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Who's to blame for nation's Vietnam wounds? Kerry
Chicago Sun Times ^
| 8/29/04
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 08/28/2004 5:02:31 PM PDT by mylife
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:02:31 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: Pokey78; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
I didnt see this one posted yet
So PING
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:03:55 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: mylife
To: mylife
An entire World religion has declared war on us and is dedicated to killing us.
the National Democratic party has ignored that.
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:09:39 PM PDT
by
jolie560
(hE)
Every war has pacifists and conscientious objectors and even disenchanted veterans, but there's simply no precedent for what John Kerry did: a man who put his combat credentials to the service of smearing his country's entire armed forces as rapists, decapitators and baby killers. That's the ''wound,'' Sen. McCain. That's why a crummy little war on the other side of the world still festers. That's why the band didn't play ''Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be'' and move on to the next item of business. Because Kerry didn't just call for U.S. withdrawal, he impugned the honor of every man he served with.
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:10:08 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:12:13 PM PDT
by
Lyford
To: mylife
Mark Steyn is always good. This column is one of his best, right through the great last sentence.
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:12:30 PM PDT
by
68skylark
To: mylife
Steyn ping - the man is amazing and I am truly jealous of his writing ability!
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Remember that formulation a lot of Democrats were using last year? They oppose the war but ''of course'' they support our troops. Kerry's campaign is a walking illustration of the deficiencies of that straddle: When you divorce the heroism of soldiering from the justice of the cause, what's left but a hollow braggart?Brilliant
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:14:25 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: mylife; Dawn_USAF; CheneyChick; ODC-GIRL; The Sailor; kjfine; Old Sarge; USAF_TSgt; darkwing104; ...
Kerry's legacy : BIG march in NYC Sunday AGAINST THE WAR!
Kerry's "peace" lovers to spit on US Troops again!
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:14:29 PM PDT
by
68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
(Hippie Dippie Hanoi Kerry and Hippie Dippie Hanoi Jane sitting in a tree! F-R-E-N-C-H-I-N-G)
To: mylife
Why is Vietnam a ''wound'' and why won't it heal?... And whose fault is that?Start with Lyndon Johnson's need to win a second term. If Vietnam fell to the communists before the 1968 election, LBJ knew he would loose.
Gerald Ford was more a victim of the TV coverage of Saigon falling to the North Vietnamese communist, in 1975, then he was a victim of his Nixon pardon and the intellect (?) of Jimmy Carter. A president who is in office when a war is lost, will not be reelected. Johnson knew that in his bones.
The healing will start when the Democrats own up to their complicity in escalating Vietnam for domestic political reasons and not for national security
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:20:49 PM PDT
by
elbucko
(A Feral Republican)
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Kerry's legacy : BIG march in NYC Sunday AGAINST THE WAR! Bring it on poshboy
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:26:21 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: elbucko
The healing will start when the Democrats own up to their complicity in escalating Vietnam for domestic political reasons and not for national security. Some things never change. Seems everything they do is for domestic political POWER and NOT for national security.
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:31:49 PM PDT
by
tsmith130
(Making one's enemies suffer is currently an under-valued activity.)
To: mylife
So Kerry is now the first self-confessed war criminal in the history of the Republic to be nominated for president. Normally this would be considered an electoral plus only in the more cynical banana republics. But the Democrats seemed to think they could run an anti-war anti-hero as a war hero and nobody would mind.Why not? The Democrats ran an anti-war candidate in 1964, LBJ. All the time Johnson was telling voters on the stump the he "Won't send our boys to South East Asia", he was planning the escalation to begin just after his inauguration in '65.
Vietnam all started with liars and lies of the Democrats. Why should the Dems be any different now.
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:32:43 PM PDT
by
elbucko
(A Feral Republican)
To: elbucko
The Democrats ran an anti-war candidate in 1964, LBJ. All the time Johnson was telling voters on the stump the he "Won't send our boys to South East Asia", he was planning the escalation to begin just after his inauguration in '65. Vietnam all started with liars and lies of the Democrats. Why should the Dems be any different now.
The part that amazes me, is that we allow the dems to continually lay the vietnam war at nixons feet.
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:35:26 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: tsmith130
Seems everything they do is for domestic political POWER and NOT for national security.You got it!
It's not America first with them, it's Democrats first.
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:35:32 PM PDT
by
elbucko
(A Feral Republican)
To: mylife
Hardcore. Ok, so maybe I can see a little Coulter in this excellent one from Steyn. This perfectly captures the truth about Vietnam. I really wish more people would talk about this.
To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Well this time I'm not in uniform so when I see one do it to someone in uniform I can do what I couldn't 30 years ago; and all my brother vets know exactly what I mean.
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:52:24 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: mylife
Kerry is now the first self-confessed war criminal in the history of the Republic to be nominated for president. 'Nuff said.
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:53:37 PM PDT
by
Use It Or Lose It
(LET THE SWIFTEES SPEAK! STOP THE CENSORSHIP, JOHN KERRY! www.swiftvets.com)
To: mylife; Pokey78; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; shaggy eel; Byron_the_Aussie
<< " .... the [once-great, former] British empire [Is] ... remembered for only two things: "the popularization of .... [soccer] and the term 'f-- off.'" >>
Except in the Good bits where we play Real Football -- and Rugby!
BUMPping
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posted on
08/28/2004 5:53:50 PM PDT
by
Brian Allen
(President George W Bush by 10 percentage points and 44 EC States -- the other bozo 6 States and DC)
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