So, maybe we have Peter Jennings, Michael Moore and Wes Clark to thank for this. I hope. Seems that at a rally in South Carolina, someone is finally starting the fireworks over the AWOL issue. More importantly, it's getting some traction in the media.
Speaking to about 250 veterans and South Carolina voters at a town-hall-style forum, four days before the state's primary, former US senator Max Cleland of Georgia introduced Kerry as a combat leader with the caring touch of Shakespeare's Henry V, while accusing Bush of shirking his military duty during the Vietnam era.
"We need somebody who has felt the sting of battle, not someone who didn't even complete his tour stateside in the Guard," said Cleland, who lost three limbs in Vietnam, in a reference to allegations that Bush, who stopped flying with the Texas Air National Guard in 1972, did not fulfill the last two years of his military obligation.
Well, I think Max is looking (rightly) for a little payback. Kerry said little on the subject, but I think it's soon going to be time for the proxies to step aside. When Kerry and Wes Clark make this an issue, I think it's gonna stick big time, especially with the body count rising and the qWagmire factor increasing in ol' Iraq.
For some reason I just don't think you are going to find too many highly-visible republican veterans sticking up for Fearless Leader's service record. If any do, I'm betting that the only comment will be something along the lines of 'National Guard Service was valuable too' ... a la John McCain. I never understood why McCain fell in line with that, especially after the way the Chimp campaign savaged him in South Carolina...
Well, the Miserable Failure can at least count on Dan Quayle, oh no, wait, he actually showed up.
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let's see if there is intelligent life outside blogtopia.
posted by Jo Fish on 02.01.04 at 12:45 AM
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Jo keep up the pressure, the dam of denial is about to break. I printed out the May 2000 Boston Globe article and am keeping it my brief case.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000619121358/http://www.boston.com/news/politics/campaign2000/news/One_year_gap_in_Bush_s_Guard_duty+.shtml
The most heartbreaking thing: I was arguing with a seriously pro-Bush guy (didn't yet have the article) and he stated that the story could not be true "Because the Democrats and the Press would not have let him get away with it". You don't know whether to laugh or cry or just tear your eyes out. Oh yeah the SCLM would have been all over that one.
posted by: Bruce Webb on 02.01.04 at 12:52 PM [permalink]
being a democrat i gotta agree with what you say-besides having 3 career army sons,one who
went to the other georges war, luckily none
went to this one hua-i firmly believe that anyone who won't fight for his own country, be he rich or poor-has no right to be its
president and dubua has made a right mess of
the whole thing after stealing it to begin with-our environmental situation is grave-so is our money making potential now that all the jobs have moved out of country-maybe now some of the foreigners who wanta live here will prefer someplace else.all i gotta is that somebody ought to put the 101st at the counting place on election day this time and see how many votes get stolen!!!
