Posted on 08/27/2004 8:40:38 AM PDT by stockpirate
Bump for reference
I have sent some of the information to several media sources, to no avail.
As long as the Swift Boat issue is raging there is not time for this. And I believe that Kerry wants to debate Vietnam until election day, but not this issue.
BTW, if you haven't seen it, Kerry also spoke at a VVAW event in April 1972:
So when did John Kerry leave the VVAW, anyway?
Emergency March for Peace Ad, New York Times, page E5, April 16, 1972
In Protest at U of I (from AP), Edwardsville Intelligencer (Edwardsville, Illinois), April 22, 1972
Also: in 1979 Kerry and former VVAW member Robert Muller (see New Soldier, pdf file pp. 38-42) also cofounded a group called Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), which he still belongs to as a lifetime member:
VVA Restricted Political Activities
John Kerry was a co-founder of VVA in 1979 and he is a life member of VVA.
Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW)
VVAW still exists today. The VVAW of the 1990s is quite different from the VVAW of the 1960s, but still maintains an active presence as a veterans' peace organization. As the number of American soldiers in Vietnam decreased in the early 1970s, membership in the VVAW (along with antiwar activism in general) waned. In the mid-1970s the shrinking VVAW was riven by a struggle between radical and liberal members. After a contested election in 1978 and a lawsuit between feuding parties, the energies of both sides were diminished. The liberal wing won the right to use the VVAW name, and the much smaller radical Marxist wing was granted the appellation VVAW-AI (Anti-Imperialist). Both groups were quickly overshadowed by the newer Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) founded in 1978 by Robert Muller, which is currently the largest Vietnam veterans organization. Since the late 1980s, VVA has itself split into two organizations--the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation was started by Muller when he departed Vietnam Veterans of America.
Kerry sounds like a AQ in training. Especially the decapitations - he'd be a natrual.
How's Ann's pied eye doing?
:-) She was attacked viciously by a cell from Al Pieda in the eye.
How's Ann's pied eye doing?
:-) She was attacked viciously by a cell from Al Pieda in the eye.
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