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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RMF who wrote (3712)	7/25/2006 9:50:48 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 224690

Kerri met with the enemy, betraying his country(and earning a dishonaorable discharge) I'll take anyone over a traitor. Just think of the damage a traitor would do to this country as Pres.

To: RMF who wrote (3712)	7/25/2006 11:15:24 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224690

Kerry has always been 110% supportive of our troops, and his fellow troops in Nam especially. You are wrong by 180 degrees mischaracterizing what Kerry testified about in 1971. Kerry was a rtuth-telling hero, courageous not only in battle but in taking on the most powerful man in the world, Richard Nixon, who was prolongiong that war needlessly and getting thousands of extra people killed, while the entire war went insane. clewarly, by 1971 Vietnam was a lunatic asylum. Kerry was only reporting what his fellow vets told him to report. Kerry was asked by congress to represent the VVAW and relay the stories his fellow combat vets (including some very hairy stories) had asked him to tell the nation. He was simply the relayer of bad tidings from the insane hellhole that Vietnam had become by then. His comments and his intent were clearly to end the war, stop the troops' suffering, stop the killing of troops, the taking of POW's, the holding of POW's and the outrageous nature that the war had taken on, including gross atrocities by our side against the Vietnamese (see My Lai massacre). He did that and that was all good. There will always be some far rightwing vets who wanted that war to keep going forever. Or who lie and deny the atrocities. There may be some who now enjoy the hellhole which is Iraq. Some who enjoyed Abu Graiab torture. Those are the smearvet types. Some smearvets also got paid off to lie. But the overwhelming majority of Americans wanted Vietnam to end in 1971 and Kerry was helpful in that process by telling the hard truth, from the troops mouths to our ears. And of courwse every claim those smearvets made was 100% false. Kerry was a great hero and deserves out utmost respect.