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[He Rides A White Horse]

How can you impugn, how can you even suggest, that anyone like Kerry or any of these veterans were not patriotic?" she complained to CNN. "He was a hero there."

You were a hero also Jane. To the NVA.

[McGavin999]

I love having Hanoi Jane appearing to defend the "honor" of Kerry. This is bringing back all kinds of memories this country would be better off forgetting, but since they insist, they'd better be ready for the backlash.

[harpo11]

If you want to know more about Hanoi Jane's traitorous activities and how our POW's were treated by the Viet Cong, I'd suggest reading this griping powerful book.

[JamesA]

VIETNAM VETS ARE NOT FONDA JANE

[rogue yam]

Hanoi Jane said it. I believe it. That settles it.

NOT!!!

LOL! The more she talks, the more it hurts Lurch. As for worrying about whether we are piling on too soon, I say kick him now and then kick him some more later. As long as the 'Rats are talking down W's service we've got to respond in kind. And, so far, Lurch's "heroism" is his only campaign issue. If, in the fall, he is talking about something else then fine. We'll beat him on that. But everytime he talks about the war we should, as the commie lovers used to say, bring the war back home!

[philetus]

In his career in the House and Senate, Kerry was on the POW/MIA Committee. The last obstacle to normalizing relations with Hanoi was this unresolved issue and nobody pushed harder to bury it than he. In fact, when this was accomplished, C. Stewart Forbes, Chief Executive Officer of Colliers International (Kerry's cousin), was awarded a contract worth billions designating Colliers International as the exclusive real estate agent representing Vietnam. In the Senate debate itself, Kerry, rather than embarass Vietnam by demanding the truth, launched a highly publicized diversionary investigation of the POW/MIA families and activists, who were demanding an honest accounting. Kerry labeled them "professional malcontents, conspiracy mongers, con artists, and dime-store Rambos" who were only involved in the POW/MIA issue for money. Pictured right, Sen. John Kerry in Hanoi seated under a bust of Communist Vietnam's deceased leader, Ho Chi Minh.

[philetus]

This has nothing to do with Fonda. I just felt like posting them. "We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S.Constitution and Laws, to take necessary actions, (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998

"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002

"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime. He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ..." Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan.23,2003

[philetus]

I think there was more to it than Jane lets on.


................ Some 150 sweat-soaked members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War ended their three-day trek at Valley Forge, Pa., on Sept. 7, 1970. Huddled around a flatbed truck, they listened to remarks by Jane Fonda and a reading from Donald Sutherland.

Between the main acts came a floppy-haired former Navy lieutenant who had won a fistful of medals on the bloody canals of the Mekong Delta. Tall and self-assured, 27-year-old Yale graduate John Kerry read from a rumpled sheaf of papers in the ringing voice that had commanded men on gunships.

Condemning the tactics and morality of the war, Kerry was "brilliant," Fonda says today.

[claudiustg]

It's so disappointing. She seems to have learned little all these many years.

[Saundra Duffy]

I was talking to a guy today about this. He said people don't care about it. He claims Kerry will be the next president of the U.S. He says President Bush has blown it with the American people and he repeated all the same ol' crap the democraps spout. It's hopeless to argue with him so I just let it go. But it made me start thinking about how the American people crapped all over Bob Dole and Bush senior. I don't trust the electorate. GWB is a hero to me and I'll work my tail off for him but we may be disappointed in the end. I hope not.