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October 31, 2006

An Incompetent Charlatan

In his response to the ire he has drawn upon himself, Senator Kerry says this:

If anyone thinks that a veteran, someone like me, who's been fighting my entire career to provide for veterans, to fight for their benefits, to help honor what their service is -- if anybody thinks that a veteran would somehow criticize more than 140,000 troops serving in Iraq, and not the president and his people who put them there, they're crazy. It's just wrong.
And this, in response to a question:
They know my true feelings. They know I fought to provide additional money for veterans. They know I fought to provide money for combat -- for veterans. They know I fought to put money for VA. They know I've honored those veterans.

The truth is that Americans see through these slippery techniques. Senator Kerry has made a career out of being the artful dodger of American politics: he routinely makes insinuations about the American military and when called on them he trots out his service as a sort of blanket immunity for any criticism of his statements. "How could I have possibly meant that! It's absurd! After all, I'm a war hero!" The effect is supposed to be the conveyance of two separate concepts at the same time: the one to those who would agree with his disparagements of the military, the other for those who would not.

The problem is that even an undereducated idiot veteran like me can see through this. Kerry is the worst kind of magician in this regard: pitiful, for his every trick is so transparent.

Kerry, in fact, is a strange breed of politician. For all the cries about the war being run by those who are "chickenhawks," who are presumed to be eager for war due to their lack of experience with it, Kerry could be called the polar opposite: a "bulldove" or something similar, whose pronouncements about the insanity of the war are supposed to have the brilliance of received gospel, due only to the time he spent in uniform some 35 years ago.

The problem here is just as acute as it is with the so-called chickenhawks: military service does not necessarily impart infallible strategic judgment. One can serve and be wrong, or not serve and still be right. Since his return from Vietnam, Senator Kerry has fallen clearly into the former camp.

Posted by Chester at October 31, 2006 9:20 PM

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"One can serve and be wrong, or not serve and still be right". Not only that, but one can serve and still be a damned traitor. Benedict Arnold showed more courage and demonstrated more effective leadership before he switched sides than Kerry or Murtha ever dreamed.

Posted by: Coop at November 1, 2006 1:21 AM

there must be something wrong with you...didn't you go to Duke, and then go into the Marines? Or was that Duke Community College? Weren't you stuck in Iraq even after graduating from there?

Maybe that proves it...Kerry is a liar. Even in you work hard, and graduate from a good school, you can still get stuck in Iraq.

Posted by: Kirk at November 2, 2006 5:26 PM