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...Johnson College Station, Texas, U.S. I wasn't going to vote for Kerry because of his reputation for flip-flopping. But if it becomes evident you have made the wrong decision, it's time to flip-flop. When Kerry's eyes were opened to what was happening in Vietnam, he opposed the war that he had volunteered to fight in. I was taken in by the lies regarding the dangers posed by Iraq. I was in favor of a pre-emptive war to get Saddam Hussein before he used weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. or supplied them...
...Number of deaths from avian flu in Vietnam since July 30, dashing hopes that the country had contained the disease...
That was mild compared with the attack, funded by a major G.O.P. donor in Texas, that Kerry endured on his freshly shined national-security credentials from a Vietnam veterans' group independent of the Republican Party. The group began airing in three states a 60sec. ad claiming that Kerry had lied about his war record. But the move backfired when Senator John McCain, a former Vietnam POW and a keynote speaker at the upcoming Republican Convention, blasted the ad as "dishonest and dishonorable" and called on the Bush campaign to condemn it. White House spokesman Scott McClellan took issue only with...
DIED. GLORIA EMERSON, 75, Vietnam reporter for the New York Times and author of Winners & Losers, an award-winning memoir of the war; an apparent suicide; in New York City. One of the few female journalists to cover the war, Emerson later said she went to Vietnam because "they ran out of men." She focused on personal stories of the war, including tales of soldiers dying, which affected her deeply. "It all becomes normal, the other correspondents, men, would say. In time you'll see," she wrote. "They lied." Suffering from Parkinson's disease, she left behind a self-penned...
...weeks ago. "Our e-mails and our phone calls reflect not a lot of open minds out there." Well, it certainly seems so--and especially last week, as the friends and fanatics of John Kerry and George W. Bush mobilized themselves for the general election. A flying squad of Vietnam veterans--not directly related to the Bush campaign--launched a slime attack on John Kerry's war record. A flying squad of pop musicians--not directly related to the Kerry campaign--announced that they would launch a massive October concert tour to save the nation from President Bush. The people...