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To: American Spirit who wrote (430474)	7/21/2003 5:02:31 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Kerry Says 'False Pride' Holding Bush Back in Iraq WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender John Kerry urged the Bush administration on Monday to seek U.N. support in stabilizing Iraq (news - web sites) and questioned if "false pride" was delaying the move. Kerry, a Massachusetts senator who is one of nine Democrats vying to challenge President Bush (news - web sites) in 2004, told reporters the help of other nations was crucial in helping stabilize post-war Iraq. He said "my blood boiled over" when he read in the New York Times on Saturday that some in the Bush administration might consider it humiliating to go to the United Nations (news - web sites) for help after bypassing the world body before going to war in Iraq. "You don't make a decision about protecting your own troops and winning your objectives based on false pride," he said in a conference call with reporters. Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, said half of the names of the dead enshrined on the Vietnam war memorial in Washington stem "from the time that that kind of pride began to cloud the decisions in Vietnam." The Bush administration has reacted coolly to suggestions that a new U.N. resolution could make it easier for nations to help Washington stabilize Iraq through troops or other means, saying existing resolutions give the U.N. cover to any country that wants to join the effort in Iraq. Russia and other countries have suggested a new U.N. resolution might make countries more disposed to help. Kerry said international help was crucial with American deaths continuing and the costs of policing the country mounting. "Lives are at stake," he said. "We need to internationalize this and we need to do it now, we need to do it openly and we need to do it in order to defuse the sense of occupation and protect the troops." Kerry, who supported a resolution giving Bush the authority to wage war in Iraq, has been critical of the administration's failure to gain wider international backing for the war effort. * Kerry is a man who CARES about our troops. Bushies apparently dont. Left them in Iraq with bull's eyes on their backs.

To: American Spirit who wrote (430474)	7/21/2003 5:07:49 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

but, back to Kerry... John Kerry's War Record By Michael Benge FrontPageMagazine.com \| January 13, 2003 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 antiwar 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 US 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 antiwar 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 antiwar activist and a senator than he did against the Vietnamese communists while serving in the Navy in Vietnam. Michael Benge is a Foreign Service officer and a former Vietnam POW (1968 to 1973)

To: American Spirit who wrote (430474)	7/21/2003 5:49:09 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Only the GOP promotes Hillary Clinton....Dont be fooled by the RNC propaganda drive.... What are you smoking? Don't you know that Hillary represents the Anti-Christ to the GOP. RNC propaganda drive? You may not have noticed but that poll was conducted by an independent organization...before Hillary released her book. Hillary will sit down with Bill in November and evaluate the situation. If Bush looks vulnerable, she will run. If she runs, she will blow everyone out of the water. How about a Clinton-Clark ticket? Message 19130104