Swift Boat Swine for Truth

[j_b]

well, it would not nearly piss me off quite as much

although i do agree that even if it was privately held, stealing it would likely make it more remote from public viewing. no doubt, the system of patrons is still important to art production yet the idea of large private collections unavailable for public viewing does bother me.

 

sorry about the thread drift. dru made me do it.

Edited August 25, 2004 by j_b

[foraker]

So, if there's no truth to what Kerry says, all those other vets have to turn their medals in too. Anyone? Anyone?

[JosephH]

MrRadon,

 

As I have stated elsewhere, I did two back-to-back tours in Vietnam. I'm sure your father also served with distinction and was not one of the small minority of men guilty of war crimes.

 

John Kerry never said your father was in fact one of those men. He simply told the American people what was going on in Vietnam on the ground (and it really was going on, kid). To be honest, I feel sad for men and women that served in Vietnam and still somehow manage to believe that the war was "legitimate" or even a "morally correct thing to do" no matter how honorable their own service was. Those vets either never bothered to learn anything about the people or the history of the country, were blind to the events of the day and what they witnessed, or simply can't live with the idea that it was a dishonorable war and all for naught on top of it.

 

Again, I have no doubt your father and his friends served honorably, but we all did so in a dishonorable war that was run by a dishonest government in support of another wholly corrupt puppet government. John Kerry and others were simply men who were there bearing witness to the truth of what was happening. People that can't handle that truth either have an agenda, are in some form of denial, are trying to spare others, or are trying to spare themselves.