Word: antiwar
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...defense. He loves contrasting his experience with aircraft carriers to Bush's. One aide dates his comeback to when the campaign started airing the ad of testimony from another Vietnam crewmate named Del Sandusky. In speeches, the battles Kerry discusses most are those he fought as part of the antiwar movement when he got back. That bit is code for saying, I took on a Republican President when I was 25; I can do it again...
Your Milestone on the death of actor Alan Bates did not include his starring role in the 1960s antiwar film King of Hearts. Its message is still (unfortunately) timely, almost 40 years later. I am a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and this is the only war movie I own (other than The Lord of the Rings). Bates will always be my "King of Hearts." GARY PAX Carbondale, Colo...
...latter stages of the war in Vietnam marked a low point in the American services' fortunes. Opposition to the war at home isolated the armed forces, and the antiwar mood was transmitted to the theater of combat. A key group of Vietnam veterans, among them Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf and Tommy Franks, became reformers. They recognized that combat units had been drip-fed individual replacements, instead of being sent whole units, and the reserves had not been mobilized. As a result, all units had too many men who had only just arrived or alternatively were soon to leave...
...Pentagon and the CIA grappled in a three-way tug-of-war. One Marine, training in Kuwait's northern desert and waiting for war to begin, wondered whether protesters would spit on him when he came home. But for all the dissension, no one was blaming the soldiers: antiwar demonstrators argued they were fighting to defend our troops against an ill-conceived mission based on distorted intelligence. Even Howard Dean, whose antiwar campaign ambushed the Democratic Party, criticized Bush for asking too much of the nation's soldiers and reserves and diverting attention from more imminent threats...
HOWARD DEAN As 2003 began, he was virtually unknown--a short, thick-necked hockey dad who used to be Governor someplace up North. As the year ended, he emerged to fire an entire party's soul. Not a single Democratic primary vote has been cast yet, and Dean's antiwar rhetoric, so stirring to the left, may sound tinny long before November. But his savvy Web fund raising and spare-no-fools talk changed the political game...