Bush, not Kerry, should face scrutiny (Vietnam)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1093645212371&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795

It's downright strange that the U.S. presidential election campaign — easily the most important in decades — has come to focus on what happened in a faraway boat during the course of a few minutes more than 30 years ago.

That such a crucial election isn't more focused on the many pressing current issues is remarkable enough.

But if the election is to hinge on what happened decades ago during the Vietnam War, it's truly astonishing that the candidate in the hot seat is the one who actually went to Vietnam and was injured in the line of duty, rather than the one who used family connections to do his service at home and then didn't bother to show up for duty.

It's not surprising that Republicans have tried to smear Democratic candidate John Kerry's impressive war record.

[wellstone_democrat]

1. I was hoping it was an American paper

That Canadians are sane is a given. I was hoping that it was contagious....

[Jackpine Radical]

2. That's why they're trying to seal the border--

to keep this kinda attitude from spreading.

[PoliticalSleaze.com]

3. The reality of George W. Bush

George W. Bush is slightly less useful than a gasoline-powered solar battery.

And almost as efficient.

... or believable.

[Raster]

4. thank you and welcome to DU....

...yes, we all shake our collective heads each and every day.

[tom_paine]

5. Sure, it would be that way in a Free Country.

Imperial Amerika is NOT a Free Country, though.

Not anymore.

Luckily, for us Serfs, life still sort of goes on in the Old Way, and will likely continue so until the Busheviks have full and unchecked power.

But this is just as strange as if Soviet Pravda glowingly backed Brezhnev in the 1978 'election' while scrutinizing Brezhnev's past not at all.