Fear of Clowns

The creamed chowderheads correct themselves: "An earlier version of this article confused John Kerry's experience in Vietnam with Bob Kerrey's experience. IC regrets the error."

Now that "IC" has cleared up that it was Bob Kerrey, not John Kerry, that told the well known story of the slaughter of Vietnamese civilians, I humbly suggest the following:

• Now that you know it's not John Kerry you were thinking of, change the subtitle to something other than, "Say whatever you want about President Bush, but at least he never killed Vietnamese civilians."
• "[Kerry's] killing of civilians with his Swift boat" reads kind of weird coming out of the blue. Needs support. Remember, John Kerry != Bob Kerrey.
• This entire block really needs reworking and/or support: "the same John Kerry who served with such valor and distinction in Vietnam came home and decried American savagery, saying in his 1971 congressional testimony that he sought to 'destroy the last vestige of this barbaric war, to pacify our hearts, to conquer the hate and fear that have driven this country these last ten years and more,' while saying nothing of defending Senator Bob Kerrey's killing of Vietnamese civilians in 1969, or his own killing of civilians with his Swift boat."
• Generally some constructive criticism for this and future projects, don't lie. "Senator Kerry voted against the eighty-seven billion dollar Iraqi aid package." - Kerry did not vote one way or another, and action he explains rather well.

// posted by Erik @ 1/27/2004 05:02:00 PM
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