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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan@Oct 10 2004, 03:46 PM
John Kerry hasn't said anything hurtful about the troops. He's been critical of the decision to go to war, even though he had the same intelligence that Bush had and supported the decision at the time, but one thing he has never done is criticize or be unsupportive of the troops.
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In keeping with the American mood from the 80's where a collective guilt set in for leaving the troops in Vietnam high and dry, you'll rarely if ever see a politician do anything but praise the soldiers fighting the war.
It's why the Swiftboat "Babykiller" ads of Kerry dissing his fellow soldiers in Vietnam have been so effective, his own image and his own words caught in tape. It fit the time, nothing unusual then, but it's a crushing weight on him in the time we live in today.
Cowperson