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I picked age '15' for dramatic effect and I figured that even ideologues could get their chubby fingers around a nice round number. I was fairly confident that people could pick their most meaningful date of vietnamlessness and add a few years to Edward's entering high school.
Lebell, I've read the testimony, too. And I even asked someone to post it on the board. No one showed me, and I didn't read, where Kerry called servicepeople 'baby killers and worse.' Now maybe you did, but I saw him relate to Congress war crimes that others had told him about and some he may have witnessed or participated in. Regardless, it's a bunch of crap because it was thirty years ago and he's been continually serving the nation for 20 years. No one has made an issue of his past testimony to my knowledge and I can't think of too many reasons one would do so today--other than for political machinations.
jcook, kerry didn't argue his record to prove he was a better leader because he had been in country. He put his record on the block because right-wing ideologues were calling democrats cowards, treasonists, unpatriotic, and etc. Kerry's point was that it's pretty damn hard to be all that and be a Navy decorated officer and a 20 year senator. But who's counting? Somehow people just keep slinging shit at him--makes me wonder whether that's all they got--because I sure haven't seen anyone slinging issues at him.
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