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William Warren wrote:
I don't label "anyone who disagrees" with me: I used the "GOP PR" metaphor as a sarcastic reply to an unattributed, and untracable, piece of disinformation. If it wasn't clear to you that I was being sarcastic, then I suggest you need to get out mo please recall that within 24 hours it had gone from being the alleged report of a "Retired Rear Admiral" to being a putative contribution by "Marine Master Sergeant" in a chat room, and I think I was able to shoot _that_ nonsense down as well. Go read this, it even gives the Marine Master Sargent's name, you can call him and verify it yourself. http://www.keepingapace.com/blogarch...ontroversy.php |
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JJ wrote:
William Warren wrote: I don't label "anyone who disagrees" with me: I used the "GOP PR" metaphor as a sarcastic reply to an unattributed, and untracable, piece of disinformation. If it wasn't clear to you that I was being sarcastic, then I suggest you need to get out mo please recall that within 24 hours it had gone from being the alleged report of a "Retired Rear Admiral" to being a putative contribution by "Marine Master Sergeant" in a chat room, and I think I was able to shoot _that_ nonsense down as well. Go read this, it even gives the Marine Master Sargent's name, you can call him and verify it yourself. http://www.keepingapace.com/blogarch...ontroversy.php Correction, Marine Major. |
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"JJ" wrote in message
... JJ wrote: William Warren wrote: I don't label "anyone who disagrees" with me: I used the "GOP PR" metaphor as a sarcastic reply to an unattributed, and untracable, piece of disinformation. If it wasn't clear to you that I was being sarcastic, then I suggest you need to get out mo please recall that within 24 hours it had gone from being the alleged report of a "Retired Rear Admiral" to being a putative contribution by "Marine Master Sergeant" in a chat room, and I think I was able to shoot _that_ nonsense down as well. Go read this, it even gives the Marine Master Sargent's name, you can call him and verify it yourself. http://www.keepingapace.com/blogarch...ontroversy.php Correction, Marine Major. You post implies that you have confirmed the authenticity of what was originally posted here, and that's not the case: the material at that URL is an opinion piece by a commentator, who quotes nine sentences from the former Major Stolz, none of which appeared in the original post or the followup that I responded to. I stand by my opinion concerning my previous messages: that there never was any such thing published in a chat room, by a "Retired Rear Admiral", a "Master Sergeant", or anyone else who was ever in a possition to know didly about the 'nam. It's GOP FUD, plain and simple. As to _this_ publication: it's author, Thomas D. Seigal, says at the start of the second paragraph that "I would argue that anyone who experienced shots fired in anger has the right to ask questions about any other person who makes similar claims. " .... but he does not provide any information as to whether he or the two officers he quoted were ever in Vietnam or even in combat : in its absence, I assume they were not. Let's leave that aside, though: there is a larger issue, and it is getting swamped (no doubt as the spindoctors at the RNC planned), in minutiae about whether John Kerry acted wisely in conducting operations during close-order combat. I submit that it is unimportant whether Kerry "should" have gotten off his boat or whether he "should" have acted differently under fire. Senator Kerry was a commander of a combat crew that was regularly involved in life or death struggles with hardened, experienced Viet Minh cadres, at the same time that the current President was evading even the minimal obligations to the Texas Air National Guard which his father had arranged for him. There's a phrase that's used a lot in substance-abuse counseling: "Don't should on yourself". I don't care what Kerry "should" have done: he was there, and Shrub wasn't. Bill Warren P.S. This really has gotten too far off the subject of ham radio. I've set the followups to talk.politics. (My email address has an anti-spam meassure you must remove for direct replies) |
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