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Kerry Blows Red Sox Stats, Again, and Again
This week John Kerry twice messed up the Red Sox playoff scores, in one game proclaiming them to be ahead 10-9, in another 7-1. The Sox never had 10 runs in the first game (they went from 9 to 11 on Mark Bellhorn's two-run homer off the right field foul pole), and scored six in the second (see footballfansfortruth.us for more info). For those of you who are not Boston-area natives, you might not understand that Red Sox loyalty is far greater than political loyalty, and while this might not cause anyone to vote for Bush, it might make Kerry voters stay home. Worse, many Red Sox fans have vowed to see the Sox win a World Series before they die, so tens of thousands of Kerry voters could die before November 2. Of course, this won't affect Massachusetts, Vermont, or Rhode Island, and probably not Maine, but New Hampshire is a possibility.
True, but [the existence of WMD] was the ONLY reason presented by our government for unilateral action against the will of the UN and most of our allies.
You're quite wrong, if for no other reason that there were two reasons given in the congressional authorization for war, and one of them was merely to enforce UN resolutions. Also, enforcing UN resolutions was presented by the Bush administration many times during the buildup to war, and even a significant part of Powell's presentation to the UN in Feb 2002 was concerned more with violations of UN resolutions than actual existence of WMD. Sorry, you're just wrong.
While the president insists that he did everything perfectly
That is a lie. He never said any such thing. Kerry said Bush said that, but Kerry was lying when he did.
and would do the same again knowing what he knows now.
As far as the larger picture of going in, yes. As far as details along the way, no, he did not say this.
This is obviously a bone thrown to the whiny right-wingers who keep claiming slashdot it biased.
This is also probably as legitimate a story you can find that "maligns" John Kerry without being loaded with lies and distortions. So the closest we come is something that really nobody could care about that redefines the concept of triviality.
Congrats right-wingers. Does this make you happy? Will you finally stop whining? I doubt it.