[counterpunch]

Shouldn't this be titled "What John Kerry's Single Note Campaign Has Cost Us"?


 
 
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[NavySEAL F-16]

Kerry brought it up. Joe.

Remember his speech at the convention?

[river rat]

One can tell from the screams of the left wing media, that the Swift Boat ads are having an effect...

Time has long ago lost any claim to being "fair and balanced"....

SEND MONEY to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth....
It will be well spent and it will unveil the real Kerry, and it ain't pretty..

Semper Fi

[Dahoser]

As she left the factory on Aug. 4, she had no idea how she would support her three children. She still doesn't know.

But she listened to her union who told her not to go back to a job that could support her three children while she figured out some way to get health coverage. Gee, maybe the union could find a way to do that instead of blowing the members' dues on executive salaries, conventions and support of John F'n Kerry.

[BenLurkin]

TIME knows about this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1202310/posts

BUT will never thell the truth about how Kerry chose evil over good in 1971.

[AmericanCheeseFood]

What a cold hearted whore.

Union member, with children, refusing to work because she can't get company funded health care.

"How am I going to feed and house my children?"

WORK 8!+#

[AC86UT89]

Kerry makes his 4 months in Viet Nam the center piece of his campaign, a group of Viet Nam veterans takes him up on it, and now it's Bush's fault that we're not talking about the "real issues". Joe Klein and Time magazine are a joke.

[fhayek]

But we're not really talking about Vietnam here, are we? We are talking about the politics of misdirection

Joe Klein has nailed it. Unfortunately, it was Kerry who perpetrated this artifice. He didn't want scrutiny of his extraordinarily liberal voting record, nor his bordering-on-traitorous anti-war efforts (no, Joe, they were not 'honorable'). The misdirection by Kerry blew up in his face.

[Cboldt]

These are heartfelt gripes, perhaps, but wrong on the merits. Kerry's protest was not only honorable, it was accurate. The war in Vietnam was an unnecessary disaster, entered into under false pretenses--the fabricated Gulf of Tonkin incident--and fought because of a mistaken intellectual theory: that the Vietnamese national liberation movement was part of an international communist conspiracy to overwhelm Asia. (The subsequent war between Vietnam and China put a crimp in that one.) And, yes, there were atrocities aplenty.

Klein is a pinko. No doubt, he is singing exactly the same tune today regarding Iraq. He was wrong then, and he is wrong now.

[dts32041]

Isn't this the Joe Klein who wrote Primary Colours, if so what is he complaining about?

This revisiting the Mekong Delta, means the thoughts and hatred towards the serving members of the military is being reexamined.

The failed policies of the left wing of the rat party are being examined much as it should be.

Mekong Delta is front and center as it should be, for tracing and following the history of this Boston Brahma, who went to war as a poetical motive, much as Al Gore went to Viet Nam to help his daddy's campaign.

[ottothedog]

MSM is in complete denial.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

The war in Vietnam was an unnecessary disaster, entered into under false pretenses—the fabricated Gulf of Tonkin incident—and fought because of a mistaken intellectual theory: that the Vietnamese national liberation movement was part of an international communist conspiracy to overwhelm Asia.

Klein is a dunce!

The communist conspiracy was not to just overwhelm asia, but the whole world.

Where has Klein been hibernating?

[TADSLOS]

Kerry hasn't shown much inclination to raise the real question about Iraq

That's because he has no PLAN, Joe. He will defer to the same foreign leaders that obfuscated and allowed Saddam to stay in power as long as he did. Kerry is a poser, plain and simple.

[shield]

SWIFTIES had nothin' to do with it....HELLO it was your lying sociopath candidate. Kerry is a loser, traitor, commie, liar, fraud; and does not represent the true American Spirit. So there you old goons!!!

[ethical]

Keep it up Swift Boat Vets. The truth hurts.

[freddiedavis]

a bump for http://www.swiftvets.com/

[Boundless]

> But we're not really talking about Vietnam here, are we?
> We are talking about the politics of misdirection, about
? keeping John Kerry on the defensive by raising spurious
> questions about his "character."

Once Kerry tossed his hat in the ring, it was probably
inevitable that the SBVFT would form to oppose him. But
had the Kerry campaign focused on the recent past, and
the Kerry plan-of-the-moment, the Swifties would not
have had much traction.

By publishing "Tour of Duty", Kerry really incited the
Swifties to action, and handed them some powerful
evidence.

By using the unit photo without the consent of all
depicted, Kerry, enraged the Swifties further.

By making the Vietnam theme the core of the campaign
(and ignoring just about everything else), Kerry
enabled the topic for national debate.

The Pravda Press is lamenting that "their" party has
nominated an expert foot shooter (with no character).

[uncbob]

What the Swifties Cost Us Campaign 2004 gets mired in the Mekong Delta

Campaign is mired in bringing out the truth about Kerry

[NavySEAL F-16]

I spent three years in the 1980s writing about a platoon of former Marines, men I consider heroes, and several unburdened themselves of awful memories before we were done: tossing a Vietnamese prisoner out of a helicopter, shooting an obviously innocent woman civilian in the back, collecting the ears of enemy dead. It was a meaningless, despicable war, and insane brutality was not an uncommon reaction.

Name names, Joe Klein. Or, is this more of the Winter Soldiers?

I would suggest that Joe got to Stolen Valor and watch the videos.

[P.O.E.]

But Time is a nooooze-magazine. Everything they say must be true because it's noooooooze.