Republicans Opinion on Vietnam

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

From what I see, Republican attacks on Kerry boiled down to two things, both fallacious:

1-Kerry's testimony toward Congress on the atrocities committed. The distortion is that Kerry was smearing all vets by claiming this. Totally untrue. Kerry wasn't implying that all vets were engaging in these activities, just that they were taking place. He wasn't pointing the finger at anyone. The alternative as I see it is simply to ignore or cover up all such atrocities, not the best course of action.

2-The he had been involved with Jane Fonda before. This is about as valid of an attack as the picture of Rumsfeld and Saddam shaking hands. Kerry opposed Fonda's visit to Vietnam and advised against it.

I guess more guilt by association attacks can be covered by the fact some members of Vietnam Veterans Against The War were far more radical than Kerry and had more radical activities planned. But Kerry was a moderate, and oppose these. Kerry is in no way resposible for any of the objectional activites of Jane Fonda or some of the more radical factions of the anti-war movement, so I see all attacks on him as either deliberate distortions or lame guilt-by-association smears. Kerry did nothing wrong, and is a hero for trying to end the deaths of unwilling American kids to defend an evil dictatorship.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The solution was simple:

-announce that Ho Chi Minh was the legitimate leader of Vietnam and was denied his post through rigged elections(which he was)
-pull out and announce it's because we won't support a non-democratic nation.

We're supporting democracy therefore.