This story is a perfect demonstration of the difference between the Swift Boat controversy and the National Guard controversy. Both are tales from long ago and both are related to Vietnam, but the documentary evidence in the two cases is like night and day. In the Swift Boat case, practically every new piece of documentary evidence indicates that Kerry's accusers are lying. Conversely, in the National Guard case, practically every new piece of documentary evidence provides additional confirmation that the charges against Bush are true.
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
swift boat vs. national guard
Kevin Drum about sums it up:
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Stephen: check out Digby's take on this very issue @ http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
He has had a lot of analysis on this over the past few days. The first thing to note is that it is NOT true that these documents could not have been created in the 1960s. Kerning was invented as early as the 1940s.
My own personal perspective is that this whole debate over the documents is a masterful example of how the Republicans expertly distract the media to deflect from the (in my opinion) more important issue of how it has been proven by multiple sources and documents that Bush was able to get into the Air National Guard becuase of his family's power and he failed to show up for significant parts of his term of contract. My point is: just as with the Swift Boat thing, here we all are concentrating on the minutiae of a tangential issue rather than examining the record of the president and the platforms and policies of the two candidates. Now why do you think the Republicans would not want us to look at those things?
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