Michael Cash wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:17:52 -0400, Kevin Gowen
> <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
> inscribed:
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>>mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
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>>>Michael Cash <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote:
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>>>>On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:20:08 +0000 (UTC), mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net
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>>>>>No, he's simply disparaging an otherwise honorable action because the
>>>>>"politically correct" party is not involved.
>>>
>>>
>>>>There seems to be some question as to just how honorable the person's
>>>>action was.
>>>
>>>
>>>No, there is some question as to how deserving he was of his medals.
>>>That is rather immaterial to me. He went, Bush didn't, and quite
>>>possibly didn't even fulfill his guard stint.
>>
>>That's probably why Bush didn't burn villages, either.
> 
> 
> Or spend Christmas in Cambodia in January 1969 being fired at by the
> Khmer Rouge, who came into action a couple of years early just for
> Kerry. This is seared into his memory.

No, no, no. Kerry was in Cambodia for Christman 1968, where he stewed 
and fumed at President Nixon for denying his presence there. He had the 
foresight to do this while Johnson was president. Quite a visionary, 
that Kerry.

- Kevin