[britishtim]

There has been much talk by some of the press about how badly the Bush campaign has handled issues like the AWOL charge and that the White House did not even talk to people who said they were willing to confirm Bush's presence at some of the meetings in Alabama. Is it at all possible that the White House DELIBERATELY kept this issue in the press so that when they start talking about demanding Kerry's records for his purple hearts etc., the public will remember the long outcry over Bush's records. In other words was the Bush team's "fumbling" of this issue actually an example of long term strategery?

[claudiustg]

---Is it at all possible that the White House DELIBERATELY kept this issue in the press so that when they start talking about demanding Kerry's records for his purple hearts etc., the public will remember the long outcry over Bush's records. In other words was the Bush team's "fumbling" of this issue actually an example of long term strategery?---

I believe so! Bush even brought the issue up after it was beginning to die off. Remember his comments at that NASCAR race? I think that they wanted to keep it out there because it engendered sympathy for Bush, that he was being wrongly attacked and that the NG was being attacked.

As to Kerry, what kind of "leader" leaves his men in hell and skates out after 4 months? He better have left on a stretcher! But he didn't. I saw plenty of Kerry's type when I was in the military, always sniffing around Personnel, for awards and choice assignments, always at the front of the line.

Every time the words Vietnam or veterans leave that man's lips, we need to here the echo, "When are you going to release all your military records? George Bush did."