There are similarities between John Kerry’s antiwar strategies in Vietnam and in Iraq:

• Minimize the enemy’s threat. Kerry said that there is “nothing in South Vietnam, nothing which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America.” In the second presidential debate, Kerry talked about “Iraq, where there wasn’t a threat.”

• Denigrate the purpose of war. Kerry said Vietnam was the “biggest nothing in history” while Iraq is “the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time.”

• Make broad criminal accusations. Kerry said war crimes in Vietnam were “not isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.” In Iraq he said the coalition was “bribed.”

• Denigrate the soldiers. Kerry said “A lot of (American) guys, 60, 80 percent, stay stoned 24 hours a day” and “these (South Vietnamese) men refused to fight with us.” About Iraq he said the 30-plus-nation coalition is “barely willing to do anything at all.”

If the coalition believes John Kerry, then the returning coalition troops will receive an unwelcome homecoming just like the returning Vietnam veterans.

John Kerry is unfit to be commander in chief.

Kenji De Lige, Turner

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