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Less Than Honorable

6.2.06 @ 12:01AM

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And who hasn't seen displays of serious mental unbalance by Al Gore and screaming Howard Dean? And Hillary, one look at her with those eyes bugging out, and for the sake of Christian charity, you pray that the white coated men with nets come and quietly take her to a padded cell before she harms herself or others.

This concentration of loons and loonettes must a tremendous type of political gravitation force, attracting the likes of John McCain to become a Democrat. How much longer, I wonder, before the senator from Arizona gives in and answers the siren call to join the Party of the Unhinged (POU)? (My prediction? It will happen when McCain is once again denied the GOP presidential nomination.)
-- Peter Skurkiss
Stow, Ohio

I too read the Times article about Kerry once again attempting to "set the record straight" regarding his "Holiday in Cambodia" and other 'heroic' Vietnam exploits. This tells us a few things: The left's continual obsession with Vietnam. You can't watch PBS for a week and not see a Vietnam retrospective. Another is the left's obsession with inconvenient facts: That whatever Kerry or a liberal says, has to be true, because he/they feel it to be true. "Sounds good…go with it."

Third: Kerry's own admission at the "congressional hearings" in which by projection, he attempted to indict other Veterans for what his own military record in Vietnam revealed: the cheap shots that killed the naked teenager behind the hut, shooting up the fisherman's family while out on the skimmer, his filming of his exploits to record what that should have been, rather than what reality was. Finally, his refusal to authorize the release his complete medical file that describes his "war" wounds that led to his receipt of the much disputed and ever paraded Purple Heart medals.

We could talk about the flinging of someone else's citations over the fence of the White House, being "for it before he was against it," and regarding his 2004 presidential defeat: we still don't know WHAT THE PLAN WAS!

Enough said.
-- P. Aaron Jones
Huntington Woods, Michigan

I repeat the question I asked by many Kerry supporters during the last campaign and has never been answered in a satisfying manner.

Why doesn't he engage the services of an attorney and sue for libel? The people who made these charges against him were not lurking in the shadows -- they had names and addresses where they could be served by a court. They were men of some substance -- they had assets that were worth protecting. If I were one of these men I would tell Kerry to either put up or shut up in a forum with a referee and some real cash in the game.
-- Russ Fisher
Royal Oak, Michigan

Superb...
-- T. Fitzgerald
"Charlie Company"
2nd Bn. 18th Infantry
1st Infantry Division
Republic of Viet Nam
Class of 67
"Our Cause Was Just"

Back in August 2004 when I was writing on behalf of the Swift Boat Vets, I wrote in this piece:

Think about this: John Kerry had to know that his fabrications were ultimately unsustainable and that the men he falsely condemned would not remain silent were he to run for the presidency. Yet he has ignored that reality and attempted to build his whole campaign on his wartime service and his questionable awards. It would be interesting to hear what a psychiatrist might conclude from such bifurcated reasoning. Which brings us, unavoidably, to this question:

Does this sound like the kind of judgment we want in a Commander in Chief in this time of terror?

Additionally, in response to a piece I have just written for The American Thinker here, I have received a suggestion from Steve Gardner, whom, you may recall was the enlisted gunner's mate who served on Kerry's boat and who flat-out said Kerry's battle action accounts were so much fiction.

Gardner reminded me that he took a lie detector test, the results of which substantiated his version of events. Mr. Kerry, if he is so adamant that all his detractors are lying, could bolster his position significantly by taking a polygraph examination himself. Or could he?
-- Russ Vaughn

From a purely Algebraic perspective, there is one truism that can never be violated. And that is that the left side of the equation must always equal the right side. Now, having said that, let's use that truism to describe John F. Kerry (incidentally, did you know he served in Vietnam?). In purely mathematical terms, I have developed the following formula to describe what I think of John F. Kerry: On a good day, John F. Kerry is less than or
equal to zero! Enough said.
-- Jim L.
East Sandwich, Massachusetts

Geez, I thought that the date when Kerry said that he was in Cambodia was Christmas of 1968. I still don't see how he could blame Richard Nixon for putting him there at that time. Nixon did not take office until January 20, 1969. By that time, Kerry was home sitting in his first wife's palatial mansion. I see that Kerry still lives in the world of make believe. Why else would he blame the Swift Boat vets for his loss 18 months ago?
-- Stan Brewer
Riverton, West Virginia

Yet, it is still safer for anyone to be downrange of an armed Senator Kerry than to drive with the other Senator from the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts.
-- James Pawlak

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