"""""""""Ten years of american war. Laos is the most bombed country in the history of the world. More than all of the countries of WWII, and more than Vietnam. And Vietnam had more tonnage of bombs dropped on it than the other WWII nations, combined.""""""""""
The Ho Chi Minh trail ran thru Laos. What else were we to do? Allow the commies to resupply the enemy and continue to kill our troops. To bad we didnt incinerate the place. I place more importance on the life of ONE of our boys then any million commie heathens. While the flagburners like to use these statistics about Vietnam they dont tell the whole story. True the monstrous B-52 was capable of delivering unheard of tonnage on an enemy, MOST of these strikes were against jungle supply lines far away from any population centers. In fact in 1968 alone over 150,000 NVA soldiers infiltrated the south via the HCM trail. Until late in the war, when the North had violated cease fire agreements. We were actually much more humane with our bombing during Vietnam then we were during WW-ll . In WW-ll we, and anyone else, didnt hesitate to anhiliate entire cities,regions,countries, with arial bombing.
Of course the revisionists, and assorted long-hairs, like to portray Vietnam as something out of an Oliver Stone movie. Kerry did in the '70's also. As to "being in Cambodia"? Of all his lies this one is the stinkiest. BTW he made this claim to a senate panel, in front of cameras".........."""""In 1986, Kerry told the Senate:
"I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared ??? seared ??? in me."""""""""
Now if a memory is "seared into you" then you'd think hed be damned sure he was actually "in Cambodia". The problem with that is not only wasnt he in Cambodia, many of his shipmates have it "seared into their memories" that they were never IN Cambodia. At the time American involvement in supposedly neutral Cambodia was an important issue. I say "supposedly" because NVA and Vietcong used the place quite regularly to stage,run into,resupply, and launch attacks from. And I guess each time they ran across the border they laughed their asses off at the dumb Americans who stopped the chase. The WW-ll analogy would be the Nazis slipping into Switzerland to re-arm,rest, get some pussy, and then slip back into Germany/France to attack our boys.
By saying he actually WAS in Cambodia Kerry was able to position himself at the head of VVAW and along with Jane Fonda be at the pinnacle of the anti-war movement. Here read more about the Fonda/Kerry connection........
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Saturday, Feb. 14, 2004 12:58 p.m. EST
Kerry Teamed Up With Fonda's 'F*** the Army' Cast
When Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry teamed up with 'Hanoi' Jane Fonda and actor Donald Sutherland for a September 1970 anti-Vietnam War protest at Valley Forge, Pa., he was joining the same cast that Fonda had assembled earlier that year for her "F*** the Army" tour ??? a kind of reverse USO tour designed to undermine the morale of U.S. soldiers fighting in the jungles of Southeast Asia.
On Friday, Kerry suggested that he had no idea how radical Fonda would eventually become, telling radio host Don Imus that he thought her decision to turn against her country by traveling to Hanoi 18 months after Valley Forge was "terrible."
But by the time Kerry agreed to follow the anti-American actress and Sutherland onto the same stage 34 years ago, Fonda's anti-military road show was already well known to both soldiers stationed in Vietnam and those who had returned home.
In "Winter Soldier: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War," author Richard Stacewicz notes that when Fonda and Kerry addressed the Valley Forge rally ??? as depicted in the now infamous photo published by NewsMax on Monday ??? Fonda's military-bashing credentials were already well-established.
"Fonda was becoming very well known at that point for her support of the GI movement. She and Donald Sutherland had been going around to GI bases for a while with the FTA show ["F *** the Army," a spoof of USO shows that was performed just outside bases]," writes Stacewicz.
Fonda's role as a kind of reverse Bob Hope is confirmed in the Vietnam veterans history "Stolen Valor," by B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley.
"Fonda was involved in an organization called F.T.A., which we all knew stood for 'F--k the Army,'" Burkett, a Vietnam veteran himself, reports.
Though both Fonda and Kerry are now both claiming their contact was minimal at Valley Forge and afterward, in fact, while the Massachusetts Democrat served as the VVAW's leading spokesman under the title "National Coordinator," Fonda was named the group's "Honorary National Coordinator," according to two histories of the VVAW, Andrew Hunt's "The Turning" and Gerald Nicosia's "Home to War."
With her celebrity drawing power, Fonda became Kerry's leading fund-raiser at the VVAW, traveling the country to tout the group's mission to expose so-called U.S. war crimes in Vietnam.
The effort culminated in the next Kerry-Fonda collaboration, the "Winter Soldier Investigation," which she financed and where Kerry and other members of the VVAW tried to elicit the most gruesome testimony possible from combat veterans. More than a few Winter Soldier witnesses later turned out to be complete impostors.
Al Hubbard, VVAW's executive secretary, was also one of the principal organizers of the Winter Soldier event. His supposed combat heroism had earned him mythical status within the organization, writes author Hunt. He and Kerry would later go on to appear side-by side on NBC's "Meet the Press" to denounce the war.
But as "Stolen Valor" author Burkett explained to the Wall Street Journal last month, his research showed that Hubbard had grossly inflated his combat credentials.
"Hubbard claimed to be an Air Force pilot who was wounded in Vietnam. Truth: Hubbard was never a pilot, never an officer, never wounded and never assigned to Vietnam," said Burkett.
Hubbard is also featured prominently in Kerry's 1971 book about the group's April 1971 Washington, D.C., protest, "The New Soldier," where he and Kerry appear in a photo together on the same stage as Ramsey Clark.
In several calls last week to the Kerry campaign, NewsMax.com requested financial records from the Winter Soldier Investigation, including Kerry's tax returns from 1970 and expense records for the event, to determine to what extent ??? if any ??? he may have personally benefited from Fonda's largesse.
The calls have not been returned"""""""""""""""""