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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (77790)	10/15/2004 12:18:37 PM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

Polls Show Worsening of U.S. Reputation >>> Of course they dont like us, we make many of those countries look like incompetant cowards. Everybody hates big business, even some people who work for the company, and we have a lot of those. Our unemployment rate of 5.4 % is half their average, we have solid retirement programs and a high average income. We are not going to respect international boundaries when it comes to fighting terrorists and they hate the implied arrogance. They would much rather hear about America failing than winning. And Kerry is one of the best to point out our past failures and also to make sure we have more of them by changing the system that led to the present properity and safety of common US citizens. Sig news.yahoo.com

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (77790)	10/15/2004 8:52:56 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

"Um, the Nightline producers didn't, by any vague chance, have a government minder with them when they went galavanting around Vietnam" O'Neil said he could see the gov't minders in the background on the tape Kopple showed. And oh BTW, they are the same commies who happen to have praised Kerry for helping them win the Vietnam war, don't you know. If you think about it, what are the odds that they would find so many dirt poor peasants who had photographic memories of one specific incident 35 years ago in a country that was at war for decades? Oh ya, & they all still live right in the same tiny village where this infamous battle was fought for 5 minutes or so. BTW, these same witnesses said that a good portion of this tiny village was burned to the ground (by the South Vietnamese under orders of the US Gov't - how they knew that is amazing in itself). Was it the only battle fought anywhere near them while war raged all around for year & years? According to these peasants, this was an enemy supply area with troops present. Swift Boats patrolled this area constantly & we are to believe that was the only notable battle that was ever fought there? By all accounts, there were only a scant few minutes of actual shooting. Isn't it amazing that in the heat of the battle, so many folks were in position to become eyewitnesses some 35 years later? And why would the enemy choose to ambush Swift boats directly in front of a secret supply area?