Kerry's Legacy: No One Who Has Aided the Enemy Deserves to Become President

The Richmond [VA] Times-Dispatch ^ | October 31, 2004 | Paul Galanti

[quidnunc]

Being a prisoner of war in Vietnam had some high points but many more low ones. The worst days physically were behind us in 1970, 1971, and 1972. After Ho Chi Minh died in 1969, the routine torturing of POWs for propaganda purposes pretty much stopped. Our captors panicked in November, 1970, following the daring raid on a closed POW camp at Son Tai 20 miles west of Hanoi — and moved all of us into the huge Hoa Lo prison in central Hanoi. We finally were permitted a semblance of societal life after years in solitary and/or stuffed into tiny windowless cells with two or three other POWs.

Our morale — at least in the cells in which I lived during this time — while not so idyllic as those portrayed in the farcical "Hogan's Heroes," was tolerable compared with the dark ages of 1965-1969.

The peace talks in Paris had been plodding along since March, 1968, following the Communists' total drubbing in the 1968 Tet Offensive. Most of us expected a break in the talks after the election of Richard Nixon; it appeared there might be movement.

The Gulf of Tonkin incident, the springboard for President Johnson's launching of attacks against Communist North Vietnam, lay four years in the past. The Communists, however, were buying time. They were helped by a misinformed public in the U.S. — pressured on one side by a war that had dragged on seemingly forever and on the other by Americans whose primary interest was not the success of their government.

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[carl in alaska]

Further information on this subject: Kerry Betrayed the U.S. by Supporting the Enemy During the Vietnam War. His wretched history of betrayal did not end there. With his usual complete lack of concern for America's serivcemen, Kerry Betrayed American POWs With Lies About the Vietnam War.

[conservative blonde]

"No weapon formed against him shall prosper."

[AmericanChef]

I don't think any soldier with a less-than-honorable - regardless of any pardons - should be eligible, either. We need to update those presidential requirements. Who would've thought a traitor could run for president?

[ATCNavyRetiree]

tazannie.......I finally got ahold of myself.....Thursday night, I had a mini panic attack. But then, I told myself that we have done all we can. We have worked hard and prayed a lot and are still praying.

I am at peace that we have done all we can...Lord knows how many e-mails I have sent out to be passed along in the past 6 months. I feel that God will protect us, maybe in mysterious ways...IF Kerry is elected, perhaps that is the only way that the American people will finally WAKE UP and realize how far LEFT the Democratic party has gone. His presidency would be a TOTAL DISASTER...MUCH worse than Carter...then who would be the Republican in 2008 who would ride in on a white horse to rescue the country as in 1980? MICHAEL Reagan? JEB Bush...after the American people realize they made a HUGE mistake turning out GW? Or would GW be able to resue us? Could he run again?

Just some thoughts...I feel strongly that GW is gonna win tomorrow...God will continue to bless this great nation!

[cubreporter]

Kerry's Legacy: No One Who Has Aided the Enemy Deserves to Become President


and THAT my friends is what EVERY SINGLE TRUE AMERICAN should remember.

[SheLion]

There are so many obvious cases of grotesque media bias, but the continual refusal to examine Kerry's past and the constant slanting of stories pro-Kerry and anti-Bush will go down as some of the worst in our history. Can't believe this election is even close - Bush should be winning with all but the hard-core 30% left-liberals who would never vote for a Republican. We should be seeing a huge landslide for Bush on Tuesday, but given our MSM I'll be happy with a solid, thumping 300+ electoral votes and 53-46 popular vote (with 1% leftover for loony Nader).

If I have learned anything, it is to not trust the spin and lies put out there by the media. Even Fox News is guilty of this.

We will just have to wait until the last vote is counted. I don't trust the media and I SURE don't trust any poll! Polls can be tweaked to reflect the desire of the polster.

[SheLion]

"No weapon formed against him shall prosper."

Amen!

[SheLion]

I am at peace that we have done all we can...Lord knows how many e-mails I have sent out to be passed along in the past 6 months. I feel that God will protect us, maybe in mysterious ways...IF Kerry is elected, perhaps that is the only way that the American people will finally WAKE UP and realize how far LEFT the Democratic party has gone. His presidency would be a TOTAL DISASTER...MUCH worse than Carter...then who would be the Republican in 2008 who would ride in on a white horse to rescue the country as in 1980? MICHAEL Reagan? JEB Bush...after the American people realize they made a HUGE mistake turning out GW? Or would GW be able to resue us? Could he run again?

I am too, actually.  At peace now.  And you are right.  We have done all we can.  It's in the Hands of the Lord now.

But if FnKerry is elected, America as we have known it, will be finished.  As far left as the DemocRATS have become, that is where our Country will go.  It might be too late come 2008.  But, who can say.  I just speculate.

Just some thoughts...I feel strongly that GW is gonna win tomorrow...God will continue to bless this great nation!

Well, if our President loses this election, I just feel that God thinks that President Bush is too good a person for what is going to happen.  And the Lord does not want GW to be blamed for what could happen.