[Missouri]

What gets me is that I've never heard Senator Kerry condemn what the North Vietnamese or Viet Cong where doing to civilians and prisoners during that war. He saves his venom for his fellow soldiers and a President Nixon who had inherited the war from LBJ.

I was kind of young when the Vietnam War was going and I have a question for some of the older freepers. If the war was so unpopular and immoral as John Kerry and the Left say it was, how come Nixon buried McGovern in the 1972 election?

[fizziwig]

" If the war was so unpopular and immoral as John Kerry and the Left say it was, how come Nixon buried McGovern in the 1972 election?"

McGovern was way too liberal at the time, though he would have fared better in today's socialist society. Nixon was doing what he could to end the war. McGovern was a nice guy and a true war hero (35 combat missions as a bomber pilot in ww2) but his socialist mindset was just pathetic. I like him despite it all, but I wouldn't vote him for dog catcher!!!