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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: American Spirit who wrote (19009)	4/28/2004 9:11:11 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (2) of 81568

The "medals" flap, imo, has nothing to do with the rightness or wrongness of the Vietnam war. It has to do with evaluating Kerry. Whether he threw medals or ribbons is irrelevant. The symbolism was the same. The problem is that he wanted to simultaneously throw back the medals AND still retain them for when the tide turned and it was expeditious for him to run as a war hero. If his symbolic gesture had true meaning to him, and if he, to this very day, believed everything he said during his protest days, he would have (a) actually thrown all his medals AND ribbons, as he wanted people to believe at the time, or (b) just thrown his ribbons and left the medals in a drawer, closing the door forever on Vietnam rather than displaying the medals in his office and playing the "war hero" card. The latter would have been consistent with his protest and symbolic gesture. The problem is that Kerry is an opportunist and wants it both ways. That's why he cannot reconcile all his prior inconconsistent statements about the medals. And this is why the issue has had so much attention.

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