Bob Kerrey's Transcript on Paula Zahn NOW up--Lets it rip on Bush

[mistertrickster]

and Dole for savaging J F Kerry's war record.

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(snip)

You, yourself, are a decorated Vietnam War veteran, a Navy SEAL that performed heroic acts under active fire. Your reaction when you heard Senator Bob Dole over the weekend essentially say that Senator John Kerry didn't deserve the medals he was awarded because he didn't bleed?

KERREY: It's pathetic. He shouldn't have said it. He's angry about a lot of the anti-war stuff that was going on in the early '70s.

Look, you got two choices in life when you lose something, when something bad happens. And this is not just another issue. This is Vietnam. I say to President Bush, this is Vietnam. You, Dick Cheney, John Kerry had a choice in 1968. Do you go to war? John Kerry went. Now we got another unpopular war going on right now in Iraq. Do you want to send a signal out to American young people to say, hey, maybe I shouldn't sign up, maybe it's a bad decision to go fight in this war, maybe there's going to be a swift boat veterans against me 30 years from now when I decide to run for office if I go fight in this darn war?

It's a bad thing to be doing. This was the most divisive war in this nation's history. It divided this country in a terrible fashion.

more at link--http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/25/pzn.00.html

Thanks to Papua for the link . . .

[Snow]

1. Used to live in Omaha, and knew Bob,

which doesn't say much because after a few years in Omaha you know everybody, pretty much. Anyway, he always struck me as on the conservative side, Nebraska-type Democrat. No Ben Nelson, thank god, but still. Nevertheless, he also had to face this crap about "how can you oppose the war you were a part of" during one of his campaigns. He answered by singing Eric Bogle's "Waltzing Matilda". Did a pretty damn good job with the singing, too.

[merh]

2. John Ashcroft got 7 deferments .... all of the admin are cowards!

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