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| 2004-08-17 |
| h/t Lucianne -- and I've been meaning to ask for awhile, now: Is this the same dreadnought that posts here? I sure hope so! BY ROBERT L. POLLOCK - Monday, August 16, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT The most damning testimony on John Kerry in Vietnam has come from John Kerry. John Kerry volunteered for service in Vietnam. John Kerry was wounded in Vietnam. And a number of the men with whom John Kerry served testify to acts of courage on his part. This much seems beyond question, and I see no reason to weigh in on the factual disputes surrounding Mr. Kerry's medals being waged by pro-Kerry vets like Jim Rassmann and the anti-Kerry vets of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Both sides strike me as sincere, but eyewitness accounts of fast-moving and stressful situations like combat are too unreliable for there to be much hope of getting at the "truth" here. But Americans have never accepted that a record of service, however honorable, should forever entitle a man to deference on matters of war and peace. (Ask George McGovern.) And the political uses to which Mr. Kerry would later put his Vietnam experience are certainly fair game for criticism. Which brings up Mr. Kerry's claim--repeated in at least three different decades, and on the floor of the Senate--that he spent Christmas Eve of 1968 not in Vietnam but in Cambodia. He obviously considered it a point of some significance, since he used it to impugn the integrity of those who waged the Vietnam War. This is how he described it to the Boston Herald in 1979: "I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies. . . . The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real." |
| Posted by:.com |
| #2 Did anyone see this on the MSM? (crickets chirping....) Anyone? Thought not :( |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-08-17 10:13:52 AM |
| #1 Oh, almost forgot: And what about that potential First Lady, eh? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-08-17 1:22:46 AM |
