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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
It appears he was only incorrect about the bleeding itself, not about the bleeding coming as a result of enemy fire and/or being related to any medal in any way.
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Mmmmmmmm, not so much, no. He was
wrong about other stuff too, which "cuts" to the "heart" of Dole's ostensible complaints.*
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Mr. Dole suggested that Mr. Kerry was in a rush to obtain his Purple Hearts to meet a regulation that allowed soldiers to leave the war zone after winning three. "I mean, the first one, whether he ought to have a Purple Heart - he got two in one day, I think. And he was out of there in less than four months, because three Purple Hearts and you're out." ( Mr. Kerry did not receive two Purple Hearts for events of the same day. He received them for the events of Dec. 2, 1968; Feb. 20, 1969; and March 13, 1969.)
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If your peddler hadn't started by trying to sell his lies to America, we wouldn't see Dole making any mistakes in the process of debunking them.
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Dole's assertions that Kerry was being hypocritical by campaigning as a war hero was, I'm sure, part of his Joe Friday routine, no?
I know that the BC'04 campaign had to reach outside the circle of folks who actually work inside the Administration to find someone with the gravitas to level these challenges and avoid drowning in one's own irony, but Dole isn't the best missionary, either by temperment, or ability to marshal and retain the facts.
For the debunking effort, I guess they could've used McCain. Wonder why he didn't do it.
Gattigap
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