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As someone who served in the military near the end of Vietnam but didn't serve there I'm still reminded that both these men and their political sugar daddies slimed every honorable tradition our military has spent 200 years building upon. Public figures are not above a public accounting unless you are a Democrat it seems. Rather than complain about the Liberal bias it might be instructive for those of us on the outside of the Liberal toilet bowel to start competing in the market place of ideas rather than complaining all the time about the Democrat Press. That's who they are and there is no Constitutional block on having an opinion and working for a profit seeking business like the Democrat News divisions that protect the two icons of buffoonery above. An unbiased Press has never existed and rather than trying to make Liberals be "fair and balanced" it might be helpful to stop being "nice" to people who will spit upon you if they get the chance.

p>Since Freedom of the Press is an individual right and not a collective right as is practiced today, we might want to remember that and remind a few elected and unelected government officials of this from time to time. These people can't stand the truth to be shined upon them. It isn't going to happen through the propaganda machine of the left. It is absurd that all the "free" TV Networks and their News Divisions are controlled by the same political belief structure; it is absurd that the Nation's Public School institutions are controlled by the same political belief structure. Every form of evil wants to control the flow of information, the education process and the economic means to produce goods and services. They've got two of those and we are conceding the third as a pretty good clip. The Founders gave us several ways to prevent this; we've chosen to ignore it. Boone Pickens has at least put his money where his mouth is. We should follow his example in my humble opinion. The Founders weren't delicate flowers like the left is today. They could take (and give) the heat. br> -- Thom Bateman br> Newport News, Virginia /p>

Say what you will about John F. Kerry, but I remind you that he killed more communists than George W. Bush.

Yes, I know, it wasn't Gen. Giap, or Ho Chi Minh that he dispatched. Nor did Kerry exhibit the heroism, or face the long odds, of Ia Drang or Hue.

No, reportedly, it was a wounded teenager in a breech cloth. Trying to run for his life. Shot (in the back?) by John F. Kerry.

Some might quibble and call the youth an agrarian reformer, but I prefer to give John F. Kerry the benefit of the doubt, and credit him with a communist kill.

p>Others might be troubled by the circumstances of the shooting. But considering John F. Kerry's regal bearing, his aristocratic lineage, and love of all things French, pulling that trigger was an act of mercy -- the coup de grace. br> -- Dan Martin br> Pittsburgh /p>

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