Reply #41: Im still waiting for "champ" to fullfill the promise to prosecute... [View All]

... the Vietnam War politicians for war crimes. Guess it wasnt politicaly expidient. The leaders learned that they can get away with anything no matter how deceptive and crooked. It wasnt exactly a precident in American history but it was a precident in the sense that we actualy had a huge anti war movement and probabilly could have SET a counter precident in making it clear to leaders that they better BEWARE if they want to try crap again.

Would have come in handy especially post 9/11 but Kerry decided it was just a youthful hot headed spell (well he will use language meant to pump himself up as a young here outraged at <gasp> a corrupt government taking advantage on innocent youths)and dropped his efforts once he realized that he had alreay done "enough" and decided his bright political future was victory enough.

(disclaimer)Honestly at the grass roots the Iraq War issue has had a lot more protest but with little support from strong organizations and politicians (end of disclaimer) BUT how many serious efforst have you seen to go after leaders /joint chief generals /politicians from either this or especially the 1991 Iraq War ? You have to go to some obscure web page to even find details and even then it will likely be the first time you ever heard of such a thing. Why were we so much stronger in the Vietnam days when the internet didnt exist and other means of organizing were so much weaker ? Probabilly IMO we (by the fact that we attacked a communist nation) had the benefit of Soviet spy agitators actualy being on our side (again just my opinion and I by no means am communist though Ill take support wherever we can get it)rousing up all kind of demonstrations getting the medias attention and the communists were good at that type of thing based on my research. We were lucky to have them coincidentialy on our side . Problem is that one of the soldiers that picked up the banner of protest infront of the media's wide open eyes was John Kerry . Somebody who ended up proving he basicaly only cared for himself . Kerry decided he has "grown above it" or some other crap excusing all the war crimminals. Anyway we now have the internet age and organization on our side . It would have fast put a stop the the military machine extending its gears over Iraq again. Problem is that politicians like John Kerry were our leaders and old "champ" stopped the energy of the worldwide anti war movement cold in its tracks by his deaf ear to our concerns and full forced march to the Bush / Chenny drumbeat.

However I give your post credit Kerry might be "as good as" Dean if not slightly better overall .