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To: JBTFD who wrote (18305)	10/2/2004 5:04:06 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I won't disagree with you that Kerry lied under oath before Congress. That alone is proof he is unfit to be President. I took issue with the fact that his lies were so egregious that they actually gave aid & comfort to the enemy. Kerry's participation in the VVAW & his blatantly false testimony made the war so unpopular that the North Vitenamese knew all they needed to do was hang on & we would eventually pull out. Kerry's false testimony also caused POW's to be abused. Many POW's stated their jailers used Kerry's teisimony & claimed it proved they were war criminals. To me John Kerry was himself a war criminal for those actions.

To: JBTFD who wrote (18305)	10/2/2004 5:07:42 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

.....Let's put things in perspective. Some three million men served in Vietnam. Since the logistics tail of U.S. forces is fairly large, only about 25 percent, or 750,000, served in combat units. If we add up all of the atrocities, both proven and alleged, and multiply them by two as a hedge against under-reporting, the percentage of American combat soldiers who might have committed atrocities is still less than 1 percent of the total. I doubt that many armies in history could match that record...... dev.siliconinvestor.com

To: JBTFD who wrote (18305)	10/2/2004 5:26:49 PM
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John Kerry, scam artist........ powerlineblog The uses of periodical literature Reader Tim Mattson writes: Read the [October] Atlantic Monthly article by James Fallows on Iraq and Bin Laden, "Bush's Lost Year." [Only the opening of the article is included on the Atlantic's site.] Kerry's positions on these subjects were almost directly lifted from the Atlantic, especially his line quoting Powell and his criticism of Tora Bora. Any American who reads the Atlantic could have given Kerry's [positions in the debate]. This demonstrates two things about Kerry. First, he lacks any personal vision for American foreign policy. He simply took the latest issue of the Atlantic and adopted it as his own foreign policy. Second, it demonstrates that Kerry has missed so many Senate Intelligence Committee meetings that he is getting all his foreign policy information from a source available to the public at large. One would hope for more from a presidential candidate. Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong has posted excerpts of the Fallows article in "James Fallows: The lost year." Professor Peter Schramm of No Left Turns has also directed us to the excellent column on the debate by Joseph Knippenberg: "Kerry needed a debate home run, but only got a single." Posted by The Big T powerlineblog.com