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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (2411)	2/15/2004 1:24:15 AM
From: Nikole Wollerstein	Respond to of 81568

I do not know where Kerry got respect for being Useful Idiot. Of course John Kerry deserves honor for his heroic service in Vietnam. But the credit he earned by serving is undercut by his completely dishonorable role in the antiwar movement when he returned home. It is that history — as well as the 20-year record he amassed in the Senate as a dovish liberal — that sheds the most illuminating light on the kind of president he would be. As recounted in my book "Useful Idiots" (out in paperback this month, I shamelessly note, click here. (Sales help fund JWR), or in Mackubin Thomas Owens's piece in the Feb. 23 issue of National Review, John Kerry returned from Vietnam and leant his prestige to the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Though innocuous-sounding, VVAW was one of the more radical antiwar groups. Through several well-publicized stunts, including one in which Kerry participated by throwing his medals over the White House fence (he later acknowledged that the medals belonged to someone else), VVAW legitimized the libel that American soldiers in Vietnam routinely committed war crimes.