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Kerry documentary
| Tue, 10-12-2004 - 9:52am |
On HBO they're showing a Kerry/democrat documentary type thing where it's this girl following Kerry since 2003 (I believe that's the date) to the convention in Boston. It'll be on tonight at 10pm eastern and again 1am eastern if anybody is interested.

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Excerpt from the Epilogue:
"We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans' Day waving small flags, calling to memory those
thousands who died for the "greater glory of the United States." We will not accept the rhetoric. We will
not readily join the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars-in fact, we will find it hard to join
anything at all and when we do, we will demand relevancy such as other organizations have recently been
unable to provide. We will not take solace from the creation of monuments or the naming of parks after a
select few of the thousands of dead Americans and Vietnamese. We will not uphold traditions which
decorously memorialize that which was base and grim."
Saddam is not a good guy, he wasn't a "good" guy when Bush decided to bomb Iraq.
The point is there are a lot of "bad" guys. After 9/11 our goal was to go after the terrorists (whose ranking was much "badder" than Saddam) - they had declared war on our country and it was imperative that we find them and destroy them. We knew the terrorists were based in afghanistan - we knew most of them were Saudi nationals.
In a stroke of brilliance our president actually diluted the forces fighting the terrorists He called up our National Guard who were needed in the US to secure our borders. He directed all of our resources (military people and money) to bombing IRAQ. He had no plan for this war. It's a total mess and as much as people insist we not tell our soldiers that they are fighting the wrong war - that's the reality of the situation and we all need to face the facts.
Justifying a wrong war by saying that Saddam was/is bad doesn't negate the fact that Bush screwed up royally. He has taken away any agility our forces would have had and gotten them bogged down in Iraq where they have become sitting ducks.
I support our troops 100% - I'm voting for Kerry.
P.S. If neither candidate has the perfect plan for getting us out of Bush's mess there is no way we should reward his ineptness by reelecting him.
If neither candidate has the perfect plan for getting us out of Bush's mess there is no way we should reward his ineptness by reelecting him.
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You've hit it perfectly. No matter what your stance on the merits of the Iraq war are, (Remember, Bush's own Father and his staff were dead set against it, for the very reasons we're losing it today) it's watching the sheer lack of any cohesive plan to finish this thing to its logical conclusion that will cost Bush the election.
Remember, in April of 2003 support for the War in Iraq was almost 80%
80% !!
And this is when Americans KNEW WITHOUT A DOUBT that thousands of soldiers were going to die taking baghdad, when Bio/Chem attacks against our troops was a certainty.
From 30 nations to 24 and more dropping out, so-called support for this war has eroded on every front in every nation on this planet.
CBS chose to not show it under threats of a boycott by some conservatives. CBS's decision. Although they said when they canceled "The Reagans," they were not responding to pressure, but making a "moral call." The FCC did not say it had to be dropped. It was instead picked up & shown on Showtime (owned by CBS's parent company, Viacom). Personally, I feel CBS should have shown it and let the audience decide for themselves whether it was tripe or not. Not having Showtime, I did not see it, but anything connected to Barbra Streisand is bound to be, shall we say, very highly biased in its perspective?
And...
Here is an article on the STOLEN HONOR debate (The DNC is going to file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, complaining that the broadcast amounts to an illegal contribution to President Bush's campaign. Sinclair has asked Kerry to participate in a discussion at the end of the documentary giving him equal time):
Anti-Kerry Film Causes Stir
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
By J. Jennings Moss
NEW YORK — Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign blasted a decision by the Sinclair Broadcast Group to air a documentary on Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activism, but a Sinclair official vowed to move forward Tuesday.
The flap is over a one-hour program — "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" — featuring former prisoners of war accusing Kerry, a decorated veteran who took up the anti-war cause upon returning from Vietnam, of prolonging the war and worsening their plight.
"If anybody has earned the right to speak about their experiences in Vietnam, it's these men," Sinclair Vice President Mark Hyman told FOX News. "They suffered unspeakable horrors. They earned the right to be heard."
The program likely will be broadcast between Oct. 21 and Oct. 24, depending on the city. According to Sinclair's Web site, the company has some connection to 62 stations from all the broadcast networks — FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, UPN and the WB — in 39 markets and reaches 24 percent of U.S. television households.
Chad Clanton, a spokesman for the Kerry-Edwards campaign, described the movie as "a 90-minute political spot."
"There's nothing fair or balanced or journalistic about what they're doing," Clanton told FOX News. He described Sinclair as "George Bush's big corporate allies. ... This is a big media conglomerate strong-arming their local television stations."
The Sinclair plan led to a statement from Michael J. Copps, a commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, which was published Tuesday on the Drudge Report.
"This is an abuse of the public trust. And it is proof positive of media consolidation run amok when one owner can use the public airwaves to blanket the country with its political ideology — whether liberal or conservative," Copps said.
Without responding directly to Copps' point, Hyman said the documentary is a legitimate newsworthy event because it will allow former POWs to share their stories. Hyman also noted that Sinclair checked the veterans' backgrounds to ensure their stories were legitimate.
Since invoking his Vietnam service during his acceptance of the Democratic presidential nomination in July, Kerry has been dogged by questions over his heroism in the war and his comments after it. When Kerry returned home, he testified before a congressional panel and said others in the military committed atrocities while in Vietnam.
A group calledSwift Boat Veterans for Truth has funded and run a series of ads challenging Kerry on his Vietnam service.
Hyman said Sinclair is hoping Kerry himself will take part in a discussion after the documentary airs so they can get his side of the story. The company has invited Kerry but has not gotten a response yet, Hyman said.
"Maybe we're a little more persistent but we think this is an issue that really ought to be addressed because it's newsworthy," Hyman said. "Remember that John Kerry and John Kerry alone made his service the foundation of his presidential campaign."
Clanton said Kerry had earned the right through his time in the Navy to speak about how he felt about the war and he said Sinclair was doing nothing more than trying to influence the election in favor of Bush.
"They're trying to get a 90-minute political spot paid for, for nothing," he said. "It makes me so mad, I want to throw my boot through the TV set."
Sinclair either owns or programs content for stations in scores of markets, including Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas and Sacramento. Fourteen of the stations are located in such swing states as Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Sinclair gained attention in April when it refused to air a "Nightline" segment on seven ABC stations it owns. The company said the segment, during which anchor Ted Koppel read the names of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, was a political statement disguised as news.
Meanwhile, Michael Moore is in negotiations to make his anti-Bush documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" available as a pay-per-view show the night before the election, and the Sundance Channel plans to air clips on Monday from an anti-Bush "Vote for Change" rock concert.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,135228,00.html
Now there is an oxymoron.
Now there is an oxymoron.
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If you believe someone who doesn't support the war, DOESNT KNOW SOMEONE SERVING in Iraq, then you're smoking rock.
Wake up Bush lovers, it's going to take much more than an ANTI-KERRY campaign to get bush re-elected.
The debates have proved that beyond a doubt :)
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