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To: gamesmistress who wrote (32347)	2/29/2004 4:40:56 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793670

This isn't a rhetorical question at all. I mean it literally. Do you believe that this patriotic war hero should not have done all he could to address the problems he, as a patriot, felt should be addressed? Would he have been a "better" man, had he done that? It's two questions, each yes or no. You're free to expand on either or both, or to pretend it's unanswerable. OK, which one of you MPs said Vietnam War atrocities should be kept secret? Who? Whoooooooooooooooo(thunk) Perhaps I misunderstood? Are we all in agreement that the Winter Soldier testimony about the Vietnam war atrocities and the suffering of our troops in that engagement, and Kerry's testimony about it before the Senate, were good things, that is, about situations that should NOT have been kept secret, but should have been -- as they were -- made public? It's common knowledge that some POWs say that Kerry's Senate testimony was thrown in their faces by the VietCong. Caused a lot of bitterness...Edit: and if you start to see stories from former POWs on the subject, don't be surprised. I would be surprised if I didn't. I can understand how horrible it must have been for them and feel very sorry for their suffering and know that the Republicans will use it to imply that Kerry wasn't a patriot, and thus that George W. Bush should be our president. I don't think there will be stories from 1. the American soldiers who died pointlessly because the war wasn't ended sooner, 2. those whose lives were saved because the war was ended, partly as a result of public pressure because of the courage of veterans like Kerry who came home and spoke the hard truth to their fellow citizens. They don't know their lives were saved, of course, so won't know they have stories. There are children, and darling little grandchildren, of both those latter groups who would never have been born, had the war dragged on, but we won't be hearing stories from them. How would they know their very existence is because that infernal war was ended before their father, or grandfather, died under circumstances described here. On the long shot chance you're interested: lists.village.virginia.edu