John Warner: "I regret that I was not more outspoken" on Vietnam

Will the American Legion and other so-called "veterans" organizations now set out to smear him like they have Kerry?



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when compared to what is going on now. I had a 19 year old cousin who lost his life in Vietnam right before it ended and when I hear things like this it makes me angry. My cousin didn't have to die- damn it.

Kerry has an amendment to encourage him to support. I think both Warner and Webb are worth trying to persuade on this. Warner is a Republican, and it's obvious that he likes Bush on a personal level, but this moral dilemma has prompted him to speak out. With him, a lot of patience is required, but I think that colliquy from last June with Kerry was a telltale sign that he is deeply troubled by the Iraq War.

freed him to say this? It was clear from the comments of the since the fall seemed to suggest that the "timing" was right on Iraq.

It's interesting because I had questioned last spring why Webb, against Iraq, couldn't re see Vietnam. He was, like Kerry, a soldier who didn't control the policy - it should have been easier for him to rethink it. I wonder if it might not be the very thing Kerry fought with in his journals from Vietnam - wanting to hope that he friend, Preshing died thinking the war had some meaning. One of the hardest things to read in Tour of Duty was a passage when Kerry accepted that he had to go to the base (can't remember name) where they were fighting in the canals - where he accepted knowing he might die and he was convinced it was for nothing.