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To: Doc Bones who wrote (104251)	7/8/2003 4:15:24 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Sullivan's "Quote for the Day" sure fits here. QUOTE FOR THE DAY: "If the Democratic Party intends to run against a popular war, its leaders might wish to recall the lesson of a Democrat who ran against an unpopular war. He lost 49 states." - Lawrence F. Kaplan , in the Wall Street Journal today. Lawrence is basically right, I think. Many liberal Democrats - and the media in general - are beginning to act as if the war is over and they can score debating points with a president's foreign policy, rather than seriously proposing their own. That's a formula for disaster. The unseriousness of the current Democratic field in national security matters is the determining factor in the next year and a half. Forget money, personality, media. The question every voter will and should ask of any Democratic in 2004 is a simple one: would I feel as safe with this guy in the White House? Right now, the answer is a resounding no. Until the Dems figure out a way to tackle this, they're screwed. And they deserve to be.http://andrewsullivan.com/

To: Doc Bones who wrote (104251)	7/8/2003 5:33:12 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Doc, Thanks for that response to a question I asked a while back. My interest in immigration is limited to refugees who have supported US Special Forces combat OPS. In that role, I get to work with 5 different State Dept approved resettlement agencies. I can say that with one exception refugee resettlement in the US nosedived after 9/11. The exception was the Montagnards. We brought in over 1,050 in the past 12 months (a record number of Montagnards), but now that program has shriveled up too. And 1,050 is an insignificant figure in terms of overall immigration. The Montagnard situation has been exacerbated by the Vietnamese governments current delay/refusal to grant family reunification exit visas. Unfortunately Kerry stalled Senate Bill HR-2833 until it died. "The stalled Bill would have sanctioned the communist Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) against further racially based sterilization, terrorism and genocide of the Christian hilltribe Degar (Montagnard) peoples living in the Central Highlands region of the country." gb4hr.net Many of us closely involved in this issue believe it is Kerry's family's investments that are keeping him from making or at least allowing a strong statement urging Human Rights for Montagnards. The problem is a true tragedy. I have met and spoken at length with several Human Rights Watch employess who have and are traveling extensively in Cambodia and Vietnam to document Human Rights abuses. They have verified much of what is reported at this link...http://www.montagnard-foundation.org/news.html Considering that 85,000 Montagnards died while fighting on the US payroll in Southeast Asia and Kerry's mantra of "Ima Nam Vet", it is shocking that he was the senator to force such a bill to die. unclewest