"John Kerry helped North Vietnam and the Vietcong win their war against America. More than 30 years later, the Vietnamese communists still recognize his contribution to their victory."
Posted on 10/16/2004 12:22:41 AM PDT by PJBlogger
With President Bush and Senator Kerry having concluded their debates and New Yorkers preparing to make up their minds, The New York Sun endorses the president for a second term. But the biggest issue before the voters is the war, in respect of which Mr. Bush is, compared to the man from Massachusetts, the greater leader offering the more inspiring vision. ... this newspaper is with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the veterans of the communist dungeons in North Vietnam who will be appearing in advertisements in the final weeks of this campaign. We, too, find it difficult to forgive Mr. Kerry's testimony before the Senate after his return from Vietnam, It is Mr. Bush who reflects the spirit of those leaders who stood with the fight. His is the leadership that inspires us as we prepare to vote in November.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
One of the few voices of sanity out of that city's media...
Very much a voice of sanity compared to the NYSlimes.
This is a true newspaper, not a tabloid.
I have been reading it daily.
So what is the circulation of this paper anyway?
Will this get any play? After all 16 major papers
have already endorsed Kerry. If this is some minor
rag, it could doo more damage than good. It its a
substantial paper (right in Bill and Hillary's back
yard) it might make a difference.
Brilliant in both content and style. They have the courage to stand by the Swift Boat Vets, and to tell the truth about the respective war and foreign policy records of President Bush and Kerry.
I love the NY Sun.
I think about 100,000, I think.
It's a broadsheet in New York City (where I live), an alternative to the NY Times and to the 2 tabloid format papers. The paper started around 9/11 - taking it's name from the old pro-liberty and abolishionist NY Sun which was famous for the "Yes, Virgina, there is a Santa Clause" editorial.
What a shocker. It will reverberate throughout the country.... the Democrats will squeal about the partisan media to the FEC
One of the larger investors in the paper is Conrad Black, who currently has some legal problems.
One of the few dailies that started out as a website. It was a site where the writers took the NY Times apart everyday and pointed out indivdual bits of errors, lies or just plain awful journalism. Then they got some dough...
Smarter Times, I think.
A picture honoring Jane Fonda, who stands next to Nguyen Thi Dinh, deputy commander of the Viet Cong:
Good paper - I like it but it will not resonate much with the rest of the country. It's not well known and alot of people here in NYC don't read it much except when they hand it out for free in the Subways (which they do quite often).
(Note: My editorial comments are in RED)
"In our opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam (IRAQ), nothing which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America. And to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos (IRAQ) by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom, which those misfits supposedly abuse is to us the height of criminal hypocrisy, and it is that kind of hypocrisy which we feel has torn this country apart."
"We found also that all too often American men were dying in those rice paddies (deserts of IRAQ) for want of support from their allies. We saw first hand how money from American taxes was used for a corrupt dictatorial regime. We saw that many people in this country had a one-sided idea of who was kept free by our flag, as blacks provided the highest percentage of casualties. We saw Vietnam (IRAQ) ravaged equally by American bombs as well as by search and destroy missions, as well as by Vietcong (Al QAEDA) terrorism, and yet we listened while this country tried to blame all of the havoc on the Vietcong (AL QAEDA)."
"Each day to facilitate the process by which the United States washes her hands of Vietnam (IRAQ) someone has to give up his life so that the United States doesn't have to admit something that the entire world already knows, so that we can't say that we have made a mistake. Someone has to die so that President Nixon (BUSH) won't be, and these are his words, "the first President to lose a war."
"We are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam (IRAQ)? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? But we are trying to do that, and we are doing it with thousands of rationalizations, and if you read carefully the President's last speech to the people of this country, you can see that he says, and says clearly:
"But the issue, gentlemen,the issue is communism (TERRORISM), and the question is whether or not we will leave that country to the Communists (TERRORISTS) or whether or not we will try to give it hope to be a free people."
"But the point is they are not a free people now under us. They are not a free people, and we cannot fight communism (TERRORISM) all over the World, and I think we should have learned that lesson by now."
Here's another snippet from his 1971 testimony before Congress, where he believes the word of our ENEMY at the risk and peril of our own troops and prisoners of war:
"I have been to Paris. I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government [North Vietnam].... it has been stated time and time again.... if the United States were to set a date for withdrawal, the prisoners of war would be returned."
"I think this negates very clearly the argument of the President that we have to maintain a presence in Vietnam (IRAQ), to use as a negotiating block for the return of those prisoners. The setting of a date will accomplish that.
"As to the argument concerning the danger to our troops were we to withdraw or state that we would, they [the North Vietnamese] have also said many times in conjunction with that statement that all of our troops, the moment we set a date, will be given safe conduct out of Vietnam (IRAQ)."
It sure as heck is now on my must read list!
Nice!
BTTT for more exposure to this post. If I do say so myself.
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