Dole Questions Kerry's Vietnam Wounds

Yahoo News ^ | 8/22/04 | Pete Yost

[VOA]

Former Republican Sen. Bob Dole suggested Sunday that John Kerry apologize for past
testimony before Congress about alleged atrocities during the Vietnam War

G-d Bless Bob Dole.
Now that he's publically given this wise advice...Kerry will most likely
not take it!

Yippee!!!

[Atomic Vomit]

Bob Dole comes through! He still serves, what a hero!

Tell him so here at his site: bobdole.org.

I just did.

AV

[NYCVirago]

Talk about a vile smear. The only time Bush showed up was to go to the dentist? I wish the Pubbies would show more outrage about these despicable lies.

Yep. All this trashing of Bush and the National Guard is particularly outrageous when we have Guardsman in Iraq and Afghanistan right now.

[Cobra64]

Right! He was just a neutral observer as to what others told him. He had no anti-war opinions! (sarcasm off). Conservative talk show hosts should hammer away at this lame RAT talking point.

I bet you that Rush and Sean will will push this tomorrow, big time. Senator Dole is a repectable man who served his country, and paid a hard price. Lurch is nothing more than an empty suit. A Clinton clone.

[arasina]

Traitorous B*tch!

[rocklobster11]

I'll see if i can find the quotes from rassman about grabbing onto something but being to weak to pull himself over the railing

[anglian]

A new Kerry TV ad urged the president to "denounce the smear" and 'get back to the issues" because America deserves better.".....If Kerry's all distressed about this, let him demand MoveOn.org to stop running ads against Bush.

Title: Kerry/Bush; The ad from MoveOn.org shows the differences between the military records of George Bush and John Kerry. It opens with scenes from the movie Brothers In Arms, a documentary about Kerry and his crew. The ad mentions that Kerry braved enemy gunfire to rescue one of his men. It then shifts to Bush?s record with the National Guard, pointing out that he missed physicals, wasn?t seen for several months and was released early from the Guard to attend business school. The ad cost $115000 and airs nationally on Fox News Channel and on CNN in the New York and DC metro areas.

http://www.opensecrets.org/527s/527events.asp?orgid=41

[PeterPrinciple]

Senator Kerry carries shrapnel in his thigh

This is a lie, the official report says lower buttock. (or his ass, if you want to be medically correct.)

[MrChips]

YES!!!! It's the records!!!!

[GOPrincess]

This is fascinating. Dole's grievous wounds are the kind of thing the Purple Heart was meant to honor, IMHO...

[Southack]

"The significant thing about this story is that IT IS APPEARING IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA."

Oh, there are *lots* of significant things about this story, including that it is the one area where draft-dodging Bil Clinton can't lend his voice to help out Senator Kerry, nor can war protesting Hillary help out...and it is on the very topic in which fair-minded, good-reputation Dole *can* blast away at Kerry with impunity...and it is a story with an all-Kerry angle, leaving President Bush untouched by any flailing jabs.

Notice that rather than apologize and try to move on - that the Kerry Camp keeps injecting more attacks. Each of those attacks gives this story *more* airtime as our side gets to respond to them.

It's all negative for Senator Kerry. Now he's defending his purple hearts from war hero Bob Dole, defending his silver and bronze stars from the swiftvets, defending his Christmas in Cambodia tall tale from the news media itself, and he's about to be hit with new charges in ads that use his *own* words against him from back in his anti-war days.

...And we haven't even gotten to his years under Dukakis as Lt. Governor, much less his pitiful Senate and defense record.

The GOP has only just begun its own pro-Bush ad blitz, and our Convention hasn't even started yet, as well.

In the meantime, Senator Kerry has taken yet another vacation. He's made more vacation trips than Senate votes this year alone.

It's pure meltdown time for the Kerry Campaign. Watch for a personnel shakeup in the next two weeks.

5 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Thank you so very much. You will never know how much I appreciate this. Thank you again.

[beyond the sea]

"One day he's saying that we were shooting civilians, cutting off their ears, cutting off their heads, throwing away his medals or his ribbons," Dole said. "The next day he's standing there, `I want to be president because I'm a Vietnam veteran. "Maybe he should apologize to all the other 2.5 million veterans who served. He wasn't the only one in Vietnam," said Dole, whose World War II wounds left him without the use of his right arm. Dole added: "And here's, you know, a good guy, a good friend. I respect his record. But three Purple Hearts and never bled that I know of. I mean, they're all superficial wounds. Three Purple Hearts and you're out."

Excellent from Bob Dole. This will be hard for Kerry to swallow!

[tiki]

Didn't he just take a break last week! Not that I mind but does this guy ever work? If he was president how many day a week would he work? I think he needs to move to France where laziness is acceptable.

[VeniVidiVici]

...two of whom had praised his service in 1996

You know, simple fact of the matter is that these guys were probably just being respectful in "praising" JfK in 1996.

They had no idea that the stupid party would actually nominate this idiot for president one day.

[kattracks]

The AP changed the title on this article. It originally was, "Dole Wants Kerry to Open Vietnam Records", but I guess they thought that wasn't "mean" enough.

[beyond the sea]

When American POWs finally began to return home (some of them having been held captive for up to nine years) and describe the tortures they had endured at the hands of the North Vietnamese, Jane Fonda told the country that they should "not hail the POWs as heroes, because they are hypocrites and liars."

Did you or anyone hear George Will tell the country and George S. on ABC earlier that the Swift Boat Vets are going to put out a 28 minute piece in September on the POW's and John Kerry?

I'm surprised that is not a big deal here yet. That 28 minutes will bury the hairy Kerry.

[Enchante]

Headline refers to Dole's doubts about the significance of Kerry's bandaid wounds, but I think what's far more significant is:

1) Dole calls upon Kerry to APOLOGIZE to all Vietnam era vets!!!

2) Dole calls upon Kerry to release ALL of his military and medical records.

Those two points are far more significant than debates about how minor Kerry's wounds were, for if the media were to hold Kerry's "feet to the fire" on those two points (highly unlikely, I know) Kerry would truly, finally be in deep doo-doo. If Kerry did release all of his records and apologize to vets, his campaign would be toast. If he doesn't, the media refrain for the next 9 weeks should be "Why won't you respond to Bob Dole's call for you to apologize to vets and release all your records?"

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

This is a lie, the official report says lower buttock. (or his ass, if you want to be medically correct.)

I verbalized this back when this first came out (not on FR), without knowing the facts, that Kerry got his ass blown off, (well, pricked) because he wasn't facing the enemy but running in the opposite direction away from the action.

[ex-Texan]

Kerry is roast turkey. Stick in the fork!