Religions > Atheism > Continental Lays Off 425. Thank You Bush! That Corner Was Turned With Catastrophic Success!
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"Yang, AthD h.c" |
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03 Sep 2004 10:02:52 PM |
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Continental Lays Off 425. Thank You Bush! That Corner Was Turned With Catastrophic Success! |
http://money.cnn.com/2004/09/02/news/fortune500/continental.reut/
Remember how AWOL's "stimulus" package was supposed to have led to
massive jobs growth right about... now?
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Yang
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AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
Proudly plonked by Lani Girl and Crazyalec
The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: -3 million jobs and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -978 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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| User: "Michael Marxist Moore" |
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| Title: A Swift Blow For Kerry |
04 Sep 2004 12:21:19 AM |
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A Swift Blow For Kerry
August 24, 2004, 8:30 a.m.
A Swift Blow
Kerry’s antiwar record stings.
By Rich Lowry, NR Editor
By rights, the second Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ad should be more
devastating than the first. The new ad focuses on John Kerry's 1971
antiwar congressional testimony. If the content of the first ad,
questioning the circumstances in which Kerry won his medals and Purple
Hearts, inevitably becomes a "he said-he said," the second ad is an
inarguable "he said it." Look it up in the Congressional Record,
Thursday, April 22, 1971, Pages 179-210.
One of the prisoners of war featured in the new ad, Paul Galanti,
spent nearly seven years in captivity in Vietnam. "John Kerry gave the
enemy for free what I and my comrades in the prison camps in North
Vietnam took torture to avoid saying," Galanti says. That is to say
Kerry recited a denunciation of the U.S. war effort so sweeping and
absurdly over-the-top that only a tortured American soldier or a North
Vietnamese propagandist could have done better (or worse).
Recounting the work of the so-called Winter Soldier Investigation - a
since-discredited project that gathered first-person accounts of
alleged atrocities from American vets - Kerry spoke of "war crimes
committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents, but crimes
committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at
all levels of command." In his telling, the American war was simply a
criminal undertaking. Kerry said the men "relived the absolute horror
of what this country, in a sense, made them do."
Now, of course, Kerry implicitly portrays Vietnam as a noble
undertaking, featuring only great acts of bravery by great American
men. In his convention speech, Kerry bragged of defending America as a
soldier - forgetting that it once was his deeply held conviction that
the Vietnam War had nothing to do with defending America. Apparently
someone in the Kerry camp thinks that having John Edwards testify to
Kerry's gung-ho war exploits has more resonance than celebrating him
in this way: "If you want to know John Kerry, spend three minutes with
the men who were with him when he threw away his medals and called
U.S. soldiers criminals."
Kerry's defenders argue that in 1971 he was only repeating stories
told by other veterans. These stories should have been incredible to
anyone with the least bit of respect for American soldiers, especially
someone who had just served with them. But Kerry repeated the stories
anyway in order to cast the war in the worst possible light. Even now
he won't disavow them. Pressed on Meet the Press about the testimony,
Kerry said, "I'm not going to quibble, you know, 35 years later that I
might not have phrased things more artfully at times." Phrased more
artfully?
Kerry refuses to admit that he burst onto the national scene by
telling a shameful falsehood about American servicemen. In his
testimony, he even traded on the notion that the vets had been made
into war-damaged freaks - the country has created "a monster, a
monster in the form of millions of men who have been taught to deal
and to trade in violence." Kerry is perfectly happy to stand with
members of this monstrous body of war criminals, victims and misfits
now that they suit his political purposes. As for those vets who
don't, they are "liars." The Swift Boat veterans seem unfazed by the
charge, since they, after all, have been called worse by John Kerry.
Kerry is taking an enormous risk in basing his Swift Boat defense on a
lie - that the Swift Boat veterans are an arm of the Bush campaign.
This is a civil war between Vietnam vets, one group of which is not
going to forget what Kerry said about them 35 years ago. In 1971,
Kerry said, "We wish that a merciful God could wipe away our own
memories of that service [in Vietnam]." He owes the country an
explanation of why, sometime between then and his need for footage for
a campaign biography film, he changed his mind.
-- Rich Lowry is author of Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton
Years.
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Liberals Hate America!
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