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Vietnam Controversy Costing Kerry, Says Historian
NewsMax .com ^ | 8/23/04 | Dave Eberhart

Posted on 08/22/2004 11:27:26 AM PDT by kattracks

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1 posted on 08/22/2004 11:27:26 AM PDT by kattracks
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...John Kerry is mired in a quagmire worse than the one he complained about in Vietnam.

I-i-i-i-i-i like it. Quagmire it is.

2 posted on 08/22/2004 11:29:22 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all)
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To: kattracks

rack it!


3 posted on 08/22/2004 11:29:48 AM PDT by dennisw (Allah FUBAR!)
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To: Texas Eagle

Here comes Hitlery


4 posted on 08/22/2004 11:31:14 AM PDT by knyteflyte3
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To: kattracks

BTTT for Jug Burkett, a Vietnam veteran who has done more than anyone else to cut through the lies and get the truth out there.


5 posted on 08/22/2004 11:31:22 AM PDT by Viet Vet in Augusta GA
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To: kattracks
Wasn't it Samuel Clements who said that if you never lied, that you didn't have to keep track of so much? ..something like that.

Kerry's in a bad spot. I hope he gets buried politically in the Nov election, but I sit here trying to figure out how to get out of this pickle, and all I can figure is to just stick to the lie, and pile on the spin. ...which seems to be exactly what he is doing.
6 posted on 08/22/2004 11:31:47 AM PDT by hiredhand
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To: kattracks
Tell them Jug!

I met Burkett when he was selling his book all by himself. Heck of a guy!

7 posted on 08/22/2004 11:33:03 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (Strategery - "W" plays poker with one hand and chess with the other.)
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8 posted on 08/22/2004 11:33:20 AM PDT by dennisw (Allah FUBAR!)
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To: kattracks; ALOHA RONNIE

Pundits keep saying it's the negative ads and "hard to prove truths" that are hurting Kerry. In all actuality, it is the fact that he illegally visited VC leaders in Paris to engage in secret and treasonous negotiations, he campaigned to lose the war on lies and slander against our fighting troops, and he continued to negate reasonable efforts to establish global military superiority and homeland security by standing against missile defense.

Kerry's public, admitted record is only reinforced by the rumors and complaints we no hear made by honorable and highly decorated peers who served in similar capacities to Kerry.

Kerry opposed the war with unscrupulous means and came home to continue undermining our defense establishment. Finally, he has continually attacked a sitting president for partisan reasons.

Kerry and his foreign-born wife have proven that they are not fit to occupy our whitehouse.

The particulars of his four month "stint" on the swift boats are interesting, but his polling values are falling because people have realized that he can't command our military.


9 posted on 08/22/2004 11:34:16 AM PDT by risk
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The best Kerry can hope for in this cat fight is to stop the hemorrhaging of points in the polls. There is no way he can turn this into something good.
10 posted on 08/22/2004 11:34:27 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The era of the Old Media monopoly is over-America's Berlin Wall has been torn down!)
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How can any historian ignore statements like Kerry's made?

"In an interview on NBC's "Meet The Press" last Sunday, Kerry was asked about statements he made about Vietnam War atrocities during an interview with the same program in 1971, when he was a leader in the antiwar movement:"

"There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed, in that I took part in shootings in free-fire zones, I conducted harassment and interdiction fire, I used .50-caliber machine guns which were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search-and-destroy missions, in the burning of villages," Kerry said in 1971.

Excerpt from CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/25/hughes.kerry.vietnam/


11 posted on 08/22/2004 11:38:13 AM PDT by tobyhill (The war on terrorism is not for the weak!)
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To: kattracks
Hit him again! Hit him again!

Harder! Harder!

12 posted on 08/22/2004 11:38:35 AM PDT by comebacknewt
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13 posted on 08/22/2004 11:39:50 AM PDT by Chieftain (Support the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and expose Hanoi John's FRAUD!)
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To: kattracks

I'm enjoying this so much more than I should be.


14 posted on 08/22/2004 11:40:55 AM PDT by AlbionGirl
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15 posted on 08/22/2004 11:40:59 AM PDT by freddiedavis
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To: hiredhand
the problem is that the big media, and the leftists, are expending a lot of effort in keeping this guy afloat... they are looking more and more like fools. there is a point at which the hypnotised sheep start looking up from their daily lives and questioning things.

with Dole joining the fray, more and more of the sheep will start doubting the media line: this translates to a loss of prestige and power by the big media. they will not allow that to happen at some point, and watch them start to turn on kerry (newsweek looks like they just went against kerry w/ the bronze star story for example)

16 posted on 08/22/2004 11:41:21 AM PDT by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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To: knyteflyte3

Can Hillary legally step in if Kerry has to pull out?

Is Edwards hiding so he can step up if Kerry blows his lid in the near future?

Not that Kerry would go lightly, he's built his life around running for the presidency....
If Kerry stays and gets blown out in Nov., the Dems would most likely lose seats in other races as well.

There are so many interesting angles of this situation to think about.


17 posted on 08/22/2004 11:42:47 AM PDT by hansel
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To: Jeff Chandler
The best Kerry can hope for in this cat fight is to stop the hemorrhaging of points in the polls.

"Hemorrhaging?" Don't you think that's a bit overstated?

18 posted on 08/22/2004 11:44:09 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

If the talk turns instead to Kerry's Senate record, he would be losing public support at an even faster rate. This guy is a loser, and the Democratic party is a mess for having gone with him.


19 posted on 08/22/2004 11:46:29 AM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: kattracks
Did Kerry marry a French-Vietnamese girl on shore leave from his swift boat, a girl who later proved to be Viet Cong? Is she the woman he met with in Paris? Did the Navy courtmartial him for consorting with the enemy? Was Kerry a counter spy, using his Viet Cong contacts to gain information to pass back to the Navy, is that why he was recalled to the USNR?

Could a sitting Senator be imprisoned for crimes commited while in the military? Did they ever actually put Benedict Arnold in prison or did he excape first?

As a swing voter, I can no longer consider voting for Kerry without first seeing and evaluating what he is hiding. I'm sorry John, but I think you are lying!

20 posted on 08/22/2004 11:48:30 AM PDT by Tacis (KERRY: RESIGN AND APOLOGIZE!!!)
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