'Three purple hearts and he never bled that I knew of' Bob Dole

[spanone]

This is Bob Dole speaking today folks. Hard to believe.

Wolf Blitzer interview:

-And here's, you know, a good guy, good friend. I respect his record. But three Purple Hearts and never bled that I know of. I mean, they're all superficial wounds. Three Purple Hearts and you're out.

-And as far as I know, he's never spent one day in the hospital. I don't think he draws any disability pay. He doesn't have any disability. And boasting about three Purple Hearts when you think of some of the people who really got shot up in Vietnam...

Here's the entire sordid transcript if you like:
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0408/22/le.00.html

[physioex]

1. He is just mad cause he can't

"Get it up"......Go back to popping Viagra jerk......

[sallyseven]

2. My son just told

me that the US is now in regression. We have to get back to progress and throw bush out. He is my apolitical one. He is seething at bush.

[UTUSN]

3. DOLE Said *This*?????????? A Purple Heart Means Blood

even JUST a drop of BLOOD. Bob "Viagra" DOLE knows this. Where's Liddy-the-Idiot?

Oh, Whorealdo-the-whore is RIGHT NOW "reporting" that DOLE is demanding that KERRY retract his record.

[buycitgo]

23. actually, no.....it can be a concussion, for example

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

4. I used to think Senator Dole was a man of honor,

One who had served his country and who, even though I didn't usually agree with him, acted with integrity. I would have hoped that he would rise above this partisan bickering and acknowledge a fellow military veteran senator who proved himself in battle. I am sadly disappointed. MKJ

[TankLV]

28. Once a snake, always a snake.

NEVER TRUST ANY REPUKE - NONE OF 'EM.

THEY ARE ALL SLIME.

They continually prove it every single day.

It's bad enough we have our own DINOs like Koch, Zell and Holy Joe.

It's going to get a LOT worse folks.

They are at the "antry" stage.

We. Will. Win.

[stopbush]

5. Shameless. These bastards call into question the service of

EVERY AMERICAN who has ever earned a medal or citation. EVERY ONE OF THEM!

One got the impression that "Bulldog" Bob had mellowed since losing to Bill in '96. I guess not.

Once R scum, always R scum.

[Kimber Scott]

10. Shameless? Shameful.

This is a very bad game to be playing. Especially when we have young men and women earning Purple Hearts as we speak. It's sad.

[ibeplato]

6. Dole is a hypocrite

From Today's Boston Globe Editorial:

Imagine if supporters of Bill Clinton had tried in 1996 to besmirch the military record of his opponent, Bob Dole. After all, Dole was given a Purple Heart for a leg scratch probably caused, according to one biographer, when a hand grenade thrown by one of his own men bounced off a tree. And while the serious injuries Dole sustained later surely came from German fire, did the episode demonstrate heroism on Dole's part or a reckless move that ended up killing his radioman and endangering the sergeant who dragged Dole off the field?

[PaDem]

7. You can see where this will go..........

talking heads on radio and TV are going to begin to demand Kerry to reveal whether or not he bled with any of his wounds. This could be another angle of attack. Totally irrelevent, but I can hear Hannity et al trying to hold Kerry's feet to the fire on this, demanding that he come clean about bleeding for his medals.

[spooky3]

8. Geez, I didn't even know BD had a medical degree!

[Guaranteed]

9. Dole, you can go to hell.

You should know better than this.

[0rganism]

11. Military medical report says John Kerry got shrapnel in his left thigh

I'll bet anyone $1000 right now that a shrapnel wound bleeds where it doesn't burn. Dole oughta know this.

What am I saying, of course he knows this. It's all about sliming a decorated veteran to hand the election to a tax-cutting war-mongering deserter.

[alarimer]

12. Was he there??

How they hell would Bob dole know?

[Karenina]

27. He wasn't there

and he's just DISGRACED on the *dauphin's behalf, a *dimwit who could not bother his "beautiful mind" (inherited from his mother) to even SHOW UP FOR A CUSH JOB. WHY???? :freak:

[Ducks In A Row]

13. what? the vietcong transported the shrapnel into his leg?

[Comicstripper]

14. I HATE this argument

everyone says "oh, his wounds were superficial", "he was barely laid up". they're attacking kerry for NOT BEING INJURED ENOUGH!!! this is total bullshit. you know the republicans are really floundering when they're ONLY ARGUMENT against kerry is "Well, he really wasn't THAT big a war hero..."
he was there.
he fought.
shut up.

[Comicstripper]

15. I HATE this argument

everyone says "oh, his wounds were superficial", "he was barely laid up". they're attacking kerry for NOT BEING INJURED ENOUGH!!! this is total bullshit. you know the republicans are really floundering when they're ONLY ARGUMENT against kerry is "Well, he really wasn't THAT big a war hero..."
he was there.
he fought.
shut up.

[A_Possum]

16. "...and never bled that I know of"

And what the HELL do you know of it, Bob?

You were there, remember? Just like the rest of the smearvets, remember?

OK, I wasn't gonna bother to write Dole, but this is beyond the pale. This DOES insult every man who went up those rivers.

What's that guy's phone number?

[A_Possum]

17. AND FURTHERMORE, DOLE...

You little creep, you're insulting my husband, who came home Vietnam whole, thank God, but he had nightmares for decades, and worse.

OOOOOOH, you Republican worms. You horrible, crawling, disgusting WORMS. You are destroying the country.

[girl gone mad]

18. Unconsionable.

Democrats need to demand that Dole apologize to Kerry and all veterans for his shameful comments.

By calling Kerry's medals into question, he is also crriticizing the Navy's own policies and smearing every verteran who earned a medal by suggesting that the military passes them out like cookies.

[noamnety]

19. it wouldn't matter

Doesn't matter in the end how serious the wounds were - if he had three limbs blown off, they'd still be unsatisfied with his service. They aren't impressed with the heroism of any vet who came out alive.

[Philostopher]

21. They pissed all over Max Cleland

who did, in fact, have three limbs blown off. Of course they're not going to respect Kerry, and they're going to do everything they can to discredit his national service. It's because most of them don't have any, and they know it makes them look small. If they can make his service seem irrelevant, that makes their failure to serve themselves seem less chicken-hawkish.

[DemMother]

20. Dole has always been an asshole and a sap--he's mad because...

Kerry criticized Dole's idol, Richard Nixon. We're still fighting that same damned war--
I've written this before but you can really sense the vitriolic feelings that Dole and Buchanan have for Kerry--and it's because of Nixon and Vietnam.

And, I posted this earlier from an interview by Sidney Blumenthal--Dole defends Nixon even though he was treated like a piece of shit by him--there is something seriously off about that man.

[acmavm]

22. Bob Dole is just upset because John Kerry just looks like he's going to

accomplish something he couldn't do, win a presidential election.

[iwantmycountryback]

24. This is fucking disgusting

I'm not going to call into question his wounds because then I'd be doing the same thing as the Repuke smearers. However, it is shameful of him to say that when he was not there and is disrespecting every veteran and just sounds moronic and hypocritical questioning the seriousness of Kerry's wounds. He was probably coerced by Karl Rove to do this in the hopes that that would deflect some of their attention away from the actual Bush campaign.

[spanone]

25. I think the Good News is that these rat bastards are exposing THEMSELVES!!

[zulchzulu]

26. Perhaps Dole was on the Swift Boat too

Shit, I mean, Gallagher and Carrot Top say they were on the Swift Boat now. Prove that they weren't, man.

C'mon Bob Dole. Bob, tell Bob Dole to tell Bob Dole that Bob Dole is an asshole.