And I suppose no one ever saw these little boats, especially those who are vietnamese themselves....
Posted on 05/18/2008 8:05:11 AM PDT by moneyrunner
This needs to be widely distributed.
I can't post the video clip so you will have to go the the link.
It's a clip of John McCain appearing on Des Moines' WHO radio last July, when on-air talent Jan Mickelson played him Tom Harkin's comments from earlier that month, recorded on the floor of the Senate:
And if we leave, there will be a bloodbath in Vietnam. All of the people who supported us will be slaughtered in the streets. Well, it didn't happen.
And I suppose no one ever saw these little boats, especially those who are vietnamese themselves....
Only DNA testing will prove otherwise.
Why not test Dick Durham as well, they might have been triplets?
This type of thinking is exactly the line that is given by Ron Paul. Both are a disgrace.
The family of an American-born Vietnamese friend of mine would beg to differ with Harkin.
“Nothing bad happened after we left Vietnam”.
Except for the slaughter of over 40,000 South Vietnamese when Saigon was conquered by the North Vietnamese and renamed Ho Chi Minh City, otherwise known as the Fall of Saigon
http://www.afa.org/magazine/april2000/0400saigon.asp
I have met and spoken with some people who survived “re-education”. Harkin is a putz. A clueless putz.
Oops. I was trying to post a “Killing Fields” movie poster.
You know, I watch the two democRat candidates and realize what they will do to destroy this nation. I determine I will grit my teeth in November and vote for McCain.
Then the fool goes and proposes this new League of Nations.
The buzzard sayes we have to “save the planet” from CO2.
He claims Viet Nam was fine after the fall of the South.
Then I determine I’ll abstain from voting for a president this round.
Then Obama or Hillary show their fascist roots and the cycle repeats itself.
Where were the Republican voices calling Harkin on this blatant lie?
Another reason my wallet is closed. I am not alone either.
Harkins insinuation is that nothing bad happened.
Millions of people died and it is silly to parse his statement (IMO).
No one here except happy comrades of the Workers Proletariate!
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/mass-grave.jpg
I think you missed.
He made the cover of LIFE magazine once, too, he was carrying a friend who stepped on a mine, him and one other guy carried that friend.
Tom Harkin can’t be this stupud. Is this the kind of people we have in our senate? God help us.
Apparently so.
But awful things happened after we left.
In the Eighties, my Vietnamese tailor had the same opinion. He was a surgeon in Vietnam but due to age and the language barrier (he could speak French and Chinese along with Vietnamese but his English was pretty bad), he never returned to the field of medicine. I’m sure he would like to have stayed in the Communist paradise but his bourgeois past (dealing with USAID personnel and setting up clinics) kinda caught up with him.
Thankfully, he’s no longer around to listen to this type of garbage. Speaking of garbage, wasn’t Harkin a supporter or sponsor of the ethanol bill? Thanks, moron, for the boondoggle!
Ping
I blame people like Harkin and Kennedy for the unspeakable horrors that afflicted the South Vietnamese and others.Defunding the South was nothing less than murder,and now they want to rewrite history.
Senator Harkin is a proven fabricator when it comes to his own Vietnam-era record, as shown during his own failed 1992 Presidential bid.
“In 1979, Mr. Harkin, then a congressman, participated in a round-table discussion arranged by the Congressional Vietnam Veterans’ Caucus. ‘I spent five years as a Navy pilot, starting in November of 1962,’ Mr. Harkin said at that meeting, in words that were later quoted in a book, Changing of the Guard, by Washington Post political writer David Broder. ‘One year was in Vietnam. I was flying F-4s and F-8s on combat air patrols and photo-reconnaissance support missions. I did no bombing.’
“That clearly is not an accurate picture of his Navy service. . . . Mr. Harkin’s Navy record shows his only decoration is the National Defense Service Medal, awarded to everyone on active service during those years. He did not receive either the Vietnam Service medal or the Vietnam Campaign medal, the decorations given to everyone who served in the Southeast Asia theater.”
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