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Originally posted by bilmore
Lie? You've gone from "he only heard it third-hand" to "lie"? That word has been tossed around awfully easily in the last year or two, and has done more than most other factors to make the rift permanent, I think. I'm just about to the "f you" point, just over the ease with which that word is used.
Especially considering the news about the organized bugout of Saddam's nuclear weapons facilities.
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My last word, then you can respond.
Nice. I was talking about the overall smear. I have no idea if the Navy doc was lying about what he overheard his staff saying they were told in 1970. But I think that the people who put those ads together were being misleading at best.
I think that it is fair to say that the "I heard third hand" statement from the doctor is certainly is not the impression one got from watching the commercial that was aired. It implied that the doctor "served with Kerry" and that he *knew* that Kerry had not been injured in a firefight.
He didn't say "I didn't really serve with John Kerry, but I did pull a small piece of steel out of his arm, and I later overheard people who overheard people who said that there was no firefight when he was hurt."
As for lies, I am comfortable saying that the alleged observers of the rescue of Rassmussen are lying. If he was in no danger, and no one was shooting at him, why was Kerry's boat the only one to turn around to get him? And why would Rassmussen lie about it?
And O'Neill lied to Colson and Nixon. So he is a liar. As are those in the Swifties group who contend that they were non-partisan. Read the factcheck.org article about how they got their money.
I haven't read about the WMD deal. I saw when looking on Slate that Hitchens has a story about it, but who can trust that liberal rag about anything?
I'm done.
