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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: RMF who wrote (8822)12/4/2006 8:27:14 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (1) of 224720
 
Any student of the Vietnam War knows it's indefensible, and Bush has made the same dishonest mistakes al over again in Iraq. You can't occupy a country you don't understand, get in between its civil war, support corruption, bomb and kill hundreds of thousands of its citizens, support death squads and and assassinations and order your soldiers to behave like barbarians, and expect to win hearts and minds.

What the hell were we doing in Vietnam anyway? The whole Gulf Of Tonkin attack was a big fat lie. Never even happened. Which is why LBJ stepped down. He knew not only had he blown it, but he'd lied.

Then Nixon took over saying one thing and doing another. He promised to phase out the war but escalated instead, particularly in terms of the most inhumane kind of warfare techniques, including illegal stuff of all kinds, incursions into Cambodia, massive bombing and terroristic methods of trying to scare the enemy into backing off, free-fire zones where oud troops were ordered to kill anjything that moved.

Our soldiers, including Kerry and his friends, were victims of these insane policies. At least we know for sure they were insane now. Smart people knew they were insane then.

Kerry tossed ribbons over the fence in symbolic protest. Considering the gravity of the times it was understandable. He never threw his medals away. The medals he threw were from a disabled vet who asked him to throw them for him. Kerry has explained that truthfully.
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