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

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (16989)	4/21/2004 8:16:25 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

I read the post. I read your comment. I read what you indicated Kerry stated on "Meet the Press." By his "words being over the top", did he mean that the atrocities he was reciting didn't actually happen or were merely angry hyperbole? The post you linked was addressed more to the overall Vietnam conflict and made the case for Vietnam to have been a mistake, etc. In other words, an anti-war proposition. I've no problem with anti-Vietnam sentiments. I've never said otherwise. Contrary to the comments in the linked post, Kerry's actual testimony in 1971 suggested that atrocities were widespread, ongoing and continuous. As such, the allegations covered a wide swath of military, and I believe they are rightfully angered by such accusations. It's not clear to me that Kerry has withdrawn those claims, or, if he has not done so, that he supplied proof to back them up. Sure there were a lot of good people who opposed the war in Vietnam. And there were a lot of reasons to do so. I have a problem with the particular course chosen by Kerry and those he chose to associate himself with for that purpose. He's the one who made Vietnam an issue in this political season and his military service cannot be divorced from his activities after separation.