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Didn't he visit Vietnam during the Vietnam war or something?
1 posted on 12/05/2010 9:19:49 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) on Sunday gave a firm defense of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, rejecting any comparison to the Vietnam War in which he served.

I think you are right Sub, I recall he was part of a USO show with Jane Fonda at Da Nang or something like that.

2 posted on 12/05/2010 9:22:38 AM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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There are any number of reasons it was a gigantic mistake.
The pot calling the kettle black.
3 posted on 12/05/2010 9:22:47 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Spent Christmas in Cambodia just across the river ... it was burned into his mind he says ....


4 posted on 12/05/2010 9:24:21 AM PST by ReverendJames (Only a lawyer and a painter can change black to white)
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In this video, he says it is like Viet Nam. Flip flop?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lWcQH_VYYs


5 posted on 12/05/2010 9:24:43 AM PST by Brilliant
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Jon “Halp me” kerry: Useful tool of America’s enemies then and now.


6 posted on 12/05/2010 9:25:20 AM PST by rockrr ("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
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Yes he did although he has spent more time in Afghanistan while visiting troops during Easter and Christmas.


7 posted on 12/05/2010 9:29:59 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth
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It isn't Vietnam from his perspective because a rabid socialist is President now. Regardless, Afghanistan is the Viet Nam of this century.

It is so because our soldiers can't shoot back, can't interrogate prisoners properly, and we can't nuke every valley and hill top in that God forsaken country.

8 posted on 12/05/2010 9:29:59 AM PST by Gaffer
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Yes, and shot a kid in the back.


10 posted on 12/05/2010 9:32:39 AM PST by RC2
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Did any Communist vice president in Viet Nam disappear with over $40 million US dollars????

Karzai’s did.


11 posted on 12/05/2010 9:33:15 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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yes his code name was “LT. NEEDERMEYER”


14 posted on 12/05/2010 9:35:01 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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The most important weakness we had in Viet Nam was our Cold war fear of the USSR. That kept us from mining Haiphong and a full blockade of war material. The war would have been over by 1967, no Tet, no Cambodia but we would still be garrisoning S Viet Nam ala S Korea.

Our biggest weakness in Afghanistan is the safe haven in Pakistan with open cooperation between the Haqqani's and Pakistan Army. The enemy in Afghanistan could be defeated in one year by crop dusting Roundup Herbacide on all the poppies and arresting Karzai and his corrupt entourage and replacing it with a NATO administration.

17 posted on 12/05/2010 9:47:42 AM PST by gandalftb (OK State, 10-2, Go Cowboys!)
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Yea did’nt he award himself a medal, for getting a scratch, as a war hero?


18 posted on 12/05/2010 9:48:41 AM PST by chiefqc
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He still has the hat.


20 posted on 12/05/2010 9:52:00 AM PST by BuffaloJack (The Recession is officially over. We are now into Obama's Depression.)
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Kerry Lied

Millions Died

21 posted on 12/05/2010 9:55:22 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 683 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1061806/posts

Here are facts and quotations that reveal the character of the new Democrat leader.

Denouncing America with ‘Hanoi’ Jane: Although Wesley Clark and others have attacked former front-runner Howard Dean as a draft-dodging ski bum, Kerry is far more complex than the simple war hero he portrays himself as.
He became a celebrated organizer for one of America’s most extreme appeasement groups, Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He consorted with the likes of “Hanoi” Jane Fonda and Ramsey Clark, Lyndon Johnson’s radical former attorney general.

He attended a seminar bankrolled by Fonda in Detroit in February 1971. Watching 125 self-proclaimed Vietnam veterans testify at a Howard Johnson’s about atrocities allegedly committed by U.S. forces, the man who would be president later said he found the accounts shocking and irrefutable.

Dubbed “The Winter Soldier Investigation,” the protest attracted minimal media attention, according to the Los Angeles Times, because Fonda insisted it be held in the remote Michigan city rather than the less “authentic” Washington, D.C.

Still, the event gave Kerry an idea for a protest that was sure to be a media smash, and he immediately set out to organize one of the most confrontational protests of the war.

Operation Dewey Canyon III began on April 18, 1971, when nearly 1,000 Vietnam veterans and people claiming to be veterans gathered on Washington’s Mall for what they called “a limited incursion into the country of Congress.”

The group staged mock firefights on the steps of the Capitol and Supreme Court and defied U.S. Park Police after the Department of Justice issued an injunction barring it from camping on the Mall.


22 posted on 12/05/2010 9:56:59 AM PST by PLD
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Didn't he visit Vietnam during the Vietnam war or something?

Yes, I think he shot himself in the foot or something..Too bad he didn't shoot himself in the head!
24 posted on 12/05/2010 9:57:28 AM PST by vigilante2 (Reelect Nobody)
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A COMMUNIST’s statements, judgements, and actions are always driven by the accumulation of POWER. Criticising Bush was intended increase RATS’ power; supporting Obama is intended to increase (or at least retain)their power.

They then use that power to implement the socialist utpopia. There is no inconsistency here at all. We conservatives must understand the mentality, goals, and tactics of the enemy.


25 posted on 12/05/2010 9:59:24 AM PST by SC_Pete
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Obama administration has acted correctly in continuing the war in Afghanistan and should be able to withdraw troops as planned in 2014.

2014? I thought in his big deal "Surge" speech Obama said it was 2012. When did this change?

26 posted on 12/05/2010 10:02:46 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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Who better to comment than one who was there and served with honor (didn’t he win a door prize or something?)? /sarc


27 posted on 12/05/2010 10:08:45 AM PST by llevrok (Born a ham but never cured)
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The new talking point. Heard that from another genius this morning while channel surfing.

Was it Eleanor Clift???????? Just can’t remember but it’s out there.


28 posted on 12/05/2010 10:10:36 AM PST by Carley (ISRAEL.......NOT SO ALONE!!!)
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