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Destiny Calls Us Back To Vietnam
Commentary by August Keso
August 18, 2004


When the Swift Boat smear campaign first began, it seemed as though our political process had sunk to never before seen lows – and in every sense it has. Every sense save for one.



For the country, it is more important that the Vietnam Political War be revisited, re-fought and once and for all looked at honestly and fully vetted. The reason the nation needs to revisit Vietnam, is because the political forces of thirty years ago were too quick to sweep what they viewed as the shame, under the rug. The result, a nation that today finds itself repeating the same mistakes that led up to and carried through the Vietnam War.



For Bush and Cheney, the hope here is to do what they did against McCain and Cleland, use Kerry’s honorable and heroic Vietnam experience against him.

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_9839.shtml

It seems that something beyond our common knowledge has brought us to this juncture in our political history. Revisited by all the players so prominent those 30 years ago and destined to collide for one last time. If the Republicans and the Swift Boat people wish for the nation to re-fight the political war of Vietnam, it just might be the best thing they have ever done for this nation. It is time the nation revisits the Vietnam question and finally views its full truth. Of course O'Neill and those like him will want to once again cloud the reality for their own selfish gains, but this is an electorate more sophisticated than generations before. They are better prepared to see through the white-wash and more eager to find the truth. If Bush, O'Neill and the Republicans wish to re-fight the Vietnam Political War, it is time. There will never be a more perfect opportunity to vet this issue once and for all – before there is yet another Vietnam and another Iraq.