Rev Prez

Link.

Rev Prez

Sauron

Sorry. When you come up with a link that isn't some kind of right-wing, "Soldier of Fortune" blog, let us know.

PS - for anyone who's interested, RP picked up this particular piece of flame-bait from
http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/

"Free Republic Network" - Frontline Conservative Activism

brighid

Gee ... I wonder ... how did one man's protests help a nation win a war by an invading army there to overthrough a democratically elected government??

It seems we were getting our asses handed to us long before Mr. Kerry rightfully dissented about an unjust war in which he had first hand knowledge of the American attrocities, now well documented. How dare he act in such an American way and *gasp* dissent against his government (what would our forefathers think??) and not goosestep in line to the beat of the jackbooted drummers of war.



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Tristan Scott

Thousands of men served on swiftboats during the war in Viet Nam. That the right wingers have found a few hundred who don't like Kerry doesn't mean anything. Virtually all of the men who served on Kerry's boat agree that his leadership during the war was excellent.
I find it shameful that the right wingers have had to resort to all of these attacks on the man's war service. I'm no big Kerry fan, but find all of these attempts to attack his war record only show that the Republicans really have nothing else to offer in opposition. It also shows that their character has gone totally bankrupt. One group of right wing Viet Nam war vets even questioned whether or not Kerry's wounds were serious enough to warrant Purple Hearts. There is so much they could be attacking as far as the man's politics go, but as usual most of them (right wingers) don't ever bother to study real issues, so are left with these inane attacks based on nothing but speculation and inuendo.

Dominus Paradoxum

Good. Frankly, I'm glad we "lost"# the war, as we never should have been there in the first place.

# *cough* pulled out *cough*

Atticus_Finch

I agree that we shouldn't question Kerry's war record, except to the extent to verify his claims about it. However, all of the criticism I have heard is not about questioning his war record but rather his actions after he spent his 4 months in Viet Nam.

It is documented that Kerry made erroneous and false accusations against American servicemen regarding atrocities in Viet Nam. He repeated, without verification, gross lies about atrocities told by people who claim to have been but were never in Viet Nam. In his testimony to Congress he stated that everyone witnessed atrocities and suggested that most participated in them. That is a gross exageration and many servicemen feel it was a betrayal. Although I would never question Kerry's right to say those things, they did give aid and comfort to our enemies during war time and I think he, and those like him, contributed to our defeat in Viet Nam.

That subject is proper to criticize Kerry about.

Edited to include link to National Review article on subject here

Regards,

Finch

Hyndis

And with the title of the thread...is it implied that being communist is inherently a bad thing, thusly its an ad-hom against Vietnam to mock them?

Toto

That photo looks a bit - uh - dubious to me.

I looked around for a debunking, but only found this

Nice Squirrel

Does anybody know who those Asian men are? Are they communists to begin with?

Tristan Scott

Yeah everything he did as an anti war protester is fair game, and if he wants to use his war record it will be scrutenized as well, but this is the kind of bullshit I'm talking about, and RP's so called 200 swift boaters against Kerry. They don't know shit.