To: tejek who wrote (232118 ) 5/10/2005 10:05:35 AM From: Peter Dierks Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1577928 Please understand the words you use. Slander: 1 : the utterance of false charges or misrepresentations which defame and damage another's reputation 2 : a false and defamatory oral statement about a person I pointed out facts. Facts by definition can never be slander. If facts are defamatory, then Kerry has only himself to blame.You all have demeaned our most respected leaders. Actually, the facts demean him. I just pointed them out. If he is one of your most respected leaders, there is no question why the Democrat party has and deserves the reputation of immorality. PS - The correct work tom make your false accusation would be: Libel: libel[1,noun]libel[2,verb] 2 a : a written or oral defamatory statement or representation that conveys an unjustly unfavorable impression b (1) : a statement or representation published without just cause and tending to expose another to public contempt (2) : defamation of a person by written or representational means (3) : the publication of blasphemous, treasonable, seditious, or obscene writings or pictures (4) : the act, tort, or crime of publishing such a libel Factual statements cannot be libelous. It is factual that Kerry illegally met three times with the Vietnamese in Paris and returned to spread their programmed propaganda. The facts strongly suggest that he obtained his medals through subterfuge. Rather than shooting the messenger, your energy would be more efficiently spent addressing the cause. Kerry caused his own problems. As long as the Democrat party laud people like Kerry, Clinton, Kennedy and Byrd they deserve the denigration of honorable people.