SwiftVets.com

[stealthy]

http://dailytimes.com/story.lasso?wcd=11917
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Last year, Human Rights Watch published secret government documents that had been smuggled out of Vietnam. In those documents, high-level government officials instructed local officials to “eradicate out-dated and backward ways, and eradicate all illegal religious organizations.” Documents also described processes and procedures to force Montagnards to renounce their Christian faith and swear loyalty to the government.

Encouraged by a weak response from the West, last Easter Vietnamese security forces intervened to prevent Mennonite Christian celebrations. Hundreds of Montagnards were killed. Others were tortured and jailed.

The persecution continued last June. At Ho Chi Minh City, Rev. Nguyen Hong Quang, a human rights activist and Mennonite Church leader, was arrested. One of his crimes was speaking out for and sheltering Montagnard Christians.

At this writing Rev. Quang is still in jail, awaiting trial. And Montagnard Christians are hiding in the jungle. Afraid to cross over into Cambodia and too terrified to return home, they are sick and starving.

When persecution of Christians intensified last fall, four U.S. Representatives, two Democrats and two Republicans, offered House Resolution 427. That resolution urged the State Department to designate Vietnam a “country of particular concern” for “egregious, systematic and ongoing abuses of religious freedom.”

That designation would tie foreign aid dollars to the improvement of the country’s human rights record.

Called the Vietnam Human Rights Act, that resolution passed by a stunning vote of 450-1. However, according to both the Boston Globe and Christianity Today, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry prevented it from reaching the floor in the Senate.

Earlier this year, that same resolution was offered in the House again. This time it passed by a vote of 323-45. It remains to be seen if Senator Kerry will block it in the Senate again.

John Kerry likes to talk about what he did in Vietnam. Maybe a more pertinent subject is what he has done for Vietnam.
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American Conservative

[LewWaters]

On the Dick Cavett debate, with John O'Neill, back in 1971, Kerry said he estimated political assasinations and deaths would total maybe around 3,000 or so, once the North took over. Looking back, it was closer to 3 million, not including all the "boat people" who fled the Communist regime and untold thousands of them estimated to have drowned fleeing.

Personally, I couldn't live with that on my conscience, but then again, I have a conscience.
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Clark County Conservative

[manofaiki]

Here's a guy who couldn't see Communism for the stark evil that it was and couldn't see what would happen.

What makes ANYBODY on the left think he can look at Al Queda accurately and deal with it effectively?

manofaiki
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"If any man has not the stomach for this fight, let him depart from us.! We would not die in that man's company!"

You bugged out in Vietnam - so we don't need you commanding us in the War on Terror!

So get lost, John Kerry!!!!!