My letter in Joliet Herald

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Vietnam irrelevant
It absolutely baffles me that the Bush/Cheney campaign can get away with even mentioning the subject of Vietnam. George Bush, dental appointment or not, went AWOL. He dodged Vietnam by going into the national guard and then he went AWOL. Case closed. He can deny it all he wants (has he even done this?) but everyone in their hearts knows that he did it. And now he has the nerve to allow these supposed swift boat vets to discredit of the distinguished military service of John Kerry. These swift boat vets now recall distinctly that their own written reports, commendations, presidential recordings, and media interviews, all of which backed Kerry's accounts were all utterly false and without merit. They have bravely denounced the evidence put forth by ... themselves? Now you have to ask yourself, who's lying, the swift boat vets or the swift boat vets? Despite what these partisan hacks, who admittedly saw Kerry only out of their peripheral vision or not at all, might now say, Kerry served bravely and honorably. Kerry's blood spilled to wound ratio may have not been high enough for them, as these swift boat vets have insinuated, but it was far better than the zero to zero ratio that Bush had. And Cheney, excuse me, Mr. Dick "Five Deferments From Vietnam" Cheney, if he had one shred of decency in his body, he would never mention a word that even sounds like Vietnam. Or words that start with V for that matter. For instance, valor, virtue, veracity, or validity. These are words neither he nor his boss have any right to use in a sentence anyway. Bush and Cheney, considering their military careers or lack there of, should be ashamed of their failure to stop these baseless attacks on the honorably military career of John Kerry.
Paul Winkelmann

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/opinions/letters/j17letters.htm

[GOPFighter]

1. Great!

I'm glad they printed it. We all need to start writing more LTTE as Nov. 2 approaches.