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Posted on 01/24/2004 8:57:12 PM PST by annyokie

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Hubby received this email today from an informed source who was a career Military officer. I know much of this has been reported here before, but the responses from other Vets are interesting, indeed.

It is very long, but worth the read.

1 posted on 01/24/2004 8:57:13 PM PST by annyokie
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To: annyokie
From News Info alerts pow/mia network

Broadcast Over Radio Hanoi To American Servicemen Involved In The Indochina War
by Jane Fonda
American Actress, Political Activist

August 22, 1972 - The following public domain information is a transcript from the US Congress House Committee on Internal Security, Travel to Hostile Areas, HR 16742, 19-25 September, 1972, page 671.

This is Jane Fonda. During my two week visit in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, I've had the opportunity to visit a great many places and speak to a large number of people from all walks of life--workers, peasants, students, artists and dancers, historians, journalists, film actresses, soldiers, militia girls, members of the women's union, writers.

I visited the (Dam Xuac) agricultural co-op, where the silk worms are also raised and thread is made. I visited a textile factory, a kindergarten in Hanoi. The beautiful Temple of Literature was where I saw traditional dances and heard songs of resistance. I also saw unforgettable ballet about the guerrillas training bees in the south to attack enemy soldiers. The bees were danced by women, and they did their job well.

In the shadow of the Temple of Literature I saw Vietnamese actors and actresses perform the second act of Arthur Miller's play All My Sons, and this was very moving to me--the fact that artists here are translating and performing American plays while US imperialists are bombing their country.

I cherish the memory of the blushing militia girls on the roof of their factory, encouraging one of their sisters as she sang a song praising the blue sky of Vietnam--these women, who are so gentle and poetic, whose voices are so beautiful, but who, when American planes are bombing their city, become such good fighters.

I cherish the way a farmer evacuated from Hanoi, without hesitation, offered me, an American, their best individual bomb shelter while US bombs fell near by. The daughter and I, in fact, shared the shelter wrapped in each others arms, cheek against cheek. It was on the road back from Nam Dinh, where I had witnessed the systematic destruction of civilian targets-schools, hospitals, pagodas, the factories, houses, and the dike system.

As I left the United States two weeks ago, Nixon was again telling the American people that he was winding down the war, but in the rubble-strewn streets of Nam Dinh, his words echoed with sinister (words indistinct) of a true killer. And like the young Vietnamese woman I held in my arms clinging to me tightly--and I pressed my cheek against hers--I thought, this is a war against Vietnam perhaps, but the tragedy is America's.

One thing that I have learned beyond a shadow of a doubt since I've been in this country is that Nixon will never be able to break the spirit of these people; he'll never be able to turn Vietnam, north and south, into a neo-colony of the United States by bombing, by invading, by attacking in any way. One has only to go into the countryside and listen to the peasants describe the lives they led before the revolution to understand why every bomb that is dropped only strengthens their determination to resist.

I've spoken to many peasants who talked about the days when their parents had to sell themselves to landlords as virtually slaves, when there were very few schools and much illiteracy, inadequate medical care, when they were not masters of their own lives.

But now, despite the bombs, despite the crimes being created--being committed against them by Richard Nixon, these people own their own land, build their own schools--the children learning, literacy--illiteracy is being wiped out, there is no more prostitution as there was during the time when this was a French colony. In other words, the people have taken power into their own hands, and they are controlling their own lives.

And after 4,000 years of struggling against nature and foreign invaders--and the last 25 years, prior to the revolution, of struggling against French colonialism--I don't think that the people of Vietnam are about to compromise in any way, shape or form about the freedom and independence of their country, and I think Richard Nixon would do well to read Vietnamese history, particularly their poetry, and particularly the poetry written by Ho Chi Minh."

Nice people that John Kerry worked with! Are we going to have Brian Becker or Medea Benjamin running for President down the road?

2 posted on 01/24/2004 9:10:40 PM PST by armymarinemom (My Son Liberated the Honor Roll Students in Iraq)
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To: armymarinemom
Please pass this around. Thanks!
3 posted on 01/24/2004 9:23:09 PM PST by annyokie (Wesley Clark: Howard Dean with medals!)
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4 posted on 01/24/2004 9:28:32 PM PST by clintonh8r ("Hugh" and "series" are SO last year....)
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To: armymarinemom
I read the whole thing, what a traitor scumbag.
5 posted on 01/24/2004 9:33:36 PM PST by bulldogs
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To: annyokie
I just checked abe.com. There are two copies of The New Soldier listed. One for $300 and one for $850. Gee, I guess "the little people" will never be able to read John Effing Kerry's story! (After he loses the election they'll be available for $5 again).
6 posted on 01/24/2004 9:34:47 PM PST by clintonh8r ("Hugh" and "series" are SO last year....)
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To: clintonh8r
It is currently available on eBay as per another poster the other night.
7 posted on 01/24/2004 9:39:22 PM PST by annyokie (Wesley Clark: Howard Dean with medals!)
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To: clintonh8r
The $850 seller now has the book on ebay with a minimum bid of $1000. No takers so far. Maybe Rush could buy it an read excerpts on the air!
8 posted on 01/24/2004 9:41:12 PM PST by clintonh8r ("Hugh" and "series" are SO last year....)
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9 posted on 01/24/2004 9:42:16 PM PST by clintonh8r ("Hugh" and "series" are SO last year....)
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To: annyokie; MeekOneGOP; onyx; My2Cents; JohnHuang2; Dog Gone; Dog; isthisnickcool; OKSooner; VOA; ...
Thanks for posting this -- I had been finding some of this in research I was doing tonight about Kerry but you have even more.

