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Originally Posted by jcookc6
For someone who wants to talk about the issues, why doesnt John Kerry talk about them. Less than 1 hour after the RNC was over, Kerry was talking about Cheney's 5 draft deferments. Why doesnt he explain that people who were in college got draft deferments. Why doent you say that I(he always says I) had graduated from college and tried to get a deferment to study at the Sorborne in Paris and was turned down. Why doen't you point out that your Vice President candidate did not serve in the armed forces either, so that should make that issue a wash.
Who cares what someone did 35 years ago, stop talking about it and the other side will stop pointing out inacccuracies in your service record. Maybe even they will stop talking about what you did when you came back in the anti war movement. Hell maybe the Republican's will give you a pass on the 1980's, but what the hell have you done since 1990?? I guess that era was not burned in your memory.
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I think the picking at kerry's vietnam record has long since gone well overboard... even if he did apply for a deferment he still volunteered to go to vietnam, and then went back for a second tour... I dont give a fuck if one of his purple hearts was only a scratch, if the republicans care so much then they should change the criteria for who gets purple hearts from now on because there is no stipulation as to the severity of the injury. Just the fact that he volunteered when he probably could have weaseled his way around it speaks volumes about his character. It would almost be better if he had won no medals, it would keep the opposition from picking at the stupid inconsistencies that are irrelevant when compared to the vietnam-era of W.