Mark said:
Check out "Stolen Honor"
www.stolenhonor.com
[puke] Kerry makes me puke! [puke]
<i> How is my punctuation?</i>
Ha Ha Ha!! I think it passes the test Mark, LOL!!
Sorry, but what Bush and Kerry did 30-plus years ago doesn't effect my opinion of either one of them; otherwise, we would also be taking in account of Bush's drunken and drug abusive PAST as well, which is very well publicly known.
I hate hearing about their Vietnam pluses and minuses because all they are doing is trivializing the war that thousands gave their lives to fight and fought with honor and some with nothing but survival in mind.
Besides, does anyone even know how we got into the war?
The Maddox was sailing past South Vietnamese gunboats which--with U.S. planning and support-- had just raided a North Vietnamese island, it had steamed near the coastline, deliberately provoking North Vietnamese radar defenses. The second "attack" apparently never occured; it was imagined by an inexperienced sonar man in dark and stormy seas... (i)
The key word here is the "imagined." If you were in the military, the imagined is a helpful hint from the commanding officer standing over your shoulder helping you see something that wasn't there.
Who cares if Kerry did or didn't do what he and others claim he did or didn't do? There were many that went there and fought for years and came home and there were others that died within hours of stepping off the plane.
Who cares is Bush got any special treatment and was AWOL? Thousands also got special treatment, and who wouldn't have taken the chance if it were given to them? Again, tens of thousands died for this war that was never even classified as being a war but rather a policing.
If I were judged for being the same person I was when I was in high school, we would all have a problem.
As the saying goes, a tiger doesn't change its strips over night... That's just it, overnight!! Listening to Bush's speeches, one would think he was the greatest thing since sliced bread, but if you step back and have the facts, Bush's record doesn't even match Bush's record.
If you were ever in the military, you know that what is relayed to the public is surgar coated and the true ways of the military will never be known except for those that experience it first hand.
If anyone thinks that the U.S. goes around just handing out candy and cruise the world like the cowboy in the white hat, you are snowed and you are much better off believing that.
There is a reason the U.S. govenment rules the world the way we do, if we didn't we would be over run the sameday.
We are exposed to the world right now, and if China wanted to, they could walk right in. We are at their mercy right now. Also, if you think Russia is poor and dis-armed or has a limited means of firepower, you are again, snowed.
Lennon said that they will take over America without firing one shot... If Bush keeps it up by over extending our military, it could very well happen.
Just as President Reagan said, "Peace Through Strength," the only thing that keeps the U.S. from being taken out is the Nukes that are all over the world pointed at one another.
As for reducing the Nukes, do you really think the U.S. would reduce our stock pile of Nukes without having something better?
Just like President Bush Sr. stated during the first golf war when questioned by a reporter, "What if Hussein Uses Chemical Warfare?"
His reply, "He doesn't even want to go there."
Case and point.
I don't care for Kerry, but I care for Bush Jr. even less... I am making the choice of the lesser two evils, and in my eyes, Bush is pure evil!!
(i) E. Greenberg, B. Page,
The Struggle for Democracy (HarperCollinsChoice, 1995), pg. 149
Who'd you have to check with to find that out? And yes, I MEANT to use the "word" yeahright. Did you MEAN to say pass and passed instead of past?