[SJackson]

It appears Candidate Kerry is going to refight, and lose, that war, having no ideas how to fight the one we're currently engaged in.

[Spruce]

Hippy pinko commie fag. He's toast.

[JennysCool]

Hold on here! John Kerry was in Vietnam? Who knew?

[Jeff Chandler]

Stuck in the sixties.

[SJackson]

Article reposted here if you want to repost your comments.

I made a mess of the formating the first time, thinking of what Kerry would do to the country I guess.

[TigersEye]

John Kerry has a mission:

John Kerry’s Treaty - Outsourcing sovereignty (to the UN)

On Wednesday, Sen. Kerry voted by proxy (since he can't take time off from running for president to do his day job in person) for a resolution of ratification that would make the U.S. a party to the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar brought the treaty to a unanimous favorable vote and promises to try to get the Senate to act on it "as soon as possible."

That is precisely what Sen. Lugar is trying to do. He has: prevented critics from testifying before his own committee; kept other committees from being briefed on the treaty; and is seeking to get it to the Senate floor before effective opposition can be organized and expressed.

U.S. adherence to this treaty would entail history's biggest and most unwarranted voluntary transfer of wealth and surrender of sovereignty.

These include the power to: regulate seven-tenths of the world's surface area, levy international taxes, impose production quotas (for deep-sea mining, oil production, etc.), govern ocean research and exploration, and create a multinational court to render and enforce its judgments.

The treaty effectively prohibits two functions vital to American security: collecting intelligence in, and submerged transit of, territorial waters.

[Shermy]

Too many allies were corrupt.

So? Kerry likes corrupt allies. His foreign policy is essentially based upon appeasing them.

[abner]

This is too much!

[Free ThinkerNY]

I'd compare FrankenKerry to a snake, but I don't want to insult snakes.

[brityank]

At times it seemed that we were the only ones who really understood that the faults in Vietnam were those of the war, not the warriors.

Lying sack of <bleep> -- read his 'testimony at Winter Soldier.

[Shermy]

And there was the anger I felt toward body-counting, face-saving leaders sitting safely in Washington sending to the killing fields troops who were often poor, black or brown.

Recycling the Vietnam race myth for the elite liberal ignorati.

[exit82]

Why couldn't he look at the telegram? Because he didn't get one. Who got a telegram on a ship? And since he wasn't the man's family, why would he get a telegram?

Washington in flames? You mean like in 1814? Gimme a break!

Kerry thinks he is at the center of history. That events revolve around him. That he is the only participant that matters.

Kerry doesn't write with a pen.

He writes with a shovel.

[okie01]

O.K. I've been patronized.

What's his next trick?

[Balata]

My BS Meter is going off! What a crock.

[68skylark]

Why don't they just publish Kerry's writing in the original French, rather than making us read this awkward translation?

[pittsburgh gop guy]

John Kerry served in Vietnam???? REALLY????? I did not know that, he really should talk about that experience some time.

[jigsaw]

Does anyone else sense this is high school level writing?

[commish]

He's an old hippie and he don't know what to do. Should he hold on to the past or grab on to the new.

[Rocky]

Now that I see things from Kerry's perspective, I realize what a hero he really is. He is a man of conviction. Someone you can really trust.

LOL. I see from this thread that Freepers are already finding all sorts of holes in his fabrication. After watching Algore get caught in lies over and over again, you would think this guy would be smarter than that. But then, he's a Democrat.

[jwalsh07]

Kerry is stuck in a warped time warp. We have men and women fighting terrorist scum all over the planet and all he can think of is John Kerry in 1969.

I suppose thats a good thing for our side but it is damn sad.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Ah hah!

Found it at last.

In his words, "Then, on the afternoon of Feb. 26, when we had left Midway Island, the reality of Vietnam hit me right between the eyes....

Soon after, off Vietnam.... (So the GRIDLEY hadn't even gotten to 'Nam at the end of February!)....

After a few months of search and rescue work in the Gulf of Tonkin ... We docked early the next morning - June 6, 1968 (in Long Beach, CA).

So, the ENTIRE TIME his first tour in Vietnam was AT MOST 90 days: March, April, May of '67. Then, after 90 days of air-conditioned comfort off the coast, they left Tonkin (at the end of May) and had already returned to California by the first week in June.