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Does the fact that this was written by Tom Hayden obviate the requirement for a barf alert?

If radicals like Tom, Jane and Kerry would have let us win that war there would have been 10 million fewer "gooks" in the Communist killing fields! He is trying to denigrate our troops in Iraq the same as Vietnam Vets by making this another illegal war.

Pray for W and Our Troops

"Among the most difficult to contest are claims that antiwar activists persistently spit on returning Vietnam veterans. So universal is the consensus on "spitting" that I once gave up trying to refute it, although I had never heard of a single episode in a decade of antiwar experiences."

There definitely should have been a "Barf Alert" for this BS. I returned home from my second deployment to Viet Nam on a Yankee Station carrier in Nov 1969. I transferred from the USS Constellation and came home via Travis AFB.

I had a plane to catch in Oakland so I grabbed a cab and told the cabby where I was going. He suggested that I get out of uniform before entering the terminal. I told him I wasn't ashamed of my Navy uniform and would keep it on.

When we got to the airport there was a gauntlet of at least 50-60 unwashed stinking hippy scum that I had to pass by,who were screaming obscenities, and, yes, spitting on me and any other uniformed service men.

I went to a mens room and changed my uniform shirt because it was covered with spittle...I left it in a trash can there, put on a clean, though slightly wrinkled shirt from my seabag, and continued on home.

No unreformed stinking maggot of a 60's anti-war scumbag can tell me that the spitting incidents never happened, nor that any other things he lies about didn't occur.

This Kerry candidacy is opening many old wounds with me.

tom hayden should be synonomus with barf.

My personal opinion is that tom hayden is more repugnant than barf.