"Horvath" wrote
Kerry Honored by Vietnamese Communistsnow!

Lets call a spade a spade. The 'Nam war was a horrible mistake we were
hoodwinked into by lies. The Gulf of Tonkin incident was staged to dupe the
American people, congress and even the president. Thousands of lives were
lost or ruined, and billions of dollars spent to save JFK's reputation and
that of his advisors. And where did those billions come from? Why from
school budgets, medical research, highway and waterway maintenance, even
defense procurement. As a result our schools, infrastructure and military
suffered. Our pilots were flying planes that were two generations older than
they should have been. Grass was growing out of cracks in I-70 in the
Midwest. And schools, even colleges (especially colleges?), began turning
out illiterates.

Had it not been for anti-war protests - people like Kerry and Hanoi Jane -
we'd still be there, because that war was at once profitable but unwinable
given the constraints placed on our military. McNamara & Co wouldn't allow
our grunts to even have the *appearance* of winning for fear we'd look like
foreign invaders - which, of course, we obviously were! They saw nothing
wrong with sending "American peasants" to bleed and die fighting a holding
action designed to prop up one corrupt South Vietnamese government after
anotherWITHOUT looking like a puppet governments. And while American
"peasants" bled and died, their "betters" - spoiled brats like the bush
baby -joined safe National Guard units and boozed it up in their frat
houses.

Now it's 'Nam all over again - except we call it Iraq. American boys that
Bush and friends see as "peasants" are bleeding and dying in a war based on
lies; a war nobody can explain or justify. Meanwhile, military R&D, school
and infrastructure budgets are being bled white to pay for it. See that
flash-bang over Baghdad? That's $5000 your kids' school didn't get! See that
kid firing his machine gun? That's $2 every time it goes bang! See that
burned-out humvee ... that's why our harbors and waterways are being
allowed to silt up and our highways and bridges are going to pot ... just
like they did when LBJ was in!

Why? We're told to fight terrorists. But the spooks who otta know say that
Bush's Iraq adventure diverted so many resources AWAY from the war on terror
that Bin Laden and Co have thrived.

I've voted solid Republican since Nixon ran against JFK, but not this time.
Kerry? Naw, I'm going to write in Jesse Jackson ... or maybe Elmer Fudd.