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Vietnam Veterans for the Truth March in DC "Live Thread"
CSPAN ^ | 9/12/04 | mylife

Posted on 09/12/2004 10:44:48 AM PDT by mylife

CSPAN will cover the march live at 2:00 EST


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: antikerryrally; goodmendied; kerrylied; napalminthemorning; powerfulstuff; rally; veterans; vietnam; welcomehome; weweresoldiers
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To: Jewels1091

And sell it as an new exercise video:
Kicking it to the Commies.


641 posted on 09/12/2004 12:44:46 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Those that bite the hand that feeds them will lick the boots that kick them)
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Refugees from communist Vietnam also traveled to Washington DC to join VVFT to denounce Kerry.

Kerry's New Vietnam Fix - Refugees of communist takeover won't forget, forgive his past(GOOD ONE)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1214011/posts

"But there's no way Kerry will ever speak to America's 1.2 million Vietnamese-Americans, most of whom live in California. Many of California's Vietnamese-Americans will be in Washington, D.C., today to join with Vietnam Veterans Against Kerry, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and many thousands of other veterans in a nationwide protest.

As a star of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Kerry preached that the Vietnamese communists were not repressive totalitarians like the Soviets or Chinese. The Viet Cong were hippie rice farmers who just wanted to hold hands and sing "Kumbaya." They were the nice communists. America, meanwhile, was an imperialist oppressor.

Millions of boomers bought into this terrible lie.

Kerry lionized Ho Chi Minh, ignored Soviet support of the NVA and accused the U.S. of being "paranoid about the so-called communist monolith." Asked by a questioning senator in 1971 what would be the effects of an immediate U.S. withdrawal from South Vietnam, Kerry responded: "Having done what we have done to that country, we have an obligation to offer sanctuary to the perhaps 2,000, 3,000 people who might face political assassination or something else."

After the U.S. withdrew from Saigon on April 30, 1975, 750,000 Vietnamese were forced into re-education camps. Many did not survive. Some 130,000 took to boats and 1 million more fled overland. Next door, the Khmer Rouge claimed 2 million lives in the Killing Fields. The plight of the boat people was an unspeakable nightmare.

Lac Nguyen, director of the nonprofit Vietnamese Community of Southern California, is typical of many Orange County refugees. He served in the South Vietnamese government and as an officer in the army. After the fall of Saigon, he spent three years in jail and labor camps, as did others in his family. His father and five uncles were all killed by the communists.

"I am one of the boat people," Nguyen says. "We don't feel happy with Mr. John Kerry. The majority of Vietnamese refugees here are survivors of communist oppression. We all have family members who were killed or spent years in prison. If John Kerry comes here, he will see our reaction. And he will see it elsewhere, in New York, Boston, Florida as well."


Dan Tran believes Kerry has underestimated the impact Vietnamese-Americans will have on the election. Half of our nation's 1.2 million Vietnamese-Americans live in California, a state widely considered not to be in play.

"Kerry doesn't believe there are enough in California to sway the vote," says Tran, who thinks differently, especially if Bush gets a boost in California from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. "I think Kerry and his campaign manager have made a very wrong assumption. Kerry went after the Cubans in Miami but he thinks the Vietnamese won't make a difference there. He's wrong. In 2000, only 500 votes made the difference. So the 20,000 Vietnamese-Americans in Florida can make the difference, as well as in other states like Arizona and New Mexico, where it's a very tight race."


642 posted on 09/12/2004 12:44:55 PM PDT by FairOpinion (FIGHT TERRORISM! VOTE BUSH/CHENEY 2004.)
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To: All

What Kerry did to these POW's REALLY makes me mad


643 posted on 09/12/2004 12:45:25 PM PDT by WashStateGirl
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To: Jewels1091
I still don't think jane fonda realized the damaged that she did....

I beg to differ. She married Ted Turner and continued damaging America and even though they divorced, she remained busy destroying future "baby Katherines" by her rabid support for abortion.

644 posted on 09/12/2004 12:45:28 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: Jewels1091

The real shame is that far too many Americans don't either.


645 posted on 09/12/2004 12:45:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)
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To: sweetiepiezer

Probably, with John Kerry.


646 posted on 09/12/2004 12:45:41 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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Ask the people of southeast asia.


My friend samrongs family escaped the Khymer rouge in cambodia, tell them what you think Kerry!


647 posted on 09/12/2004 12:45:44 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: El Gato

Excellent picture! Thanks so much.


648 posted on 09/12/2004 12:46:00 PM PDT by amom (THANK YOU and WELCOME HOME)
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To: Gucho
Jim Warner zeroing in on the Winter Soldier meetings!

Saying they were commies from out of town..

649 posted on 09/12/2004 12:46:33 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: sweetiepiezer
I am wondering if John McCain is watching this?

Me, too.

I sure hope so.

650 posted on 09/12/2004 12:46:57 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Bahbah
We flew the flag yesterday.

Here is the photo that got to me yesterday:


651 posted on 09/12/2004 12:47:19 PM PDT by abner (http://www.swiftvets.com or http://www.wintersoldier.com)
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To: johnb838
Being a hippie was more like joining a club... or a cult... where you had to, what was it "tune in, turn on, and drop out."



It was about always being able to have a place to find some dope and someone to smoke it with. Agreeing politically was the price of being able to get in the circle for a toke (and some snacks and a place to crash and maybe a sex partner, as well). Some people then proceeded to try and get rich selling it and they targeted the 15-yr-olds. The ideology came w/the pot and the pot made everyone receptive to the ideology.

As for peace, well, I think it was a lot more about being lazy and saving their own asses from any pain, but, of course, they all made it out to be on a much higher plane.

I am trying to figure out when it actually died, but I've been out of it for so long, I haven't any real idea. I'd guess sometime in the 90s, though. About the time the Reagan Generation grew up and had their own successful war.
652 posted on 09/12/2004 12:47:25 PM PDT by reformedliberal (W stands for WINNER!)
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To: Dutchgirl

HAHAHHAHA ok I've got that now!!
This Rally is so WONDERFUL, if I were John Kerry, I'd WOuldnt even vote for me HAHAHAHHAHAH


653 posted on 09/12/2004 12:47:43 PM PDT by ShugahPop
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To: Right_in_Virginia

Bringing up Tet in 68 ..


654 posted on 09/12/2004 12:47:51 PM PDT by Mo1 (Why is the MSM calling the Vietnam Vets and POW's a suspected group??)
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To: gopwinsin04

CANNOT BELIEVE THIS....there he was in a POW camp being SHOWN pics of kerry and his band of traitors...did not recognize them...told his captors they were probably COMMUNISTS from OUT OF TOWN (This man is from Detroit where kerry and his band of traitors were testifying)


655 posted on 09/12/2004 12:48:03 PM PDT by Republic (Terri Schiavo,saved by TERRI's LAW after 7 days of starvation, fights ACLU-Felos to keep law intact)
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To: amom

Yep, she's the real deal alright. What a contrast with the two miscreants.


656 posted on 09/12/2004 12:48:20 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)
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To: meyer

"Semper Fi"! back at ya

( Are non-marines like me allowed to use that wonderful phrase?)


657 posted on 09/12/2004 12:48:33 PM PDT by RedMonqey (Keep RIGHT or get LEFT behind!!)
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.


658 posted on 09/12/2004 12:48:37 PM PDT by firewalk
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To: abner

That's beautiful.


659 posted on 09/12/2004 12:49:11 PM PDT by Bahbah
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To: Republic

I had heard this happened but hadnt seen the full account, his captors told him a Naval Officer called for his demotion!


660 posted on 09/12/2004 12:49:38 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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