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Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
The thing is, now it's guaranteed front page coverage due to the FEC filing. And today the group released a second ad which basically has veterans and former POWs criticizing Kerry's post-war testimony as betraying them. Hard to dispute the facts of that -- he said what he said in the public record and these men who felt betrayed by it are entitled to their opinions. Now this ad is guaranteed to get even more attention.
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IMHO, Kerry's 1971 testimony is the real issue for these vets. The stuff about what happened in Vietnam (and Cambodia) is a load of crap, but what really burns them is that he spoke out against the war when he got back, and how he did it. It would be nice to have a real debate about that issue. There are people -- bilmore is one of them -- who think that we could have won the Vietnam War, but that domestic opposition from lefty protestors undermined our troops. (Shades of Weimar Germany, but I digress.) We've had a similar debate about Iraq in the past year -- apparently those of us who live in this democracy are supposed to suck it up and say nothing as our misguided leaders f*ck a war up. We'll have this debate again -- when Kerry wins the election, the neo-cons will pretend that Iraq went south when Bush lost the election and they weren't allowed to keep at it, and not before. As I say, it would be nice to have a real debate about these issues, because I think Kerry's side looks pretty good.
