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Topic: New info to help clarify this debate |
paideia
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Forum: Swift Vets and POWs for Truth Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:40 pm Subject: Please.... |
Hey all,
I just noticed someone changed my posting on page 1 of this forum to read the opposite of what I wrote. Honestly, I appreciate the discussion but free speech is impossible to have with th ... |
Topic: New info to help clarify this debate |
paideia
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Forum: Swift Vets and POWs for Truth Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:23 pm Subject: New info to help clarify this debate |
ord33, the link was great. Thanks. I agree with one of the author's many sentiments. Namely, that Kerry should make another statement clarifying what went on during those meetings. There are a numb ... |
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paideia
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Forum: Swift Vets and POWs for Truth Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:15 pm Subject: New info to help clarify this debate |
Thanks. I haven't read it yet. Both Tour of Duty and Unfit for Command have been both summarized and taken apart in the press (e.g., the Post article), making me hesitant to spend the $$. But, soun ... |
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paideia
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Forum: Swift Vets and POWs for Truth Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:09 pm Subject: Thanks |
Thanks for the info, kmudd and Polaris. Is there a good summary of this I can read somewhere? |
Topic: New info to help clarify this debate |
paideia
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Forum: Swift Vets and POWs for Truth Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:08 pm Subject: Sorry |
Hey ASPB, this is an honest discussion we're all having. We're interested in helping each other form some opinion about this important controversy.
Please conduct yourself accordingly. |
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paideia
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Forum: Swift Vets and POWs for Truth Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:02 pm Subject: Paris... |
kmudd, I'll keep reading, but I'm honestly confused what the larger controversy is about Paris. I've read some blogs and some conservative online news pages that detail a debate about how many meetin ... |
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paideia
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Forum: Swift Vets and POWs for Truth Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:44 pm Subject: Almost like instant messanging |
kmudd, I think you're directing the question in part to me so I'll reply.
What you say certainly makes sense. If someone makes an inaccurate statement, from a rhetorical standpoint, it is indeed ... |
Topic: New info to help clarify this debate |
paideia
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Forum: Swift Vets and POWs for Truth Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:25 pm Subject: Troll, cont. |
Ok, still don't know what Troll is, but I'll let that go. The only question I heard had to do with Kerry and Cambodia. Let me know if there were others.
From my reading of the various reports on ... |
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paideia
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Forum: Swift Vets and POWs for Truth Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:13 pm Subject: Dumb? |
I'm sorry, I honestly don't know what it means to be a "troll" in this context. I can imagine something from Lord of the Rings and understand its not flattering but I'd aprpeciate some specifics... : ... |
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paideia
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Forum: Swift Vets and POWs for Truth Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:09 pm Subject: one more |
By the way, what does "Troll alert" mean? |
Topic: New info to help clarify this debate |
paideia
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Forum: Swift Vets and POWs for Truth Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:08 pm Subject: Oops! |
Sorry, Polaris, I thought that by calling the Post article "very good" you were agreeing in substance with it's conclusions. My apologies for misquoting you. |
Topic: New info to help clarify this debate |
paideia
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Forum: Swift Vets and POWs for Truth Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 12:03 pm Subject: Continuing.... |
Thanks, Polaris. You're saying that Hoffman and Elliott were providing testimony based on records they had reviewed, rather than first hand experience with Kerry? (I'm sure that's a fact that has be ... |
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paideia
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Forum: Swift Vets and POWs for Truth Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:36 am Subject: Thanks |
Thanks for your replies. I'm curious what you think about the content of the chart, denoting the contradictory testimony given by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth? That was somewhat disturbing to me. ... |
Topic: Great Post article on the book |
paideia
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Forum: "Unfit For Command" Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:12 am Subject: Great Post article on the book |
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20040822/pl_washpost/a21239_2004aug21
The Post had this article on O'Neil's book this morning. |
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paideia
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Forum: Swift Vets and POWs for Truth Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 11:07 am Subject: New info to help clarify this debate |
http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/2004/08/19/politics/campaign/20040820swift_graph.gif
This graphic helped me sort through all the competing opinions around this controversy. I hope you find it ... |
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