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Originally posted by wonderwench
People are criticizing Kerry because upon his return from his four months in Viet Nam he testified before Congress that war crimes were common place among his fellow soldiers. He dishnored the memory and reputations of over 2.5M soliders.
Now, he cries up his Viet Nam service - Kerry is the one who made Viet Nam a campaign issue. His ads and other campaign materials make frequent mention of it. The people he dishonored don't like it.
I can't blame them.
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First, he EARNED those medals and ribbons.
Who did he dishonor?
A country that used CHEMICAL WEAPONS illegally and poisoned there own men with those chemicals and then refused to treat them in VA hospitals?
Generals like Westmoreland to whom the battle was to be won no matter the cost only to turn around and say, "ok we won have the hill back."?
Military industrial companies like Dow (makers of Agent Orange), Boeing, McDonnell Douglass, for whom they made millions and kept the war machine moving by using lobbyists and payoffs?
I know he dishonored a President who had people break into Watergate and ordered Governor James Rhodes to call out the National Guard on a University demonstration in Ohio.... It was called KENT STATE and people lost their lives for pecefully demonstrating against that noble government and its war.
Or did he dishonor the FBI and the secret lists they kept of people who demonstrated and labelled them as non-patriots?
Or did he dishonor the men who committed these attrocities yet believed that the military like the NYC police department had a code of silence and was to turn a blind eye from the evils we were doing?
Or did he HONOR the US by bringing forth (what MANY 'Nam vets) brought forth and that was the negligence of the leaders and he questioned the government and wanted this country to do better.
So stick to issues. Stick to healthcare and the millions who have found themselves living in poverty within the last 4 years.
I just saw an article yesterday or thge day before I was going to post but figured someone else would (noone did, so I'll do a search and find it and post it). The report stated that the average family the past 2 years made less each year YET CEOS made 15% more each year (the report came from the IRS by the way.). ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES.
Address why people must go into poverty because in this great nation our president cares more about the top 1% getting a tax cut than he does about a healthcare system that is affordable to ALL.