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BUSH THREW AWAY VIETNAM-ERA GOLF TROPHIES

President’s Golf Record Under Fire
Borowitz Report

Controversy hit the Bush campaign today amid reports that the President threw away several trophies he won while playing golf during the Vietnam War.

For years, the President has deflected questions about his lack of military service during the war by stressing that he used that time to develop the golf skills necessary to serve as Commander in Chief.

But the latest bombshell is bound to renew scrutiny of Mr. Bush’s golf record, as eyewitnesses at the Kennebunk Golf Club said that Mr. Bush threw away several of his golf trophies during a protest at the club in 1971.

According to the eyewitnesses, Mr. Bush hurled the trophies over the country club’s fence to protest a decision to move up the club bar’s closing time from eleven o’clock to ten.

When asked about the incident today, Mr. Bush acknowledged that he threw away the golf trophies but said he later climbed over the fence to retrieve them after his dad yelled at him.

But Mr. Bush’s comments only fanned the flames of controversy, as his former golf partner Charles “Whiffy” Wiffington said that the trophies could not possibly have belonged to Mr. Bush since the President never won more than an honorable-mention ribbon while playing at the club.

“I think he got a ribbon for ‘most improved,’ but that was about the extent of it,” Mr. Wiffington said.

In other news, Secretary of State Colin Powell said today that he saw the plans for the invasion of Iraq “at the same time as everyone else – when I read Bob Woodward’s book.”

**** BOROWITZ AT THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ****

Andy Borowitz moderates the panel “Politics as Entertainment” Sunday May 9 at the Tribeca Film Festival. For ticket info go to www.tribecafilmfestival.org

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Destiny Calls Us Back To Vietnam
Commentary by August Keso
August 18, 2004


When the Swift Boat smear campaign first began, it seemed as though our political process had sunk to never before seen lows – and in every sense it has. Every sense save for one.



For the country, it is more important that the Vietnam Political War be revisited, re-fought and once and for all looked at honestly and fully vetted. The reason the nation needs to revisit Vietnam, is because the political forces of thirty years ago were too quick to sweep what they viewed as the shame, under the rug. The result, a nation that today finds itself repeating the same mistakes that led up to and carried through the Vietnam War.



For Bush and Cheney, the hope here is to do what they did against McCain and Cleland, use Kerry’s honorable and heroic Vietnam experience against him.

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_9839.shtml

It seems that something beyond our common knowledge has brought us to this juncture in our political history. Revisited by all the players so prominent those 30 years ago and destined to collide for one last time. If the Republicans and the Swift Boat people wish for the nation to re-fight the political war of Vietnam, it just might be the best thing they have ever done for this nation. It is time the nation revisits the Vietnam question and finally views its full truth. Of course O'Neill and those like him will want to once again cloud the reality for their own selfish gains, but this is an electorate more sophisticated than generations before. They are better prepared to see through the white-wash and more eager to find the truth. If Bush, O'Neill and the Republicans wish to re-fight the Vietnam Political War, it is time. There will never be a more perfect opportunity to vet this issue once and for all – before there is yet another Vietnam and another Iraq.