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Riding the Hadi^thagate wave

In my email from Russ Vaughn this morning:

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If you react to this cartoon the same way I did, how about letting the jerks at the AZ Republic who published it know how you feel:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/sendaletter.html

Russ

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Michelle calls it the 'Troop Smear Of The Day'.

I'll have more on this later, including letters from Russ and Rurik, but I need to go ahead and get this much up before I go run an errand.

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Grim: Of Course You Realize, This Means War

Curt reacts at Flopping Aces.

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Russ sent me this mail a little later.

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Bill, I just sent this to McCain. If you want to use it as an open letter and appeal to other readers to do likewise, fine by me.

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Senator McCain,

If you hope to win the support of veterans in the coming presidential campaign then you need to support us when we are shown such disrespect as is depicted in Steve Benson's disgraceful Marine Corps cartoon of last week in your hometown newspaper.

I'm an old Army paratrooper but I stand solidly with the Marines on this Haditha business. I think you would be well advised to consider my position to be representative of the vast majority of veteran voters. And, like most of them, I do vote in every election.

What say you, Sir? Will you stand with us now and publicly denounce this mudslinging at the Corps?

Semper Fi!

Russ Vaughn

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Thanks, Russ. Yes, I do hereby advise all of my readers, vets and otherwise, to send Sen. McCain a similar letter. Personally, I think John McCain has a lot of work to do before I could feel good about voting for him, but standing up for the Haditha Marines would definitely be an important step in the right direction.

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Rurik emails that he wrote the Arizona Republic:

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Concerning your USMC cartoon by Benson.
I am a US Army Vietnam Veteran, but I stand by my Marine brothers, and  despise your utterly loathesome cartoon. I cannot adequately reply without violating your point 5 "No vulgarity. No racial slurs. No otherwise mean-spiritedly insulting terms. No accusations of criminal behavior, even on the part of elected officials. Use common sense." Too bad your cartoonist did not follow your own proclaimed standards. Fire him.

George

Sioux Falls, SD

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The Venom Of The Left, vol. #482

Posted by Bill Faith on June 13, 2006 at 07:19 PM in Russ_Vaughn | Permalink

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