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Bush Opens a Double-Digit Lead!
| Fri, 09-03-2004 - 3:46pm |
New York: For the first time since the Presidential race became a two person contest last spring, there is a clear leader, the latest TIME poll shows. If the 2004 election for President were held today, 52% of likely voters surveyed would vote for President George W. Bush, 41% would vote for Democratic nominee John Kerry, and 3% would vote for Ralph Nader, according to a new TIME poll conducted from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2. Poll results are available on TIME.com and will appear in the upcoming issue of TIME magazine, on newsstands Monday, Sept. 6.
http://www.time.com/time/press_releases/article/0,8599,692562,00.html
Edited 9/3/2004 4:13 pm ET ET by iminnie833

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Newsflash: Cheney dissassociated himself with
Kerry NEVER said that Nixon SENT him there. He said that during a time Nixon had been saying loudly in the press that there were no troops in Cambodia, Kerry was in Cambodia. As for your "gotcha" that Nixon wasn't the President on Christmas Eve 1968 - your technically right, but it doesn't matter. Nixon was the President Elect and was sworn in about 20 days later. As President Elect it's entirely likely and even probable that he was making statements on the war, and Cambodia was a hot issue. Nixon began the secret bombing of Cambodia just a few months later.
My point in posting John O'Neill's quote was to point out how curious it is that he made no distinction between working "at the border" and being "in Cambodia", and is now throwing Kerry's words in his face for the same thing. It's hypocritical. It also leads me to believe that the border was more porus that the swifties are saying, but I have no real way to confirm that.
Truth can often be disappointing -- please read on:
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Kerry's war journal contradicts medal claim?
At least 9 days after Purple Heart, wrote he had not 'been shot at yet'
Posted: August 17, 2004
8:00 p.m. Eastern
By Art Moore
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
A previously unnoticed passage in John Kerry's approved war biography, citing his own journals, appears to contradict the senator's claim he won his first Purple Heart as a result of an injury sustained under enemy fire.
Kerry, who served as commander of a Navy swift boat, has insisted he was wounded by enemy fire Dec. 2, 1968, when he and two other men took a smaller vessel, a Boston Whaler, on a patrol north of his base at Cam Ranh Bay.
But Douglas Brinkley's "Tour of Duty," for which Kerry supplied his journals and letters, indicates that as Kerry set out on a subsequent mission, he had not yet been under enemy fire.
While the date of the four-day excursion on PCF-44 is not specified, Brinkley notes it commenced when Kerry "had just turned 25, on Dec. 11, 1968," which was nine days after the incident in which he claimed he had been wounded by enemy fire.
Brinkley recounts the outset of that mid-December journey, which included a crew of radarman James Wasser, engineman William Zaladonis, gunner's mate Stephen Gardner and boatswain's mates Drew Whitlow and Stephen Hatch:
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"They pulled away from the pier at Cat Lo with spirits high, feeling satisfied with the way things were going for them. They had no lust for battle, but they also were were not afraid. Kerry wrote in his notebook, 'A cocky feeling of invincibility accompanied us up the Long Tau shipping channel because we hadn't been shot at yet, and Americans at war who haven't been shot at are allowed to be cocky.'"
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14743
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