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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (39023)	7/31/2004 6:31:40 PM
From: Mark Konrad	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 81568

"LIAR!" Well, there sure are a LOT of them..."In early May, more than 220 Vietnam vets who served alongside Kerry in swift boats including 19 of his 23 fellow swift boat commanders signed a letter declaring him unfit to be president. They reached this conclusion based on their personal knowledge of the man. These Democrats and Republicans held a press conference to release the letter. ABC, NBC and CNN all blacked out any mention of the group, the press conference or the letter. CBS ran a brief story on the Evening News. Now, 11 of the 19 men in a picture being used by the Kerry campaign are demanding Kerry stop using the photo. They argue it implies they support him, which they do not. Of the remaining eight, two are deceased and four wish no involvement. Only two of the vets appear to support Kerry." swiftvets.com Kerry is attempting to brush aside his 30-year anti-military record by grandstanding on 4 months and 12 days... In Mr. Kerry's first active-duty assignment, he served in the electrical department of the USS Gridley, a guided-missile frigate supporting the Navy's fleet of carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin. "I didn't have any real feel for what the heck was going on [in the war]," Mr. Kerry told the Boston Globe in a story last summer, referring to his time on the Gridley. He then became a commander of a Navy swift boat, which at the time were used to transport sailors to ships in the gulf. Two weeks after beginning his new assignment, the safe job he had picked became much more dangerous when the boats began being used in the Mekong Delta to seek out the Viet Cong and block North Vietnamese supply routes. "I didn't really want to get involved in the war," the Globe cites Mr. Kerry saying in a 1986 book about Vietnam. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to do." Full article at: washtimes.com So much for the "send me" bravado... Kerry's empty pro-military sloganeering now is disingenuous and laughable in the face of his Senate voting record and policy flip-flops. Bush has remained strong, consistent and is the far better choice in November--MK--