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[dusty]

Bush won the pop. vote by 3.5 million.

How many Viet Vets are there out there?

Looks like we all voted. hehe

A great day for America!

Dusty

[Rich]

Now ask yourself how many American military veterans, and active, are out there holding voting cards? I think the boat guys deserve a lot of credit. They were the rallying point. And the military vote is what won it for Bush......................Rich
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1268469/postsThe Vietnam

[size=18]War Was Re-Fought Last Night . . . And This Time The Anti-War Protest Crowd Lost[/size]vanity | 11/03/2004 | stayout


Posted on 11/03/2004 6:14:15 AM PST by stayout


For your consideration and reflection . . .

One of the most savory aspects of last night's win for W was the following realization: Kerry's loss is a vindication for the American position in Vietnam. Ever since 1975 when the images of the U.S. Army choppers evacuating the remnants of the U.S. Embassy staff in Saigon filled our television screens, the leftist anti-war baby-boom generation imposed their narrative upon the American people that Vietnam was a war of an "imperialist America losing to a pajama-clad people's army."
Of course, the objective truth was quite the opposite: American forces never lost a battlefield skirmish against the enemy; further, in the greater context of the Cold War, Vietnam was but one battle in an overall victory against Communism and Soviet aggression. The South Vietnamese lost Vietnam only because the anti-American crowd here (yes, anti-American) -- exemplified by the likes of Jane Fonda, Walter Cronkite, and John Kerry -- convinced Americans not to support our freedom-loving brethren in South Vietnam. But truth never stood in the way of the leftist elite in the media, universities, and public education system from continuing to foist their version of "history" upon the American people.

Thus last night produced an ironic victory over perhaps the most famous anti-war protestor of them all: John Kerry. Essentially, in the end, he ran on a "Iraq is Vietnam" platform. Kerry argued over and over again that we should cut and run from the Iraqis like we cut and run from the South Vietnamese. Kerry and his supporters all but recovened the "Winter Soldier" hearings to make their point that "once again, bad imperialist America is trying to impose its will upon a a 'people's' insurgency." Well, guess what Mr. Kerry and your supporters: the American people have decisively rejected your approach. We will not cut and run this time. We will not desert our freedom-loving brethren in Baghdad. We do not accept your "Vietnam-was-a-hopeless-quagmire" paradigm. Freedom is worth fighting for and was worth fighting for. In short, Mr. Kerry, the supreme irony of your campaign's revisiting of the Vietnam War was to redirect history towards the view that Vietnam was just a waystop on the road towards worldwide human freedom -- and that anyone who stood in the way of that result (especially including you) stood in the wrong.