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Originally posted by bilmore
Maybe I can't take this VN stuff dispassionately enough. But maybe that simply adds to the accuracy. If we had paid off his two hundred-plus in-country detractors to come out against him, somebody would have found out by now. Hasn't happened. They just don't, and didn't, like the fucker.
Maybe they're all just partisan hacks. Even the committed Dems among them.
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I'm sure they're mostly not partisan hacks. Like you say, its not hard to believe that they don't and didn't like Kerry. His post-service activities placed him in a reasonably close second tier to Jane Fonda in the eyes of many who served.
As to the ones who have made specific factual statements about Kerry's alleged misrepresentations or misconduct that have been discredited (i.e. just about all of them, except on the Cambodia story) -- I'm perfectly willing to believe that most of them believe what they say. Memories fade after 30 years, and people tend to remember what they want to believe.
That said, it is becoming more and more clear that the ring-leader (and author) Thurlow is an outright liar (or, maybe, just a prtisan hack). When you lie down with dogs, Bilmore . . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Aug18.html
"Records Counter a Critic of Kerry
Fellow Skipper's Citation Refers To Enemy Fire"
This is the guy who said there was no enemy fire during the Rassman affair, and Kerry lied about that to get his Bronze Star. However, Thurlow also won a Bronze Star from that encounter, and Thurlow's citation refers to the boats coming under attack.
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