Posted on 10/14/2004 7:41:29 PM PDT by Pellegrino
. . . . It is hard to imagine a more dangerous trait in the commander in chief than a proclivity for creating a false sense of security. But perhaps an equally dangerous practice is to engender alarm when there is no reason for alarm. Kerry's public statements, it turns out, show a history of acting out both extremes.
Compare, for example, Kerry's reassuring letter home with his anti-war antics soon thereafter. Given his own account of the "everything's okay" letter, one imagines his family left with the impression that Kerry faced no danger on the battlefield, that his tour of duty was but a nuisance, a few biting flies in the rice bogs. . . .
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A curious situation.A person goes through this is turned bitter.Becomes a hero in the enemy's eye and eventualy becomes our president.Stuff of a romance novel with which the saturated may repose.
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