To: quidnunc
There is a lot of strategy going on on both sides
Here is my take on what is going on with nam.
Has anyone in the democcratic party considered
A couple of million of men served in Nam. Many came home to be spit on and trashed. There used to be alot of anger out there among those Viet Nam vets that served their country.
Some of them have been waiting a long time to pay the 1970-72 protesters back. They hate Jane Fonda and John Kerry.
John Kerry had best hope teh following does not catch on.
VietNam Vets... now it's our turn to PROTEST!
To: Common Tator; driftless
"By contrast, the Kerry narrative is almost impenetrable. If Vietnam bitterly divided a nation, split communities, tore apart families, etc, etc, Sen Kerry somehow managed to wind up on both sides of the fence: in the 1960s, he was John Wayne taking out the gooks in 'Nam; in the 1970s, he was Hanoi Jane Fonda, leading the protest movement; now, after two decades in Congress opposing every new weapons system for America's military, he's campaigning like Bob Hope on a USO tour flanked by wall-to-wall veterans. What story accounts for Senator Flip-Flop these past 40 years?
If character is the issue, Bush can relax. And, if doing your bit for national security is the issue, then John Kerry's been Awol for two decades."
Brilliant!
7 posted on
02/14/2004 5:19:03 PM PST by
EllaMinnow
(If you want to send a message, call Western Union.)
To: Common Tator
Tator, you are EXACTLY right.
To: Common Tator
AMEN to that!!!
To: Common Tator
"VietNam Vets... now it's our turn to PROTEST!"
I guess I was lucky. I came back to the U.S. twice while deployed to Asia, once for some enhanced training, then when I was coming back after my tour. Never got spit on, no nothing; of course, it was 2/70 and bitterly cold in Chicago and I was wearing a Navy uni - maybe if I'd had on my fatigues or a Marine or Army uni they'd have spit on me. Me, they didn't seem to mind. Left the Philippines where it was 80 - 90 deg F, arrived in Chicago where it was minus 12 and immediately caught the worst cold of my life!
18 posted on
02/14/2004 7:46:51 PM PST by
Chu Gary
(USN Intel guy 1967 - 1970)
To: Common Tator
Yessir.
19 posted on
02/14/2004 7:49:48 PM PST by
js1138
To: Common Tator
Actuallu if I thought Kerry would be a better president than Bush I'd vote for him, dispite his youthful screwup.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHASNICKER SNORTBARF
A person can be judged by his last thirty years.
And will be.
20 posted on
02/14/2004 7:52:59 PM PST by
js1138
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