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To: i-node who wrote (390323)	6/10/2008 11:32:51 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (2) of 1577031

but he also verbally attacked soldiers who were serving in good faith. Bull shit. He said that they were commanded to free fire, and that is a This is the problem. When you're a soldier, you don't get to make the call. Whether you're drafted, you enlist, whatever, it is your duty (think of it as a down payment on your freedom), to do whatever it is you're told. You do not have the right to say, "No, that war is one I don't want to fight". When kerry spoke against the war he was no longer a soldier. When he came to disagree with what his country was doing, he was home and he said so. If you have a problem with that, you also have a problem with the constitution of your own country. It was a sorry episode, start to finish. But I'm not really seeing what the "swiftboaters" did that was so outrageous. Seems to me they told it like it is. What they did was to call into question his service, his medals, etc...they did not really engage in a debate about the actions of the country in vietnam. They attacked the man and tried to smear his war record. Just a pathetic bunch really. I am not surprised you find no fault. Al

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