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PurgedVoter

(2,678 posts) Mon Dec 22, 2025, 09:35 AM Dec 22

John Kerry put this out before congress, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

Last edited Mon Dec 22, 2025, 10:13 AM - Edit history (1)

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/johnkerrysenateforeignrelationsvietnamwar.htm
This is where bothsiderism ends. We all get this and understand it. Nixon did not. Bush did not. Bush jr. did not. No one in the White House right now gets this. RFK jr. definitely does not get this.

Both sides are not the same. Republicans don't apologize or concern themselves. They don't feel the pain of others. They fear embarrassment. They don't fear guilt.