The Military Order of the Purple Heart not amused at GOP.

[fishface]

Delegates Mock Kerry's Wounds, Angering Veterans
By JIM RUTENBERG

Published: September 1, 2004


When speakers at the Republican convention discuss Senator John Kerry's service in Vietnam, they use words like "respect," as Rudolph W. Giuliani did on Monday, giving nary a hint of the unsubstantiated charges by a veteran's group that Mr. Kerry lied to get his war medals, which dominated the campaign for two weeks before the convention began.

But the charges are coursing through the convention like an undertow, a key topic of conversation at parties, hotels and on the convention floor. Party elders and campaign officials are not above delving into some of the criticisms raised by the veterans group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

Even leading Republicans said yesterday that things went a little too far when they had to publicly repudiate the actions of a delegate who was handing out adhesive bandages marked with Purple Hearts to mock Mr. Kerry's war wounds.

The bandages, distributed by Morton Blackwell of Arlington, Va., included a message that read, "It was just a self-inflicted scratch, but you see I got a Purple Heart for it." Mr. Blackwell said he was only trying to have fun, but the Military Order of The Purple Heart, an organization that says it represents wounded veterans, was not amused.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/01/politics/campaign/01swift.html

[JohnKleeb]

1. good let this baby run

I see that Max Cleland and Charley Rangel have been on it too. Oh and Morty I know you weren't in the military so its not funny, they really have no shame.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

2. Will Somebody say this to Somebody about this shamelessness:

"Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

[Darth_Kitten]

3. I did, for what it's worth! I wrote that lame brained coward twice.......

no response to the first email......so I wrote again. :mad: Just had to get a few things off my chest. :D

This pisses me off, big time. I hate people who just don't "get it" :mad:

[fishface]

6. I e-mailed Ed 'Turtle Head' Gellispie about it..

I don't expect an answer.

[Julien Sorel]

4. The only question at this point is

how long will the media keep this alive. Because they clearly do not want to let go of it, no matter how they spin it.

Kind of funny. We have a shooting war going on, millions of people trying to get back to work, this country is slowly losing its economic and moral authroty, and all the reprobates who infest the national media, supposedly the guardians of truth in a democracy, want to talk about is a gang of honorless men with an ax to grind about something that happened 30 years ago. You'd think we live in small times.

[Eurobabe]

5. typical dysfunctional behavior

let the non-issues distract you while Rome is burning.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

7. I have no problem with it

as long as Bush's military service is part of the story.

[ezekiel333]

9. So use it to talk about what IS going on...

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=789627&mesg_id=792465>

[cthrumatrix]

8. hate and deception ...that's Rove