[Vision2020] Lies and the Lying Liers That tell Them

[Jim Baillargeon]

Uhhhhh, Doug Wilson was a sub sailor... (U.S.N.)  so, yea, was in uniform. ,
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From: "A Veteran" <thansen at moscow.com>
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Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 2:28 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Lies and the Lying Liers That tell Them


> Copied and pasted from Douglas "I was never in uniform, but I sure as Hell
can
> tell a good lie" Wilson -
>
> Once you finish reading below, and if yoiu want to learn something a bit
closer
> to the truth and written by somebody with a few more active neurons, go
to:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/20/kerry.swiftboat/index.html
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Showboat
> Topic: Current Events
>
> One recent political surprise is the fact that the swift boat controversy
has
> actually become a controversy. Normally this kind of thing just gets
buried. I
> don't know if this issue has feet because of Internet coverage, because of
Fox
> News, or because there are some Democrats who don't really want a Kerry
win to
> keep Hillary from running in 08.
>
> But however it got out and around, the controversy is showing considerable
> signs of life. If you want to check it out, you can get started at
> swiftvets.com. As controversies go, this is a good one.
>
> John Kerry, from the time of his youth, appears to have had a considerable
> talent for showboating. Here was a man who made movies of himself At War,
> capering prettily across the battlefield. Here was a man who wrote up his
own
> heroism, wrangling enough purple hearts to get a short tour of duty. And
then,
> when he got back home, he threw his medals away and accused his thoroughly
> disgusted band of brothers of being guilty of various war crimes.
>
> A generation later, why is there any surprise, when this man makes his
Vietnam
> service a centerpiece of his campaign for president, that his former
comrades
> turn out, almost to a man, to denounce him as a scoundrel? There is really
only
> one way for Kerry to answer these men. He cannot say they are doing this
> because they are Republicans. These are the men he accused of committing
war
> crimes in an almost nonchalant fashion. He either needs to renew the
> accusations he made a generation ago, and say that these men are attacking
him
> now because they were war criminals then, or he needs to acknowledge the
force
> of what they are saying, and open up all his military records for public
> scrutiny. But all the early indications are that these records would not
bear
> up well under scrutiny.
>
> Posted by Douglas Wilson - 8/20/2004 4:02:19 PM
>
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