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Kerry's Betrayal Of Vietnam
Boston Globe ^ | August 25, 2002 | Jeff Jacoby

Posted on 08/27/2002 8:40:40 AM PDT by robowombat

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:08:10 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

I have long thought that John Kerry is wrong on Vietnam. I don't mean wrong 30 years ago, when, as a decorated combat veteran, he returned from Vietnam and became a leading antiwar activist. I mean wrong in the years since, when he has been, with John McCain, the Senate's foremost advocate of normalized relations with Vietnam.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: kerry; mccain; normalization; vietnam
Jacoby fires at a liberal icon.
1 posted on 08/27/2002 8:40:40 AM PDT by robowombat
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To: robowombat
Maybe Jacoby would like to take a few potshots at the US vets who have gone to Vietnam and broken bread with their former opponents. Typical of a man who's never done his own fighting, he doesn't know which fights to pick.
2 posted on 08/27/2002 9:00:15 AM PDT by SteamshipTime
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To: robowombat
"Liberal Icon" - Do you mean McCain or Kerry. LOL
3 posted on 08/27/2002 9:00:28 AM PDT by frmrda
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To: ALOHA RONNIE
FYI
4 posted on 08/27/2002 9:17:39 AM PDT by katze
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To: SteamshipTime
"Maybe Jacoby would like to take a few potshots at the US vets who have gone to Vietnam and broken bread with their former opponents. "

Whats up with that? Do they, and you, think communism is a good thing? Perhaps they are not representing our country and what they do doesn't really matter, unlike Kerry and McCain?

5 posted on 08/27/2002 9:18:49 AM PDT by monday
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To: robowombat
And does it well, too. John Kerry is a hypocrite of the First Order; he will never be forgiven for demonstrating against the war while troops were still in-country.
6 posted on 08/27/2002 9:21:47 AM PDT by katze
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To: SteamshipTime
You mean like Pete Peterson? His Vietnamese wife is doing quite well with the VN businesses he helped her set up. Of course, that was a Clinton appointment for PP. Many of our Asian-American citizens do not look favorably on either of them.
7 posted on 08/27/2002 9:25:43 AM PDT by katze
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To: All; robowombat; katze; Fred Mertz; jo6pac; Lexington Green; Landru; Joe Montana; Alamo-Girl
NEVER FORGET

IT GET's WORSE:

See Freerepublic.com ..Sen. KERRY Articles titled:

-Freeper Alert: Sen. KERRY / Communist Vietnamese Killing Off Christians in Central Highlands- @

http://www.FreeRepublic.com/focus/news/675016/posts


-Kerry criticized for opposing restrictions on aid to Vietnam- @

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/736292/posts

The Enemy is now Within...

and always has been.


Signed:..ALOHA RONNIE / Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 / Landing Zone Falcon / www.lzxray.com

NEVER FORGET
8 posted on 08/27/2002 1:13:49 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE
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To: ALOHA RONNIE; bert; ForGod'sSake
"Why should they have second thoughts about jailing people for their beliefs or blocking free elections if a key member of the US Senate is ensuring that there will be no penalties for doing so?"

I'm not so sure Kerry's approval (or disapproval) over anything *a'tall* would make any difference whatsoever influencing these communist thugs, truth be known.

The Vietnamese are hard-core communists & know what it means -- & when -- to "break a few skulls" to maintain their iron fisted grip in the Socialist Worker's Paradise they've made for themselves, there.

Moreover, not to single-out Kerry or anything -- admittedly he's as useless as tits on a bull -- but these particular communists couldn't care less what the entire US Senate emasse does with respect to them or their internal politics any more than the goons entrenched in North Korea do.

We witnessed that much from both wars, didn't we?

Above this matter, though?
I'm still scratching my head, trying to figure out how anything other than hard-core Liberal-Socialist party line prattle winds-up getting past the Editor at the Bostone Globe, & into print.

...whadda they fishin' around for at the BGlode, one has to wonder?

9 posted on 08/27/2002 1:41:58 PM PDT by Landru
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To: ALOHA RONNIE
Bump!
10 posted on 08/27/2002 7:55:27 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Landru
...whadda they fishin' around for at the BGlode, one has to wonder?

A round-a-bout, back door sort of approach maybe???

Granted, there are other countries whose atrocious human rights records have not barred normal relations with the United States (So why not Viet Nam???). China and Saudi Arabia are two prominent examples. But the crimes and cruelties of those governments are often denounced in this country, and the nature of our relations with them continues to be a subject of debate(So we could just let 'em in and rag on 'em, too???)(for all the good it does).

Kerry and McCain are not the first members of Congress to make the diplomatic rehabilitation of a despicable regime their personal crusade(Old news???). A ''Cuba working group'' on Capitol Hill has undertaken something similar for the dictator in Havana. But Castro never invaded a US ally or excruciated American POWs(Aha, so Fidel isn't so bad after all???).

What he's really saying, without really saying it: China, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Cuba, etc, aren't so bad, and VN is only a teensy bit worse??? I dunno Lan, maybe I'm seeing ghosts.

FGS

11 posted on 08/27/2002 11:09:02 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake
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To: ForGod'sSake
"I dunno Lan, maybe I'm seeing ghosts."

HA!!
I don't think so, my friend.
Your's are among the sharpest of all eyes, 'round here.
I thought something similar myself at first, too.

Then I realized it was merely another phantom flip-flop by one of the Liberal-Socialist sycophants of our parasitic Lamestream media.

Yessiree, & doing what the whole damnedable bunch have done so well over the past few decades.
Namely distorting, misrepresenting, spinning, misinforming, omitting -- & their all-time favorite journalistic "technique" -- outright lying; and, in any order which suits themselves & always under cover of their own amendment.
Sweet, huh?

An amendment written by honorable people specifically for honorable people; who, turned right around & horribly twisted the spirit & meaning to fit their OWN Liberal-Socialistic Utopian *agenda*.
They've simply used our own words against us.
The bastards.

Now I'd tell ya how I really feel; but, as I said??
Your's are among the sharpest of eyes; so, further belaboring the point -- to you anyway -- is completely unnecessary.

In any event the punk-journalist behind this bilge??
Is as far as I'm concerned merely another in a very long line of Liberal-Socialist Odysseuses.
Certainly never to be trusted; regardless, of what they may "say" on a given day.

...at Word#1 from this ilk, is where I stop these days.

12 posted on 08/28/2002 6:46:58 AM PDT by Landru
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