On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:18:57 -0700, Tom Jaszewski wrote:

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There are no heroes in war, only victims.....


Nice dismissal of the actions of a lot of heroes. Easy for you to do that, isn't
it?

As a part of the "Vietnam
Veterans Against the War" campaign I saw NONE of the idiocies
overblown by blowhards and republican chicken hawks!

Well, since YOU saw none, it certainly couldn't have happened. Any stories of
other people who claimed it happened to them or they saw it happen were just
figments of their imagination. Speaking of know-nothings, did you learn your
philosophy from the ostriches?

Once again, OVERBLOWN!

Basically irrelevant, anyway, since I wasn't really referring to the "hippies
spitting on GI's". My reference was to the way the country(the USA) as a whole
treated its soldiers, sending them off to war, then treating them like criminals
when they returned(when they weren't just ignored).

What was
outstanding was the war mongers republicans inability to deal with
agent orange. That was the real slap in Vietnam veterans faces! Not
some highed out hippy!

I didn't even bother mentioning hippies. I was referring to the behavior of the
country as a whole, which I still consider abominable.

Yes abominable behavior! It's still hard to believe the Amerikan
public allowed the war to continue!

Interesting you have no criticisms of that same Army of heroes that
never got justice from Agent Orange exposure.

They should be criticized for being exposed to Agent Orange and never getting
justice for it? I don't see where they deserve criticism for that.

I guess your precious
Army hadn't much regard for it's heroes either?

That Army has been trying to get justice for decades since then. They've
achieved some success. Should they be criticized for not being 100% successful?
I don't think so. BTW, my "precious" Army doesn't control the civilian
government and how IT treats its soldiers. Civilians do that. The same civilians
who start the wars and send the soldiers off to fight those wars.