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Originally posted by SongRider
You think hes a coward & disgrace because he saw what he saw when he was in Vietnam and told people the truth about what was going on over there?
He also felt compelled to do whatever he could once he had served "in country" to save the lives of the men he was serving with by trying to STOP the war over there? A war WE ALL NOW KNOW we not only LOST but should have NEVER gotten involved in!
I had 3 family members who served in Vietnam as well as my best friend. All 4 of them have said from the day they returned to this day the EXACT same thing Kerry said about Vietnam. LONG before ANYONE here ever heard of John Kerry.
If you want to know what happened in Nam then go talk to a VET who was IN NAM.
Fuck your Bush-ass-kissing point of view about what happened in a war he was to afraid of to attend!!!
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He's probably never seen real action or faced death in combat. Even if Kerry was a big wet pussy during battle he was still in battle and you can't strip that away from him. Even if he didn't earn medals he was still a soldier fighting in a time of war for his country.
Some here seem to think that because they've served in the army, it gives them an excuse to stop thinking independently after they're out of the army. You don't have to follow what you're told now, you can actually think on your own. We can appreciate how you feel about your 'brothers' in Iraq. But you're not helping them by supporting the war blindly. It's similar to the way we can look back now and say that anybody supporting Vietnam was an imbecile.
Maybe being in the army and following all those commands really breeds independent thinking processes out of a man. I have more respect for Kerry, a man who was in combat, who could actually go against the grain and say it's wrong. That's a more honorable man than a follower.