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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (3377)	2/7/2004 6:57:13 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Ironic that you would admit that since it was Kennedy and his protege, Johnson, who started and got us mucked up in the Vietnam war. Kennedy was Kerry's idol, and Teddy Kennedy and the Kennedy political machine are the force behind Kerry's candidacy.

To: American Spirit who wrote (3377)	2/7/2004 7:09:51 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

KERRY ON VIETNAM, WHEN HUNKERING DOWN IN THE BOAT FOR CLINTO A decade ago, however, Kerry rose in the Senate on two separate occasions to decry presidential candidates who used their military service record as a qualification for the highest office. On Feb. 27, 1992, Kerry defended then presidential candidate Bill Clinton against an attack by his Democratic rival Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.). As the primary season unfolded, Kerrey, who lost part of his leg in Vietnam, had peppered Clinton with uncomfortable questions about whether the Arkansan had evaded the draft. Kerry hit back at his Senate colleague, saying: <font color=orange>“I am saddened by the fact that Vietnam has yet again been inserted into the campaign, and that it has been inserted in what I feel to be the worst possible way… What saddens me most is that Democrats, above all those who shared the agonies of that generation, should now be re-fighting the many conflicts of Vietnam in order to win the current political conflict of a presidential primary.”</font> DAYAMNNNNNNNN LIVESHOT F'N KERRY SAID THAT???????????? Jan Scruggs, president and founder of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, attributed Kerry’s shifting position to political expedience. In October 1992, Kerry again defended Clinton from remarks by President George H.W. Bush. In a television interview, the president had questioned Clinton’s involvement in anti-war protests while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford and a trip by Clinton to Moscow as a post-graduate student in 1969. In prefacing his Senate remarks, Kerry recalled the words Bush had spoken four years earlier. “This is a fact: The final lesson of Vietnam is that no great nation can long afford to be sundered by a memory,” Bush then said. Kerry proceeded to ask a series of biting rhetorical questions of Bush from the Senate floor. <font color=orange>“What has happened to the George Bush who made that statement?” Kerry asked. “Why, President Bush, now do you choose to break another promise? Why do you choose to break your own statute of limitations? “Why do you choose yourself to bring back the memory that only four years ago you said sundered this nation? Is your desire to hold office really so great that you would betray your own sense of decency and fairness? </font><font color=red>Is your desperation now really so great that you would adopt a conscious strategy of reopening and pouring salt on some of the most painful wounds that our nation has ever expected?....... and our nation would never recover from the divisions created by that war.” </font> DAYYYYAMNNN...YOU MEAN LIVESHOT F'N KERRY REALLY SAID THAT?????? WELL LOOK AT KERRY GO NOW...SEEMS HE FORGOT ABOUT HEALING ANY DIVISIONS HUH????? WHAT A GUY...WHAT A GUY........ DEAN ON KERRY: “Before he became a political candidate for president, John Kerry clearly believed that military service should not be used for political gain,” said Jay Carson, a spokesman for Dean, the former governor of Vermont who is running well ahead of Kerry in recent New Hampshire polls. “And he was right about that,” Carson added. <font color=red>“Unfortunately, now John Kerry and his campaign have a strategy to use that record to further his political career.”