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To: goldworldnet who wrote (1621)	4/5/2006 1:38:16 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Did you listen to it? I don't think you'd have a "grudge" if you did.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (1621)	4/5/2006 1:40:56 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Many young folks in 1971 said things they now regret. Many folks who went to vietnam felt used by their govt and they werent entirely incorrect. Others keep calling it a defeat snatched from the jaws of impending victory by MSM and the libs. This will be the mantra if we lose in iraq as well. Who lost china? Who lost vietnam? Who lost iraq? It becomes an obcession. mike

To: goldworldnet who wrote (1621)	4/5/2006 3:53:05 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14758

>>>I have a grudge against Kerry for his 1971 congressional testimony.<<< It was a great presentation and it reached far and wide into Middle America. You really should view the whole of what Kerry said back then.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (1621)	4/5/2006 4:59:01 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Kerry told the truth in 1971. Without truth, our nation is weak. When we go to war based on lies and self-defeating policies we always lose. Any army does. You cannot separate Kerry's very real combat heroism and the heated divide in the country in 1971 from that event. In those days you were either pro or con the war. And being against the war turned out to be the right place to be. Very much so. What Kerry did was very courageous. His testimony shook the world and put him right in the cross-hairs of the most powerful man in the world, Richard Nixon, who had been lying about the war. Nixon ordered Kerry "destroyed" on the Watergate tapes, and put his dirty trickster Charles Colson (soon to be imprisoned) and his assistant John O'Neill (35 years later to be the lying SOB frontman of the Bushie smearvets) in charge, and they tried to find any dirt they could on Kerry, but found nothing but courage, honor and lawful decency. Remember too, Kerry was the spokesman for the troops against the war, thousands of them, including the ex Green Berets and SEALS who carried out many of the grisley duties of the Phoenix Program (including beheadings, torture, etc.). As Kerry told me personally when I asked him what it was like, he said "just like APOCALYPSE NOW without the surfboards", but they did waterski, he said. They also had to take part in missions of an atrocious nature. And my Lai was no isolated event.