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To: Captain Jack who wrote (82044)	10/30/2004 4:38:32 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793801

IT'S OFF, JACK. I have been asked by the highest authorities (No -- I will not expound) to not hold this Rally. Although our actions and intent has been nothing but honorable, this effort will not serve our purposes. My sincerest apologies for this but I must ask that we stand down... I certainly hope the "highest authorities" know what they are doing and I don't like this anymore than anyone else but I must ask you to stand down. We can however, return to our previous effort in getting the truth to media outlets, Congress, and other influencial organizations. This was a great idea and I'm very disappointed -- I hope you will forgive me for this. I'm assured that all will be clear in time (yeah right). - Troy Jenkins (aka "Navy Chief") www2.swiftvets.com

To: Captain Jack who wrote (82044)	10/31/2004 1:44:22 PM
From: JMarcus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793801

David Brook's suggestion that Kerry is more political than Bush strikes my as disingenuous. The election is just a few days away. Both candidates are doing everything they can to win. It was Kerry's job, in response to the OBL tape, to get back on message -- the message being Bush's incompetence in running foreign policy and the war against terrorism. According to no lesser luminary than Walter Cronkite, Bush's team was delighted by the release of the OBL tape. Bush didn't need to "act" political in response to the tape, because the tape gave Bush everything wanted at the time - a refocus on the danger of world terrorism and away from the screw-up at Al-Qaqaa. Cronkite, on Larry King Live last Friday, actually said that he suspected that Karl Rove may have put OBL up to releasing the tape in order to achieve those two objectives. I didn't hear Walter say that (I just read the transcript). It sounds so far-fetched, probably Walter was grinning when he said it. But the point was spot-on -- Bush had been on the defensive over Al-Qaqaa and the OBL tape diverted attention away to another issue. Brooks' and the repubs' mantra that Kerry-is-a-flip-flopper and Kerry-has-no-convictions is a smear-job. Kerry is absolutely right when he says that Bush was too obsessed with Saddam and that Bush allowed that obsession to distract us from finishing the job in Afghanistan. Trying to characterize that position as a flip-flop is sleazy. We can never know how Kerry would have prosecuted the war had he been president. Kerry's public statements about the war prior to the invasion were based upon information that the Bush administration had filtered and distorted to fit their preconceived notions and game plan of ousting Saddam. Had Kerry been president then, he would have had more complete and less distorted information. The information available today is already considerably more complete and less distorted than what we were being fed before the invasion. To accuse Kerry of flipflopping because his opinion, after looking at corrected information, is different than his opinion had been when he had been fed distorted information, is crassly unfair. Marc