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busch2008 said:The NY Times seems to suggest there is a close link between the SBVT and the Bush Campaign. Karl Rove especially. At a minimum, the NY Times certainly raises some serious questions about the credibility of the SBVT. They contradict themselves often, they contradict official Naval Records and their own citations, they lavish praise on Kerry one minute, the next they are accusing him of lying. In my opinion, they have every right to express anger over Kerry's comments when he came home. Though I believe, and I think most Americans believe that the horrible things Kerry described in Vietnam probably happened on more then one occasion. But the elaborate extent to which they go to distort offical naval records and distort Kerry's Service is not right. In my opinion at least, it is simply disgusting to pit Veteran vs. Veteran. I hope this blows up in Bush's face and costs him a second term. I have faith that the vast majority of Americans are not going to fall for this smear campaign and will punish Bush serverly for it.
I could care less about the NY Times attempt to play 6 degrees of seperation with the Swift Boat Vets. Even if you could prove that the swift boat vets all worked for the Bush campaign at some people in their lives or knew people who did, how would that disprove their claims? To assume that just because someone is Republican and has campaigned for republicans in the past is lying without analyzing the merit of the arguments at all is the highest level of Arrogance.
I couldnt care less which way the vets vote. my question is why dont the Democrats challenge what they are saying rather than attack the character of war veterans? Republicans atleast dealt with Michael Moore's baseless accusations. And we did so rather quickly. But there has been no attempt of Kerry or his surrogates of dealing with the substance of what they are saying.