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To: JakeStraw who wrote (387116)	4/7/2003 1:11:58 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

The right is getting concerned about Kerry.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (387116)	4/7/2003 1:27:03 PM
From: Kevin Rose	Respond to of 769667

I think this goes to show that you almost cannot have a past to run for office nowadays. If we excluded all the people who either protested the war, or avoided service in some way, we'd have a fairly small pool to choose from. Sen McCain would definitely qualify under that criteria, as would Gore, but not Bush.

To: JakeStraw who wrote (387116)	4/7/2003 2:42:21 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

You didn't post the rest of the article, and the most disturbing part IMO. It appears that Kerry would carry on where Slick and hilly left off. This will not be allowed to happen again in America. We will not elect another traitorous leader. M 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 antiwar activist and a senator than he did against the Vietnamese communists while serving in the Navy in Vietnam.