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

To: DOUG H who wrote (45430)	8/27/2004 2:59:44 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

you have one wierd sense of who is QUALIFIED...some executing non successful governor who never left the US and owns a dirt ranch in the middle of nowhere that has difficulty with the English language?????? and HE (after appointment) is qualified to get in front of the microphone!???? CC

To: DOUG H who wrote (45430)	8/27/2004 3:09:55 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

"Here is where he overstepped and his words were used to both fuel the opposition and demoralize the troops still in the field." If you feel that your nation is waging an unjust war, and that the men you served with are dying for no real purpose, how do you go about ending that unjust war? Can you end the war by singing the praises of the war's purpose and the results of our troops' actions? Thirty years after the fact Kerry is being attacked for the approach he took to ending a war that claimed the lives of 50,000 American soldiers without producing any tangible benefit to the security of Americans. How would you, as a private citizen, have attempted to end that war?

To: DOUG H who wrote (45430)	8/27/2004 3:39:56 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

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.... Oliver North was given due process and convicted of what he was convicted for. Kerry may have made that statement but due process would involve going further into that and nobody has gone further into that. Many questions remain; was he following orders of superiors, was he under fire and on and on. In our legal system, just making a statement like the way Kerry did does not make him guilty, is it not? Aren't we proud of our legal system where we guarantee every person his/her day in court? Then how do you conclude Kerry is guilty from just his admission. Now onto your second point, but before I get to it, let me restate what I have stated here before. I did not grow up with English as my first language. Having said that, let us take up this statement that Kerry made. 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. Instead if he said the following with the changes highlighted: We saw America<font color=red>ns <font color=black>lose <font color=red>t<font color=black>he<font color=red>ir <font color=black>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<font color=red>ns<font color=black> placed a cheapness on the lives of orientals. He ran down the Administration, who represents America with what he said. If he had instead said the latter, then he trashes the American people. You cannot argue against history. History says that there was a clear distinction between America (Nixon Administration) and Americans (the people in those days.