{"id":415,"date":"2004-08-19T02:43:44","date_gmt":"2004-08-19T06:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2004-08-19T02:43:44","modified_gmt":"2004-08-19T06:43:44","slug":"the-lies-of-the-swift-boat-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"The Lies of the Swift Boat Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Blogged by Brad from the road…)<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/a>While Bush has not only refused to condemn the ads of the ironically named “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth<\/i>“, he’s using them to his advantage wherever possible. <\/p>\n

Consider this exchange brought to my attention by a must-read Josh Marshall piece<\/a> as Bush took this question at an “Ask the President” session in Oregon last week:<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

Q On behalf of Vietnam veterans — and I served six tours over there — we do support the President. I only have one concern, and that’s on the Purple Heart, and that is, is that there are over 200,000 Vietnam vets that died from Agent Orange and were never — no Purple Heart has ever been awarded to a Vietnam veteran because of Agent Orange because it’s never been changed in the regulations. Yet, we’ve got a candidate for President out here with two self-inflicted scratches, and I take that as an insult. (Applause.) <\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you for your service. Six tours? Whew. That’s a lot of tours. <\/p>\n

Let’s see, who’ve we got here? You got a question?<\/p><\/div>\n

In the words of former Congressman Dan Burton in reference to a previous President, what a “scumbag”.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the SBVT stories are beginning to unravel hard, as reported<\/a> in this morning’s Washington Post<\/i>. But read Josh’s article<\/a> for a fine summation and analysis of the entire ugly mess that has become become the Bush\/Cheney ’04 campaign’s only pathetic and shameful hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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