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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
A.) If he wrote it, he wrote it years after the fact.
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Cite, please. Even this
slam on Kerry and Brinkley from Glenn Reynolds (quoting a WaPo article) quotes Brinkley's book as saying that Kerry "did not keep diaries in these weeks in February and March 1969 when the fighting was most intense," and futher adds that Brinkley took some passages from a book proposal Kerry wrote in 1971.
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B.) We know he lied about the previously asserted aspects.
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You're like a pit bull with that, huh?
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C.) The diaries aren't public, so we don't even *know* shit about what he wrote (which was written years after the fact, if at all).
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As I said, Brinkley is no hack, and I'm willing to take his word for it.
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D.) And we are taking his biographer/campaign spokesman's word on this.
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Biographer, yes. Campaign spokesman, no. You seem to think it's "outlandish" to accept a university professor's description of source documents. Um, right. Impeach Brinkley if you will, but you'd better find something better than "he wrote a book about Kerry" and "he's going to vote for Kerry" 'cuz neither makes taking his word "outlandish."
Kerry has been saying for years that he was in Cambodia. Years before that, he wrote in his diaries that he was in Cambodia. It's not like anyone cares, except that you guys are trying so hard to prove that he's lying. Unclear to me why you are so rabid on this point, but I suspect it has something to do with the military's problems with the anti-war folks in the late 60s and early 70s.
Here our country is in a war in Iraq, with our soldiers dying every day, and no one wants to talk about it -- we'd all rather talk about where John Kerry was on December 24, 1968, and which strings were pulled so that Bush could fly (and then not fly) F-102s over the Gulf of Mexico a few years later. Iraq is sublimated into this decades-old fight about Vietnam.
Military types clearly think that we lost in Vietnam because people like Kerry criticized the war back home. Maybe they should entertain the thought that we lost because the war was so unpopular that people like Bush and Cheney would do their level best to duck combat. At least Kerry took fire before he opened his mouth. Bush blew his service off, and now he's sending soldiers who don't have the political connections he had to fight and die in Iraq. The second part of that last sentence is the real story.
