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If Bush says something he actually believes, namely that Hussein has WMD (statements also made by leading Democrats and many other nations at the time), and then turns out later to have possibly been incorrect, the Left terms that a “lie.” What is the Left going to do about ABCNEWS.com” href=”http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Politics/Investigation/kerry_vietnam_medals_040425.html”>this ?
Contradicting his statements as a candidate for president, Sen. John Kerry claimed in a 1971 television interview that he threw away as many as nine of his combat medals to protest the war in Vietnam.“I gave back, I can’t remember, 6, 7, 8, 9 medals,” Kerry said in an interview on a Washington, D.C. news program on WRC-TV’s called Viewpoints on November 6, 1971, according to a tape obtained by ABCNEWS.
Throughout his presidential campaign, Kerry has denied that he threw away any of his 11 medals during an anti-war protest in April, 1971.
His campaign Web site calls it a “right wing fiction” and a smear. And in an interview with ABCNEWS’ Peter Jennings last December, he said it was a “myth.”
But Kerry told a much different story on Viewpoints. Asked about the anti-war veterans who threw their medals away, Kerry said “they decided to give them back to their country.”
Kerry was asked if he gave back the Bronze Star, Silver Star and three Purple Hearts he was awarded for combat duty as a Navy lieutenant in Vietnam. “Well, and above that, [I] gave back the others,” he said.
The statement directly contradicts Kerry’s most recent claims on the disputed subject to the Los Angeles Times last Friday.
That’s what a actual lie looks like.
#2Kerry gives me whiplash. I didn't pick up on this story until this morning. Interesting, to say the least.
Okay, so Kerry lied because he was afraid that something he did in the heat of the moment when he was a youth - throwing away the medals he'd earned - would look bad now to a very patriotic nation.
He still volunteered for duty in Vietnam, performed the deeds of bravery that won him those medals, and to my mind earned the right to criticize the military and military policy.
I'm not great fan of Kerry, but those medals were given to him in recognition of service above and beyond the call of duty. If he wanted to spit on them, that was his right. There were a lot of guys who served in Vietnam out of duty, and then afterwards said the whole thing was a crock of ****.
President Bush himself said that he didn't feel like dying in Vietnam, or maiming himself, so he joined the Air National Guard. I think the reason why the nation never held that against him was that everyone pretty much figures that in retrospect that being forced to fight in that war was a crock of ****.
I think the whole Vietnam thing for Kerry and Bush is a wash personally, Moxie.