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

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (45372)	8/27/2004 2:57:00 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 81568

Didn't Oliver North break the laws of this country in the Iran Contra affair? He was let go in disgraceful manner similar to how Nixon was let go. I don't see Kerry behaving that way. Interesting, so you're a law and order guy. I do believe North was found to have broken some laws. Because he is now a free man I'll assume he has paid his price. Now your candidate has admitted to commiting war crimes and violating the Geneva Convention, do you think we should hold HIM accountable or will you invoke a Nuehrenburg [sic]defense? Just checking for intellectual honesty and consistency.... Have you read the text of Kerry's testimony and can you take excerpts and provide your thoughts on it? I have read his testimony and I'll not spend time parsing and get down to my key problem: We saw America lose her sense of morality as she accepted very coolly a My Lai and refused to give up the image of American soldiers who hand out chocolate bars and chewing gum. We learned the meaning of free fire zones, shooting anything that moves, and we watched while America placed a cheapness on the lives of orientals. With this statement right here, Kerry broadbrushed the entire country as mass murdering oriental killers based on his own experience and 150 admitted war criminals. Here is where he overstepped and his words were used to both fuel the opposition and demoralize the troops still in the field. If Vietnam was a mistake then the blood of all who died there is on the hands of Kennedy and Johnson who GOT US IN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! At the very least, Kerry was unthoughtful of the consequences of his words and has proven he is not capable of being entrusted with the microphone of President of The United States.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (45372)	8/27/2004 3:10:29 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

You want to assign blood to hands???? JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY: WHAT A FRIGGIN DISASTER HE LEAD US INTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In the first speech he made to the American public as their President, Kennedy made it clear that he intended to continue Eisenhower's policy of supporting the South Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem. He argued that if South Vietnam became a communist state, the whole of the non-communist world would be at risk. If South Vietnam fell, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Philippines, New Zealand and Australia would follow. If communism was not halted in Vietnam it would gradually spread throughout the world. This view became known as the Domino Theory. Kennedy went on to argue: "No other challenge is more deserving of our effort and energy... Our security may be lost piece by piece, country by country." Under his leadership, America would be willing to: "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty." spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk