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2005-11-22 Home Front: Politix

John O'Neill: on Kerry and "Swiftboating" Murtha

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Posted by Frank G 2005-11-22 19:42|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sadly, the party of Henry Jackson and Franklin Roosevelt has become the party of retreat - from the Iranian Hostage Crisis to the retreat from Mogadishu; to opposition to the 1991 Gulf War; to the failure to avenge the 1993 World Trade Center bombing or the USS Cole bombing or the murder of our own troops and embassy personnel around the world. Indeed, this past Thursday night, the nation watched the bizarre spectacle of a Democratic Party speaking in favor of immediate withdrawal but too afraid to even cast a vote recording for posterity these convictions.

Posted by 2b 2005-11-22 20:49|| 2005-11-22 20:49|| Front Page Top

#2 forgot the quotes.

Posted by 2b 2005-11-22 20:49|| 2005-11-22 20:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Mothra swiftboated himself.

Posted by Glemp Flineper4549 2005-11-22 21:03|| 2005-11-22 21:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't let Kerry get away with both making a verb of "Swiftboat", *and* pretending that is in some way unfair, dishonest, or a smear.

It was not. It was men who were appalled at what Kerry had been and was. Honest and honorable men who could not abide the possibility that Kerry might become the President of the United States.

Men who stayed silent when he slandered them, when he accused them of inhuman acts, even when he betrayed them and gave comfort to the enemy. Into their old age they did not damn him because they were gentlemen, and saw no purpose in justified vengeance.

But they could not tolerate that this traitor, this amoral swine, could do what he did to them to another generation. And this is why they spoke up. Even so, they did not curse him, they only spoke of what they knew, and the truth.

And like an unholy creature, he shied and still shies from the light of truth. He still tries to turn the truth into lies yet again, to play the victim to some twisted conspiracy. The baldface liar.

Do not let him. Over the lives of those men who he betrayed, do not let him. Despise the verb "Swiftboating" as a shallow attempt to once again hide his treason from the light.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-11-22 22:04|| 2005-11-22 22:04|| Front Page Top

#5 Heh, I think of "Swiftboating" as The Ultimate Fisking of Bullshit by Those Who Were There.

Posted by .com 2005-11-22 22:08|| 2005-11-22 22:08|| Front Page Top

#6 What has always amazed me was the lack of attention paid to the wounded Viet Cong soldier Kerry allegedly dispatched with a pistol. I guess "prisoner abuse" had not been invented yet back then eh?

Posted by Besoeker 2005-11-22 22:09|| 2005-11-22 22:09|| Front Page Top

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