--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 11/1/06 12:40:26 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Ha! That's a great response. But "Carry" was making a > clever joke about Bush's poor academic performance and > being "stuck in Iraq." Its actually a clever joke and > I can't really believe that people authentically > believe it is some sort of put-down of our troops. > > I can't actually believe that anyone would think it > was a clever joke! I mean, when did Kerry ever put down > the troops?
You meant to say why anyone would *not* think it was a joke. > Comparing them to Genghis Khan doesn't count. Let's just give that a little bit of context. Here's part of what he said before the Senate committee: I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.... They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country. We call this investigation the "Winter Soldier Investigation." The term "Winter Soldier" is a play on words of Thomas Paine in 1776 when he spoke of the Sunshine Patriot and summertime soldiers who deserted at Valley Forge because the going was rough. We who have come here to Washington have come here because we feel we have to be winter soldiers now. We could come back to this country; we could be quiet; we could hold our silence; we could not tell what went on in Vietnam, but we feel because of what threatens this country, the fact that the crimes threaten it, not reds, and not redcoats but the crimes which we are committing that threaten it, that we have to speak out. http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html Read the rest of it, because his testimony has also been grossly and maliciously distorted by the right wing. In the first place, he wasn't "accusing" the troops in Vietnam of atrocities, contrary to the wingnut spin. He was *reporting* what they themselves had said they had done. And the point was not to hold the troops up to criticism but the civilian and military leadership who were running the war. Kerry has *never* spoken ill of the troops. He's their fiercest defender. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
