Text 1529, 90 rader
Skriven 2004-08-29 06:57:06 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
   Kommentar till text 1525 av FRANK SCHEIDT (1:123/140)
Ärende: Dole then and now
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29 Aug 04 07:05, FRANK SCHEIDT wrote to JOHN HULL:

 FS> -=> 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.
 FS>                            ... [snip] ...
 JH>> There're a couple of problems here, Alan.  First, John Kerry is 
 JH>> the one who put his record in Vietnam forward and tried to trade on 
 JH>> it for political advantage. That is undeniable.  Second, he came 
 JH>> back from Nam under conditions that were absolutely bizarre at 
 JH>> best, and a lot of people who were there *with* him dispute what he 
 JH>> says.  And third, he sat in front of a Congressional subcommittee 
 JH>> and accused his fellow soldiers of the most vile and heinous acts 
 JH>> one human can perpetrate against another.  And did it without a 
 JH>> shred of evidence.  That's all his doing, nobody elses. 

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

 FS> Excellent summation of the Kerry situation, John.  When he 

Thanks, Frank.

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

It goes deeper than that, though.  Its bad enough that he's stretching the
truth.  The real problem is the absolute arrogance he showed in manipulating
the system the way he did for his own personal gain.  For instance, at least
two of the Purple Hearts are from self-inflicted "wounds."  Most guys wouldn't
have even taken a legitimate PH for something so slight, and a lot of guys
didn't want them even with fairly severe wounds.  But faking a wound and then
manipulating the paperwork to get a PH out of it is beyond the pale.  That
shows a character that has no business being in the White House.

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

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

Well, quite a number of people have decided that maybe there should be some
investigations into Mr. Kerry's behavior, both in Vietnam and during the
anti-war protest and Senate testimony in 71.

By the way, just a side note on the medal thing.  Kerry and his supporters keep
saying "Navy records" say this or that.  Well, Navy records for those citations
were initially created from "after action reports."  Guess who wrote those
after action reports?  John Kerry.  Then there some further discrepancies
because some of those citations have been rewritten three times. That's an
automatic red flag right there.

Satchell Paige once said "never look back, they might be gainin' on ya" or
words to that effect.  I think that's advice Kerry should take to heart. 
They're not only gaining, they're about to take big bite out of his ass!

John 

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