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[Marine's Wife]

The flip flopping Kerry said yesterday in Arkansas,while still demanding Rumsfeld resign,or be fired. "Not one soldier died anywhere in this world,under President Clinton's watch"

I think he's got it! Amnesia,that is. He'd completely forgotten The USS Cole, The American Embassy Bombings, The "Blackhawk Down" debacle,MADE BY NON OTHER THAN THE "What IS is" Clinton! This is only a few.
You should have seen his face when he learned ,after running his mouth,that Sec.Rumsfeld was at that very moment, in Irag,visiting the troops. I thought he was going to croak on the spot!

[happycats]

The Kreep said "died in a WAR" America was not at war,only Alqeda was at war.

[Montana]

Hi Marine´s Wife,

Something the US press
tends to ignore is that during peace time, annual deaths of
DOD personnel due to accidents number in the hundreds. Sailors are washed overboard, grunts are run over by tanks, accidental shootings, jet planes crash....all on a daily basis.

I would not be surprised if there are as many US military
deaths per year (in peace time around the world) then the number of US combat deaths in Iraq.

The US military, even in peace time, is a dangerous job.

Montana

[happycats]

[mikest]

[happycats]

The Kreep said "died in a WAR" America was not at war,only Alqeda was at war.

[Montana]

Thanks mikest for the Kerry quote, i.e. ¨Not one young American
in uniform was dying...¨

The below is not directed at anyone in particular. Just my thoughts:

I´m trying to understand the relevance of Kerry´s quote.
Any presidential
historian could find presidents in the past that this
quote fits. Or doesn´t fit. But so what? Don´t we have to take this in context with what´s going on in the world? The US has fought
numerous wars over the last 200 years. Sometimes young Americans
were dying when the president left office. Sometimes they
were not. There were times when our nation was very isolationalist
when possibly it shouldn´t have been. Some in England and
Canada would say that we should have been in WWII much earlier,
when these two countries were having their young men in uniform
dying for at least 2 years before we entered the war because of Pearl
Harbor.

Staying with Kerry´s quote, does this mean
if you have young Americans dying in a war, that president
is bad, and if none are dying that president is good?

Since young Americans were dying when both Lincoln and FDR left office were they bad presidents? (Possibly leaving office by dying
is not what Kerry meant.)

However, when Andrew Johnson left office, I´m not aware of
any young Americans in uniform dying. Johnson was not that
great of a President. Same for the next president U.S. Grant.
History has not been written for the period we are living in right now.
Time will tell.
Just my .02
Montana

[sparky]

"Not one soldier died anywhere in this world,under President Clinton's watch"

Montana, you're so funny. You requoted but left out the part that makes Kerry's statement true.

You quoted Kerry:

¨Not one young American in uniform was dying...¨

And he really said, truthfully ...

"When Bill Clinton left office not one young American in uniform was dying in a war anywhere in this world."

Funny how I get accused of "selective quoting" by Carpo or Greenhate (I forget which) when I requoted a sentence and there was nothing worth hiding anyway. You, however, leave out the very clause in your first sentence that shows Kerry was 100% accurate.

Man, you guys crack me up!

[carpro]

[Montana]

[vatar]

So using that criteria, Herbert Hoover must have been a much better president than FDR.

[carpro]

Don't sweat it Montana. Sparky alters quotes to suit his message. He'll even change his own and call it a repost. When he gets caught, he drops that thread and goes to another.
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"If he believes his 1971 indictment of his country and his fellow veterans was true, then he couldn't possibly be proud of his Vietnam service."

[mikest]

Valid point Montana. I can't see much relavence. It's just a campaign speech and I was correcting the "mistake" by Marines Wife.

[Craig]

I wonder how the candidates would stack up comparing amnesiac events?

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Campaigning Friday in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Bush was asked about his 1972 service in that state.

"I was there on a temporary assignment and fulfilled my weekends at one period of time," he said. "I made up some missed weekends."

"I can't remember what I did, but I wasn't flying because they didn't have the same airplanes. I fulfilled my obligations."

[Montana]