If you think the Swift Boat Vets are mad just listen to the POWs and their wives. <br /><br /> http://www.stolenhonor.com/documentary/samples.asp
Maybe I better make that two ballots.Originally posted by 62_Kiwi:<br /> Everyone should listen to what these men have to say. They spent between 5 and 7 years as POWs in Vietnam and had the North Vietnamese use John Kerry's betrayal as a weapon against them.<br /><br />The news media will no doubt try to make them out as right wing fanatics, but I think they have a genuine and serious grievance against John Kerry and his actions of 30 or so years ago.<br /><br />Regardless of what you think about the Vietnam war, you have to admit that JF Kerry made a serious miscalculation in deciding to position himself as both a war hero and an anti-war activist at the same time. Given has past actions - what is now occuring with the Swift Boat Veterans and now these ex-POW's should have been entirely predictable to him.<br /><br />Not a good look for a prospective president nor a good indication of his honesty or intelligence.
IMHO he figured getting his "band of brothers" on board and the fact he had the media behind him was enough to slip under the radar. When he did not get whacked during the primaries he figured he was home free. Don't forget too, he thinks he did the right thing and that America agreed with him. So he miscalculated and was stupid enough to focus on it during his convention. Then WHACK right upside the head it came...what is now occurring with the Swift Boat Veterans and now these ex-POW's should have been entirely predictable to him.
It's no wonder Bill Clinton has been telling him to stop talking about Vietnam.<br /><br /><br />Boomyal - Thanks, but I think you might already have the numbers and I wouldn't want to give any cause for the forthcoming result to be questioned again.<br />Then WHACK right upside the head it came...<br />
And it's going to get a lot worse. It's got to the point that I don't read the paper or watch the news except for local things and then even I have to put up with the snooty little remarks by Anchors...Originally posted by Boomyal:<br /> I just hope this gets as wide of coverage as the Swift Boats Group. You can sure tell that the Clinton people are in charge now. The attacks are coming fast and furious. Every 'news' show and news item are containing some form of negatives against Bush.
...Powerful stuff.<br />Little did the American prisoners of war imagine that half a world away events were conspiring to make their precarious situation even more desperate. That an American Naval Lieutenant after a 4-month tour of duty in Vietnam was meeting secretly in an undisclosed location in Paris with a top enemy diplomat. That this same lieutenant would later join forces with Jane Fonda to form an anti-war group of so-called Vietnam veterans, some of whom would be later discovered as frauds who never set foot on a battlefield. All this culminating in John Kerrys Senate testimony that would be blared over loud speakers to convince our prisoners that back home they were being accused and abandoned. Enemy propagandists had found a new and willing accomplice. (Narration from Stolen Honor) <br />
I dont understand what you mean Rolmops....something about religion?..are you religious.?<br />and what is the agenda by the misled, ultra right wing, fundamentalist, religious zealots....... exactly....just so I'll know next time I hear it.Please guys I know that you will vote republican,but do not allow yourselves to be misled by ultra right wing fundamentalist religious zealots in order to make George Bush serve their agenda.I am afraid of even thinking what that agenda is <br />