Posted on 08/31/2004 11:37:18 AM PDT by 68skylark
VIET CONG FOR KERRY !
...and, knowing the NYT, Greg's nickname is "Fudge"!
Must be part of the new 527: "Viet Cong Veterans for Kerry"
This AP story has to be a 'plant'. You can't get the MSM interested in cross-checking the simplest facts of Kerry's service in Vietnam, yet they'll send their Saigon bureau chief on a boatride up some godforsaken river in the Delta.
If they have to go 10,000 miles to find a story to buttress Kerry's accounting of events, you know he's in real big trouble.
There's a Vietnamese phrase for this insane story: "Beau coup, number, 10 dinky-dow"...me thinks the story author ate a bit too much Vietnamese nook maum!
And another thing pisses me off about this. Notice how the author says that once we pulled out, Vietnam has been a place of peace and growth? It's a horrible communist tyranny, fer cryin' out loud. Millions died from the rise of communism in this part of the world! It wasn't just sweetness and light one those evil Americans pulled out.
This whole article is pro-communist propaganda. No wonder the writer supports Kerry.
This article is unreal.
NY Slimes goes to their communist heros to get the real story.
Gotta be the Onion.
"The 50-foot Swift boats were easy targets as they plowed through the waterways of the Mekong Delta in packs of three or four, making big waves and thunderous noise when approaching. Former Viet Cong soldier Duong Hoang Sinh remembers them well... "
So what - did Kerry's group run across the VC version of F Troop ?
Nobody and nothing hit ?
I've come back to this article three times and still can't believe this made it to print. Exactly what is the dem party paying for souls these days.
You can shove this story up the RATS bung hol channel.
Viet Cong Vietnamese: "Kerry Deserves A Medal"
Vietnamese-Americans: "Kerry Is A 'Phan Boi' (Traitor)"
Well, well. More proof that you can count on Kerry shills to enlist the testimony of the VC and NVA in his political campaign.
But my wife, who grew up not 50 feet from the Mekong (and was later arrested in Ca Mau for trying to escape the commies as a "boat person") remembers things a little differently. So do her friends and family.
Yes, the Navy was fierce aginst the Viet Cong, and that's precisely what the South Vietnamese wanted. But American personnel weren't feared by the locals for the most part, either then or now. My wife recalls being led home at the hand of a kindly Navy guy when she was lost as a toddler (they docked boats near her house). Her entire family remains grateful to this day for America's help in their struggle against the communists (even though they remain saddened and profoundly affected by the ultimate loss).
I'm happy this NYT reporter was able to find a few VC to interview. In my wife's old neighborhood, they are reviled and despised to this very moment. But they do still have the guns. One pays them deference, they have the power.
And Mr. Sinh and Mr. Hung are both egregious liars: while they might indeed have received their VC service medals, the 200,000 ARVN who died in Vietnam did not. Hanoi has not and will not disburse one penny to maintain the thousands of overgrown and undocumented ARVN burial grounds all over the South.
Bingo!
There has been economic growth recently, primarily due to a grudging introduction of capitalism. Vietnam now has the worst of all economic worlds: Communist totalitarianism and industrial sweatshops.
My daughter visited Vietnam recently. South Vietnam is a beautiful place and is developing a tourist industry. Most of the visitors are German. At the time she was there, the government was busy cracking down on rebellious villages, something not seen on the local news in Vietnam or the U.S.
Next thing you know, these guys will be standing next to the Kerry Krew!
Not much, they come cheap.
So this old VC saw Kerry in action, personally? Amazing.
Last week the AP was saying that the other Swifties on the other boats couldn't know what was going on, because they were not on Kerry's very boat. Now it's good enough to have been in the jungle when unknown Swift boats came in range.
It's just the sleazy and transparent duplicity of a disgusting Vietcong traitor.
He claims "anyone" including Kerry deserves a medal. But if he said that about the 200,000 ARVN soldiers killed in Vietnam, Hanoi would take away his pension and his box full of shiny communist medals.
Even today, the South is much more prosperous and capitalistic then the North.
The question we should ask is why does the NY Times and the press HATE America and what we did in Viet Nam? Why the liberal love Communism more than Freedom? And Why they never talk about LBJ and who he escalated and lied about the war?
Hey Sinh ...my little commie yellow brother....we slogged the same ground....
Sorry I me and my bros...missed you 35 yrs ago....
You likie missah Kerrry so muchie...you keep him....ok? no charge....
Don't bring him back.....if nothing else he will make some salt water croc velly happy...
He would also make a nice volunteer for the farm....you guys made out of Dong Tam
imo
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