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Flashbacks can be grave issues!

Have they got Kerry so dead to rights that he's a dead man walking?

A live zombie?

Actually, I don't think Kerry really is a zombie. But others have asked whether he might be soft on zombies:

WASHINGTON, DC -- If president, Sen. John Kerry may de-prioritize fighting zombies as part of the war on terror, several sources allege. Critics blasted the shift across the media on Saturday.

In an Op-ed titled "Kerry: Weak on Zombies", Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol wrote "We need a president who is going to be tough on the undead. We're one step in the grave if we can't fight the living dead, and if John Kerry can't handle that, he should get a lobotomy."

Political critic Noam Chomsky said the change was hypocritical. "The United States has been using zombie units worldwide since at least the 1960's," Chomsky said at a conference. "Kerry is only pandering to the vast, illegal zombie export industry."

Similar thoughts here.

Zombies did all kinds of terrible things in Vietnam -- and Cambodia! I know this personally, because I saw Apocalypse Now!

And via Glenn Reynolds, I see that there may be a direct Apocalypse Now connection to John Kerry!

On more than one occasion, I, like Martin Sheen in "Apocalypse Now," took my patrol boat into Cambodia

In fact, I remember spending Christmas Day of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese Allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real. But nowhere in "Apocalypse Now" did I sense that kind of absurdity.

That's incredibly cool, because, I have to admit, I absolutely loved Apocalypse Now, and I saw it many times, in various states of mind, and sensed a lot more than absurdity. The soundtrack (which really makes the film) included stuff by members of the Grateful Dead, and this CD is one of my favorites.

From the InstaPundit link, I found this video, and listening to it really got my Apocalypse Now nostalgia going.

The video URL is: http://www.johnkerry.com/video/player.php?video=112603_brothersinarms

The river boat music segment (at 3:59 though 4:43 on the above video) reminds me very much of the Apocalypse Now soundtrack. I'm pretty sure it is actually taken from that soundtrack, but the film is very long and I don't have handy access to the entire soundtrack right now. If it is from the soundtrack, wouldn't that be cool?

I really don't know; all I know is that something was seared into my brain, and that Kerry video made me have Apocalypse Now flashbacks!

No, seriously!

Anyone who's interested can stream the segment here and face the music.....

Let's put it to the acid test, folks.....

UPDATE: People are saying that none of this matters. So what's with the video over at the Kerry web site?

Stop making me have flashbacks!

MORE: Kerry and grave political consciousness:

"My 10 years of political consciousness in America is very wrapped up in gravestones," he said. "These are the gravestones of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, the Kent State students, the men of Attica and the other 53,000 brothers in Vietnam."

Hey what about the Killing Fields?

UPDATE: My post on the Republican base is here. Sorry for any confusion!

Thanks for the link to the video at the kerry site. So the big lesson Kerry learned from his service in Vietnam is that government shouldn't lie to people. If it turns out he lied about his service, which seems pretty clear regarding his claims for being in Cambodia, then isn't he as guilty as the government he condemns?

CeCe · August 12, 2004 02:41 PM