[Vision2020] Lies and the Lying Liers That tell Them

[A Veteran]

Copied and pasted from Douglas "I was never in uniform, but I sure as Hell can 
tell a good lie" Wilson -

Once you finish reading below, and if yoiu want to learn something a bit closer 
to the truth and written by somebody with a few more active neurons, go to:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/20/kerry.swiftboat/index.html

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Showboat
Topic: Current Events

One recent political surprise is the fact that the swift boat controversy has 
actually become a controversy. Normally this kind of thing just gets buried. I 
don't know if this issue has feet because of Internet coverage, because of Fox 
News, or because there are some Democrats who don't really want a Kerry win to 
keep Hillary from running in 08.

But however it got out and around, the controversy is showing considerable 
signs of life. If you want to check it out, you can get started at 
swiftvets.com. As controversies go, this is a good one.

John Kerry, from the time of his youth, appears to have had a considerable 
talent for showboating. Here was a man who made movies of himself At War, 
capering prettily across the battlefield. Here was a man who wrote up his own 
heroism, wrangling enough purple hearts to get a short tour of duty. And then, 
when he got back home, he threw his medals away and accused his thoroughly 
disgusted band of brothers of being guilty of various war crimes.

A generation later, why is there any surprise, when this man makes his Vietnam 
service a centerpiece of his campaign for president, that his former comrades 
turn out, almost to a man, to denounce him as a scoundrel? There is really only 
one way for Kerry to answer these men. He cannot say they are doing this 
because they are Republicans. These are the men he accused of committing war 
crimes in an almost nonchalant fashion. He either needs to renew the 
accusations he made a generation ago, and say that these men are attacking him 
now because they were war criminals then, or he needs to acknowledge the force 
of what they are saying, and open up all his military records for public 
scrutiny. But all the early indications are that these records would not bear 
up well under scrutiny.

Posted by Douglas Wilson - 8/20/2004 4:02:19 PM


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