Mark Steyn - Who's AWOL now?

Washington Times ^ | 2/23/04 | Mark Steyn

[kattracks]

How goes the war? No, not Vietnam. The other one. You remember. It was in all the papers until a month ago when Vietnam returned for a Democratic Party dinner-theater tour starring Massachusetts' answer to Robert Goulet.

Can't get into it myself. I dozed off the other day watching a White House press conference in which President Bush was asked nary a question about anything that had happened since 1972, and I dreamt there was a muffled explosion from al-Qaeda down the street blowing up the Capitol. And, when it had died away, the press corps brushed the plaster dust off their suits and said, "But, Mr President, critics point out that National Guard pay stubs from the '70s are notoriously easy to forge. ..."

[Choose Ye This Day]

I LOVE it...

The media dusting off the debris, continuing on with the National Guard paystubs. LOL!

[RWR8189]

Steyn is great, thanks for posting!

[SunStar]

BUMP!

[The Shrew]

Man do I love the way Mark Steyn thinks and writes.

Regards,

TS

[Tall_Texan]

That deserves more than just a ping. It deserves a bounce.

[Choose Ye This Day]

[T]he "coalition of the willing" has effected more positive change in the last 10 months than the multilateral establishment has in the last 10 years.

That is so good, and absolutely dead-on. I hope Bush uses that in every stump speech and every debate from now 'til November.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Wow. This should be required reading for every talk show host and interviewer tomorrow. It's amazing how many tv sets were malfunctioning on 9/11 in Democrat households.

[Texasforever]

You won't be around long.

[CedarDave]

Gosh, the tide is quickly rising against John Kerry and the Democrat's wall of apparent invincibility. For the past month, all we've heard and read (except mainly here on FR) are stories about Kerry's heroic actions in Viet Nam and President Bush's shirking of duty by joining the National Guard (never mind that flying the F-102 "widow-maker" was no piece of cake).

In any event, though the main/lamestream press continues to ignore the contradictions in Kerry's positions, more and more independent columnists are writing about the fallacy of his candidacy and the problems this country would face under a Kerry presidency. At some point in time, however, the press will begin to ask the hard questions also, as the Boston Globe already is. I only hope that that time does not come until after the March 2 primaries when Kerry will have built up a commanding number of delegates which will be hard for Edwards or anyone else grab. As I noted earlier this evening in several posts, the alternative is Breck Boy and ambulance chaser John Edwards or maybe even Hillary (shudder).

[goldstategop]

Jean F. Cheri is a French thinking coward.

[avenir]

"It was in all the papers until a month ago when Vietnam returned for a Democratic Party dinner-theater tour starring Massachusetts' answer to Robert Goulet."

Now THAT is funny!

[lainde]

bttt!

[The Raven]

>>But, Mr President, critics point out that National Guard pay stubs from the '70s are notoriously easy to forge. ..."

Hmmmm...I wonder if Kerry could have forged his medals? I wonder if he can prove he wasn't a spy for the Cong and everything was a set-up....."War Hero Returns and Praises Communists"

See how easy it is to be a Democrat????

[IrishRainy]

Love the fact that Steyn stuck in those little zingers about the UN. I heard a while back that the "Oil for Food" program couldn't account for a billion or so dollars.

Now, Iraqis were starving and such, so you'd think there would be a huge investigation to find the "missing" money, but no, serious journalists have to spend their time determining exactly where Dubya was at all times 30 years ago. Just pathetic.

[DeaconRed]

EXCELLENT! ! ! !

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Ex-guardsmen say jab at Bush tars them***"I wanted to spit glass," Eckhardt said last week in an interview from his office in Miami, where he is a corporate executive recruiter. "It makes me feel my service was less than honorable and that I was just a draft dodger. I really got upset because I felt, for political purposes, a lot of people who joined the National Guard and fulfilled their duties were being portrayed as a bunch of privileged folks who got in to avoid service."

Enough Guard veterans share Eckhardt's views that Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, quietly sent a message earlier this month to the National Guard Association of the United States, recognizing the service of guardsmen. "There are many members of the National Guard who served as I did in Vietnam, and I honor their service," Kerry said in a statement sent to the association after the group told campaign aides of its members' anger. "Many of them died and their names are on the Vietnam memorial alongside some of those in my Swift Boat." ***

[ChadGore]

a must read for evry freeper.

This is how he characterized the war on terror to Tom Brokaw: "I think there has been an exaggeration," he said. "They are really misleading all of America, Tom, in a profound way. ... It's primarily an intelligence and law-enforcement operation."

That's all I need to know. Mr. Bush wants to take the war to the enemies, fight it on their turf. Mr. Kerry wants to do it through "law enforcement." If the Empire State Building gets blown up, Mr. Kerry will launch an investigation immediately. It's not enough. Even if Mr. Bush was AWOL 30 years ago, on everything that matters John Kerry is AWOL now.

[finnigan2]

Go over to Drudge. Go over to Lucianne.
Read the general trend in many of todays stories which are beginning to pick apart Kerry's past activities and voting record. The Bush counter- offensive has just begun and the race is on. I predict that within a month, Bush will have regained at least a 10 point lead in the polls.
Bwahahahahaha!!!!