Curmudgeonly & Skeptical: The rifled truth bullet

February 23, 2004

The rifled truth bullet

General James Longstreet, C.S.A., was one of the very few warriors to understood how the rifled gun barrel had changed the handbook on military tactics. Indeed, as late as World War II, General Mark Clark was still sending troops across open plains against fortified positions. The internet, and to a lesser degree Fox News Channel and Lexus-Nexis, are today's innovation that has Democratic tacticians scratching their balls. In 1992 Bill Clinton achieved the presidency because there was no Voice of America to cut through the massed liberal media charge on his behalf. Bill Clinton could not have won today, and neither can John Kerry. Here's a case in point. Kerry has just denied ever accusing American military men of committing war crimes. Today John Podhoretz has this interesting factoid [Kerry Identifies the Enemy: The United States] -- and it's only one of dozens emerging. Podhoretz recalls a 1970 Kerry trip to the Big Apple.

John Kerry and his associates were protesting ... The National Guard Association, which had its 1970 convention in New York at the Americana Hotel (now the New York Sheraton) from Sept. 13 to Sept. 17. Kerry's group set up a picket line in front of the Americana, and staged a protest rally against the Guard on Sept. 17, 1970 at 5:30 pm.

Why would they do such a thing? Here's the sort of rhetoric Kerry and Co. used to gather anti-war forces in a mimeographed flyer:

"The National Guard Uses Your Tax Dollar:

"To support the military-industrial complex

"To honor war criminals - Westmoreland, Laird, Nixon, etc.

"To applaud campus murders by National Guard units

"To encourage armed attacks on minority communities"

In 1992 only subscribers to magazines like The American Spectator would ever have had access to the myriad of lie debunkage Kerry will face, and he is after all a liar. Today Brit Hume, the Internet, and e-mailed messages will instantaneously put the lie to such skunkocities. Fire at will, men!

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