Letters to the Editor
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Groenhagen
Or "groggy" as you seem to be.
Personally, I doubt you're in the military at all. You sound a lot like the idiots I see who claim they are so people won't disagree with them and then it turns out they're just a janitor near a military base.
Why the hell do you care if Clinton wasn't drafted 'cause he got a deferment? And what does it have to do with this? It is a red herring, just like the other idiot here screaming "You Can't Center Headings!!" When actually, you can. It all depends on how much effort you want to expend.
Cheney got what, 5 deferrments? Limbaugh got quite a few, Rove, got a few himself. Bush got daddy to get him into the Air National Guard ahead of others on the list so he wouldn't have to go. Gore volunteered, so did Kerry. Of course, none of those except Bush are what's really being discussed here. Bush went AWOL and then deserted. You have no way to refute that, so you scream Clinton. The Bushies were handed tons of documents about AlQueda by the Clintons when they took over. They immediately said "We don't care, we're going to focus on porn" and allowed 9/11 to be the disaster it was.
I'm sure if you respond to this, you'll scream "Clinton" yet again or some tired equivalent. The truth is you can't look at facts 'cause they show you were lied to and believed it. You were a gullible fool and apparently prefer continuing to be on to admitting you were wrong and changing your mind. The truth is there for you to see, but
You can't handle the Truth.
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re: Where Were Bush's National Guard Buddies?
Selma585
"For man known for being a party guy, why haven't we ever heard from men who served with him?"
A few of them HAVE said he was there...which is what is generating the confusion. Was he there or wasn't he? That is one of the things everyone is wanted evidence of. Unfortunately, the National Guard didn't keep records quite as well in those days as they do now.
The DA Form 1379 wasn't kept up as much. So if you were out on a class or something, you were just marked as present, rather than excused absence or split drill or something along those lines.
As for where all his buddies are that were his "drinking buddies", well, all I can say is, do YOU remember everyone you used to drink with 30 - 40 years ago?
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Now All We Need Is Motive: Here is Why Sumner Redstone Might Have Done It
CBS was rather pathetic, attempting to outfox a pair of ace investigative journalists like Dan Rather and Mary Mapes. If there was a smoking gun---say a private detective with exculpatory evidence who was not called to testify---did they really think this duo would not uncover that fact? Maybe CBS has their parent corporation confused with Disney, where you can "wish upon a star" and make it so. However, CBS works for Viacon.
Viacom will go to court and attempt to show that if they failed to defend Dan Rather, it was not through malicious intent. "No, your honor, it was just because we are a bunch of incompetents who could not do any better." It was character assassination by accident.
Rather will need to show that Viacom had a motive. And this will be very easy to prove. Since 2000, Viacom has had a big problem with federal media ownership regulations. In 2000, the FCC ordered the company to trim its television holdings., Instead of complying with the order, it hitched its star to the Bush administration. Michael Powell of the FCC made an administrative decree raising the cap to 45%, which put Viacom in compliance and even allowed then to grow. But a federal court struck down the decree. Bush promised to appeal the court ruling---AFTER he was reelected in 2004. John Kerry was on record as being opposed to the raised cap. Viacom desperately wanted the change in federal regulations for the sake of corporate profits. So did a lot of other media empires that went along with the witch hunt against Dan Rather and the Swift Boat Vetting of Kerry.
The irony is that in January 2005, days after Bush was sworn in for a second term, Michael Powell revealed that Bush had never intended to keep the promise to appeal the lower court ruling. Viacom and all the others had been suckered. No wonder the coverage of Katrina got so nasty for the administration.
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@Anonymouse
Of course it's not okay. Why do you jump to the conclusion that somehow I think it is?
It appears that you find Bush's non-performance far more acceptable than Clinton's, because you've been defending Bush by criticizing Clinton for things that Bush also did. Only when called on this do you mutter "Of course it's not okay." However, I expect you will continue this tack regardless.
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The family of the officer who supposedly wrote the docs? They're credible?
I'm sorry but, would an officer overseeing the "Champagne" squad, basically a bunch of richboys with powerful daddies by the sounds of it (IE: Bush wasn't anything special), even tell his family about one not showing up?
I mean, I do not think what Bush was doing was exactly all that high on Killian's "This is annoying me" list as to have him bring it home with him.
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Strange, the editor's choices in response to this article.
The "Editor's Choice" on the many, many responses to this article includes just five "worthy" letters. Remarkably, all of them support Blumenthal's point of view. This, despite so many, many opposing points of view. And they say there's no media bias.
(You can select "Only Editor's Choices" at the top of the page that begins "Letters to the Editor. That is, of course, if you only want one point of view).
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Groenhagen, another right wing nut lying about his "military" service
I found out from USMC headquarters that NO person by that name ever served in the Marines Corp. Vermin Groenhagen- Another Creationist Bushevik moronic asshole playing with guns and lying about his non-existing service.
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Lynx is lying
Lynx:
"You have no way to refute that, so you scream Clinton."
Clinton's deferment (after he received a draft induction date) was conditional, i.e., he had to join the ROTC at the University of Arkansas. He failed to keep that commitment and, therefore, as Col. Holmes said, Clinton was a draft dodger.
"The Bushies were handed tons of documents about AlQueda by the Clintons when they took over. They immediately said "We don't care, we're going to focus on porn" and allowed 9/11 to be the disaster it was."
If the Clinton administration had been concerned about al Qaeda, they wouldn't have launched a preemptive attack on Iraq just four months after al Qaeda bombed our embassies in Africa. They also would not have launched an illegal war of choice in Kosovo during the spring of 1999. And they certainly would have responded in some way after the USS Cole was bombed in October 2000.