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To: Star Traveler

I kept putting this in and they keep taking it out.

From the Harvard Crimson;

John Kerry: A Navy Dove Runs for Congress
By Samuel Z. Goldhaber,
Published: Wednesday, February 18, 1970

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Pulling Out

Immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, Kerry said, would take about seven months due to complex logistics problems. During that interval he would allow only “self-defense return of fire.” “Logistic suport is now what Nixon is talking about leaving there and I don’t want to see that. I don’t think we should leave support troops there and I don’t think we should give Vietnam any more than the foreign aid given any other one country.” He does not feel there would be a massive slaughter of American, sympathizers once the United States pulled out.

In America, “everybody who’s against the war is suddenly considered anti-American,” Kerry said. “But I don’t think they can turn to me and say I don’t know what’s going on or I’m a draft dodger.” Referring to the House Armed Services Committee, chaired by L. Mendel Rivers (D-S.C.), Kerry said, “I want to go down to Washington and confront Medel Rivers, who never fought in a war.

“I as effectively as anyone else in the country, can address myself to the issue of Vietnam,” Kerry said. “I’m very realistic, though. I’m just going to be one man adding to the work of men like Lowenstein.”

Kerry is a pilot, and on October 14 and 15 he flew Ted Kennedy’s advisor Adam Walinsky by private plane throughout the State of New York so that Walinsky could give speeches against the Vietnam War. But Kerry was smart enough not to put down “Moratorium” on the Navy signout sheet for that Tuesday and Wednesday. The following month, Kerry was sick and did not engage in the November moratorium activities.

He supports a volunteer Army, “if and only if we can create the controls for it. You’re going to have to prepare for the possibility of a national emergency, however.” Kerry said that the United Nations should have control over most of our foreign military operations. “I’m an internationalist. I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.”

On other issues, Kerry wants “to almost eliminate CIA activity. The CIA is fighting its own war in Laos and nobody seems to care.” He also favors a negative income tax and keeping unemployment at a very low level, “even if it means selective economic controls.”

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1970/2/18/john-kerry-a-navy-dove-runs/


3 posted on 02/15/2010 3:56:55 PM PST by jessduntno (If Bawney Fwank talks in his sleep, is it considered wetting the bed?)
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To: jessduntno

What’s the discussion on the topic say about the removal of the material. Usually you can find something in there that is a “rationale” and then from that rationale, you can find a way to include material that you want in there...

Also, if you go to a series of mainline publicized original sources (and they can be published books by recognized authors, too)..., you can sometimes assemble a group of facts that can do the same thing that you’re trying to insert by just one article. Go back and use the source material that the author of that article used and then quote that source material, instead of the article you did quote.

These are just suggestions for a work-around and something that may work.


7 posted on 02/15/2010 4:02:16 PM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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