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To: Thomas M. who wrote (4439)	8/27/2004 11:09:30 AM
From: LPS5	Respond to of 35834

There are differences between Democrats and Republicans? LPS5

To: Thomas M. who wrote (4439)	8/27/2004 4:24:03 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35834

<font color=blue>.....The truth, according to many accounts, is that Dole fought with exceptional bravery and deserves the nation's gratitude. No one in 1996 questioned that record. <font size=4>Any such attack on behalf of Clinton, an admitted Vietnam draft dodger, would have been preposterous.....<font color=black> Ah, more revisionist history from the liberal left..... Mr. Bad Example <font size=3> Best of the Web Today - August 23, 2004 By JAMES TARANTO <font color=blue><font size=4> No one in 1996 questioned that record."<font color=black> --editorial, Boston Globe, Aug. 22, 2004 ....<font color=blue>"The truth about Dole's war record is considerably less than awe-inspiring. Yet the myth endures, and with the candidate running on the contrast between his and Clinton's military record, his campaign isn't eager to give a more accurate account. Dole, at the behest of his handlers, is less reticent about his service than in the past, but he mainly speaks about his wound and rehabilitation. He has passed up several opportunities to correct the exaggerated versions in biographies, and in the case of his self-wounding has even approved a sanitized account in which his maladroitly hurled grenade goes unnoted. Journalists continue to portray him as a hero, winner of two Bronze Stars. Joe Klein, for example, writes in Newseek that Dole knows 'what guns do. He also knows what politicians do, which is rarely anything quite so dramatic as leading an army into battle.' Such attempts to make political capital out of Dole's war service go beyond the respect due him for the role he played as a soldier with the 10th Mountain Division."<font color=black>--Robert B. Ellis, The Nation, Aug. 12, 1996