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Politics : Wesley Clark -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Green who wrote (345)	9/29/2003 4:35:31 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1414

At Yale, Kerry did what GW Bush was afraid to do, he joined the military. For you to make some insinuation that his decision was anything but patriotic is wrong. Back then, no one quite knew if the war was wrong and off-track or not. We hadn't read the Pentagon Papers yet, for one thing. Kerry questioned but was not anti-war. Not yet. And his political feelings did not influence his fighting. Kerry and some of his friends joined and served in combat. Some died, Kerry made it home but could have easily been KIA himself. He was not a career soldier like Clark but someone who volunteered then over-achieved on the battlefield. He could have run away but he faced the enemy. Then when he realized the war was wrong and built on lies, he turned against it. If you read the story, it seems he was mostly influenced by the deaths of his close friends, especially "Perch" General Pershing's grandson who was his best friend in the world. He was also influenced by our killing of civilians since that war, like Iraq, was one where it was almost impossible to tell friend from foe until they started shooting at you. Kerry's your was a lot like the first half of APOCALYPSE NOW. It was dangerous, strange, fun, crazy, confusing and ultimately very serious and shattering. But he prevailed.