Posted on 08/13/2004 4:27:54 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Help me to learn. Was EDWARDS in Vietnam? He would have been of draftable age during the time. Did he get a deferrment?
Spilled blood from his butt pimple wound? I didn't think it was that bad.
Matthews seems to be going completely bonkers, he doesn't even bother to make the remotest sense any more.
I seem to recall that Edwards was in deferrment world during Vietnam. Not sure of the details though.
Since Kerry claims they pulled the shrapnel out in an interview he gave.....This is going to come back on them.
ONCE AGAIN, DEMS HAVE MADE KERRY VIETNAM EXPERIENCE AN ISSUE....
So they should not complain when the Swifties expose the truth about that service.
KERRY.....WANN TALK ABOUT NAM? RELEASE YOUR RECORDS!
Ok, one PH was from shrapnel from a grenade launcher that he shot too close to the beach. The PH was illegitimate because is was self inflicted and I'm not sure if he was under fire. Somebody testified the shrapnel was sticking in his skin, they pulled it out and put a bandaid on it.
Another PH was a concussion grenade he put in a pile of rice, also self inflicted, and I'm not sure if he was under fire then either. Someone testified they picked the rice out of his butt with tweezers. (eeeeewwwwww)
Another PH was for bruising his arm when the mines hit PCF3. At least he was under fire that time, but I don't think I'd award a PH for a bruise.
Am I missing something?
Where's the shrapnel?
Well, you got the first two letters right...
.....or the next 3
"I seem to recall that Edwards was in deferrment world during Vietnam. Not sure of the details though."
Believe he graduated from high school in 1971.
The point is, he's a small town southern boy who, until he was elected Senator from NC (where he has done little for the people who elected him) had no executive leadership experience, no experience in government, no experience with the military, and has never met a payroll or learned anything about creating productivity and wealth in an economy.
He did learn, during his law practice, that you can ACQUIRE a lot of wealth quickly. He did this by pretending to be for the "little people," knowing full well that if he won lawsuits, the bulk of the award would go to the lawyer. Meanwhile, thousands of people's insurance premiums and other costs would go up to pay for the wealth transfer into his bank account.
Now, he wants to promise help for the "little people" with taxpayer dollars (using government taxing power to take the hard-earned dollars of many for the benefit of others) in exchange for votes. Trading promises for votes is how unscrupulous politicians attain power.
Let him go out on this Vietnam hero limb as far as he is willing to go. Perhaps he has hitched his wagon to the wrong star.
Yeah, but what they don't tell you is, that it was RICE, and everyone knows that RICE is very hard to get rid of.
I'm sure I spilled more blood during childbirth than Kerry ever has.
sick,but funny...
X-ray, please. And be forewarned: rice won't show up on one...
Shrapnel. You know. Little things about the size of rice.
Becki
The significance of a military career is the insight it gives into the character of a man, and what kind of man he will be in a position wartime leadership.
We already know what kind of man Bush is, we know precisely what kind of leader he is and we know exactly how he will conduct the war. He will do exactly what he says he will do, and he will chase our enemies into their caves and put them out of business, whatever it takes. We know that.
We also know what kind of man Kerry is, and we know what he will do as commander in chief by his own words. He will look to the UN and the EU for leadership. He will attempt to trade Iraqi oil for French approval. He will pull US troops out of the theater as quickly as possible. Within 6 months, I think he said.
He will sign the Kyoto treaty, if France still wants him to. He will sign the ICC agreement. He will place US troops under international control. Bush won't do any of those things.
I don't think there is any doubt what either of them will do as commander in chief. At the level of foreign policy, this election couldn't be more clear cut.
He's full of something else that begins with "sh."
Kerry is full of:
a. Scrapple
b. shrapnel
c. crapola
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