max cleland: Our pain from seeing these slanderous attacks stems from something much more fundamental, that if one veteran's record is called into question, the service of all American veterans is questioned. oh, the irony!
Actually it would only be ironic if Kerry had sought to make that an issue before his own service was attacked, without any real evidence to back the attacker's claims. Fighting back after the other side makes it an issue doesn't equal irony.
I think the irony comment would apply to Kerry's anti-Vietnam activities in the 70's. This is, afterall, a VERY dirty campaign .
well this seems ironic then: The issue here, as I have heard it raised, is was he present and active on duty in Alabama at the times he was supposed to be. . . . Just because you get an honorable discharge does not in fact answer that question. --John Kerry, questioning President Bush's military-service record, February 8, 2004.
Again that isn't ironic. I think somone else pointed out that the attacks against Kerry started in 2003. This also isn't Kerry starting a whole campaign on the issue. It's Kerry answering a question. Ironic would be Bush running as a uniter and not a divider then pushing things like an amendment to ban gay marriage, having his website's major stories not be about his own record, but instead featuring cartoonish images of Kerry acusing him of being a flip flooper, going out and trying to pin the dems to having hollywood values, while Bush has other values. All of those things are meant to drive a wedge, and are negative. So Irony would be Bush claiming to be a compassionate conservative who was a uniter not a divider.
