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To: jlallen who wrote (333844)	12/26/2002 3:17:50 PM
From: Bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Mr. Edwards added, "If the administration continues to do too little, it will be too late again." Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut said the "American people are only slightly safer today here at home than we were on Sept. 11, 2001." Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts said in an interview that the administration had squandered a year since the attacks, by failing to make "the preparations necessary to properly deal with an obvious problem of growing terror and the threat at home." Gov. Howard Dean of Vermont said Democrats "have a real opportunity here," noting in particular what he described as the administration's bungling response to the rash of anthrax attacks. Mr. Lieberman said: "With the possible exception of the aviation systems, we have not raised our guard sufficiently. This administration has been slow and inadequate in the response to the terrorist threat here at home." What is so disgusting about these partisan comments, is that when a new attack occurs, these POS will leap to the nearest microphone and scream I told you so. How many terror attacks have been thwarted since 9.11.01? Who knows? Democratic politicians make me want to puke. Regards, BobP

To: jlallen who wrote (333844)	12/26/2002 3:18:04 PM
From: r.edwards	Respond to of 769667

they probably think Kwanza is a "Real" holliday tradition <gg>

To: jlallen who wrote (333844)	12/26/2002 10:08:15 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769667

I wonder: Do Lieberman, Kerry, et al pray each night for another attack?

To: jlallen who wrote (333844)	12/26/2002 10:25:02 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Kerry is a hypocrite....what did he ever do to protect our country? John Kerry's War Record?? With Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) considering a run for the presidency in 2004, you might want to keep this in mind. John Kerry's war record As Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, considers a bid for the White House, Americans should know a few things about him that he might prefer go unmentioned ? and I don't mean his $75 haircuts. When Mr. Kerry pontificated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day, a group of veterans turned their backs on him and walked away. They remembered Mr. Kerry as the anti-war activist who testified before Congress during the war, accusing veterans of being war criminals. The dust jacket of Mr. Kerry's pro-Hanoi book, "The New Soldier," features a photograph of his ragged band of radicals mocking the U.S. Marine Corps Memorial, which depicts the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, with an upside-down American flag. Retired Gen. George S. Patton III charged that Mr. Kerry's actions as an anti-war activist had "given aid and comfort to the enemy," as had the actions of Ramsey Clark and Jane Fonda. Also, Mr. Kerry lied when he threw what he claimed were his war medals over the White House fence; he later amitted they weren't his. Now they are displayed on his office wall. Long after he changed sides in congressional hearings, Mr. Kerry lobbied for renewed trade relations with Hanoi. At the same time, his cousin C. Stewart Forbes, chief executive for Colliers International, assisted in brokering a $905 million deal to develop a deep-sea port at Vung Tau, Vietnam , an odd coincidence. As noted in the Inside Politics column of Nov. 14 (Nation), historian Douglas Brinkley is writing Mr. Kerry's biography. Hopefully, he'll include the senator's latest ignominious feat: preventing the Vietnam Human Rights Act (HR2833) from coming to a vote in the Senate, claiming human rights would deteriorate as a result. His actions sent a clear signal to Hanoi that Congress cares little about the human rights for which so many Americans fought and died. The State Department ranked Vietnam among the 10 regimes worldwide least tolerant of religious freedom. Recently, 354 churches of the Montagnards, a Christian ethnic minority, were forcibly disbanded, and by mid-October, more than 50 Christian pastors and elders had been arrested in Dak Lak province alone. On Oct. 29, the secret police executed three Montagnards by lethal injection simply for protesting religious repression. The communists are conducting a pogrom against the Montagnards, forcing Christians to drink a mixture of goat's blood and alcohol and renounce Christianity. Thousands have been killed or imprisoned or have just "disappeared." The Montagnards lost one-half of their adult male population fighting for the United States, and without them, there might be thousands more American names on that somber black granite wall at the Vietnam memorial. As Mr. Kerry contemplates a run for the presidency, people must remember that he has fought harder for Hanoi as an anti-war activist and a senator than he did against the Vietnamese communists while serving in the Navy in Vietnam. MICHAEL BENGE Foreign Service officer and former Vietnam POW (1968 to 1973) Washington, DC