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To: American Spirit who wrote (16340)	4/3/2003 8:45:04 PM
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"Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, who voted to authorize military action but has accused President Bush of rushing into war, said he will cease his complaints once the shooting starts. ''It's what you owe the troops,'' said a statement from Kerry, a Navy veteran of the Vietnam War. ''I remember being one of those guys and reading news reports from home. If America is at war, I won't speak a word without measuring how it'll sound to the guys doing the fighting when they're listening to their radios in the desert.''" boston.com Kerry's 'Regime Change' Comments Draw Fire Thursday, April 03, 2003 Message 18794252 I'm anxiously awaiting those 50 whooper lies by Bush that can be irrefutably verified with factual, credible evidence.

To: American Spirit who wrote (16340)	4/3/2003 8:45:55 PM
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Um, make that 100........... I keep hearing Vietnam Veteran everytime this joker makes a speech. Below adds some perspective. 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 admitted 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 nicedoggie.net

To: American Spirit who wrote (16340)	4/3/2003 8:51:23 PM
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Now it's 150............. AN EARLY LEADER IN THE COMPETITION… for understatement of the week must be this gem from a Boston Globe story about John Kerry’s ancestry: Kerry acknowledged that some voters in Massachusetts, the nation’s most Irish-American state, may have had the impression that he had Irish roots. Faith bejaysus! The article reveals that Kerry’s grandfather was a Czech Jew who changed his name from Fritz Cohn to Frederick A. Kerry when he emigrated. It’s not recorded if his picking “Kerry” as a surname when “No Irish Need Apply” signs dotted the landscape was a contributing factor to his 1921 suicide. Why is this coming up now? Well, obviously, Kerry may benefit more from Jewish roots than Hibernian ones now that he is running for president nationwide rather than for a Massachusetts US Senate seat. Remember how Hillary! dug up a Jewish relative—by marriage—when she ran in New York? I’ll bet Joe Lieberman is pretty pissed right now. The Globe came close to calling Kerry a liar with respect to this misunderstanding of his roots: He said that he knew of no Irish ancestry and that he had always tried to correct misstatements whenever he learned about them. Numerous publications, including the Globe, have stated that Kerry is Irish-American. It’s hard to imagine Kerry “always” corrected misstatements, but still kept this information from “numerous publications.” February 3, 2003 12:23 PM libertyblog.com