>The reason your skipping-out on your enlistment didn't matter in the
>2000 election was because we were not at war. Being stuck in a
>deadly, daily quagmire now in 2004 makes your military
>history-fiction and your fly-boy costume VERY relevant.
On one hand, Bush's military history-fiction; on the other hand, Kerry's anti-war history-fiction:
***** Kerry refused to speak at the VVAW's January 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation, a series of hearings in Detroit in which soldiers spoke out against the atrocities that they witnessed in Vietnam. But he did agree to appear at a well-publicized Senate committee hearing--and put himself at the head of a demonstration organized later that year in Washington, D.C.
<http://www.counterpunch.org/schulte02102004.html> *****
***** Distaste for anarchy notwithstanding, when the VVAW forced a senate hearing on the war, Kerry pushed himself to the front to deliver the high-profile testimony before the tv cameras and, later, at a Vets' demonstration at the White House similarly took advantage of the heavily covered event to join other vets in throwing war medals over the White House fence. The ones tossed by Kerry actually belonged to someone else, thus permitting the prudent Kerry to preserve his own for later proud display in his various offices and for their ultimate deployment as blazing reproaches to Bush.
<http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn02112004.html> *****
>Answer our questions, apologize to the nation, and bring our kids home.
Will Kerry bring them home? -- Yoshie
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