John Kerry's Vietnam Speech

[MARALE]

How many of you have read his speech? I just found it and read a little, it is great! This gives me faith in the man to do what he can in war. A few excerpts:
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Suddenly we are faced with a very sickening situation in this country, because there is no moral indignation and, if there is, it comes from people who are almost exhausted by their past indignations, and I know that may of them are sitting in front of me. The country seems to have lain down and shrugged off something as serious as Laos, just as we calmly shrugged off the loss of 700,000 lives in Pakistan, the so-called greatest disaster of all times.
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We wish that a merciful God could wipe away our own memories of that service as easily as this administration has wiped their memories of us. But all that they have done and all that they can do by this denial is to make more clear than ever our own determination to undertake one last mission, to search out and destroy the last vestige of this barbarous war, to pacify our own hearts, to conquer the hate and the fear that have driven this country these last 10 years and more and so when, in 30 years from now, our brothers go down the street without a leg, without an arm or a face, and small boys ask why, we will be able to say "Vietnam" and not mean a desert, not a filthy obscene memory but mean instead the pace where America finally turned and where soldiers like us helped it in the turning.
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Here is the link:
http://www.c-span.org/vote2004/jkerrytestimony.asp

[apnu]

1. listen to it here

http://apnu.runswithscissors.com/dems2004/
(MP3'd from Democracy Now's archive)

[MARALE]

2. thanks

He is such a eloquent a speaker, I will listen to this this afternoon, Thanks!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Maybe you should send it to him to remind him what he once stood for.

"... and not mean a desert, not a filthy obscene memory but mean instead the pace where America finally turned and where soldiers like us helped it in the turning."

Like Iraq is becoming now with the invasion and occupation that he voted for and still supports.

I'm voting for him, but I sure do wish he would find a little of the courage and ethics he had back then.

[veteran_for_peace]

4. Very Powerful.