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Re:Bob Dole has died by shmoe on Sunday December 05, 2021 @06:16PM (#29454325)
Depends on the conservative, but McCain, Dole -- those guys are American legends and deserve respect regardless of their politics.
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Re:Bob Dole has died by Teever on Sunday December 05, 2021 @06:45PM (#29454521)
how do you think Vietnamese people should feel about McCain and Dole?
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Re:Bob Dole has died by _moof on Sunday December 05, 2021 @08:58PM (#29455341)
Dole fought in World War II.
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Re:Bob Dole has died by Teever on Monday December 06, 2021 @02:03AM (#29457014)
You're right I missed that, but I think it makes my point better. I was replying to a comment that said "Those guys are American legends and deserve respect regardless of their politics."

I dispute that.

I'm not American. These guys may be American legends but that doesn't mean that they deserve my respect.

There are a lot of legitimate gripes that people around the world can have about someone like McCain and Dole and they don't implicitly deserve respect because they're dead.

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Re:Bob Dole has died by shmoe on Monday December 06, 2021 @11:13AM (#29461526)
If you read the article below, it would seem there was fairly good sentiment from Vietnam as well when McCain passed.
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Re:Bob Dole has died by jannie123 on Sunday December 05, 2021 @07:15PM (#29454713)
For McCain they view him fairly well (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/08/27/how-vietnam-...) and idk for Dole but I'd be surprised if they knew him (he didn't fight in vietnam btw if that's what your implying)
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