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To: LindyBill who wrote (63496)	8/24/2004 8:42:47 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) of 793817

Bill, Swifty backlash is inevitable as moderates and independents begin to see this in nixonian dirty trix terms, whether the underlying facts are true or not. So for bushes sake it should start to fade before the convention. Mike and the boys can always still talk about this at the barbeque but if they are serious about winning they will realize that they have gained all they can. Now for Kerry, Brooks makes the point today that kerry is more attractive as the passionate war hero returnee testifying before congress. If you watch the performance without the cut and paste job, he sounds far more reasonable in his criticism. He says clearly he saw no atrocities apart from free fire zones that he now (then) believes are violation of the geneva convention but the real atrocities were those talked about in detroit. Mai Lai did happen and once again I say that it was be really strange if Mai Lai was the only instance of atrocities on both sides. It was a vicious war. Mike's attacks on me have brought be back to that time. I went looking for a letter that a buddy who was serving had written me. He was a helicopter gunner and died in a car accident years after he returned. I didnt find the letter but i do clearly remember him bragging about shooting villagers from his helicopter and i remember thinking then about what had happened to my buddy. There was every implication in what he wrote that the target was not discriminate and any villager in the street that day in that village was to be treated as VC. When he returned he never talked about his service. As i remember it and this is real hazy he marched with us against the war and he was full of hatered for the govt he felt had taken advantage of and used him. War is hell and vietnam was worse than most. No one was really watching in the same way we are watched today. Can you imagine a buddhist temple being spared in a najaf like situation? I guess kerry and the swiftys have opened up old wounds. I blame both but i cannot deny that i am somehow thinking differently since those first ads came out. And when i warn bush and co. about a backlash, i have to accept the fact that i might be one of those backlashers myself even if kerry throws like a girl. Mike PS Brooks also points out that young folks, unfamiliar with Vietnam but familiar with iraq might look at kerrys testimony as heroic.

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