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The Unknown Kerry
village voice ^ | 9-13-2004 | Nat Hentoff

Posted on 09/14/2004 11:45:29 AM PDT by jays911

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nice piece by hentoff. he has another, that i saw in a local paper, praising Fox News.
1 posted on 09/14/2004 11:45:30 AM PDT by jays911
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To: jays911

sign form 180


2 posted on 09/14/2004 11:47:13 AM PDT by samtheman (www.swiftvets.com)
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Bump!


3 posted on 09/14/2004 11:47:15 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL on issues of national security for two decades)
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To: jays911

Hentoff is a liberal, but he's not a postmodern liberal who thinks that truth is relative. And he's not afraid to say he's pro-life.


4 posted on 09/14/2004 11:51:24 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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I wish President Bush would hold a press conference and PUBLICLY SIGN A 180!!

even if it is symbolic

no need to mention Kerry, just say it is for the public good


5 posted on 09/14/2004 11:56:00 AM PDT by LuckyHat (Kerry burned down my village...and all I got was this lousy tee-shirt.)
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>> I am absolutely telling you the God's honest truth about what happened and what took place over there [in Vietnam]. — John Kerry The New York Sun, August 27–29

Whatever John the Waffler thought the truth was on August 27-29, you can bet that on August 26, he said that the opposite was true, and that he will come to yet another, utterly irreconcileable conclusion on August 30.

6 posted on 09/14/2004 11:59:51 AM PDT by T'wit (Believing in socialism is like believing your car will run on water if you just keep trying.)
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To: Cicero
Are you sure you do not mean a Postmortem liberal?? LOL
7 posted on 09/14/2004 12:00:17 PM PDT by Repub4bush
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To: LuckyHat

maybe the next swifites' ad will call on the flip-flopper to sign one.


8 posted on 09/14/2004 12:05:39 PM PDT by jays911
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What can be done to force Kerry to sign that darn form 180? Surely there is some kind of pressure that can be put on him or pressure on the media to put pressure on him.


9 posted on 09/14/2004 12:07:05 PM PDT by HannaUSA
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Here's what's amazing, in the Swiftboat book near the last chapter Mr. O'Neil writes that Kerry's campaign in (74? or 94?) used the same tactics. First , no one was allowed to ask questions of kerry or else they would cry that you were attacking his patriotism .Second they would attack his opponents war record or lack of service. Any of this sound familiar. Come on hannity, WAKE UP!


10 posted on 09/14/2004 12:10:01 PM PDT by longfellow (You're either with US or from Hollywood! Ultimateamerican.com)
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Here is one of Hentoff's articles from March 28, 2003. Gives an insight on his thinking process.

Nat Hentoff
Why I Didn't March This Time
Their Tongues Were Cut Out for Slandering Hussein

I participated in many demonstrations against the Vietnam War, including some civil disobedience—though I was careful not to catch the eyes of the cops, sometimes a way of not getting arrested. But I could not participate in the demonstrations against the war on Iraq. As I told The New York Sun in its March 14-16 roundup of New Yorkers for and against the war:

"There was the disclosure . . . when the prisons were briefly opened of the gouging of eyes of prisoners and the raping of women in front of their husbands, from whom the torturers wanted to extract information. . . . So if people want to talk about containing [Saddam Hussein] and don't want to go in forcefully and remove him, how do they propose doing something about the horrors he is inflicting on his people who live in such fear of him?"

I did not cite "weapons of mass destruction." Nor do I believe Saddam Hussein is a direct threat to this country, any more than the creators of the mass graves in the Balkans were, or the Taliban. And as has been evident for a long time, I am no admirer of George W. Bush.

excerpt...

11 posted on 09/14/2004 12:22:32 PM PDT by NavySEAL F-16 (Proud to be a Reagan Republican)
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"The Unknown Kerry"
I wish he was unknown.
12 posted on 09/14/2004 12:24:06 PM PDT by Warren (Orhe)
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To: NavySEAL F-16

there is such a thing as an honest liberal. another obvious example, of course, is zell miller.


13 posted on 09/14/2004 12:25:35 PM PDT by jays911
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To: T'wit
I am absolutely telling you the God's honest truth about what happened and what took place over there [in Vietnam]. — John Kerry The New York Sun, August 27–29

Come on Kerry, it's seared in your memory that you were in Cambodia! So how are we to believe any alleged recollection you have of that time?

14 posted on 09/14/2004 12:35:37 PM PDT by Wil H
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To: Warren

he will be, probably by mid-november.


15 posted on 09/14/2004 12:45:03 PM PDT by jays911
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To: jays911

An explaination of what a 180 is and why Kerry hasn't signed it would be effective in damaging Kerry while supporting the Vets rightful claim of "truth".

however, i am worried. I am worried about the roper-dope. can anyone [especially a sitting Senator] really be this stupid? (well he is from Mass, but even so) Every day is another fiasco for Kerry.

i don't know but am advising circumspection...they may have shifted and now want to make him so unelectable that they can pull someone from the wings. Let's think about the unthinkable.


16 posted on 09/14/2004 1:09:27 PM PDT by LuckyHat (Kerry burned down my village...and all I got was this lousy tee-shirt.)
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To: Cicero

He's not only pro life he's and atheist...which is a very consistent position to have.


17 posted on 09/14/2004 1:39:34 PM PDT by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: jays911

just saw excerpts from 911 and, i was wrong.

Let's flush this turd with everything we have.
The more I know about him and the people who support him, the more I am in favor of ANYONE BUT KERRY!!


18 posted on 09/14/2004 5:18:48 PM PDT by LuckyHat (Kerry burned down my village...and all I got was this lousy tee-shirt.)
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What can be done to force Kerry to sign that darn form 180?

Nothing.

It would be tantamount to an unconditional surrender of his campaign.

19 posted on 09/15/2004 8:09:50 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: jays911
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Forget Vietnam. Forget Form 180.

More important what he did in the Senate. More important what he did in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. More important what he did in Nicaragua, the Philippines, and in post-war Vietnam with the POW/MIA issue. He fought against this country every step of the way.

And of course, the VVAW.

Check out the John F. Kerry Timeline. Email it to your friends.
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20 posted on 09/15/2004 8:19:55 AM PDT by christie (John F. Kerry Timeline - http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html)
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