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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (655)	2/7/2004 1:46:21 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

Kerry graduated from Yale University in 1966. Like John F. Kennedy (who served on a World War II patrol boat, PT 109), Kerry sought to do the same. He enlisted in the Navy and became an officer. After training, Kerry volunteered for Vietnam. He served a relatively uneventful six months, far removed from combat, from December 1967 to June 1968, in the electrical department aboard the USS Gridley, a guided-missile frigate that supported aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin. His ship returned to its Long Beach, Calif., port on June 6, 1968. Five months later, Kerry went back to Vietnam, securing an assignment as "swift boat" skipper. Kerry commanded his first swift boat, No. 44, from December 1968 through January 1969. While in command of Swift Boat 44, Kerry and crew operated without prudence in a Free Fire Zone, carelessly firing at targets of opportunity racking up a number of enemy kills and some civilians. His body count included-- a woman, her baby, a 12 year-old boy, an elderly man and several South Vietnamese soldiers. "It is one of those terrible things, and I'll never forget, ever, the sight of that child," Kerry later said about the dead baby. "But there was nothing that anybody could have done about it. It was the only instance of that happening." Kerry said he was appalled that the Navy's ''free fire zone'' policy in Vietnam put civilians at such high risk.

To: American Spirit who wrote (655)	2/7/2004 1:47:21 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

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To: American Spirit who wrote (655)	2/7/2004 1:14:03 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 173976

Amen, American Spirit. After living through hell, those young men were and continue to be spit upon by idiots such as the one to whom you refer. 50,000 American servicemen died, and countless others were wounded in Viet Nam. Anyone who saw combat over there lived through unimaginable horror. They did what they had to do, and anyone who berates any of those brave men IS anti-American.

To: American Spirit who wrote (655)	2/7/2004 1:21:26 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

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To: American Spirit who wrote (655)	2/7/2004 6:30:30 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

You are a dissembler of facts. The sequence of events DOES matter: 1. The Viet Cong teenager sprang up from a hole with a B-40 rocket launcher aimed at Kerry's boat. Then, 2. The Viet Cong teenager pulled the trigger, but the B-40 jammed and failed to fire. Then, 3. The Viet Cong teenager (just a kid), then unarmed, turned and fled toward a hooch. Then, 4. "The boat's machine gunner hit and wounded the fleeing Viet Cong as he darted behind a hootch. The twin .50s gunner fired at the Viet Cong. He said he "laid 50 rounds" into the hootch before only THEN 5. Kerry leaped from the boat and dashed in to administer a "coup de grace" to the wounded Viet Cong." Kerry murdered an unarmed, fleeing, wounded soldier, Mafia execution style. Our nation has been horrified when US soldiers and POW's have been mistreated and executed in violation of the Geneva Convention. One of Bush's early priorities in Iraq was to try to find out what happened to a valiant missing US airman, Scott Speicher, who was the first US flyer shot down over Iraq in 1991. Kerry, in stark contrast, covered up the whole Vietnam MIA issue in his haste to seek normalization of relations with Vietnam. Instead of executing the teenage Viet Cong in violation of the Geneva Convention, Kerry should have taken him prisoner.