FW: [trungduong] Go Vote!

[Nam Nguyen]

Hi Thang,

I really admire you for thinking about VN in this election; I never thought 
about that.  I also agree with you that McCain is a great person who is 
independent and rarely lies/spins.

I browsed the web a little bit and found that Kerry and McCain took the same 
position on almost every issue related to VN.  They were both for 
normalizing relationship with the Vietnamese Gov't, US-VN bilateral trade 
agreement, the waiver of the Jackson-Vanik amendment for Vietnam, and 
against the Vietnam Human Rights Act:

http://www.fva.org/200208/story06.htm
http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=Newscenter.ViewPressRelease&Content_id=94
http://mccain.senate.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=Newscenter.ViewPressRelease&Content_id=677
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/Legacy/trade/106cong/6-17-99/6-17kerr.htm
http://www.ffrd.org/indochina/washington/nov2001.html

Below is the Roll Call for issues related to VN (using "Vietnam" for the 
search) since 1994:

Kerry and McCain had the same vote for these issues:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=1&vote=00286
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=103&session=2&vote=00006
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=104&session=1&vote=00453
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=104&session=2&vote=00239
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=105&session=2&vote=00231
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=1&vote=00214
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=1&vote=00291

They only differed on this:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=105&session=2&vote=00230

Certainly, VN is still far from having freedom of press/religion... and 
having a democracy.  However, from talking to friends/relatives and from 
reading news, it is moving to the right direction.  Hopefully, the carrot 
can really work like a stick and some day, the US can have enough influence 
to the Vietnamese Gov't.

Nam

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>	----- Original Message -----
>
>	From: Victor Thang Do <mailto:tddo at hotmail.com>
>
>	To: All at trungduong.org ; hoanganhl at hotmail.com ;
>dunghn at cisco.com ; TraDuong at aol.com ; nhaantr at hotmail.com
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>	Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 11:52 AM
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>	Subject: Re: [trungduong] Go Vote!
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>
>	We just wait and see what's gonna happen.
>
>	" You let Bush caught you on this. Sorry."
>	- Have you watched 4 debates (3 from Bush-Kerry, 1 from
>Cheney-Edwards)? Did
>	you hear what Kerry commented about terrorism? Words were out
>from his mouth
>	not from Bush's.
>
>	" Only Kerry cannot veto and kill a proposition in Senate"
>	- You can research and figure out that.
>
>	"Kerry only raises tax for upper class who earn $200K/year or
>more. You
>	>belong to upper class ?"
>	- Do you believe a flip-flop guy's tongue? I don't think so.
>
>	I have some interesting pics about Kerry and Do Muoi in 1993. I
>think Sen.
>	John McCain never do that instead he's the one to support the
>proposition
>	and the one of the ones who found the HO program for former
>Vietnamese
>	officers and their families can refuge in the US. He's the real
>hero to me.
>	He sat right in the heart of SaiGon and criticized about the
>human rights
>	for VN not kiss ass. If you watched that show on the day he's
>back to VN you
>	will see it.
>
>	Thang
>
>
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