Karen Hughes, one of the President’s advisors, is “very troubled” by the act of Kerry throwing only his ribbons, not his actual medals, in protest of the war in Vietnam. In an interview with Wolf Blitzer of CNN, she said “Now, I can understand if out of conscience you take a principled stand and you would decide that you were so opposed to this that you would actually throw your medals. But to pretend to do so, I think that's very revealing."
Is she serious? What is so “revealing,” Ms. Hughes? Ha, this is coming from a woman who advises a man whose military record is questionable, a man who never received any medals, a man who never faced a war setting, a man who did not see what went on in Vietnam, and a man who had the opportunity to volunteer to go to Vietnam but chose not to.
Oh, I can see the argument: “He honorably served in the National Guard and would have went if he was called.” Get the story straight. According to ABC News, “Of 2.5 million Americans who served in Vietnam, fewer than 25,000 — 1 percent — were in the National Guard. Of 58,000 GIs killed in Vietnam, about 100 were in the National Guard. That's about 0.2 percent.”
If our "honorable" president wanted to go to Vietnam, he could have. He did not; Kerry did. Kerry served honorably, is a war hero, won purple stars, silver stars, saved lives, etc. And he came home and was now against the war, stood by his beliefs, and threw his "symbols of war." Oh no, but it wasn’t his actual medals -- how revealing!
It sickens me that the issue of whether Kerry threw ribbons or medals is an issue to take away from his impressive military record. It sickens me. How is this issue even relevant to the campaign? It’s not. It’s all a ploy from the machine of Karl Rove to shy attention away from Bush’s own record. This is their comeback to defend the fact that Bush has a hole in his military past, and now they think Kerry does, too.
But Kerry has fallen into the Karl Rove trap: he was irresponsible and rude on the Today show, has gone back and forth on medals or ribbons, and now will be called the infamous “flip-flopper” once again on an issue that has nothing to do with him being the right person to be the next president.
Unbelievable...I just hope the American people do not fall into this trap. I just hope they can see what truly has been revealed.
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