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And that one is awarded first prize in the "I don't like freedom of speech" contest. This idea that the public has to shut up when we're in a war, even if it's an unjust, immoral, illegal war that was justified with lies on top of lies, and even if thousands of American soldiers are dying and many thousands more are coming away maimed for life is ridiculous. By your logic, once someone lies, cheats, and steals us into a war, they've won 100%, and no one can ever say anything against it again. Sorry, we're not buying it.
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Nice attempt to wrap yourself up in the constitution while plugging your ears to avoid logic. I'm sure glad you weren't a "journalist" after Pearl Harbor--we'd all be speaking Japanese now, after you reported that we didn't have a prayer of winning the war.
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Wouldn't that be refreshing.
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I notice you aren't interested in betting.
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And your quote - the guy's running around calling people "gooks," his quote is laced with profanity, and shows his shining ignorance to what was actually going on. Cronkite was reporting the facts. Others took those facts and actively tried to bring people like your friend home, because they realized that we shouldn't be over there, and it wasn't right to ask the young men in the military to sacrifice their lives, their limbs, and their health (look up agent orange if you want an idea of health problems vietnam vets are STILL going through today, and that's only a small part of the problem) for a war that we was none of our business, not our problem, and that we shouldn't have been in.
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First of all, I'm sorry that the guy didn't refer to the people who tortured him as "underpriveleged Asian freedom fighters." And as you can see from the quotes above, your version does not equate with the reality. While I wholeheartedly agree that we shouldn't have been there, once we WERE there, you had to be an absolute idiot to ignore the facts and claim "all is lost." Not to mention the harm it did to POWs, not that Cronkite gave a shit.
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I say those who support bringing the troops home are far more supportive of the troops themselves than are the people who support sending them out to be killed and maimed for nothing.
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Funny how on overwhelming majority of the service members I meet disagree with you. Yes, that's my personal experience, and I haven't seen any "polls." I doubt our media is anxious to take any, considering the result they're likely to get.