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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Bearcatbob who wrote (8166)9/6/2004 9:32:31 PM
From: TideGlider  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 27181
 
I am never incorrect: ;^)

Gerald Ford offer amnesty to Vietnam War draft dodgers:
The Vietnam War was very divisive for the American public. Many young Americans actively protest against US involvement in Vietnam and the drafting of US men into the military to conduct the war. To avoid military service, thousands of men dodged the Selective Service by changing their identities and going underground or fleeing the United States for Canada, which did not extradite draft dodgers back to the US.

Years after the US ended its involvement in the Vietnam conflict, many of these men were still wanted criminals, perused for their refusal to abide the conscription (draft). Ford offered these men a blanket amnesty, which would in exchange for volunteer service forgive them of their crime and allow them to re-enter US society. Ford's amnesty plan sparked bitter debate among the American people, exemplifying the fact that the sharp divisions within America created by the war had yet to fully heal.

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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (8166)9/7/2004 6:04:26 PM
From: Captain Jack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 27181
 
Kerry & Carter are both appeasers additionally both are dumb as a box of rocks. Carter can claim senility,,

The pushers of Islam are as much like dope pushers as Kerry is like Carter (dumb and cowardly)
Iran's Promise: "80 Seconds of Hell"
By Dateline D.C.
September 7, 2004

Let's begin by looking at some facts.

On Saturday, June 26, only a few weeks ago, two security guards at the
Iranian U.N. Mission were expelled from the United States, and allowed to
sneak back to Tehran. The State Department says that they were "engaged in
activities inconsistent with their duties." Sure. They were spies.

The pair had been observed by the FBI for months moving around Manhattan
videotaping landmark buildings and other infrastructure. It took an alert
transit police officer to arrest them when he saw them taking video images
on the subway tracks. They claimed diplomatic immunity and were not charged
with any crime.

In Tehran, as August began, the Islamic Republic's supreme guide Ali
Khamenei was answering questions from a hundred or so Islamic guidance
officials, home from foreign postings for retraining. Most of his answers
were trite slogans, but when he was asked, "Is our Islamic Republic at war
against the United States," he paused before replying. "It is the United
States that is at war against our Islamic Revolution."

However, Khamenei's own newspaper was even more direct. Writing this July,
it said, "the White House's 80 years of exclusive rule are likely to become
80 seconds of hell that will burn to ashes. Those who resist Iran will be
struck from directions they never expected."

To these facts add that an Arab newspaper published in London and Beirut
reported that an Iranian intelligence unit has established a center called
"The Brigades of the Shahids of the Global Islamic Awakening," controlled by
a Revolutionary Guards intelligence officer, Hassan Abbasi. The newspaper
has a tape recording of Abbasi when he spoke of Iran's secret plans, which
include "a strategy drawn up for the destruction of Anglo-Saxon
civilization."

Missile strikes

To bring this about, Abbasi said, "There are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S.
and in the West. We have already spied on these sites and we know how we are
going to attack them." This Revolutionary Guard officer continued by saying,
"Iran's missiles are now ready to strike at Western targets, and as soon as
the instructions arrive from Ali Khamenei, we will launch our missiles at
their cities and installations."

These are facts. Now let's consider the information coming in from Iraq
where, day after day, our troops are being killed.

Most of the killing is now being done by Muslim militia -- Shi'ite
Muslims -- in the cities of Fallujah, Mosul and Najaf. This militia appears
to have some loyalty -- but not much -- to the Grand Ayatollah Ali
al-Sistani, but he is equally obviously not their paymaster.

The militias need weapons, ammunition, gas for their vehicles, food, water
and everything else to fight the Iraqi police and our military. Just
remember that these are Shi'ites. The Iranians just over the border are also
Shi'ites. So we needn't be surprised to learn that the word on the streets
of Baghdad and Tehran is that they are providing millions of dollars every
month for the "hot" war against the Americans.

The Iranian Shi'ites have during the past few weeks established relations
with the Kurds in the north of Iraq and with the main Arab Sunni rebel group
led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. And, every alliance is cemented with dollars.

25-year war

Iran has been at war with the United States since the mullahs ousted the
shah's forces in 1979.

Iran's war against the United States has gone on for 25 years. It is past
time that the ayatollahs, mullahs and imams begin to understand that there
are limits to our tolerance and that our military might is by no means
exhausted.

That February in 1979, the Revolutionary Guards invaded 27 U.S. listening
posts in Iran that had been set up to monitor Soviet rocket tests. The posts
were closed and our guys expelled.

That was enough for Democrat Jimmy Carter. He sent a wonderful letter to the
Ayatollah Khomeini, praising him as "a man of God." And, in a show of
goodwill, Carter lifted the ban he had imposed on arms exports to Iran.

A few days later, the Revolutionary Guards raided our embassy in Tehran and
seized our diplomats as hostages for a year and a half. In April 1980,
Carter tried a military rescue attempt, which ended in disaster with more
Americans being killed.

Since then Iran has created one disaster after another. The Marine barracks
in Beirut with 241 U.S. Marines killed, some 30 U.S. hostages taken in
Lebanon, the torture-killing of the CIA's Middle Eastern chief and the
generalized support of all America's enemies.

On July 27, Iranian Member of Parliament Hamid-Reza Katoziyan told a
television audience "Muslims living in the U.S. are currently, in my
opinion, in a special situation. Perhaps they do not walk the streets with
weapons or attach bombs to themselves to carry out a suicide operation, but
the thought is there."

And, one last fact: The 9/11 commission in its report poses a question,
"September 11 was a day of unprecedented shock. The nation was unprepared.
How can we avoid such a tragedy again?"

The answer has to be obvious. Ensure that Iran does not have the opportunity
to make a first-strike against the U.S. and that Iran stops attempting to
make Iraq a colony.