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You really had to be there. Bill Ayer's Weather Underground was only a tiny tiny part of all the protesting. As time went on, protesting got more and more violent, because the government was not paying any attention for a long time.
When parents kept losing their sons to that horrible war, they too joined in the protests. I had several friends of mine lose limbs and had no real effective care through the VA when they came back. Some protesters were mowed down with bullets on campus (Kent State, etal.)and many were arrested, even when peacefully protesting.
About our withdrawal from Vietnam and Cambodia .. first of all, we weren't even supposed to be in Cambodia, and that was a tragedy. Richard Nixon, a Republican, was the one who did the immediate withdrawal of all troops, leaving the South Vietnamese to fend for themselves. I thought we had learned an important lesson from Vietnam, until of course Iraq. We need to get out of Iraq before any more Americans and others lose their lives and limbs.
About McCain and his honor? Really? Yeah, him and his good friend G. Gordon Liddy. G Gordon Liddy made plans to bomb the Brookings Institute, kidnap congressmen, and also went to jail for the buglary of the DNC headquarters at the Watergate. McCain was also part of the Keating 5, and took illegal trips and money for favors from Charles Keating. Also McCain, while he was a prisoner in Vietnam was known as the "songbird" because he gave real information to the enemy, and made propaganda films for them.When my husband and father were in Vietnam, they actually saw these films. It is no myth.
This weak link to Bill Ayers is just that. What do you mean, we can't take their word for it? Why not? Whose word would you take for it? Someone who didn't know either of them, John McCain and Sarah Palin???
