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It is premature to debate whether we need ground troops or should deploy them. But the option never should have been taken off the table. American soldiers assume tremendous risks in serving this country, but those risks should not be intensified by the failure of political leaders to promise full commitment to victory.

Voted NO on allowing all necessary forces and other means in Kosovo. (May 1999)
Voted YES on authorizing air strikes in Kosovo. (Mar 1999)
Voted NO on ending the Bosnian arms embargo. (Jul 1995)

John Kerry on the issues.

1 posted on 02/10/2004 5:50:45 AM PST by BigWaveBetty

To: Hillary's Lovely Legs; Timeout; mountaineer; Iowa Granny; pubmom; daisyscarlett

Just more flip-flopping Kerry.

2 posted on 02/10/2004 5:58:00 AM PST by BigWaveBetty (Won't you please, won't you please, please won't you be my neighbor?)

To: BigWaveBetty

Sounds like Kerry allowed himself to be "misled" by "bad intelligence" into supporting the war on Serbia.

After all, the claims of Serb "ethnic cleansing" and "genocide" have been shown to be COMPLETELY FAKE.

3 posted on 02/10/2004 6:00:29 AM PST by shhrubbery!

To: BigWaveBetty

We are 19 nations strong

More "unilateral" than the Iraq war, looks like.

6 posted on 02/10/2004 6:14:47 AM PST by mountaineer

To: BigWaveBetty

Kerry is a hypocrite bastard

9 posted on 02/10/2004 6:37:23 AM PST by petercooper (Tone down the garbage, the mean-mouthing, the tearing down of your neighbor and being so pompous.)

To: BigWaveBetty

The most enduring lesson of Vietnam - seared into me as a soldier

John Kerry was a soldier in Vietnam?

Well, I'll be danged.

12 posted on 02/10/2004 11:35:09 AM PST by jwalsh07

To: BigWaveBetty

VERY informative, Betty. Thanks.

13 posted on 02/10/2004 11:39:39 AM PST by AuntB (http://www.PetitionOnLine.com/SSDC/petition.html (reform Social Security Disability))

To: BigWaveBetty

The most enduring lesson of Vietnam - seared into me as a soldier - is that when the United States decides to employ force, it must have a clear national interest and objective, commit to doing whatever it takes to achieve that objective, and do so with debate and ultimately the consent of the American people.

Gee, I thought that the lesson to be learned from Vietnam was that, on a daily basis, American soldiers:

personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

And that for that, we neede to pay reparations to the communists, agonize about our collective guilt, smoke a lot of dope, and so on.

http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html

15 posted on 02/10/2004 2:16:36 PM PST by secretagent

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