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To: LindyBill who wrote (59789)	8/12/2004 2:44:29 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793868

UPDATE: Captain Ed - Reader Vayapaso (okay, it's my mother) e-mailed me with this point about Kerry's lies that really hits home: "It seems that most the salient point to his lie in 1986 was that his misrepresentation of when or if he was in Cambodia at the time he claims added to the mistrust of the government [emph mine -- CE] and the horrible greetings the men and women faced when they returned from Viet Nam. These people were spit upon, treated as through they were criminals and forced to hide the fact that they put their lives on the line for a duty to their country. It was misstatements of people like Kerry & Fonda that added fuel to an already unrest in this country that had not been seen in recent history..." Kerry and his anti-war activists protested the American government, calling them corrupt liars who abused the trust of the American people. Today's anti-war activists make much the same claims about Bush and Cheney. Doesn't it make a difference that Kerry's main motivation for his activism and later political career, the catalyst that was "seared -- seared" into his memory, was a lie all along? That he used the lie to shower hatred and enmity on his fellow servicepeople? Shouldn't Kerry's use of that lie in the Senate to undercut the support of freedom fighters abuse the trust of the American people? Or is it all just runny crap, a handy excuse for a billboard or a protest slogan?