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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (122374)	1/17/2001 10:20:38 PM
From: d.taggart	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I am sorry to hear that,50,000 brothers,sons and friends killed for some liberals idea of war.The guys who started it and kept it going walked away scott free,now thats a shame.Poor Dick Nixon was saddled with their muddled mess,and The Lord knows he had his own problems was gonna lose any way he went,history verifies that.Kennedy,Johnson,Carter,Clinton,they all lead with "politics" never had a chance at greatness

To: TideGlider who wrote (122374)	1/18/2001 1:09:52 AM
From: Andy Thomas	Respond to of 769667

--That was a very long and very costly Democrat scarring of our country. I was hurt badly. My brother is gone as are many friends. -- if you're writing of vietnam, i would agree. what galls me is that ho-chi-minh came to the u.s. leaders in about 1945 with a plan for a 'u.s.-like' republic. we turned him down and tried to reinstall the french. the french should have never been let back in there. their foreign legion was ex-ss and such for goodness sakes!! to this day you can hear the ffl whistling, the 'horst wessel song.' 'they' always lied to us about why they were doing what they were doing. so they used the poorest... the blacks and the poor whites... to fight a war they wouldn't even explain why they were fighting. my understanding is that our troops never lost a firefight...that for instance the tet offensive was a disaster to the 'nva' but our press made it look to be just the opposite. our press was definitely involved in a lot of the antiwar sentiment. then behind that the 'powers that be' were simply fighting for something other than that which they said they were. to top it off, some snot-nosed american college students who thought they 'understood' things were waiting at the airport to greet our veterans with nothing more than spittle and misinformed vitriol. little did they know of the little kids with their hidden pistols and hand grenades; little did they know of a land where our troops literally could not tell friend from foe. i hope some of those 'protester' people are ashamed of themselves by now. you guys did a helluva a job for having been lied to by our highest leaders, and for having been spurned by your own peers - those fortunate enough to have had 'college' as an excuse for not going. i wonder what the next war will be, and what lies 'they'll' tell us going in, and as it is happening, and then when it is 'over.' andy