Kerry's Medals Strategy. Why Democrats are attacking George Bush's Vietnam service.

WSJ ^ | 2/9/04 | WSJ editorial

[Elkiejg]

In case you've been busy making a living, the Presidential campaign is in full swing, and it's already getting nasty. Likely Democratic nominee John Kerry set the tone for his autumn candidacy yesterday by disparaging President Bush's military service.

"The issue here, as I have heard it raised, is was he present and active on duty in Alabama at the times he was supposed to be? I don't have the answer to that question," the Massachusetts Senator declared at a news conference while campaigning in Virginia. "Just because you get an honorable discharge does not in fact answer that question."

[MEG33]

Yes!

[anniegetyourgun]

As far as I'm concerned, Kerry's few months of service in VN doesn't make up for his lifetime of being a societal leech.

[ambrose]

Timothy McVeigh and Jeffrey Dahmer were also veterans.

[blueyes]

Kerry's military service only shows that he is physically brave...unfortunately, Kerry lacks moral bravery.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Because it is working - given a gullible public and a compliant national press corpse:

When you do a Google search on "Kerry + Vietnam + war +hero" you get 25,400 web hits.

When you repeat the search with "-Kerry" (to exclude Kerry) you get over 100,000 hits. Means Kerry is specifically been linked (by name!) as a Vietnam war "hero" explicitly and deliberately over 25,000 times. And that ONLY since he declared his candidacy. Want to bet it go up ten times that in the next few months?

Want to find how Bush is regarded? Check "Vietnam + Bush + coward" = 13,800 times.

"Bush + AWOL + Vietnam"? 22,000 times.

"Bush + AWOL + Alabama"? 7,490 times.

[RippleFire]

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[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Anyone got a copy of the book THE NEW SOLDIER by JOHN KERRY published in 1971?

It is enough to make you sick of him trying to build on his military service and the time he was a member of the VVAW or Vietnam Vets Against War.

[Savage Beast]

PROPAGANDA ALERT!

America On Line's top morning headlines today:

Kerry Locks Up
Weekend Sweep

With Primary Campaign Rolling,
War Vet Rips Bush on Service

PROPAGANDA ALERT!

[You Dirty Rats]

And Lee Harvey Oswald was in the Marines.

[an amused spectator]

In Mr. Kerry's case, he has taken the dovish side of nearly every foreign policy debate since he entered public life.

Boston Chicken^TM

[pabianice]

Kerry remains the only man in the history of the US Navy to be awarded the Silver Star for running his boat aground and then having to fight his way out of his own mess. He should have been court martialed.

Vietnam Veterans Against Kerry

[Alamo-Girl]

Revealing statistics you have! Thank you!

[an amused spectator]

'"They obviously misused information and misled the American people," said Kerry in an interview on MSNBC television. "The administration itself promised us they would build an international coalition, that they would honor the United Nations inspections and they would go to war as a last resort. They did none of those things, I intend to hold the president accountable for that in the course of this race."

And Sir Kerry bravely ran away from Iraq...

[milbuf]

Jane Fonda Kerry (JF Kerry) or is it John F. Kennedy Kerry
He is Fonda's 70's shadow A Traitor to the real Vietnam Vets.

[syriacus]

Because it is working - given a gullible public and a compliant national press corpse:

Folks should be told to do a search on Free Republic under the keyword, VIETGATE

[Robert A Cook PE]

Shadow of Jane Fonda? She IS STILL supporting him.

Heck, Fonda was donating (illegally over the maximum limit!) even now to his campaigns: In Kerry's 2001 FEC reports she is credited with over $3300.00 individually.