Drudge: KERRY RAISES BUSH WAR RECORD... DEVELOPING...

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[carpio]

I'd say Bush's record regarding the War on Terror has been at least as exemplary and productive as anything Kerry did in Vietnam.

You would? Really?

[1066AD]

You may be right. However, looking at the Dem slate today I see no one there I'd want to entrust with our security let alone anything else.

[hole_n_one]

The "national guard" drivel is about to spew on Hardball. (MSNBC)

[Intolerant in NJ]

"The answer is special interests and money. Collier's International, based in Boston, was immediately awarded the exclusive contract to rebuild Vietnam's infrastructure by the Vietnamese government. They made tens of millions of dollars from the contract...and there goes the 'rats' ability to complain about Cheney's Halliburton making big money in the reconstruction of Iraq.....

[KQQL]

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Prior to Vietnam and since Vietnam the National Guard and reserves have always been activated for war. I believe that I am correct in saying that. I think their service in the W.W. I and II is pretty well known. For Korea

http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/

Search for, national guard

The list of units that served including whole divisions is from "When Are We Going? The Army National Guard and the Korean War, 1950-53," authored by Renee Hylton.

We know about current NG and reserves service.

Why was Vietnam an exception? To the best of my knowledge LBJ feared that activation would disrupt his plans for his "Great Society" legislation but I do not recall that his administration ever stated publicly that they would never activate the reserves.

I don't know how much trouble it was to get into the Guard during the Vietnam war but in the 1950s six years' service in the Guard was a way of avoiding the two-year peacetime draft -- but it was not considered to be a way of avoiding combat in case of war.

Those going after the President are making a big mistake trashing the reserves.

[CyberAnt]

Yes he will .. O'Reilly nuked Ann Lewis tonight, reading to her the NYT article which says Bush was never AWOL and completed his training, and was honorable discharged.

O'Reilly got irritated with Ann because she kept avoiding the obvious. Which is what they always do.

[Mo1]

How long was Kerry's tour in Nam, I heard 4 mos, is that true?...and what was his injuries?

From what I can tell it was 6 months .. he requested an early leave right after he rec'd his 3rd purple heart

From this Globe it states ..

http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061603.shtml

the first one he was slightly wounded on his arm

his second Purple Heart after sustaining a shrapnel wound in his left thigh

The 3rd required 2 days rest when a mine detonated near Kerry's boat, wounding Kerry in the right arm

[KQQL]

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[narby]

Kerry says Bush was AWOL.

Coming from a self-admited war criminal, that's pretty shocking.

[lainde]

The length of this primary season seems unprecedented and interminable. This daily president bashing is wearing to say the least. I'm sick of the whiney, snarling dwarfs. Their language gets more and more vicious as the weeks go on.

[carpio]

"They" are going to destroy President Bush. This election wil make 2000 look like a picnic. I hate to say this, but it is my gut feeling. They are going to slaughter him over the war, "intellegence failures" and the deficit. I don't think Bush will be our president this time next year. :-(

If I ran the Republican party it would field Presidential candidates who were Bullet proof to Vietnam Draft Dodging charges. If I couldn't find a candidate who had shown the guts to serve I would run a woman. But that's just me.

[Mo1]

Oh ok ..

[carpio]

Someone has to ask Kerry

Maybe so. But I think it needs to be someone who served that asks him.

[muawiyah]

What about those who just want to trash the NG and Reserve records DURING the Viet Nam War?

They really were the next best thing to draft-dodging at the time PLUS you got to live at home!

[scannell]

Kennedy's failure was not an intelligence failure, it was an operational failure caused by Kennedys in ability to sort out the military's prescription for a sucessfull operation and the sensitivities that always arrise when Democrats run military matters.

He was told that to be sucessfull he would need airsupport, but afraid of the unseemly nature of this picture of American involvement he ordered the invasion without the air support and it was the predicable (and predicted) slaughter.

In Bush's case the extent to which the question of WMD intelligence is a failure (the jury is still out and probably out in Syria) it was not a command failure and was also a conclusion that Clinton and almost EVERY Democratic leader in Congress subscribed to.

[faithincowboys]

I wonder if Kerry's fellow soldiers have been paid to talk him up. It's worth looking into. I suspect many have been well compensated by Master Kerry and his rich wives.

[Congressman Billybob]

There is a statue of a boot, honoring the service of Benedict Arnold to the US. That was, of course, before he turned traitor.

Without General Arnold's service, the Americans might have lost the Battle of Saratoga, and thereby the Revolutionary War. Later, had his treachery succeeded, we might have lost New York, and thereby the war.

Sometimes people change sides. That seems to apply to John "Benedict" Kerry.

Congressman Billybob

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[Congressman Billybob]

I cover some aspects of the Kay testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in my latest column just posted on FreeRepublic. The title is "That was a Very Stupid Question, Senator." I think you'll like it.

Congressman Billybob

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