"Thomas Schoene" wrote in message
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Ed Rasimus wrote:

And, yet you don't seem to respect the opinion of those of us who
served in SEA that the actions of Lt John F. Kerry after his
exceptionally brief service were to the detriment of half a million of
his brothers in arms who were still in harms way.

Ed, I have a concern here. It may be that I misunderstand you, so please
don't take this personally.

It's often been said that people who didn't fight in Vietnam didn't have
the
credibility to criticize the war. Now you suggest that those who did
fight
aren't supposed to be critical either because it's disloyal. How then is
anyone allowed to oppose a war that they believe to be unjust? Surely we
have to have some way to do that or we suffer badly as a democratic
society.

Tom, read what BG Burkett had to say about Kerry's antiwar activities in
"Stolen Valor" (written way back in 1998, and discussing Kerry only in
passing). And remember that his testimony before Congress was largely
nothing more than a second-hand repeat of the detrius resulting from the
discredited "Winter Soldier Investigation", fancied up by former RFK
speechwriter Adam Walinski. Add in the fact that Kerry has flip-flopped on
the "I tossed my medals over the wall" issue to his present, "Gee, aren't my
framed medals really nice". had Kerry come back and offered a heartflet, and
more importantly accurate, depiction of why he opposed the war, and left out
the baseless accusations of widespread attrocities, etc., I have little
doubt Ed would bear him little concern; but Kerry went well beyond that. He
even went so far as to defend his fellow VVAW "combat veteran" Al Hubbard
(who IIRC was his partner when he appeared on "Meet the Press" in 1971 to
speak out against the war)--Hubbard was later discovered to have created his
own "combat history", as did another VVAW leader, Michael Harbert. Read
Burkett's book (it was recommended by folks like Joseph Galloway and James
Webb) before you start accepting much of the old VVAW line.

Brooks


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Tom Schoene