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Immigrants from vietnam oppose Kerry

The AP writer tried to slant this bad news for Kerry, but the underlying truth slipped through:

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Many resent Kerry for protesting the Vietnam War as a young veteran and later, as a senator, engaging with Vietnam's communist leaders and not taking a tougher stance on human rights and democracy in their homeland. Bush also supported engagement with Vietnam, but Kerry gained notoriety in the Vietnamese community.

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In the decades since the communists prevailed in Vietnam, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese, many with links to the South Vietnamese government and army, have immigrated to the United States. More than 1 million now live in this country. Orange County has the most people of Vietnamese descent - 130,000, according to the Census.

As voters, Vietnamese-Americans have traditionally backed the GOP because of its strong anti-communist stance. But between 1992 and 2002, the share of Vietnamese registered as Republicans in Orange County fell from about 60 percent to about one-third, as more voters identified themselves as independents and Democrats.

"The segment of the community that participates remains in vigorous opposition to the government of Vietnam," said Christian Collet, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine. "What you have seen in recent years, however, is a greater willingness of younger Vietnamese-Americans to speak out and oppose this view."

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Many older immigrants remember Kerry as the angry young veteran who railed against the Vietnam War and tossed his medals at an anti-war rally in Washington. He also is remembered as the Senate subcommittee chairman who two years ago blocked the Vietnam Human Rights Act after it passed 410-1 in the House.

Why does Kerry oppose human rights in Vietnam. He has always been indifferent at best to the suffering of Vietnamese under communist tyranny, particularly if it meant the US might win the war. But, I thought Dems always had to at least pay lip service to human rights. Apparently Kerry is the exception, or maybe Vietnam is the exception.