Posted on 08/31/2004 11:37:18 AM PDT by 68skylark
"``Kerry served in Vietnam and he was awarded the medal for his bravery,'' Sinh said. ``He deserves the medal.'' "
I'll make your point B) again. He wasn't on the boat. How would he know if Kerry deserved a medal.
This story wasn't done by just the AP/NYT today.... NPR had a nice little 5 or 6 minute segment on this story this morning, too. Looks like all the lefty news outlets are in collusion here.
The audio interviews were chock full of rousing praise for Kerry from ex-Viet Cong guerillas and the like.
Yeah, I know... you're shocked, right?
The real truth is that Viet Nam has been at starvation levels until about 10 years ago. It was only then that they produced more than they consumed and could export rice, nuts and other products. To give you an idea there are no animals in the Zoo, they all got eaten.
What would be better than to fly this VC in to join Rassman and the other "Vets for Kerry" on the campaign trail -- better yet, go find him immediately, and take him along and let him warm up the American Legion crowd for Kerry tomorrow!
Yeah, that's the ticket!
After 1975 and for the next 10 years, Vietnam was a communist prison camp, a tropical Gulag according to my wife who grew up there.
There's a whole catalog of horror stories: midnight house searches; land appropriations (my MIL lost 200 hectares of farmland); rice rationing (in Vietnam!?!?!); abductions (my FIL stayed in a monastery for nearly 10 years to avoid "reeducation"); etc.
The country was going straight down the toilet until 1989, when "do moi" capitalism was introduced.
The Hanoi Stalinsts and their supporters in the South are, fortunately, very susceptible to the charms of the U.S. dollar, so I have ongoing hope that capitalism will eventually prevail.
The truth about what happened after our pullout is horrible. Those "anti-war" protesters have blood on their hands. That's the dark side of their movement that the mainstream media will never touch.
Man, the Slimes/AP must have dug deep to find this guy. Has all the credibility asKerry's accounts of his PH's.
"...so I have ongoing hope that capitalism will eventually prevail."
Along with capitalism hopefully more freedoms will follow. My old pastor is involved with the underground Christian church in Vietnam. State "Christian" churches are allowed to a certain degree. Bibles are not allowed though as she smuggles some in each trip. Christian leaders are arrested if they don't toe the line - so I imagine not all of the "re-education facilities" have closed their doors.
If one wanted to spoof the MSM and Kerry, it would be difficult to top this.
I view political systems as primarily run by representitives, totalitatians or gangsters. Gangsters are highly preferable to totalitarians. If Vietnam is shifting from totalitarianism to gangsterism, it's a plus.
This morning someone posted the first article I've ever seen that accounts for the opinions of Vietnamese refugees. But it was in The Australian, and talked about Vietnamese-Australian attitudes (which to no surprise are anti-Kerry).
Yes, it's truly astonishing that the NYT can't muster one of the 1.2 million Vietnamese-American refugess (most now U.S. citizens) to speak on the record about Vietnam.
Perhaps that's because V-As consider Kerry to be a "phan boi" traitor.
Kerry called some of the SBVs to try to talk them out of coming out against him. What makes anyone think he would not also call at least one his VC allies to back him up?
To me this article says that the Main Stream non Press would rather believe a former VC than US Veterans. Shame, Shame, Shame.
"Easy targets" I thought 4 or 5 50' swift boats could remain stationary in a 75 yard wide river for over an hour under constant fire and not sustain any damage.
Let's be factual. There are animals in the zoos.
But there is still a lot of poverty in VN.
Now wait a second the flying dog and the VC soldier were never seen together- maybe they were one and the same.
No, they have not. Check:
It documents the plight of Prof. Nguyen Huy, a democracy advocate now serving a 15 year sentence.
He's the father of my wife's best friend, who fortunately was spirited out of Vietnam 10 years ago.
Her younger brother, Dr. Nguyen's son, is an attorney who has been blacklisted from that profession by the Ho Chi Minh City Communist Party.
That's the way the commies work: they start with the alleged offender and work all the way down the family tree.
"Greed is good" in more ways than one.
We're on the same wavelength.
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