"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message
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You know what Steven? I am a pretty firm supporter of Bush, but your
continued catterwalling about this is beginning to make me rethink the
situation...(not really, but if this is how you handle the folks who are
anti-Kerry, then you might want to rethink your strategy or lack
thereof).


Whoa, there. Go to your happy place. Count to ten. Calm down. These
are
simple questions, they have simple answers.

Here is your simple answer:
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/in...opic=Testimony
I did the hard part for you, finding a complete transcript of the
testimony--now all you have to do is wade through the 32-pages of it. Guess
what? You won't find the quote in question. But, if you go to:
http://msnbc.msn.com/ID/4772030/, you will find a copy of the transcript of
Kerry's April 2004 appearance on "Mett the Press" with Tim Russert, and in
there you will further find a snippet from the April 1971 show where Kerry
*did* make the statement in question. Simple enough for you?




Yes, it was a complete transcript of his testimony, from gavel to gavel,
to
include the questioning posed to him by the committee members. If you
are
really interested in reading it yourself, do a Google on "Kerry Vietnam
testimony transcript" and you should be able to find it yourself.


There are several sources that attribute that quote to the committee. You
come along and say it didn't happen there, it happened somewhere else. If
you're a serious researcher you'll understand my questions and not take
offense at them.

You are about as bright as a brick today, Steven. I have given you links to
the transcripts required. All you have to do now is READ them--you can do
that, can't you?




Go and dig up your own trnscript and read it, then go and read a
transcript
of his 18 April 71 "Meet the Press" interview; you will find the quote
of
interest in the latter, and not the former. When you have found said
transcript, see if YOU can find the quote in question--if you do, get
back
to me and I'll happily apologize (I'd be just tickled if he could be
shown
to have made that statement in his testimony as well as on national TV).
If
you can't you owe me one, OK?


Owe you one what?

An apology, for being dense as a rock if nothing else.




Now toodle off and do your homework and get
back to me. Stop acting as if this is the first time a newspaper has
screwed
up in regards to the details. And that is all you are arguing--the
details,
since I have already told you that yes, he did say it, but in a
different
forum from what you though it to be.


Oh, I know newspapers screw up. I see it all the time. But I don't
conclude that the newspaper has screwed up without good reason.

I gave you the good reasons--now go read those transcripts and stop whining.

Brooks

Nor do I
conclude that a Usenet poster has screwed up without good reason. In this
case there was a conflict about a source, how can I find out which is
correct without a few probing questions? It's pretty clear you took these
questions as a personal attack. They were not.