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Politics : John Kerrys Crimes & Lies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (1694)	12/20/2004 4:52:32 PM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1905

Advantage: Time Powerline While Time has us as Blog of the Year, Newsweek has a "fast chat" with Wonkette. Ana Marie, not surprisingly, has a liberal take on the Dan Rather fake document scandal: Q. What did you think of the bloggers' role in the Dan Rather affair? A. I think they did a disservice to the debate because they made the debate about the documents and not about the president of the United States. There was another half to that story that had to do with verifiable events of what Bush may have been up to. Well, that's a non sequitur, of course. Pointing out that CBS was passing off fake documents, and basing a story on them, was obviously worthwhile regardless of what you think about President Bush's National Guard service. More important, though, is the fact that Ana Marie's effort to resuscitate the "fake, but accurate" theory is simply wrong. The truth is that President Bush's National Guard service was both dangerous and honorable. He fulfilled his Guard commitment; in fact, he accumulated three times as many credits as he needed to be in good standing. His reviews were uniformly glowing, and he was an excellent pilot. He volunteered for a program that would have resulted in his being shipped to Vietnam, but was not accepted because it was not considered worthwhile to train him on a new airplane. See our posts here, here, here, here, here, and here. Given the known facts about President Bush's Guard service, the fact that Mary Mapes spent five years trying to find grounds for criticism takes on an aura of monomania. Oh, one more thing: President Bush signed the form authorizing release of all of his military records long ago. John Kerry has refused to sign the authorization form; now that the election is over, there will no longer be any pressure on him to do so. So history will record, I guess, that we know one thing for sure: President Bush was honorably discharged from the

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (1694)	4/24/2005 1:57:43 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1905

Here's a thought to warm some of your hearts... From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia: Hi Yanks, I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under. It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars. The first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent, Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent; Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)! In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. (Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not! and criminals still possess their guns!) While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed. There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in "successfully ridding Australian society of guns." You won't see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the State Assembly disseminating this information. The Australian experience proves it. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun control laws affect only the law abiding citizens. Take note Americans, before it's too late! FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST. [ I DID ] DON'T BE A MEMBER OF THE SILENT MAJORITY. BE OF THE VOCAL MINORITY WHO WON'T LET THIS HAPPEN IN THE U.S.A