[buccaneer81]

The Dispatch has gone from a reliable conservative paper to a left wing liberal rag in the past five years.

They hate guns, love gays and despise the President.

[buccaneer81]

Ping the Ohio list, please.

[BenLurkin]

Mr. Kerrry you are on video tape acting as the ad hoc representative of the enemy in 1971, and are on record presenting the Communist surrender demands directly to the United States Senate.

Coupled with Madam Binh's "Eight Point" surrender demand you leveled bizarre, baseless and scurrilous accusations against the decent men of the United States military in VietNam.

You have no excuses - there can be no excuse.

[Chieftain]

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[Belisaurius]

I wonder where and when Joe Hallet served.

[auboy]

Obviously, Joe Hallett needs to get out more. Although it is hard to learn the facts with one's head buried in the sand.

[bygolly]

You cannot tear down what never was!

[Texas Eagle]

oooooooh...those wascawwy Wepubwicans.

[goldstategop]

The libs are freaking out and don't know what to do. This guy is more restrained than the folks over at DU. I can only imagine its bedlam there.

[Texas Eagle]

Kerry said if Bush wants to ‘‘have a debate about our service in Vietnam, here is my answer: ‘Bring it on.’ "

Uhhhhhhh....okayyyy.

Then what, exactly, is the problem here?

[marmar]

I guess it depends on who writes the medals. Most of the guys in SWA will not write their own medals. If you have nothing to hide...then it can't come back and bite you in the butttttt...

[goldstategop]

Kerry’s postwar protest activities and his Senate voting record on defense issues are fair game for critics. But twisting his valorous war record for political purposes is shameful.

Hallet's hypocrisy is oozing. We have no right to criticize Kerry as a fraud but its okay for him to trash vets and call them liars. The liberal mindset at work.

[GLSchnJR]

My husband has been a Ranger four over 15 years and has been awarded several medals. The difference is Kerry used them to get out of service while my husband is still serving in Iraqi.

[TASMANIANRED]

"Nevermind that Cleland lost two legs and his right arm in the Vietnam War. "

Obviously these folks think going for a beer is war. They must think going for a glass of Chablis is hell incarnate..

[Chaguito]

Mr Hallett,

James Carville told me that you weren't on the same boat as Mr. Kerry, so you are not qualified to comment.

Your editorial shows that you are willingly allowing Mr. Kerry to make you look like his obsequious courtier, rather than the gravelly, hard-bitten reporter I'm sure you really are.

'signed'

[Savage Beast]

"In 2002, Republicans painted Sen. Max Cleland, a Georgia Democrat, as unpatriotic."

The writer ignores Georgia Republican Saxby Chabliss' unforgetable rejoinder:

"I'm not questioning your patriotism. I'm questioning your judgment."

[freddiedavis]

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[EGPWS]

I hope Mr. Hallett's editorial gets considerable national attention, as I assume Dubya feels the same way.

Thanks Joe for your input is greatly appreciated by us who want to see another four years!

You have, through your bias and idiocy brought Dubya closer to what I have proclaimed all along...A landslide victory for reelection. : )

[Ghengis]

This idiot writes one or two editorials per week right off of the DNC fax sheet. This guy is one of the big reasons why I don't buy the columbus dispatch these days.

[eeriegeno]

Jim Rassmann had come from Oregon to tell the world that 35 years earlier, then-Navy Lt. Kerry, wounded, turned his swift boat around against enemy fire and fished Rassmann out of the Bay Hap River in Vietnam. ‘‘He could have been shot and killed," said a teary Rassmann, a Republican. ‘‘I figure I owe this man my life."

Hmmm, this newspaper is 100% sure that Kerry turned his boat around against enemy fire? The rag is 100% certain that there was enemy fire after one of the swift boats exploded from a mine? And that Rassmann wasn't knocked off of the boat by Kerry's fleeing the scene?

I wasn't there either BUT..............

If 250+ veterans of Viet Nam who served in this locale say that there was no enemy fire and a small handful who share the stage with who I consider to be a most opportunistic and pathological liar, who can't make his mind up on any given issue, say there was, which group do you think that I am going to believe?

Of course, John Kerry can quickly solve many of these mysteries by simply releasing all of his military and medical records? The bigger question that I have is not 'who shot John' (Judge Judy favorite) but what is Kerry hiding in those records?

I would think that in selecting the next President of the United States, while we are at war with radicals who want to blow us up, that each candidate would release all that is possible to release so that the majority knows all that they can about him.

Hmmm, but then again, wasn't John Kerry a member of the VVAW, the RADICAL group who voted to assassinate congressmen? Hmmm?

[Ohioan from Florida]

Joe Hallett has been an idiot for quite some time. It's too bad that what passes for journalism these days is so inadequate.