posted on February 17, 2004 06:19:15 PM new
EAG - We've been "discussing" this most of the afternoon on the "Is Kerry A Phoney?" thread. Colin started the thread and then took off....wait until I get my hands on him
posted on February 17, 2004 06:44:17 PM new
As the site says
"After training, Kerry volunteered for Vietnam" Unlike GW.
It seems that in essence this site is trying to say that, ‘anyone who speaks against an unjust war, is a communist’.
It would have us believe that there is no place in a democracy for opinions differing from government policy.
If you find this image objectionable, then you are a commie! Shaking Hands: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983
posted on February 17, 2004 06:48:14 PM new
Linda, I just checked out the "Kerry is a phoney" thread. You had some great links including the one with the KERRY - FONDA 2004 bumper sticker. Jane Fonda would make the perfect running mate for Kerry.
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posted on February 17, 2004 07:27:10 PM newAfter training, Kerry volunteered for Vietnam
Where he served in the electrical department aboard the USS Gridley, a guided-missile frigate that supported aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and was far removed from combat.Kerry initially hoped to continue his service at a relatively safe distance from most fighting, securing an assignment as "swift boat" skipper. While the 50-foot swift boats cruised the Vietnamese coast a little closer to the action than the Gridley had come, they were still considered relatively safe.
posted on February 17, 2004 08:12:57 PM new
So if you had a "relatively safe" job as a swift boat skipper in Viet Nam, you are a commie, a traitor, but if the closest you've ever been to battle is being helicoptered to a ship that's 300 yards off the US coast to declare "mission accomplished", you're some kind of hero.....yeah, now I get it....
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posted on February 18, 2004 09:57:00 AM new
OK Prof & Snow, regale us with tales of your military experience, let your history or lack of it speak for itself.
Or is the only ware fare you've experienced a war of words. Your only wound a paper cut or attacked by a rabid stapler. True keyboard war-field hero's in your own minds, safely ensconced behind the shield of safety provided by those who served.
posted on February 18, 2004 08:30:34 PM new
My military experience has no bearing on Kerry's Viet Nam service, and Bush's lack of Viet Nam service, bear. Neither does yours. In addition, your alleged service does not give your opinion in this matter any more validity than anyone else's, no matter how much you'd like us to think it does. Hoo-rah
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posted on February 18, 2004 08:45:45 PM newTrue keyboard war-field hero's in your own minds, safely ensconced behind the shield of safety provided by those who served.
Pretty words bear, and only two writing errors too! However it's you who's always taking the moral high ground by virtue of your alleged service, not me. I don't imagine myself a "war-field" hero, but it sure looks like you do.
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posted on February 18, 2004 09:30:29 PM newActually, Profe, I have worried that my Linda-hunts have kept you away in recent days, and I've sought a sort of detente with her in hopes that a 'reasonable-seeming' flow of discussion would lure you back to participate more frequently. It is rather dangerous for you to suggest at this point that my interludes with Linda have not influenced you negatively, for I have acquired several more vintage cereal boxes and expanded my vocabulary of chatboard-acceptable invective. I shall lay upon you whatever blame my subsequent Round Table remarks should require!
posted on February 19, 2004 04:00:00 AM newI have worried that my Linda-hunts have kept you away in recent days,
Nah...it's starting to get busy around here...I'm behind in winter chores, the sheep have to be moved into different pastures, fences haven't been checked since Oct.,...and then there's work to think of..
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posted on February 19, 2004 09:15:34 AM newMy military experience has no bearing on Kerry's Viet Nam service, and Bush's lack of Viet Nam service, bear. Neither does yours. In addition, your alleged service does not give your opinion in this matter any more validity than anyone else's, no matter how much you'd like us to think it does. Hoo-rah
Keep telling yourself that Prof, after a while even you will start to believe it.
"An old, long-whiskered man once said to Teddy Roosevelt: 'I am a Democrat, my father was a
Democrat, my grandfather was a Democrat.' Roosevelt then said: 'Then if your father had been a
horse thief and your grandfather had been a horse thief, you would be a horse thief?'" --Will Rogers
this most of the afternoon on the "Is Kerry A Phoney?" thread. Colin started the thread and then took off....wait until I get my hands on him 
