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Politics : John Kerry for President? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (535)	8/2/2004 2:13:21 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3515

My name is Steve Gardner. I served in 1966 and 1967 on my first tour of duty in Vietnam on Swift boats, and I did my second tour in '68 and '69, involved with John Kerry in the last 2 1/2 months of my tour. The John Kerry that I know is not the John Kerry that everybody else is portraying. I served alongside him and behind him, five feet away from him in a gun tub, and watched as he made indecisive moves with our boat, put our boats in jeopardy, put our crews in jeopardy... if a man like that can't handle that 6-man crew boat, how can you expect him to be our Commander-in-Chief?" -- Steven Gardner

To: one_less who wrote (535)	8/3/2004 1:09:25 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3515

The CIA's Phoenix Program was very successful. US military special Forces were used to go behind enemy lines and assassinate suspected VC leaders. The favorite method of was be-headings and disenbowelment. The SEALS which did a lot of the killing were nicked "the Green Ghosts". The military does not record their history for obvious reasons, but you can read about them in "Everything We Were" which is about 20 soldiers telling you their true tales. best book there is about Vietnam straight from the soldiers mouths. Kerry may have known some of the soldiers in the CIA assassination programs. Otherwise, Agent Orange and Napalm were both atrocities, as were tyhe various village massacres and other incidents. BTW: I approve of extreme measures against real enemies, but looking back it's clear, Vietnam never attacked us. The war was a complete mistake. McNamara realized that in the end and made a film about it called "The Fog Of War".