Letters to the Editor
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The Unimpeachable Word of Colonel Holmes
Colonel Holmes was there--he said Clinton is a draft dodger
Now, you don't think Colonel Holmes could have any sort of partisan agenda, do you?
Tell us why the military supported Bush 4-to-1 over Kerry in 2004.
Right. Didn't think so.
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Rather's and Blumethal's Military Service Has Nothing to do With Bush's
Rather couldn't hack Marine Corps boot camp, yet claimed he was a former Marine several years later.
Can you support this statement in any way? Just wondering.
And somehow this excuses Bush going AWOL how exactly? Please be specific.
Blumenthal was born in 1948 yet failed to serve during the Vietnam War years.
And how does this excuse Bush going AWOL? Again, the more specific your answer, the better.
Also, while you're at it, address this: Cheney was born in 1941 and failed to serve during the Vietnam War years. You're willing to bend yourself into every shape to defend his actions. However, Blumenthal is a hypocrite for doing the same thing. (Plus, I wonder how many deferments Blumenthal got. I bet it was less than 5. What do you think?) Looks like yet another example of your double-standard.
Okay, Groenhagen, now dance!!
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Just a few words but truly powerful to me, and it is how I feel!
"Regardless of any debate over typewriters, the ink is already dry on history's judgment of the Bush years.
What remains is the autopsy of that rotting cadaver curled up in the corner--what we used to call "the press"."
-- readin'&writin'
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Go, Dan, Go
And, for you doubters, I learned at my mother's knee how to create good-looking superscript on a circa 1940 manual typewriter.
Better late than never.
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Plaintiffs Fund to Support Rather Lawsuit
Where can we contribute to support Rather's lawsuit? I think he could raise $millions in minutes. The global media monopolies, not just Viacom, are strangling democracy in the west. Rather's dismissal is only the most flagrant act of violence against free speech and the fifth estate. Dan, put up a website for donations to a 'plantiff's fund' and watch the money roll in. I'll be one of the first to donate. Senegoid.
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Awe, Grima, reading comprehension isn't your strong suit is it?
Can't spell "taliesan" without "lies"
"What about Chambliss? Gets out with a bad knee and then slams a person who had multiple amputated in war."
Cleland did not lose his limbs in battle.
You're lying again.
Further, it actually was in battle, the Battle of Khe Sanh. It was accidental, but it was in a battle. So Grima, you have been caught out in yet another lie.
Oh, and to the anonymous poster who claimed it was Cleland's grenade, it turned out later to have belonged to a rookie who was with him, who was wearing a jacket full of grenades with dangerously straight pins.
This from Wikipedia:
David Lloyd was a gung-ho, 19-year-old enlisted Marine, son of a Baltimore ship worker, who went to Vietnam because he "wanted to kill Communists."
On April 8, 1968, he was in a mortar pit on a hill near Khe Sanh when he heard an explosion. Shrapnel bounced off his flak jacket. He ran to the injured officer, a man named Max Cleland. 'Hold on there, captain,' Lloyd told Cleland. 'The chopper will be here in a minute.'
Lloyd took off his web belt and tied it around one of Cleland's shredded legs. When the medics arrived, he left to help another injured soldier — one of the two who had gotten off a helicopter with Cleland.
That soldier was crying. 'It was mine,' he said, 'it was my grenade.'
According to Lloyd, the private had failed to take the extra precaution that experienced soldiers did when they grabbed M-26 grenades from the ammo box: bend the pins, or tape them in place, so they couldn't accidentally dislodge. This soldier had a flak jacket full of grenades with treacherously straight pins, Lloyd says. "He was a walking death trap."[4]
Still not in battle, but definitely in a war and in a battle.
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Oops
Correct that last post to "Still not due to battle but definitely in a war and in a battle"
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Forged forgery.
It took me about fifteen minutes onthe internet to discovery that the IBM Selectric II, which had those font balls, could have typed thoses so-called forgeries, complete with superscripts. On ebay I found about 6 sets of fonts balls up for auction.
My journalsim skills must be awesome, since evidently no one else in the business took fifteen minutes of time to do the research which would have laid to rest the forgery claims.
Shouldn't I get a Pulitzer or something?
Maybe someone should tello Dan Rather about the IBM Selelctric.
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. . . And I'm Standing by Dan
I've never thought that Dan Rather got a fair shake in the dust-up over whether or not GWB actually served in the Texas Air National Guard. I'm convinced he didn't. The whole mess got side-lined by the national press (including CBS) over the shameful Speedboating episode. It's high time the whole business got aired and maybe now that GWB is on the downhill slide of his reign, the media won't be in the mood to suck up to him and the Republicans.
Glynn
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moonbat
English is not my first language so I had to look up the word a certain gentleman posting here often like to use. This is what I found:
Moonbat: term used by those on the extreme political right wing (known as "wingnuts") to describe anyone who disagrees with their bizarre, fascistic world view. Used, despite the fact that it makes absolutely no sense, because they could not come up with a word or phrase as appropriately descriptive as "wingnut."
Explained a lot of things to me.
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The rhinestone "Marine" Groegie strikes gain
It's obvious that fatso Limbaugh has ordered him to spend another day trolling here while earning minimum wage. Groegie would much rather perform falatio on the smirking chimp, but when Fatso orders, Groegie obeys.
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Dan Rather was in Vietnam!
This just dawned on me:
Dan Rather went to Vietnam, and reported on battles there. He was under fire. Lots of TV stories prove it. You probably can find them somewhere on the www.
So it does not matter that he never made it as a Marine. He went to war anyway. And he deserves credit for that.
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326 Posts
It may have taken most of 326 posts to do it, but apparently we've finally driven a stake through the heart of that sad person posting as "Groenhagen." It's encouraging to see that, eventually, all Bush supporters whither in the face of reason the same way a vampire whithers under sunlight. It's moments like these that I see a glimmer of light at the end of this dark tunnel.