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New swiftvet ad, Kerry in big trouble!
| Fri, 08-20-2004 - 11:12am |
Kerry's in big trouble now... the latest swiftvet ad (ad number 2) is if anything more devastating against Kerry than the first...
Check it out at http://a1281.v125028.c12502.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1281/12502/v0001/eaglepub.download.akamai.com/12502/sellout.wmv

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Ted Kennedy ran for President, and he actually killed someone without having to be involved in a war.
btw....where did the flower emoticon come from...I thought I clicked the 2cents
Edited 8/27/2004 4:20 pm ET ET by debateguy
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James Warner, POW
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US civilians who were decapitated in Saudi Arabia and Iraq were told it was in response to Abu Grahib. Should we fault the media for revealing the abuse? Does CBS have blood on its hands for revealing something ugly about us?
I also wonder what Galanti thought of the Bush 2000 campaign's claim that McCain was nuts because of his time spent in the Hanoi Hilton. In WorldNetDaily Galanti said he supported McCain in 2000.
Metrochick, for the most part, I completely agree with you. The one problem I have,is that I have heard it discussed, and also read, about Kerry going over to Vietnam and speaking with the government regarding this issue. I am not going to give specifics, because honestly, I don't know what is fact, or what is fiction or embelishment. So far I haven't been able to find much information about this. Also, it is my understanding that our enemies in this war incorporated all types of torture against American POW's. Now, I'm not trying to say that it makes it all fair game, but to someone like me that in the past only listens to the sound bites of the news programs, or reads only the headlines and the first paragraph or two of the paper, the appearance is that only the US was engaging in the use of illegal tatics, and it would seem that it was extremely wide spread, that it was the rare US soldier in Vietnam that wasn't engaging in these illegal acts. After, some, but admittedly not extensive reading, I'm finding that neither are the truth. What bothers me is that Kerry's testimony MAY have drawn an inaccurate picture of what was happening there, and that many have suffered b/c of sensationalism. I understand that Kerry and others felt they needed to draw attention to this topic, but is it possible that in doing so they jepordized many American lives, and even more US soldier futures, needlessly?
"US civilians who were decapitated in Saudi Arabia and Iraq were told it was in response to Abu Grahib. Should we fault the media for revealing the abuse? Does CBS have blood on its hands for revealing something ugly about us?"
The soldiers that participated in the abuse are the ones that have blood on their hands, I only question the necessity of the length of time it spent on the front pages of the papers and as the headlining stories on news programs, especially since it was already under investigation. I'm not suggesting hiding dirty secrets, but how they are told has an impact, this was very negative, as though the government was trying to pretend it never happened and nothing was being done about it, and that was not the case. I don't believe that giving an enemy reason to kill more of our citizens, especially in a brutal manor can be glossed over with a "free speech" claim or "dissention, that's what America is all about" claim. In this case, what purpose did alerting the world that some of our soldiers are no better than thugs? I'm not sure that it served any purpose. Now, what if we told the world that we were prosecuting our soldiers that treated POW's inhumanely, what might have been the result of that? Maybe it would have garnered a little respect for our government, that in the face of war, we do not tolerate such horrid and deplorable behavior from our soldiers, instead, the appearance was that we were simply doing nothing.
If I have any of my facts wrong, please correct me.
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