On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 22:43:39 -0500, ray wrote:

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:15:51 -0700, Mark & Juanita wrote:

After all, what is the word of a retired navy
admiral and several retired navy captains in addition to others who served
with him? Why they pale to insignificance vs. the word of a politician and
a reporter.

What you have to ask yourself, pilgrim, is if they were lying back in
the war, when they wrote all those glowing accounts of Kerry's bravery and
competence, or if they are lying now, when they say he isn't fit to lead
this country. It has to be one or the other.


Well, if you read their accounts, they *didn't* write those glowing
accounts. It seems that Kerry, being PAO (Public affairs officer) wrote a
number of those reports himself. Have you read their website? In
addition,these men all signed affadavits regarding the authenticity of
their accounts and included those affadavits with the package sent to radio
stations so that those stations would air the paid advertisements. Seems
that the same radio stations had no such requirements for other commercials
such as those sponsored by moveon.org.


Here's an interesting question. If, as they claim, they are not Bush
supporters, just folks who are appalled by the idea of Kerry becoming
President, why didn't they make their charges back in the primary season,
when they could have influenced the Democrats to pick another and more
acceptable candidate?

Well, according to several of them, they have been trying for months to
get the press to take an interest in their story -- they approached
numerous media outlets and were rebuffed by all of them. So, maybe if the
media had picked up on this earlier, that might have happened, hmmm?

Hmmm? I mean, if they aren't really working for
Bush? In fact, why didn't any of these guys pop out of the woodwork
decades ago during one of Kerry's prior campaigns? No, no, they wait
until Kerry gets into a position where he might defeat Bush. Only then do
they start remembering all the reasons Kerry is unfit to serve the people.

What does that tell you
about their claims of being nonpolitical?

It smells fishy to me.


Well, perhaps if you had spent time as a POW being tortured to sign a
confession admitting to war crimes and then had John Kerry do that for free
in front of the Senate, maybe you'd have a bit of an axe to grind too.
Seems like these guys aren't so much for Bush, but wanting people to know
what they are getting if they pick Kerry.