Now, I haven't read this thread but so I'm just gonna wade into it blindly.

First, I graduated from Massanutten Military Academy in 1965 and any graduate with three years of MST (Military Science Training) could go right to Nam as a 2nd Lt. and, out of my graduating class many did. Out of the little more than a hundred of my friends at Massanutten, *8* died in Nam. That's a lot! Throw in one cousin and another who stepped on a mine and almost died and lost a leg and my best friend in grade school, I think I can say I know the horrors of VN.

Now, back in the 60's I was promotin' a rock club in Richmond, Va. and we let it be known to our brothers at Ft Lee, in Petersburg, that they were not only welcome but we let 'em in free. And we we're alone. The struggle was not between those of us who were in the streets tryin' to stop the VN War and our brothers who were caught up in Boss Hog's little game but with Boss Hog.

Now this scared the Hell out of Boss Hog, just as it scares Boss Hog today but in the words of the phophet: Tough Sh*t! Yeah, there will be those true believers who will buy into your trumped up lies that there is a division between the folks fighting in the streets of Bagdad and Washington, D.C. but there *AIN'T*!

That dog won't hunt!

Sure, there are folks around here, like Claymore, who are conservative Repubs who will step to the plate and say that, since I didn't shoot at Vietnamese people, that I don't have a right to say anything.

Bullsh*t. That's partisan, "true believer" politics and nothin' more, thank you.

Bobert