10/31/2004 10:37:04 AM|||Toni|||Here's someone who should know how destructive Kerry's actions from the early '70's were to POW's.

No One Who Has Aided the Enemy Deserves to Become President
PAUL GALANTI
GUEST COLUMNIST
Sunday, October 31, 2004

Richmond resident Paul Galanti (Cdr., USN Ret.) was shot down over North Vietnam June 17, 1966, and spent 2,432 days as a prisoner of war in Hanoi.

Asked for a recommendation as to possible courses of action for Congress to pursue, Kerry said he had spoken to representatives from Hanoi and from the PRG (Viet Cong) at the Paris peace talks, and mentioned his support for "Madame Binh's points." At that time Madam Nguyen Thi Binh was the Viet Cong foreign minister. These meetings took place in the spring of 1970, apparently before Kerry joined the VVAW. Hunh? It's illegal for U.S. citizens to do this, much less commissioned officers.

Here's what I don't get. How can anyone who has been a combat war vet think that John Kerry wasn't a traitor and harmed American POW's from his actions? People say he was just a young idealistic man then but I don't think someone who is 27 years of age as young. At this age one is considered a mature adult with responsibilities for their actions. No excuses. There is no indication whatsoever that John Kerry has strayed far from his idealism of the early 70's today.
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