Saturday, August 28, 2004

The New Soldier!



Let's put these idiots in charge of our military and foreign policy: VOTE FOR KERRY! Follow this link and read the book penned by Kerry that he refuses to republish.
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4 comments:

Ghost Dansing said...

The spring of 1971 marked the peak of the antiwar movement in the United States and Kerry's emergence as one of its stars. Nixon was attempting to salvage "peace with honor" in Vietnam through a policy of "Vietnamization," which involved a gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country and political and military support for the anti-Communist government in Saigon. The protesters wanted Nixon to announce an immediate end to the war.

Kerry burst into the public consciousness when he was invited to address the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22 by its chairman, J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.). Dressed in olive-green fatigues and combat ribbons, Kerry accused Nixon of sacrificing thousands of lives in a hopeless cause and delivered his celebrated line "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

August 28, 2004 at 3:22 PM
Ghost Dansing said...

So, how did things get so bad? And who were the real "idiots"?

The Vietnamese people proclaimed their independence in in 1945 after a combined French and Japanese occupation and before the communist revolution in China. They were led by Ho Chi Minh. Even though they quoted the American Declaration of Independence in their own document of freedom, we refused to recognize them. Instead, we decided to support France in its reconquest of her former colony. Our government felt then that the Vietnamese people were not ready for independence, and the United States fell victim to deadly Western colonial arrogance that had poisoned the international atmosphere of the time for so long.

August 28, 2004 at 3:29 PM
Ghost Dansing said...

For nine years following 1945 the United States denied the people of Vietnam the right of independence. For nine years we vigorously supported the French in their abortive effort to recolonize Vietnam. Before the end of the French war in Indochina, we were meeting eighty percent of the French war costs. Even before the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu, they began to despair of their action, but the United States did not. We encouraged them with our huge financial and military supplies to continue the war even after they had lost the will. Soon we would be paying almost the full costs of this tragic attempt at recolonization.

August 28, 2004 at 3:36 PM
Aaron Matthew Arnwine - LifelikePundits.com said...

dude, I know you are not writing the comments--please don't fill my comments with write-ups from other sites...simply place alink.

August 28, 2004 at 7:58 PM

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