Posted on 08/18/2004 12:30:16 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The big story currently in the media that aren't in the practice of turning big stories that aren't their stories into little stories and then dead stories, is the controversy surrounding presidential nominee John Kerry and the group know as "The Swiftboat Veterans for Truth." With Senator Kerry making his military service the centerpiece of his campaign, the 254 ex-servicemen this group comprises have come forward to contradict many of his claims in a book titled "Unfit for Command," by JohnO'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi.
Now, with accusations flying as much as Air Force One and the propaganda as thick as Heinz ketchup, some may not know whom to believe. So let's see if we can winnow out the nonsense and get at the truth.
(Excerpt) Read more at michnews.com ...
Author: Selwyn Duke
Awesome article. Thanks for posting it.
It's a knockout!
Wow! Superb article! Thanks!
The author has it nailed.
"simply the next chapter in his quest for national recognition"
This is the core of the matter IMHO. In the early 70's he got it with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and now he is trying to get it with his Vietnam service. His entire history has been about using other people for his own ends. It is the absolute worst trait a politician can have, and he has it in spades.
I can see why. This guy is concise. Great article. Too bad it's copyrighted.
Exactly.
You can get a printer friendly version of this at the web site.
I made a copy and put it in my copy of "Unfit for Command."
See Post #9.
We have a winner!! A Must read right on the money.
bttt
ROFLMAO what goes around comes around...
Great find and spot on!
bookmarked for later
"Every testimony by North Vietnamese generals in the postwar years has affirmed that they knew they could not defeat the United States on the battlefield, and that they counted on the division of our people at home to win the war for them. The Vietcong forces we were fighting in South Vietnam were destroyed in 1968. In other words, most of the war and most of the casualties in the war occurred because the dictatorship of North Vietnam counted on the fact Americans would give up the battle rather than pay the price necessary to win it. This is what happened. The blood of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, and tens of thousands of Americans, is on the hands of the anti-war activists who prolonged the struggle and gave victory to the Communists."
Could you comment on this reality and how you think it applies to the role of John Kerry?***
It still strikes me as weird -- well, in Kerry's case, especially weird -- that for someone who always wanted to be president, he spent a lot of time apparently just lolling about the Senate. You'd think he would have started earlier trying to become a national figure, i.e., doing something. (After 20 years in the Senate, his campaign kept saying the people didn't know him yet.)
Essential laziness? Maintain protective coloration of never being nationally identified with anything? Sense of entitlement? He'd laid the groundwork and it's now or never? All of the above?
Johnny was inhaling a little too much swamp gas in Vietnam. Delusion and denial seem to sum up his character.
Ted Kennedy(R), seen here with his protege John Kerry (news - web sites) in January 2004, could pull off a last big political coup if his protege wins Kerry battle for the White House(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)
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