"Owen Hiller" wrote in message
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If you're trying to corner my into defending John Kerry's politics or
something, you're barking up the wrong tree.

I am not. You wrote that the vietnam veterans who were criticizing
Kerry's story just happened to come out at the election time, therefore
they only had political motivations. I just pointed out that it was
Kerry who brought up Vietnam

Ah. And what was SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH doing before Kerry brought
up his Swift Boat story? Were they out dutifully purging society of swift
boat frauds?

A moment ago you were claiming that 'someone' was attempting to diminish
Congressman Murtha's past service and sacrifices,

A W F E R P E T E S A K E ! ! !
http://www.cnsnews.com/SpecialReport...20060113a.html

"Murtha's War Hero Status Called Into Question"


Not good enough? ANN COULTER! http://mediamatters.org/items/200512020002

And unlike Murtha, who refuses to release his medical records showing he
was entitled to his two Purple Hearts, we know what North did. (These
Democrat military veterans are hardly shrinking violets when it comes to
citing their medals, but they get awfully squeamish when pressed for
details.)

A May 12, 2002, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article





http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/1132727456.shtml Congresswoman Who
Called John Murtha Coward Apologizes On TV

but your only example of this was an anonymous post on somebody's bulletin
board. Or maybe not even that because your link does not work.


Need more?
"[Murtha] is putting himself forward as some combat veteran with serious
wounds and he's using that and it's dishonest and it's wrong," Bailey told
Cybercast News Service on Jan. 9. Murtha served in the Marines on active
duty and in the reserves from 1952 until his retirement as a colonel in
1990. He volunteered for service in Vietnam and was a First Marine Regiment
intelligence officer in 1966 and 1967.

Murtha and Bailey, once allies, were forced to run against each other in a
Democratic congressional primary in 1982 following redistricting. Murtha won
the election.

Murtha has, in the past, publicly dismissed any questions about whether he
deserved his two Purple Hearts, noting during his 1994 congressional
campaign that "I am proud of my service in Vietnam."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor...-_b_24751.html



If you need to resort to name calling, go right ahead.

It might come down to that if you can't accept facts. If you would like,
I'll find several posts demonstrating that there's a war on in the middle
east and other current events covered all over the mainstream media.

-c