Everyone needs armed with these facts and needs to send them to everyone they know.

10 posted on 01/24/2004 9:45:26 PM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04)
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To: PhiKapMom
I don't trust John Kerry and think he would be disasterous for the USA. He's a liberal, a liar and a phony. In fact, Kerry's voting record is more liberal then FatTeddyK`s. Hard to believe, but true. Brit Hume mentioned it the other night. Kerry is a privileged northeasterner, who couldn't carry any southern state.

The President deserves reelection and he will be getting my vote come November.

Btw, did you check out that LINK I gave you the other day on John Kerry's background?

11 posted on 01/24/2004 9:59:21 PM PST by Reagan Man (The choice is clear. Reelect BUSH-CHENEY in 2004)
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Thanks -- I sure did and have it bookmarked. Have learned more about Kerry in the last week then I ever knew before.

For instance, I didn't realize he was more liberal then Ted Kennedy until you posted that fact. That is scarey.

Was thinking back today to the 1984 debates when the media said that Mondale was going to win as President Reagan couldn't beat Mondale in debates. I remember him leveling Mondale in the one debate and going on to win in a landslide. The media hasn't changed that much in all these years but at least we have the Internet now to get out the facts.

Just cannot believe that Kerry may be their nominee!

Thanks again -- anything you find -- just send me the link.

12 posted on 01/24/2004 10:06:06 PM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04)
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To: PhiKapMom
You're very welcome, Mom. I need to think to post to you great patriots who are the keepers of the ping! lists.

Thanks for forwarding it!

13 posted on 01/24/2004 10:08:08 PM PST by annyokie (Wesley Clark: Howard Dean with medals!)
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To: bulldogs
"I read the whole thing, what a traitor scumbag."

I found this picture on a traitor scumbag web site commemorating Dewey Canyon

Notice Ketchup boy playing pocket pool.


14 posted on 01/24/2004 10:11:22 PM PST by Wumpus Hunter (We must insure there is room for all animals - right next to the mashed potatoes!)
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To: annyokie
I decided to use the Bush-Cheney ping list on this very good thread so all could see what a lowlife (actually too nice of word) that Kerry is. Everyone needs to see what you husband received.

Just ping me anytime and I will use the list!
15 posted on 01/24/2004 10:18:25 PM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04)
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To: PhiKapMom
WOW!!

Plus, what's this about Kerry not really receiving some of his medals???

Oh .. and wouldn't this be considered a special interest??

Long after he changed sides in congressional hearings, Mr. Kerry lobbied for renewed trade relations with Hanoi. [Interestingly] at the same time, his cousin C. Stewart Forbes, chief executive for Colliers International, assisted in brokering a $905 million deal to develop a deep-sea port at Vung Tau, Vietnam - an odd coincidence.

16 posted on 01/24/2004 10:20:47 PM PST by Mo1 (Join the dollar a day crowd now!)
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To: PhiKapMom
Thanks! I'll make a mental note to do so in the future! Hubby gets many very interesting things that I post for all and then they fade since I forget that I need to ping you about them.

I'd tell you what we call John F*** Kerry around the house, but I'd get banned!
17 posted on 01/24/2004 10:22:39 PM PST by annyokie (Wesley Clark: Howard Dean with medals!)
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To: PhiKapMom
Just so happened today, I came across the 1989 PBS interview that PresReagan gave to Jim Lehner. Reagan said about his first debate with Mondale:

"I want to tell you, I just had more facts and figures poured at me for weeks before than anyone could possibly sort out and use, and I call it overtraining. When I got there, I realized that I was wracking my brain so much for facts and figures on whatever subject we were talking about, that I knew I didn't do well. And the second debate, I wasn't overtrained.

In 1984, Reagan won 49 states, 58% of the popular vote and more electoral votes then anyone in history, 525. Plus, the 489 electoral votes versus Jimmah Carter in 1980. I luv GOP landslides.

18 posted on 01/24/2004 10:28:04 PM PST by Reagan Man (The choice is clear. Reelect BUSH-CHENEY in 2004)
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To: annyokie
Great conpendium! Thanks for posting it.
19 posted on 01/24/2004 10:30:32 PM PST by Bobsat
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To: Bobsat
You're very welcome. I haven't seen anyone use "compendium" in a sentence since grad school, kudos to you!

20 posted on 01/24/2004 10:44:55 PM PST by annyokie (Wesley Clark: Howard Dean with medals!)
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