> To challenge just one's combat record... is to challenge everyone combat record.<
Not when A person with a questionable combat record tries to make it the center piece of their campaign for the office that will make them the Commander and Cheif. President Bush has NEVER questioned Kerry's record. It was Kerry's campaign wagon that launched the first salvo of who was doing what during Vietnam and attacked Bush's Air National Guard records. The deflection towards Bush's record in the Texas Air National Guard exemplifies how Kerry keeps trying to divert attention away from his own factual experience VS the reports he has now been caught as having falsified. >From his hospital bed President Klinton told him to "drop the Vietnam war" which would have been great advice before Kerry started using it in his campaign. It seems he wrote his book of exploits that didn't happen the way he wanted to remember them. If Kerry had not used that picture of Swiftboat Captains claiming he had their support (before asking them first) his fictionalized version of his 4 months of duty in Vietnam may have gone unchallenged. Being exposed as an opportunistic liar has resulted in many pages of his website disappearing from cyberspace. Despite Blaming President Bush for being behind the Swifties, not one shred of evidence supports the accusation. Kerry's problem is with the Veterans he smeared after he returned from Vietnam. He went as far as trying to get TV networks to refuse to run the Swifties ads (violating their first amendment rights). If you think Kerry is done with dirty campaign tricks, just watch him in the next couple of months, hiding smears through deflective accusations. Veterans have earned the right to speak, and we will be seeing more of it. Stuntman
