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To: ALOHA RONNIE
Ronnie, I think I've expressed this before in other ways, but wouldn't you say that for a soldier to lay down his arms and walk away from a raging battlefield would take great professionalism and careful attention to propriety and honor before it could ever be considered "loyal?" And wouldn't you say that while any American is free to express his wishes to disengage his country from a war that to do so should put him under very close scruitiny? And wouldn't you say that given the fact that Kerry worked tirelessly to end the war after being injured that he should have welcomed very close examination of character and principle?

Given all of those questions, which I think I have fairly presented here, I believe we can say with 100% certainty that Kerry fails each of those standards. We do not denounce him for wanting to end the war. We denounce him for the unscrupulous way he appeared to support the enemy under conditions where his own lack of courage could appear to have been at stake.

Being afraid to fight, or afraid to lose one's comrades is not a crime. But letting that fear -- or even perhaps the profit one could make from exhibiting it so prominently -- dictate one's political actions is unforgivable under the circumstances. The left brought the deaths of almost 60,000 American soldiers to the brink of uselessness by stopping the war when they did. And we can blame that disengagement for the deaths of 2,000 Cambodians and countless others in the region from Laos to Burma.

Kerry, as a figure central to that dishonor, a courageous man of peace we say YOU ARE NOT.
280 posted on 04/20/2004 7:43:44 PM PDT by risk
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To: risk; ALOHA RONNIE
2,000,000 cambodians, sorry!
281 posted on 04/20/2004 7:45:22 PM PDT by risk
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To: risk; ALOHA RONNIE
I use the walking away from a battlefield figuratively here; I'm not insinuating that Kerry did such a thing in anything but an abstract sense. However, his support for ending the war was in effect a demand that all American soliders fighting in Vietnam do that.
282 posted on 04/20/2004 7:48:06 PM PDT by risk
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To: risk; Carl/NewsMax; PhilDragoo
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NEVER FORGET


...During the 1920's a young Paris, France college student HO CHI MINH's brain was infected with convoluted French Communism...

...which he brought back home with him to Vietnam to infect all of Indo-China with.

...JOHN KERRY was of great help to him in this...

...on purpose.


NEVER FORGET

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283 posted on 04/20/2004 8:03:10 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)
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