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Mary Ann Parker LCDR
Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 406
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:22 pm Post subject: TERRORISM WAS A TERM DURING KERRY'S ACTIVITIES!!! |
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I did not want to waste everyone's time until I could find the link
that led me to believe that TERRORISM was indeed a term used
during the Vietnam War.
I have posted same below and wish to know if the Admn. thinks
it would be helpful to post individually to remind people that may
have missed it that INDEED terrorists were part of the military
community at that time.
Let me know of just zap it over there.
I just want Kerry to bear whatever burdens he has created for
himself.
I remain convinced that meeting with TERRORISTS is one of the
offenses.
Thanks,
Mary Ann Parker
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TERRORISM LINK IN WIKIPEDIA ON ALEXANDER HAIG.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
Vietnam War
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Origins
In 1961, the United States began to clandestinely send military advisors, both to give temporary support the South's Diem RVN regime, and to engage in terrorism against both North and South Vietnam. Some of these bombing attacks were designed to inflame and exacerbate both the civil war in the South and to exacerbate the impression of a greater conflict with the North.
The local strategy was |
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Navy_Navy_Navy Admin
Joined: 07 May 2004 Posts: 5777
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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What is strange is that John Kerry could have written about meeting with terrorists in Paris, with regard to the representatives of the NV and PRG.
If that is, indeed, what he wrote, then it removes any excuse for "youthful naivete' " in knowing who he was dealing with.
Half the people in the country would really love to get their hands on those Kerry journals, but in the meantime, (ie: waiting for hell to freeze over ) I think that just the reporting of this conversation between Brinkley and Edwards is shocking enough.
Kerry shammed the entire DNC, most of the ABB'ers in the country and then shammed his own running mate, as well.
The fact that Edwards could see a bombshell like this for what it was and make that comment about it is telling, in itself.
"He met with terrorists? Oh, that's good!" _________________ ~ Echo Juliet ~
Altering course to starboard - On Fire, Keep Clear
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LimaCharlie PO2
Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 386 Location: Oregon
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Anker-Klanker Admiral
Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 1033 Location: Richardson, TX
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 3:21 am Post subject: |
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Yep, sure does - with references to events as early as 1967, e.g.,
Quote: | ...By the end of 1967, they had committed at least 100,000 acts of terror against the South Vietnamese people. The record is an endless litany of tortures, mutilations and murders that would have been instructive even to such as Adolf Hitler.
Perhaps because until recently the terrorism has been waged mainly in remote places, this aspect of the war has received scant attention from the press. Hence the enemy has largely succeeded in casting himself in the role of noble revolutionary. It is long past time for Americans, who are sick and tired of being vilified for trying to help {15395c2} South Vietnam stay free, to take a hard look at the nature of this enemy. |
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Quote: | Senator McGovern. Lt., I wonder, with all due respect, if you could confine your remarks to your own personal experiences. (Applause.)
Lieutenant Stephens. I would be happy to. (Call of “He didn’t have any. He was on a big ship in the sea.”)
(Call of “Shut up.”)
(Calls of “Was he in a village?”)
Lieutenant Stephens. About eight months of my three and a half years in Vietnam were on a ship. I spent the rest of my time in country in Vietnam.
I think there has been a tendency in the past for people to make heroes of the North Vietnam Government, of the Viet Cong, of the people that I consider the enemy.
I will speak of my direct involvement, here, and what I can recall very vividly.
In the spring of 1969, in a village out of Can Tho, in South Vietnam, when I was {15394c3} riding along I came across a school bus. A terrorist had thrown a grenade in this school bus that was filled with children. Two of the children were killed, three of them were wounded so seriously that I have no question but that they probably died later, and several certainly were wounded to the extent that they were maimed for life. |
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