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uncle arnie wrote:

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 02:09 pm -0600 UTC, Telamon
posted: %MM

In article ,
uncle arnie wrote:

On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 03:16 pm -0600 UTC, Telamon
posted: %MM

In article ,
David wrote:

Published on Friday, June 18, 2004 by CommonDreams.org
Scrooge & Marley, Inc. -- The True Conservative Agenda
by Thom Hartmann

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What a bunch of communist claptrap. Things are much better in Vietnam
since the communists took over, just ask Kerry.


Wrong current enemy. The 5 minutes hate is supposed to directed at
Islamic terrorists, France (or maybe they are okay again), snivelling
liberal wieners.

They are the enemy within.

And have you been to Viet Nam recently? It is not fully recovered from
the
war, but it and its people are doing well. Beautiful country.

I have never been to Vietnam. Maybe some are doing well economically
since we started trading with them but they do not enjoy the freedoms we
have.

I know people that still have relatives in Vietnam and they are not
doing well. Many here in the US send money back to their families that
only want to leave that country. It's a real shame we failed them and
Kerry is one of the reasons we failed.

That ******* Kerry also managed to block a bill that tied trade with
Vietnam to a reduction in human right abuses. That SOB continues to be
on the wrong side of an issue.

Makes perfect sense that trade with the Saudis has never been tied to human
rights abuses. Too bad another 2.5 million of those danged Vietnamese
couldn't have been killed. Clean the place up properly. Then they wouldn't
be whining about Starbucks, Folger's, Nabob and the like for persuading
them to grow coffee instead of food and then driving the price down below
production costs. And anyone could see that it's better to grow the rice in
Texas and ship it back to them at profit. Get the farmers to move to the
cities, working in factories at 70 cents per day making shoes for export.
Their daughters can entertain the tourists.

What only kind of deal do you the communist bosses make are one that
benefits the party not the people. Thanks for making my point.

Good thing that in 1945-46 the US rejected the proposed Vietnamese
constitution (taken almost word for work from the American constitution),
recalled their advisors, and told the French to come back in. They could
see that the Vietnamese were going to become commies anyway and were too
stupid to run their own country. And look how those ungrateful French
turned out. Jeez, those winos are nearly commies today.

I wouldn't know about that. The US position was that they could not
support themselves against communist aggression. Looks like we were
right.

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Telamon
Ventura, California