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To: tejek who wrote (612148)	8/27/2004 4:29:08 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Kerry's Anti-American Rhetoric Used in Torture of POWs Posted August 26, 2004 by David Freddoso Former POW Jim Warner today told HUMAN EVENTS that he first learned about Lt. John Kerry in a North Vietnamese prison camp. When his captors brought him out of solitary confinement in the infamous Skid Row punishment camp for an interrogation, they made him read the typewritten transcript of a statement by Kerry, speaking in the United States. His interrogator kept pointing at Kerry's words, saying, 'See? This officer from your Navy says you deserve to be punished.'" "All I could think of was that this must be a really contemptible human being," said Warner, although We can't expect the rest of the country to share our disgust at Kerry for turning on us. A lot of people are too young to remember that." But the Kerry campaign has worked tirelessly to remind all voters of Vietnam, focusing almost entirely on his experience as a Vietnam veteran. Since then, when speaking in nearly every forum and on nearly every issue, Kerry has emphasized the fact that he is fit to be president because he knows what war was like--he was there. At the Democratic convention, he even began his acceptance speech with a salute, telling the crowd of loyal Democrats that he was "reporting for duty." "It wasn't a very good salute," remarked Warner, his voice strained with a decades-old bitterness. "If you're going to run as a war hero, somebody at least ought to teach you to salute." Warner said his first experienced Kerry's anti-American rhetoric in 1971 when he was a Marine first lieutenant suffering in solitary confinement in the Skid Row punishment camp. His F-4 fighter had been shot down three and a half years earlier, and since that time he had been tortured and interrogated regularly. He was in a special punishment camp at the time with 35 other POWs who had been uncooperative when their captors tried to prohibit religious observances in their cells. One morning--Warner thinks it was a Saturday--his captors brought him out for an unusually long three-hour interrogation, during which they made him read the transcript of a statement by a U.S. Navy officer and Vietnam Veteran speaking in the United States. The speech included a litany of war crimes American soldiers were committing in Vietnam. However, Warner acknowledges that the statement could have come from of a number of speeches Kerry gave during his career as an anti-war protester. Tom Collins, another Vietnam POW whose plane was shot down in 1965, was made to listen to Kerry's testimony on tape during his captivity. He explained that the North Vietnamese were constantly trying to elicit confessions of war crimes from Americans, promising them better treatment. "What they wanted to do was get us to make statements that they could use for propaganda, no matter what it took to get it" he said. "They would torture us, some were even killed for it...For over seven years, their goal was to get propaganda out of me. And then I see somebody like John Kerry and the Vietnam Veterans [Against the War] giving them the same propaganda they want me to give them, free of charge, on American television." "He knew he was putting us at risk," Warner went on. "And he was demanding unilateral withdrawal, which means our value as bargaining chips would be gone. And what do you think would have happened to us then?" "We can forgive and forget," said Collins. "But then when he decides to bring it up and run for the highest office in the land based upon outright lies, we're not going to stand for that." These charges by POWs and more questions about John Kerry's "war hero" status have been generated by the release of the blockbuster new book Unfit for Command (Regnery, a HUMAN EVENTS sister company) and two TV ads produced by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The book and the ads deal not only with the dubious claims of heroics surrounding the various medals Kerry received during his four-month tour in Vietnam, but also with his virulent anti-war and anti-American actions upon his return from the war humaneventsonline.com.edgesuite.net

To: tejek who wrote (612148)	8/27/2004 4:30:48 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

More Americans Have Health Insurance Than Ever Before, Group Says By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Morning Editor August 27, 2004 (CNSNews.com) - More Americans have health insurance now than at any time in recent history, says a think tank that advocates private solutions to public policy problems. "While it is true that the number of uninsured has grown, it is equally true that the number of people with insurance has grown steadily for the last 15 years," said Devon Herrick, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis. "Despite recent economic hard times, there has never been this many people with health insurance." \lang1024 The NCPA analysis found that households earning $50,000 a year or more account for about 90 percent of the increase in the number of uninsured over the past 10 years. And almost two-thirds of that has occurred among households earning more than $75,000 per year. The NCPA was reacting to a Census Bureau report released Thursday, which said the number of people with health insurance increased by 1 million to 243.3 million between 2002 and 2003, while the number of people without health insurance increased by 1.4 million to 45 million. The Census Bureau said the percentage of the nation's population without health insurance coverage grew to 15.6 in 2003 from 15.2 percent in 2002. But the NCPA says the rise in both the number of people with and without health insurance is explained by growth in the overall population. While the exact number of people without health insurance has grown, the percent of the population without health insurance has remained in the 15-percent range. According to an NCPA analysis of the just-released Census report: -- The number of people with health insurance increased by 1 million people in 2003, to 243.3 million, or 84.4 percent of the population. -- The number of people without health insurance grew by 1.4 million, or 15.6 percent of the population. -- The proportion of children who were uninsured did not change, remaining at 11.4 percent of all children, or 8.4 million in 2003. According to NCPA estimates, a growing problem is the increasing number of families with incomes above $50,000 who are becoming uninsured. Since 1993, the number of uninsured in households with annual incomes above $75,000 increased by almost 128 percent. By contrast, the number of uninsured with annual incomes below $25,000 fell by an estimated 15 percent. "Being uninsured in America is often a matter of choice," said Herrick. "Most uninsured people either can afford health insurance or qualify for government-sponsored health care programs; they just choose not to enroll."