From: jot@teak09.cray.com (Otto Tennant)
Subject: Re: Kremlin_Gate: Bill Clinton in Moscow during V
In-reply-to: 00rdharringt@bsu-ucs.uucp's message of 8 Oct 92 00:43:04 GMT
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Date: 7 Oct 92 23:43:51 CDT

In article <1992Oct7.194304.10212@bsu-ucs.uucp> 00rdharringt@bsu-ucs.uucp (Rob Harrington) writes:

>From: 00rdharringt@bsu-ucs.uucp (Rob Harrington)
>Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
>Date: 8 Oct 92 00:43:04 GMT
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>In article <7OCT199217052351@utarlg.uta.edu>, b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu (Stephen Tice) writes:
>> And you Mr. Brewster -- lets step back just to the known and "admitted"
>> facts. BRAVE BILL was on VACATION in the Soviet Union while others of
>> his generation DIED.
>> 
>
>Gee and what was Dick Cheney doing?  Dan Quayle?  There are lots of people
>who DIDN'T fight in Vietnam.  Just because they didn't have to go does
>mean they're bad people... 
>
That's kind of an interesting statement.

There are several issues unstated here.

First, was the US involvement in South-East Asia something we should
have done?  (Echos of JFK's Inaguration Speech:  "We will fight...";
you left-wing types should be able to quote it better than I.)

The answer to this is clearly "YES".  The consequences of our failure
to do it right are obvious.  The Democrats will have to answer for the
millions dead in Cambodia, at least.  Lots of people, Republicans and
Democrats, Americans, Britains, and others will have to answer for the
trials of the "boat people."

Second, what responsibility did young men owe to LBJ's war?  That's a
tough one for me to answer; I was 4-F.  Yet it is reasonable to look
at the goals of the anti-LBJ crowd.  They favored communism, and, as
such, are beneath contempt.

Third, does the present Governor of a small southern state, who
promised not to run for president as the governor of that small
southern state, need to defend whatever he did in 1969?

Happens that I think he does.

It isn't like he visited there after a Gorbasm.  His presence
provided, at the very least, hard currency to support the invasion of
Prague. 

You people have a strange idea of values.  If Billy had spent his
vacation in Cape Town, nothing he could do would rescue his
reputation.  The country he visited (the USSR) is responsible for
(depending on your source, a minimun of 10,000,000 murders; the
maxiumum estimate is on the order of 30,000,000) vastly more death
than South Africa.

Happens that I value human life.  You people value something else.
I can't guess what it is.  It does not include "freedom", or
"justice", or "fairness", or even such a basic idea as "truth".

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