I am sick and tired of all this Vietnam war coverage in the election of our Presidential canidate. For crying out load it was over 30 years ago. I was born in '73 and Vietnam is nothing but pages in a history book to me. Can we get over what these two guys did 30 years ago and focus on what they actually plan to do next year? Is that too much to ask?
OK, we get it, Mr. Kerry, you served for four months on a "swift boat" in Vietnam. Can you tell me, though, how spending four months on a boat thirty five years ago is a better qualificaiton than spending the last three years destroying terrorist training camps, breaking up terror cells in the US and abroad, uncovering a multinational nuclear proliferation ring, forcing belligerent North Korea to the bargaining table, cowing Libya into giving up its WMD programs and terrorist support, and winning two wars against terrorist-supporting Islamofascist dictatorships in the process.
Personally, I think both Kerry's and Bush's Vietnam service are irrelevant in the context of this Presidential election. Sure, I'm grateful that he and more than three million Americans (including my father) served in that war to hold back the evil of communism from South Vietnam. However, this election is to decide who should lead the nation through the troubling and dangerous four years ahead. We are fighting a War on Terror. This is the single most important issue that the candidates must address. The messages of the candidates need to be recent and provide relevant experience in ensuring we win this war. This war will not be won by commanders of war boats on a river. Nor will it be won by National Guard fighter pilots in Alabama. This is not a conventional war and will not be won in conventional ways. Speak to us, candidates about how you will fight this unique war.
John Kerry is hiding behind his Vietnam experience to avoid talking about the nineteen years he spent in the Senate voting against defending America, and the media is aiding and abetting him. The more we allow Vietnam to dominate the election discussions, the less we will be able to find out what a vote for Kerry would mean for our future.
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I agree my brother!!!! I wish John Kerry and the "Swift Boat Veterans For Truth" would shut up and lets look a POLICY rather than history.
We need a president with a real sustainable policy for protection of American soil. I do belive that Mr. Bush is more qualified for this than Mr. Kerry.
I only wish there was option 3. A commited Federalist who understood that we must PROTECT our soil FIRST and FOREMOST. We need out of the UN, NATO and all other international entaglements. Then we need to get to the business of dismantling ALL organizations in our soil and worldwide who seek to bring the violence of this war to our soil and to our economic intrests world wide.
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