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Not So Swift: John Kerry's dubious Vietnam revisionism (By Christopher Hitchens)
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| August 23, 2004
| Christopher Hitchens
Posted on 08/23/2004 12:25:13 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War
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To: Dont Mention the War; Peach; Mudboy Slim; 4ConservativeJustices; Owl_Eagle; cyncooper; Howlin; ...
Christopher Hitchens on Kerry/SBVs ping!
Now that Hitchens and Nat Hentoff have turned on him, the rest of the mainstream press will start to get their nibbles in, except of course for the dead-ender Kool-Aid Brigade. This could start to get fun!
What will be interesting is to see how the Clinton bunch plays this. My hunch is they'll do the public stuff to appear like good DNC supporters, but won't do anything behind-the-scenes to help Lt. John F. Kalley bail the water as it starts to leak in not only from starboard, but from port as well!
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:33:03 PM PDT
by
HenryLeeII
(sultan88, R.I.P.)
To: Dont Mention the War
"...then it was highly incautious of him to have made it the centerpiece of his appeal."
Even the always blunt Hitchens cannot escape classic British understatement.
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:33:45 PM PDT
by
newheart
(The Truth? You can't handle the Truth. But He can handle you.)
To: HenryLeeII
LOL. I generally enjoy reading Hitchens and will check the article out. Thanks!
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:33:56 PM PDT
by
Peach
(The Clinton's pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: HenryLeeII
"...they'll do the public stuff to appear like good DNC supporters, but won't do anything behind-the-scenes to help Lt. John F. Kalley" There's nothing they can do to save Kerry...this is the beginning of the end fer Hanoi John's candidacy.
FReegards...MUD
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:35:49 PM PDT
by
Mudboy Slim
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To: Dont Mention the War
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:37:07 PM PDT
by
Chieftain
(Support the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and expose Hanoi John's FRAUD!)
To: Dont Mention the War
Hitchens is always an interesting read.
It's difficult to imagine that a Jane Fonda Mimbo was actually nominated for the Presidency. Kerry's Viet Nam experience, from any and all perspectives, appears corrupt.
He's always been a kept man, a Manchurian Candidate doing the bidding of globalists and foreign powers.
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:37:41 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
(Hey, RNC! Get Bob Dylan to sing "Saving Grace" at the Convention!)
To: HenryLeeII
Hillary was probably the one who told John F'n Kerry to run on his Vietnam record.
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:44:06 PM PDT
by
4CJ
(||) Men die by the calendar, but nations die by their character. - John Armor, 5 Jun 2004 (||)
To: Dont Mention the War
Hitchens says the SwiftVets have a right to speak, and it was stupid for Kerry to make Vietnam his centerpiece. But he (Hitchens) can't, for he life of him, figure out who is telling the truth about Kerry's service. This, in spite of the fact that Kerry has now admitted to falsifying his war record for political gain. But it was all so long ago, and both sides, from Hitchens' point of view, were equally misled or corrupt. We...just...can't...be...sure.
Nonesense. The case against Kerry is compelling. Hitchens derides those who take refuge in "the fog of war" defense, and then proceeds to take refuge in the fog of history.
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:44:06 PM PDT
by
Taliesan
(fiction police)
To: Mudboy Slim
There's nothing they can do to save Kerry...this is the beginning of the end fer Hanoi John's candidacy.For the future of the Republic and the Free World, I do hope you are correct. Or else, you'll be re-writing "Its the End of the World as We Know it" come November 3!
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:47:46 PM PDT
by
HenryLeeII
(sultan88, R.I.P.)
To: HenryLeeII
Bump for the flaming liberal who has the guts to tell other libs when they're babies are ugly!!!
To: Dont Mention the War
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:51:31 PM PDT
by
federal
To: Dont Mention the War
HEY MR. KERRY...
YOU CAN'T BE BOTH ANTI-WAR AND SGT. YORK AT THE SAME TIME!!
(dummy)
even your liberal buddies have that much common sense!
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:52:56 PM PDT
by
Chewbacco
(I actually had a tagline, before I erased it)
To: Dont Mention the War
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:55:40 PM PDT
by
shield
(The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
To: Peach
Hitchens is a top notch debater.
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posted on
08/23/2004 12:58:52 PM PDT
by
Lori675
To: Dont Mention the War
(I am pretty sure, though, that he was unwise to prompt the release of the photograph of himself with his latest long-silent defender, William Rood of the Chicago Tribune. The shot of Kerry awkwardly shouldering a rocket launcher for the camera makes him look like a complete poseur.) Anyone have this picture to post?
To: HenryLeeII
Clinton can have nothing to say about this issue. He was a draft dodger. Clinton defending Kerry on wartime service would be like Charlie Manson testifying as a character witness for Scott Peterson!
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posted on
08/23/2004 1:02:03 PM PDT
by
laishly
To: Dont Mention the War
A great piece, well worth the extra click to read in its entirety. I espeically liked:
Did Kerry imagine that if he dressed up in his old uniform again, his former critics would decide to keep quiet? What, if anything, was he thinking?
A question that has a clear answer. Kerry was thinking that the leftwing media would do exactly what it's doing....spin the story in his favor. Thanks, Hitch, for rising above the swamp the other mudslingers inhabit.
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posted on
08/23/2004 1:05:17 PM PDT
by
Veto!
(Kerry wears a tutu, TeRAYza wears the pants)
To: Dont Mention the War
Meanwhile, even odder things are happening to Kerry's "left." Michael Moore, whose film Kerry's people have drawn upon in making cracks about the president and the My Pet Goat moment, repeatedly says that you can't comment on the Iraq waror at least not in favor of itif you haven't shown a willingness to send a son to die there. Comes the questionwhat if you haven't got a son of military age?Spot on, Mr. Hitchens.
To: Dont Mention the War
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posted on
08/23/2004 1:09:35 PM PDT
by
Rocko
(John Kerry: "Standard bearer for the unbearable.")
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