Comments on: 40 Years Later, McCain Remembers Vietnam

Republican Presidential Hopeful And Former POW Reminisces With War Buddies, Condemns Torture

[usaprophet]

I agree with Dr. Paul about the issue of illegal immigration. The talk must stop. We must secure our borders now. A nation without secure borders is no nation at all. It makes no sense to fight terrorists abroad when our own front door is left unlocked. Ron Paul has a plan: (1.) Physically secure our borders and coastlines. We must do whatever it takes to control entry into our country before we undertake complicated immigration reform proposals. (2.) Enforce visa rules. Immigration officials must track visa holders and deport anyone who overstays their visa or otherwise violates U.S. law. This is especially important when we recall that a number of 9/11 terrorists had expired visas. (3.) No amnesty. Estimates suggest that 10 to 20 million people are in our country illegally. That''s a lot of people to reward for breaking our laws. (4.) No welfare for illegal aliens. Americans have welcomed immigrants who seek opportunity, work hard, and play by the rules, but taxpayers should not pay for illegal immigrants who use hospitals, clinics, schools, roads, and social services. (5.) End birthright citizenship. As long as illegal immigrants know their children born here will be citizens, the incentive to enter the U.S. illegally will remain strong. (6.) Pass true immigration reform. The current system, and those proposed by ALL other candidates, is incoherent and unfair, and would allow up to 60 million more immigrants into our country.

[jerr11]

jerr11, You wanna provide links to your "claims" or not?

Posted by SlipSter01 at 05:59 PM : Oct 26, 2007


Sorry got the links wrong the first time.

Here they are again:

http://www.swiftboatveteransfortruth.org

http://www.neoconhq.org

http://www.bushcheneyliarsrus.org

http://www.gopsleazemachine.org

[usaprophet]

Unlike most of the other GOP candidates, Ron Paul actually served his country as a member of the military. Paul grew up in the western Pennsylvania town of Green Tree. His father, the son of a German immigrant, ran a small dairy company. Sports were big around there and Paul was a terrific athlete, winning a state track meet in the 220 and excelling at football and baseball. After medical school at Duke, Paul joined the Air Force, where he served as a flight surgeon, tending to the ear, nose and throat ailments of pilots, and traveling to Iran, Ethiopia and elsewhere. "I recall doing a lot of physicals on Army warrant officers who wanted to become helicopter pilots and go to Vietnam," he said. "They were gung-ho. I''ve often thought about how many of those people never came back." Paul is given to mulling things over morally. His family was pious and Lutheran; two of his brothers became ministers. Paul''s children were baptized in the Episcopal church, but now now attends a Baptist one. He''s been married to the same woman for 50 years. As a young man, though, he did not protest the Vietnam War, which he now calls "totally unnecessary and illegal." Much later, after the United States invaded Iraq, he began reading St. Augustine. "I was annoyed by the evangelicals'' being so supportive of pre-emptive war, which seems to contradict everything that I was taught as a Christian, he recalls. The religion is based on somebody who''s referred to as the Prince of Peace."

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I support Ron Paul and his non-interventionist foreign policy. Hitlery wants to continue our illegal police action in Iraq until at least 2013, and she does not rule out a preemptive (nuclear) first strike against Iran. Ron Paul voted against the the (undeclared) war in Iraq, which was sold to us with lies. The area is more dangerous now than when we entered it. We destroyed a regime hated by our direct enemies, the jihadists, and created thousands of new recruits for them. This war has cost more than 3,000 American lives and almost a trillion dollars. We must have new leadership in the White House to ensure this never happens again. Both Jefferson and Washington warned us about entangling ourselves in the affairs of other nations. Today, we have 750 foreign bases and troops in 130 countries. We are spread so thin that we have too few troops defending America. And now, there are new calls for a draft of our young men and women. We can continue to fund and fight no-win police actions around the globe, or we can refocus on securing our borders against illegal immaigrants and bring the troops home. No war should ever be fought without a declaration of war voted upon by the Congress, as required by the Constitution. Under no circumstances should the U.S. again go to war as the result of a resolution that comes from an unelected, foreign body, such as the United Nations. Too often, we give foreign aid and intervene on behalf of governments that are despised. Then, we become despised.

[whamtwo]

Has McCain ever thought about his part in the killing of almost 3 million vietnamese, Cambodians, and laotians who never attacked us. I guess not, they were only "***** and slants" oH yeah! ask him about the billions lost in the savings and loan fiasco

[donbl1]

McCain is the real deal.

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posted by speakinup
I wasnt in Vietnam, but..

But what? You gonna try to convince the youth of today that Americans supported the needless Vietnam War, like your Traitor buddies known as the SwiftBoat Lying Nazis? You lying jinGOPigs would still have US in Vietnam if it were not for US American heros that forced the nation into getting out of their civil war. You are one pathetic FASCIST POS Scumbag. Go back to hitting the sauce, smoking your cigs, and abusing those around you, jinGOPig COWARD!

[speakinup]

"McCain, You sir are one ungrateful American. Posted by ConDumism

And you, communism, are a piece''oshit to be flushed directly to the Hillary and Billshit table.

Go back to your drugs and the 60''s maggot.

[speakinup]

ConDumism - I was around during Vietnam - so what''s your point, son, or has it escaped you already.

BTW, thanking Hippies for getting us out of Vietnam would be almost as truthful as thanking Nixon. Afterall, he WAS the president when the Peace accord was signed.

[barbaraf4]

Where are the swiftboats when we need them?

Vietnam was just another conflict in which we provided canon fodder in the form of young men, drafted to die. We should have never become involved in that civil war, and for those who do not know the history, look it up. There was a long line of foreign
occupiers who were unable to resolve the problem. Why did we think we could? God bless all who were slaughtered there - military and civilian. The difference between Vietnam and Iraq is the draft.