Hanoi Jane

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Hello Art:

Understand what you are saying about the first Mrs. Turner. I know nothing about that nice lady, and was only directing my remarks towards Turner's poor taste in women like Hanoi Jane. She must be making a shrink a fortune with her guilt problems. Then... maybe rich people don't have any guilt problems. Not yet anyway.

Greetings to all Texacans...YEEEHAW!
 
At one point the government went after the draft dodgers. Why did the biggest one of them all never face any repercussions for his actions? You know the one I mean, he met with the head of the ROTC because his number was up and (gosh)lied and said he would be attending the university. Then in December he wrote the man to thank him for "saving him" because he was against the war and had organized protest groups against it. Why was he treated differently than others?
 
I was opposed to the war back then because I thought it was immoral to send our guys in with one hand tied behind their backs and with no committment by our government to actually win the war. Seeing Hanoi Jane on that anti-aircraft gun, though, made me sick.
The post by Bill in NM just reinforced that sick feeling 100-fold.

Dick
 
FWIW Congress did approve the Vietnam war with the Tonkin Bay Resolution.

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So many pistols, so little money.
 
I've heard that Jane Fonda has become a Christian. Has anyone heard anything about her repenting of her treason and apologizing to the Americans she helped get tortured in Hanoi?

No forgiveness without repentence.
 
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was a sham. A few months after the congress approved of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution it was discovered that the resolution was written 2 whole months prior to the incident (when the two small gun boats attacted an american destroyer and were obliterated by whithering return fire. Johnson wanted us in that war, and was willing to do anything so that we could have a shiny black marble monument in D.C. with 58,000 names on it. Congress MUST declare war in order to have war. A resolution doesn't cut the constitutional mustard. The war powers act doesn't cut it either. If you are prepared to send thousands of sons, brothers, fathers, uncles and husbands to their deaths, congress had better be willing to put their own political careers on the line too. If not, I would encourage massive civil disobedience. The Vietnam and earlier generations were still holding the belief that the government is only doing what is good for the country. I really do believe that the men who went there did so because they felt it was their duty. God bless them for that. I hope that now because of their sacrifices, the population has learned the wisdom of the document written to guide this nation in 1789. There is a reason why they wanted the House of Reps to DECLARE WAR. Not to pass resolutions of encouragement, or other signals to the president to go ahead and piss on the constitution and do so with immunity from consequences or impeachment.
 
NOTING THAT THIS TOPIC WILL SPIN OUT OF CONTROL.... ;)

...I hereby move it to Legal and Political, where I feel it should reside. Enjoy!

--Long Path
 
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