tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706185.post116579128446365253..comments2023-10-28T04:04:43.525-05:00Comments on Easter Lemming Liberal News: Iraq Marine Vet speaks outGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17414725749450659875noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3706185.post-43539333749541527732007-12-13T17:27:00.000-06:002007-12-13T17:27:00.000-06:00That Bruce Kesler, not O'Neill, was a co-founder i...That Bruce Kesler, not O'Neill, was a co-founder is the truth-- it all happened in my home. O'Neill came AFTER VVJP was formeded and stayed at my house while preparing for the encounter with Kerry. All the founders of VVJP-- ten in all--agreed that O'Neill, having followed Kerry in the same Swiftboat unit, would make the ideal VVJPer to appear opposite Kerry-- everyone wanted debate, not star status, including O'Neill. It was only AFTERWARD that O'Neill met Nixon. Later, evil-like-Rove Nixon Press Secretary Colson told the WashPost that he, Colson, had started VVJP with O'Neill as his seed, in order to destroy it, fearing that the group-- with by then, 10,000 confirmed Viet Vets joinned-- would reject the Kissinger Paris Peace Accord. It worked, everyone quit VVJP when they read the Colson-O'Neill lie and each went his own way, O'Neill going to work for Nixon. To say that he started VVJP is as false as to say that he started the Swifties in 2004-- Rove did!<BR/><BR/>But I must say that I then considered it totally irresponsible for some of my old VVJP friends to, in 2004, sell their souls to Rove so that they could eclipse the debate of the War in Iraq with the War in Vietnam, of thrity years earlier. It is clearly a disgusting case of a generation of old farts screwing the young guys having to fight now for the sake of their privatye motives. Though I considered them all close friends, I broke with them because Iraq needed what Vietnam had gotten in full: MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE and RESPONSIBLE DEBATE-- it was Rove's job to make sure this would never happen so Bush could be re-elected. That is why I wanted to debate the Kerry position on Iraq with O'Neill. I felt he owed it to me, given that I got him his chance to get meaningful dialogue from Kerry on Vietnam.<BR/><BR/>Now with another Bush term experienced, we all got to see what cheap publicists a lot of one time heroes had become once old farts, screwing the next generation by denying dilligent debate to today's youngsters-- the opposite of the opportunity that was offered them. I too hated Kerry for his opportunistic use of Vietnam. But I did feel that he was putting before the American people for debate this useless war in which yet another generation would be wasted. Alas, I failed in my effort to promote meaningful dialogue on Iraq, as did most who tried, because Americans suffer from the Ain't my kid going to Iraq disconnect syndrome. For me, an American by choice not chance, anyone who thinks he is an American must consider EVERY soldier in harm's way as his/her son/daughter and must not silently allow to be done to any of these-- *OUR* kids-- what they would not allow to be done with their BIOLOGIC kids. But sick Rove found the little opportunist in a lot of people and he got a majority to worry more about gay marriage and cheap gas to fill-er-up their SUVs instead of the moral and responsible duty we all have towards *OUR* kids in uniform. History will mark Bush as the dirtiest and weakest and most chicken-hearted psychopathic president in US history-- all that because he chose to let Rumsfeld, Rove and Cheney do the deciding while he pretended he was the "decider."<BR/><BR/>Daniel E. TeodoruAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com