Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[ieddyi]

For Kerrys first purple heart, he went to his oommanding officer the next day and requested a purple heart. That in itself is considered bad form. The CO turned him down as there was no enemy fire (as the kerry people have admitted) and the wound was self inflicted. Somehow 3 months later he was awarded a purple heart. How did that happen? We don't know because kerry refuses to sign form 180 releasing his records . Bush signed the form after the flap over his reserve stint.
Why won't kerry release his records? He has released SOME of the records, but refuses to sign form 180
Clelenad came under attack because he, at the urging of tom daschle, held up the funding of the homeland security act because they wanted to pay back their union supporters by making all the new security hires union positions. It was a shameless act of putting political interests before national security and deserved to be brought to attention. The fact that he bravely fought for his country and suffered for it does not insulate him from valid criticism.
Politics is a blood sport. Look at all the attacks from democrats comparing bush to hitler- coming from gore and recently john glenn. Bush hasn't whined about them. Kerry only makes himself look weak by complaining of all fact based attacks as questioning his patriotism.
It's funny that the time to move on mantra never applies to the press when a new "bush was awol 35 years ago" story comes out