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Oh, Did He Mention That He's a Vet?
New York T(Sl)imes ^ | May 30, 2004 | JODI WILGOREN

Posted on 05/29/2004 9:29:18 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/29/2004 9:29:18 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Wow. I had to check and then check again. This was really from the NYT?

Surprising.


2 posted on 05/29/2004 9:34:37 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Thank You, WWII Vets)
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To: Kaslin

Just reading about Kerry wears me out.


3 posted on 05/29/2004 9:35:18 PM PDT by texasflower (in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
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To: Kaslin

This non-entity Kerry is like Niedermeyer in "Animal House." You just want to smack him.


4 posted on 05/29/2004 9:35:23 PM PDT by JellyJam
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To: Kaslin
kicking off an 11-day focus on national security

Kerry could focus on it for 11,000 days and would still defer to France.
5 posted on 05/29/2004 9:39:06 PM PDT by zencat (Visit my profile for MAGNETIC Bush/Cheney '04 bumper stickers!)
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To: Kaslin
Vets For Bush

Vietnam Vets Against Kerry

6 posted on 05/29/2004 9:43:55 PM PDT by drq
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To: Kaslin

Been thinking about Kerry's service and now think it's a good thing he only did four months. If he was there for the full tour, he could have got some of our guys killed for his medal hunt.


7 posted on 05/29/2004 9:48:19 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Proud member of the right wing extremist Neanderthals.)
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To: Kaslin
his starting a cookie company

I hadn't heard this. Obviously, the business was a bust. People just didn't like waffle-flavored cookies, I guess.

8 posted on 05/29/2004 9:51:35 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (President Bush has a September 12 mindset. John Kerry only has a November 2 obsession.)
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To: Kaslin
One thing that I'm not sure he gets is that there are a lot of people too young to participate in Vietnam at the time - but fully cognizant of the anti-war protestors and their nature - and he doesn't get bonus points for constantly bringing this up. If the voting population were out there yearning for a Vietnam veteran - great. But the world has changed a lot since the late 60's, and no matter how you view Vietnam - service there and even a though understanding of what happened there is not necessarily a superior qualification for being President of the United States in the 2005-2009 timeframe. The single greatest lesson of Vietnam to me (b. 1957) was that political management of a jungle war was not effective. This war is not a jungle conflict - has an insurgency much smaller than the movement from North Vietnam, and Bush has shown in spades that he knows well enough to identify broad objectives and then stand back and let the military satisfy the objectives without White House micromanagement. What Kerry is offering that improves upon that is totally unclear.
9 posted on 05/29/2004 9:52:41 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Kaslin

Kerry was in Vietnam?


10 posted on 05/29/2004 9:53:06 PM PDT by FourPeas ("The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past" ~Cicero)
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To: Kaslin

--- DURING a major speech in Seattle on Thursday, it was hardly surprising that Senator John Kerry referred to what he had learned in the Navy. Not because the speech was kicking off an 11-day focus on national security, but because Mr. Kerry, who commanded Swift boats on the Mekong River, mentions his military service every day, practically any time he speaks at any length.---

Will he be holding a national security conference with Gary Hart, his national security advisor, aboard the Monkey Business? Will Kerry dash ashore to dispatch any reporters reporting things they shouldn't?


11 posted on 05/29/2004 9:53:24 PM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: alaska-sgt

"The incessant reminders of his four-month combat tour are hardly accidental."

I'll trust your checking of this, it is unbelievable that this was in the Times. Tremendous, lol, I can't believe this sentance was in the Times rather than say, National Review.

Incessant reminders, indeed!


12 posted on 05/29/2004 9:54:36 PM PDT by jocon307 (The dems don't get it, the American people do.)
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To: Kaslin

Kerry was in Vietnam? Who knew?


13 posted on 05/29/2004 9:58:25 PM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: jocon307

"mentions his military service every day, practically any time he speaks at any length."

It's not that we are not aware of this, I hope some of his supporters see this article.


14 posted on 05/29/2004 10:02:52 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: jocon307
"As the press senses a change in equilibrium we will see more stories like this, small pictures of things as they really are. The news media won't want to look foolish when peace and stability seem to emerge from nowhere."

The media, like Sadr and his thugs, are starting to retreat. Once they start to realize they're not winning the propoganda war, they'll remember they are businesses, and that they have to put their political agendas on the back burner and actually report news.

My post from another thread today.

15 posted on 05/29/2004 10:13:11 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: Kaslin

bump


16 posted on 05/29/2004 10:25:53 PM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("I think the country will evolve." -Teresa Heinz Kerry on gay marriage)
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To: JellyJam

Bush ought to thank Kerry for his four months of service in Viet Nam everytime it comes up. I know a few vets who are more than a little resentful of his candy-assed expectations of trying to play that card at every turn.


17 posted on 05/29/2004 10:44:14 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
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Vietnam? Kerry? Come oonnnnnn!!


18 posted on 05/29/2004 11:22:58 PM PDT by Jenya (Gore, he's a real nowhere man, sitting in his nowhere land, making all his nowhere plans for nobody)
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To: texasflower

Reading about kerry is like listening to two chalkboards mating.


19 posted on 05/29/2004 11:23:49 PM PDT by Salamander
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To: Kaslin

He is so proud of his service to his country, which would have been great had he not followed it by going over to the side of the enemy. He did it then, and he has done it now with his anti war rhetoric.


20 posted on 05/29/2004 11:25:58 PM PDT by ladyinred (The leftist media is the enemy within.)
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