Posted on 08/22/2004 10:08:01 AM PDT by jwalsh07
Actually if I read Rood's "endorsement" correctly, he seemed to support the kerry rice-ass injury.
I think a point to be remembered is that I don't remember hearing Dole comment on his war service every speach... with Kerry I reached the point of being tired of hearing it so much a very long time ago.
Almost like his whole life is wrapped around 4 months.... pretty pathetic actually...
Dole is the only parliamentarians from the modern age who should be placed in the Senate Pantheon with Taft, LaFollette, Webster, Calhoun, and Clay.
He was, for example, the only one in recent times who read all the bills coming before that august body.
If you look at this Washinton Post article, it is clear that some of the vets joined the group because of their objections to Kerry's anti-war stance, not because they question his medals
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20242-2004Aug20.html
And many vets including Republican Jim Rassmann and William Rood contradict those who criticize Kerry (and several of them are contradicting their own earlier statements).
At least Kerry went and fought in Vietnam which is more than can be said for Bush or Cheney.
Not only have I read it already (thanks anyway), but I was aware of that waaaaaaaaaay last May when they gave their first press conference.
You claimed that Dole's record could have been distorted "like Kerry's", implying Kerry's record has been "distorted". You most certainly have not demonstrated that it has.
As to the fact that some tightly muzzled Kerry supporters say they differ with the Swift Vets, what's your point? So what? We are free to then draw our conclusions as to which side is credible. I can't help it if your perception is off and you choose the wrong side. That still does not a distortion of Kerry's record make.
You continue to ignore the huge implications of the overwhelming numbers of men who have joined together against Kerry. How dare you draw a parallel to Dole.
OH and before you run off, would you be so kind to point out to me exactly what Rood contradicts the Swift Vets on?
Thanks in advance.
"At least"? What are you implying there? Oh, I know, you don't think Bush didn't take a risk. You are a craven and sniveling weasely little worm:
Ex-pilot says Bush put in for Vietnam
excerpt:
"There was one big exception to this abusive use of the Guard to avoid the draft," Campenni said, "and that was for those who wanted to fly, as pilots or crew members."
Air Guard pilot duty required up to 2½ years of active-duty service for training, he said. Draftees served for two years, overwhelmingly in the Army.
Air National Guard units began flying supply missions in Vietnam in 1965, and the Air Guard was mobilized twice during the Vietnam War. Guard aviators in five squadrons flying the F-100 Super Sabre fighter-bomber were called up for duty in Vietnam in 1968.
"Avoiding service?" Campenni said. "Yeah, tell that to those guys."
Simply flying tactical military aircraft is dangerous, he said.
"Six of those with whom I served in those years never made their 30th birthdays because they died in crashes flying air-defense missions" in the United States, Campenni said.
"Our Texas [Air National Guard] unit lost several planes right there in Houston during Lt. Bush's tenure, with fatalities," he said.
"Just strapping on one of those obsolescing F-102s was risking one's life."
~snip~
So, GWB signing up for years in service to his country, taking a huge risk with his life doesn't suit your fancy, does it?
Shove it.
Kerry is in full retreat ("Boats turn 180!"); McCrisis knows the SecDef job is now just a fart in the wind (and is probably thinking 53-45 himself and +2 in the Senate, helping to negate his RINO influence); and all Rove needs to do is renew a limited media buy on John McCain's campaign ad -- "First Choice" -- for President Bush:
(Sen. John McCain narration) "America is under attack by depraved enemies who oppose our every interest and hate every value we hold dear.""It is the great test of our generation and he has led with great moral clarity and firm resolve. He has not wavered, he has not flinched from the hard choices, he was determined and remains determined to make this world a better, safer, freer place. He deserves not only our support but our admiration."
should read
you don't think Bush took a risk.
My dander was up!
Wow. Sleeper till 8/20/2004. I'm impressed you could remember your password -- must have had it tattooed in reverse on your forehead. Go back to sleep now...
So you made one post in 2003.
Then several posts in 2004. All saying negative things about Bush and Cheney. Hah!
I smell a DNC troll. A little sleeper.
Have to have a two-front war. It's all part of a pattern--the exaggeration, the lies, the blind ambition.
Oh, he was good F16, try this on for size:
Rood simply kills Kerry because if you read what Rood wrote and Kerrys citation, there's Big Trouble in Little China. Kerry did NOT do what the citation says Kerry dood according to Rood.
Hurray for BOB DOLE! You rock!
The man IS pissed...Loved to have seen him blasting round after round.
Bob Dole nearly died on the battlefield in WW2; he spent years recovering, and could not be put all back together again. His axe to grind with Kerry cuts far more deeply than the politics of it. It goes to honor, duty, country, lying, and everything that Kerry is that makes him unfit to be CIC.
I am a woman; I have not served my country in uniform, but I have tremendous empathy, love, and appreciation for those who have done so honorably, and for those who came home with part of them in another country.
You go girl.
I am not a Democrat.
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