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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (65129)	8/8/2005 5:41:01 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Yes, Kerry was absolutely right. The returning vets told those painful awful tales and they were true. Bob Kerrey finally admitted it too. The smearvet types refuse to admit it though, out of shame I suppose. But it's sad and wrong when they attack the truth-tellers who helped bring that awful war to an end. This testimony was very painful but it was important for Americans to know the truth, that by 1971 the Vietnam War had gone totally insane a la APOCALYPSE NOW. Every smearvet who denied atrocities is a bald-faced liar. They know, they took part, they just want to cover up. The CIA's Phoenix Program (using SWiftboats as taxis often) specialized in terrorizing suspect villages by sending in SEALS and others to quietly murder certain local VIP's, often beheading them because Buddhists believe they can't get to nirvana without their heads. Same logic used at Abu Graiab as Muslims are horrified by nakedness. Torture was also routine, especially as carried out by the South Vietnamese with our approval. Free fire zones like Kerry operated in meant you could shoot anything that moved, including razing villages suspected of maybe helping the enemy. There was a scene like that in PLATOON. Absolutely true and it happened many times. In fact it happened on Kerry's boat despite his attempt to stop it. Agent Orange and Napalm were atrocities in themselves. And we dropped more ordnance on that little country than in the entire WWII. The whole war was a big atrocity after 1968. Kerry had it right "who can ask anyone to be the last die die for a mistake". Not only a mistake but a lie. That war was escalated on a total lie as the Pentagon papers proved.