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By: buddy larsen

buddy larsen — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:24:02 +0000

"Why do you not commit suicide?" I ask my patients.

By: 3Case

3Case — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:43:23 +0000

The first refugee my Father helped to place in our community was Vietnamese, an officer and helicopter pilot in the ARVN. He had flown his family and neighbors out of the fall. He was educated here and was very fluent in English. I drew to duty of driving him around New England to and from corporate job interviews. We discussed what was going on in Cambodia and he told me then that a killing fields scenario would never happen in Viet Nam, that there would be “reeducation camps”, that overwork, poor nutrition and disease would do for the Communists what the killing fields did for the Khmer Rouge, and that the Communists would keep “reeducating” until the people they wanted dead were dead.

Slaughter is slaughter; whether via killing fields or via reeducation camps…that some will not see that is beyond contemptible.

By: mark_b

mark_b — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:35:01 +0000

Major Mike Slywester:

I believe your claim is that there is no evidence to back The Star Bulletin article. In particular the statement:

“The vessel, which has traveled to 48 states, will be displayed at Kewalo Basin Park this weekend as part of a “Freedom Boat” exhibition. It will celebrate the journeys of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese who fled their country’s communist rule by venturing into the Pacific Ocean on unsafe boats in the wake of the Vietnam War. Not all who tried to escape from Vietnam were as fortunate, and it is estimated that as many as half a million people drowned or were killed by pirates in the South China Sea, according to Madalenna Lai, a Vietnamese who spent four days in 1975 in a vessel at sea with her four children before they were found by an American ship and taken to Guam.”

Your claim is to deny that their were “boat people” and one half million did not drown.

Is this correct?

Also, do you are agree that Mr. Kerry is mistaken in assertion about the bloodbath.

Or are you just using a false statement to imply that another false statement is true?

F->F=T

Of course the implication is true, but both statements would remain false.

Which works logically, but will probably not fly here.

By: Paul from Florida

Paul from Florida — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:02:45 +0000

John Kerry was on Washington Journal, C-SPAN today with Susan Swain.
Caller from Lubbock, Texas, says, “I remember the horrible killings after Vietnam with the boat people coming over here, and I really hate to go off and leave our allies over in Iraq, and I am concerned about that.”

KERRY: Let me just say to the first part of your question with respect to boat people and killing, everybody predicted a massive bloodbath in Vietnam. There was not a massive bloodbath in Vietnam. There were reeducation camps, and they weren’t pretty and, you know, nobody, you know, likes that kind of outcome. But on the other hand, I’ve met lot of people today who were in those education camps, who are thriving in the Vietnam of today.

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=3274

By: buddy larsen

buddy larsen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:28:42 +0000

yep –when in the moral neighborhood of holocaust, one should opt for keeping one’s mouth shut unless one has a healing word.

By: fedya

fedya — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:02:11 +0000

@theOldJew:
Thank you for our sensible and humane retort to “NahnCee”.

@NahnCee:
theOldJew – you need to look up Godwin’s Law.
You lose.

Personally, I agree with “OldJew”. I think that your comment was heartless, demeaning, and appallingly stupid. You also don’t seem to know what Godwin’s Law is, so, “you lose”, or something equally puerile.

Your citation of “Godwin’s Law” is simply DoubleSpeak. No one called anyone the political “N***” word and no one hinted anyone is metaphorically “Adolfo the H”.

Your bile-dripping contempt for refugees attempting to escape from disastrous situations is is beneath contempt. Your inane and hatred filled comments leave me gasping and I really think you do terrible damage to the causes you may imagine you support. You are no kin of mine when I think of “the American Spirit”.

How’s this? “NahnCee: little Miss Stoneyheart with a rock for a head.” Hmmm. too ad hominem, no? Sorry, better to talk to a rock.

By: Roderick Reilly

Roderick Reilly — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:07:07 +0000

“”"”"”buddy larsen:

That noble “watergate congress” also dismantled America’s intelligence insitutions.

Just for fun sometime, search “Church Committee” and then think about the fun we’ve had since.”"”"”"”

In the end, the Democratic Party lost Vietnam. And yes, the Democratic Party eviscerated the CIA. This was more than 30 years ago, and they’ve only gotten worse. A political party that has raised cowardice to a virtue.

By: buddy larsen

buddy larsen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:30:08 +0000

That noble “watergate congress” also dismantled America’s intelligence insitutions.

Just for fun sometime, search “Church Committee” and then think about the fun we’ve had since.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:08:38 +0000

Mike Slywester: Got any data on those re-education camps?

Andersonville ran a 35% death rate. That damnyankee camp outside Chicago was at least as high. Chances of surviving either one of those places was approximately double the chances of surviving “reeducation” and the
first few months folowing release.

And would you mind checking out the Saigon ghetto in which former ARVNs and their spouses
and their descendants are forced to live?
No plumbing, electricity, sanitation, health care, etc etc.

I will also point out that what passes for a “VA hospital” or “veterans home” for the NVA boi doi is rather equivalent to the
Japanese-run internment camp at Santo Tomas.

In short, the dinks are a cowardly bunch of slopes pursued by demons of their own making.
They actually behave 30 years afterwards like
yawnforbeskerry falsely accused us of behaving when in mortal danger.

The only saving grace about VN is that what happened there paled next to what happened in Cambodia.

By: Mike Sylwester

Mike Sylwester — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:28:58 +0000

buddy larson:
“There was a Major Major Major in “Catch 22″. His parents, Mr. & Mrs. Major, had peculiar senses of humor and gave their son the first name Major. When Major Major joined the Army, he rose to the rank of Major. Bob Newhart played him in the film version of the book.”
———

When I was in the military, I thought that maybe I should change my name legally to Colonel C. Colonel, to see whether this method might work for me too.

The part of the movie that I remember most is the first 15 seconds, where Paula Prentis was shown full-frontal nude walking on a beach.