Lot of noise being made about Purple Hearts

"Tom Cervo" wrote in message
...
Well, someone's lying:


Not necessarily Thurlow. It is odd that this was published by the Post,
which has thus far refused to even mention the issue of Kerry making his
strange claim about being in Afghanistan, or his recent conflicting
"explanations" of that gaff? You don't think there might be a bit of bias at
work here, do ya?

Brooks

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Sharky wrote in message . ..
In , Ed Rasimus wrote:


I think John Kerry needs to be held fully accountable for his actions in
association with the VVAW. He disgraced himself, and brought false and
maliciously subversive charges against all those who served their country
honorably in Viet Nam.

That is a false and malicious misrepresentation of his words and actions.

Dwelling on his less_than_stellar four month
self-serving performance as a Ltjg is not going to give us the BIG picture
on this guy.

Agreed regardless of how stellar or not his service was.

--

FF

On 19 Aug 2004 11:42:32 -0700, (Fred the Red
Shirt) wrote:

Sharky wrote in message . ..
In , Ed Rasimus wrote:


I think John Kerry needs to be held fully accountable for his actions in
association with the VVAW. He disgraced himself, and brought false and
maliciously subversive charges against all those who served their country
honorably in Viet Nam.

That is a false and malicious misrepresentation of his words and actions.

Similar to the misrepresentation of attributing someone else's remarks
to me?

The recent "talking points" of the DNC that continue to attempt to
discredit the more than sixty Swifties because they "weren't on the
boat with him" is ludicrous. As someone who flew an entire combat tour
in single-seat fighters, I'll quickly attest to the ability to observe
the performance of others in your formation, your unit or your chain
of command even though you weren't in the airplane with them.

Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
"Phantom Flights, Bangkok Nights"
Both from Smithsonian Books
***www.thunderchief.org

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:16:07 -0600, Ed Rasimus
wrote:

On 19 Aug 2004 11:42:32 -0700, (Fred the Red
Shirt) wrote:

Sharky wrote in message . ..
In , Ed Rasimus wrote:


I think John Kerry needs to be held fully accountable for his actions in
association with the VVAW. He disgraced himself, and brought false and
maliciously subversive charges against all those who served their country
honorably in Viet Nam.

That is a false and malicious misrepresentation of his words and actions.

Similar to the misrepresentation of attributing someone else's remarks
to me?

The recent "talking points" of the DNC that continue to attempt to
discredit the more than sixty Swifties because they "weren't on the
boat with him" is ludicrous. As someone who flew an entire combat tour
in single-seat fighters, I'll quickly attest to the ability to observe
the performance of others in your formation, your unit or your chain
of command even though you weren't in the airplane with them.

Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
"Phantom Flights, Bangkok Nights"
Both from Smithsonian Books
***www.thunderchief.org
Ed, I agree that the fellows on other boats would know something about
Kerry's actions, but I would think the guys on Kerry's boat would have
a clearer picture. They may also have some inside info, for example,
why he might have done something that seemed odd to guys on other
boats, that was perfectly rational if you knew the situation on
Kerry's deck. Peace!

Most people don't care about Kerry and the boat. By spending
so much time on this non-event, the public misses the more important
issue, of why he collects Senators pay, but never shows up for work?

His absentee rate is criminal.

In mvavc.7969$ni.2060@okepread01, on 08/19/2004
at 06:14 PM, "Billy Preston" said:

Most people don't care about Kerry and the boat. By spending so much
time on this non-event, the public misses the more important issue, of
why he collects Senators pay, but never shows up for work?

His absentee rate is criminal.

bush's vacation rate is criminal. -- As a matter of fact if he had been
on the job instead of vacation -- 9-11 might have been stopped.

Tom Lacombe wrote:
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:16:07 -0600, Ed Rasimus
wrote:

Ed, I agree that the fellows on other boats would know something about
Kerry's actions, but I would think the guys on Kerry's boat would have
a clearer picture. They may also have some inside info, for example,
why he might have done something that seemed odd to guys on other
boats, that was perfectly rational if you knew the situation on
Kerry's deck. Peace!

Then Kerry's crew is certainly entitled to say their piece. However, there
is no justification in the Kerry camp's blanket attack on these vets. If
we're not to question Kerry because he's a vet, then the left should extend
the same courtesy to these guys.

Billy Preston wrote:
Most people don't care about Kerry and the boat. By spending
so much time on this non-event, the public misses the more important
issue, of why he collects Senators pay, but never shows up for work?

His absentee rate is criminal.

I happen to support his attendence rate. If more elected officials spent
less time at work, we'd have more of our freedom left.

wrote in message news:4IaVc.11540$k63.8388@trndny03...

bush's vacation rate is criminal. -- As a matter of fact if he had been
on the job instead of vacation -- 9-11 might have been stopped.


Bush has been on the job continuously since 1/20/01.

"sanjian" wrote in message
news:HycVc.7985$ni.3886@okepread01...
Billy Preston wrote:
Most people don't care about Kerry and the boat. By spending
so much time on this non-event, the public misses the more important
issue, of why he collects Senators pay, but never shows up for work?

His absentee rate is criminal.

I happen to support his attendence rate. If more elected officials spent
less time at work, we'd have more of our freedom left.



You have my big AMEN on that.


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taking my property to divy up with anybody.
If I see someone needing help, I'll decide if
I want to pitch in or not.

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