want me to head Veterans," Bob Dole said. "They" meant the 
 AH> Bush White House. His tone said there were things he would rather 
 AH> do.
 
 AH> I asked him whether he was going to do it -- take on the campaign 
 AH> role of going after the veterans' vote. "Probably have to," he 
 AH> said, although he added that he knew the Bush campaign would want 
 AH> him to attack John Kerry, and he didn't intend to do that. He 
 AH> didn't have anything against Kerry, he said.
                           ... [snip] ...
 JH> There're a couple of problems here, Alan.  First, John Kerry is the
 JH> one who put his record in Vietnam forward and tried to trade on it for
 JH> political advantage. That is undeniable.  Second, he came back from
 JH> Nam under conditions that were absolutely bizarre at best, and a lot of
 JH> people who were there *with* him dispute what he says.  And third, he
 JH> sat in front of a Congressional subcommittee and accused his fellow
 JH> soldiers of the most vile and heinous acts one human can perpetrate
 JH> against another.  And did it without a shred of evidence.  That's all
 JH> his doing, nobody elses. 

 JH> That's three strikes, Alan, and now all you liberals want to give him
 JH> a pass and say none of that counts.  But wait, you can't rely on his
 JH> Senate record either, because he has flip-flopped more times than a
 JH> trout out of water on a river bank.  At the same time, you want to take
 JH> Bush to task for things that HE did, or didn't do, 35 years ago.  You
 JH> simply can't have it both ways. 

Excellent summation of the Kerry situation, John.  When he 
decided to base his campaign on his Vietnam War record he hadn't 
thought it through properly.  He undoubtedly thought he'd be 
considered a *hero* while George W. Bush spent the time hiding in 
Texas, and that would be the end of it.

One thing Kerry failed to take into account were the results of 
*two* elections of Bill Clinton to the presidency. Bill Clinton 
had run away from America to avoid the draft during the Vietnam 
War yet the American people voted him into office *twice*.  
George W. Bush, OTOH, had joined the military during that war.  
He lucked out in never having to enter combat but he obviously 
hadn't run away from his duties.

What *I*, personally, resent about John Kerry's Vietnam War-era 
activities was his broad-brush smearing of his fellow soldiers 
left back in Vietnam.  While there doubtless *were* some 
atrocities, attributing such activities to *all*, or even to the 
*majority* of soldiers there was a gross exaggeration.  Kerry's 
paying the price for that smear today ... the debt will be fully 
paid in November ...

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