Posted on 08/14/2004 12:30:07 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
.....Repya, a veteran of both the Vietnam and Gulf wars, launched the Minnesota Veterans for Bush effort at a State Capitol campus news conference Friday morning.
"We are firing a shot over the bow of the SS Kerry and telling him Minnesota is Bush country," said Repya, a leader of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Minnesota.
Scott O'Grady, who became a celebrity in 1995 after his F-16 fighter jet was shot down over Bosnia, criticized Kerry's anti-war activities and Senate votes on military matters, going so far as to accuse Kerry of "treason" for meeting with representatives of North Vietnam when the two countries were still officially at war. Kerry said in 1971 that he had talked with both the South Vietnam and North Vietnam delegations at the Paris peace talks, which he attended as a private citizen.
"I don't want a commander in chief who's going to turn his back on this country's men and women in uniform," O'Grady said......
.....But at least one of the book's allegations has tied the campaign in linguistic knots.
"Unfit for Command" accuses Kerry of inventing stories of being sent, illegally, across the Vietnamese border into Cambodia at a time when President Richard Nixon said U.S. forces were not in that nation.
Jennifer Porter Gore, a spokeswoman for Kerry's Minnesota campaign, said, "We know John Kerry served on a swift boat that patrolled a river that was the border between Vietnam and Cambodia, so it's a bit of a stretch to say he wasn't in Cambodia."
Kerry spokeswoman Tara McGuinness earlier told the St. Louis Post Dispatch that Kerry had later amended his speech to say that on the Christmas Eve in question he had been near Cambodia but not in Cambodia. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
A bit of a stretch? C'mon, Ms. Gore, Isn't it a huge effin' LIE to say he WAS in Cambodia? The jackass IS running for president, you know.
What's bizarre to me is that the Kool-Aid audience BELIEVES this jackass. (Pardon my....well, just pardon my language.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/15/books/review/15HITCHEN.html
They're ignorant!!
Bump!
Do you work for free?
What is this novel concept that you mortals call sleep?
I'm unaware of such a thing.
bump
Awww, go easy on poor Jenny. She probably can't read a map do to her publik skoolin'.
And yes, the Mekong (and it's btanches) isn't a border - as so many here have correctly pointed out. It flows SSE from and through Cambodia, to and through Vietnam.
btw, Now they're saying he spent Xmas in Sa Dec, 50 miles away, right (it gets sooooo confusing)? Well gee if he wanted to put himself closer to Cambodia, why not lie really good and say it was Long Xuyen?? That would have been a little better! (gd poser)
I would gladly work for free to help the folks who will fly into harm's way in the future.
I joined the US Air Force because I needed work. I found a family. And I don't charge family to do the things that help keep them alive.
I don't fault O'Grady for charging to speak to universities or most anywhere else. I fault him for wanting money to help teach those who follow how to stay alive if shot down.
That sounds truly bizarre. Is there anything to back this story up, other than 'one of the school instructors' said so?
Sorry, but I'm really skeptical about reports like this.
You need own for Max Cleeland called "Beer Run"
he survivors can look after themslves but the fatalities would all vote democrat in the next election...twice..
Thanks Wil H. I needed to know. Ha!
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