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2.13.04 @ 12:01AM

CURRENCY IMBALANCE
Re: Lawrence Henry's The Weak Dollar Summit:

The interesting thing about current dollar weakness is that the euro has fallen so much against the dollar, while Asian currencies have not. The primary trade imbalance is with China, rather than with Europe. This arrangement is unsustainable, but how it will be resolved is unclear.
-- Ian Callum

TOO GOOD FOR VOTES
Re: Shawn Macomber's His Old Pompous Self:

Shawn Macomber writes, "But after the Iowa win Kerry quickly returned to his self-righteous, pompous self. This was the John Kerry on display after Tuesday's wins."

I would like to point out the fact that less than 1% of the registered voters of Iowa voted for the man. What a mandate. OK, maybe he was just getting warmed up. How about Michigan? Again less than 1% of the registered voters. Well, how about that "southern support"? Virginia has 4,233,240 registered voters and 203,486 voted for Kerry -- an eye popping 5%. He has nothing to be cocky about.
-- Chris Petschke

ANTI-KERRY VETS
Re: George Neumayr's The Antiwar War Hero:

In your article on 2/11 "The Antiwar War Hero" -- you said: "If the Republicans formed a group called Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, it wouldn't hurt for members. "

Well, there is a group called just this -- in fact the Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry plan to start their protests against him in the New York and Massachusetts primaries. Here is a press release about this.

BTW -- their home address is P.O. Box 246, Kinston, NC 28502.
-- John Buck
Washington, D.C.

Just read your great online piece about Sen. Kerry and his bizarre use of the Vietnam war to make himself look heroic for fighting it while denigrating all those vets he now relies upon for votes. In beginning the article you suggest a Republican group of Vietnam Vets against Kerry would collect members fast. Well, there IS such a group already, not connected to any political party officially, as far as I know, just connected by their outrage. Try www.VietnamveteransagainstJohnKerry.com. Great website, full of information they want to get out there into the discussion. I found it when listening to WABC in NYC, 770 am, on last Sunday early afternoon. Their young Sunday afternoon talk show host, Andrew Wilkow, I think, had the spokesman on and he was terrific.

See! Truth is stranger--or, in this case, faster--than fiction!
Sincerely,
-- Diana Rowland

Mr. Neumayr should be aware a veteran group against John Kerry does exist. Here is their their Internet site. They could you use our support.
-- Ed Dermody

Count me in as " A Veteran against Kerry." He worse than Hanoi Jane; he has built a career on being a traitor to men who he now courts for votes. She was/is just stupid!
-- Mike Sigman
USMC 1967 to 1971, 19 months RVN & Forever a Marine

I think it was General Giap who wrote in his bio that without the American anti-war groups Hanoi would have surrendered. Small point, but ...
-- Rodger Schultz

I would think if John Kerry knew that atrocities were being committed in Vietnam he would have been duty bound to report them. Why is it he never did
report such crimes?
-- Dick Melville
Ozone Park, New York

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