OT Flame War

That is why the French were there, and why the US supported the French
instead of the Vietnamese nationalists in the late 1940's and 1950's.

Well, that's one interpretation of the facts. There are others.

The Vietnamese turned to "Communism" as a means of national liberation,
not from ideology.

You are speaking of course of the North Vietnamese, not the South Vietnamese.

And even more absent in Dick Cheney and George W. Bush, who didn't even
have the decency to fight in a war they supported.

That's pretty lame. Bush was an excellent fighter pilot, and his commanders
agreed on that. Flying is fighter aircraft is dangerous, no matter where it's
done. When Bush applied to go to Vietnam, there was already a glut of pilots;
he really wasn't needed as a pilot. He accrued more points than he needed to
earn his Honorable Discharge. He signed off on his Form 180, allowing total
access to his military records (something Kerry still hasn't done; the Navy is
withholding 94 PAGES of documents of Kerry's military records, at Kerry's own
request). Bush didn't travel to Paris to meet Communist agents (as did Kerry),
and Bush didn't lie about "earning" Purple Hearts from minor, self-inflicted
wounds.

Putting a "g" after such statements does nothing to make them more
acceptable.

Of course not. Like most leftists, you sincerely believe that you alone have
the right to belittle others who disagree with you, and you have no sense of
humor whatsoever.


James S. Prine

"Colonel David Crockett...would *not* have supported Kerry."

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