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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (145310)	9/10/2004 12:27:49 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"I agree with alot of what you say about vietnam but i know iraq and iraq is no vietnam." Lloyd Bensten (g) PS The longest sentence (60 words) i ever wrote follows. As one who opposed the vietnam war and is unrepentant about that opposition, but who largely supports the iraq war minus some of our stupidity, and failure to admit mistakes and to hold folks more accountable, i would ask all anti vietnam war folks not to knee jerk themselves into automatic opposition of this war because of those above mentioned faults.

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (145310)	9/10/2004 12:28:39 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Twfowler, repeating the dogma that "Kerry lied about the war," doesn't make it true. Sure repeating it doesn't make it true, but it is. As for Vietnam not being a hell hole, maybe it isn't now but in many ways it was after the war, and I'm not talking about the fact that it needed to recover from a lot of damage the war had caused but the continuing damage inflected by the communist government, not to mention the damage done by the communists in Laos and esp. Cambodia. As for the damage of the war itself yes it was extensive but if the Communists didn't want it to happen perhaps they shouldn't have engaged in a war of agression against the South. Tim