A letter from an old Vet
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A letter from an old Vet
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An Old Vets Opinion: Fools and Fanatics
By: Jack Dalton
http://www.ommp.org
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, right or wrong, is not only un-patriotic, but it is morally treasonable to the American people.”
President Theodore Roosevelt
History teaches many lessons one of which is about war—war not only can, but does bring out the worst in people. This is clearly evidenced here in the U.S. Blind hatred and xenophobic responses seem to rule the day.
Stand opposed to Bush and his cabal, openly—there isn’t debate on issues, but there is a lot of “citizens” that will lambaste other “citizens” with venomous name-calling and threats, then call it “patriotism.”
Write and publish an article, essay, or simply a short op/ed critical of Bush of his collection of “Mayberry Machiavelli’s” and you would be amazed at what comes forth from the good “Christian” folk that seemingly view Bush one step below the “second coming.” No debate on the issues, just venom, hate, name calling and threats.
There is not a writer that I’ve talked with that does not receive “hate” mail. Most of it isn’t worth the time of day and is treated accordingly. Occasionally there is an email that spurs some good debate, although I must admit it does not happen often, unfortunately.
Over the past few months however, I’ve noticed a marked increase in the level of just flat out venomous hate mail and threats from some of my fellow “citizens.” If throwing mindless threats and venom filled hate mail at their fellow citizens is what these good up-standing “Christian” folk mean by “patriotism” I want no part of it. If what they mean by “patriot” is to silently have “faith” and “trust” and then obediently following, without question, those that profess to be this nations “leaders” once again, you can count me out.
I learned a long time ago that politicians lie, some more than others. If it’s a politician, no matter whom or what position, I do not take that person on faith; nor do I trust, out of hand, the words that come from between their lips. I understand that politicians have multiple agendas, most of which are multi-faceted, which are generally hidden from us, the citizens of this nation. They need watching, closely, always; they need to be held accountable in absolute terms for everything they say and do (or don’t do) for they cloak their “full purposes” in secrecy and the flag.
To my way of thinking, being a “yes” man for whatever party is in power is not being a patriot it’s being a fool. Being a patriot requires, no, it demands active involvement and participation in the political process. That goes way past simply “trust and obey” and simply casting a “vote” every few years.
When it comes to politicians I am rather cynical. That cynicism is not arbitrary or capricious, a whim; it did not just “happen.” It was born and nurtured.
It was born from having willingly marched off to the Vietnam War in August on 1965 (I enlisted behind the end of the Cuban Missile crisis and in 1965 asked to be sent to the ‘Nam) with all the fervor of a born and bred right-wing hawk. “My country right or wrong; love it or leave it”—there was no middle ground. Back then I would have made Bill O’Riley and Rush Limbaugh look like bleeding heart liberal do-gooders.
From October of 1965 until I left Vietnam in April of 1967, I was wondering what war the politicians and generals were telling the American people about, as it sure wasn’t the war me and my friends were in the middle of. One of the hardest lessons for anyone to learn is that your so-called leaders are willing to lie and deceive even those that they send into that “Heart of Darkness” that is war.
The language of deception was the political norm back then just as it is today with and about Iraq. Catch words and phrases all meant and designed to create specific psychological metaphors in an effort to create and maintain their “necessary illusions” and to “manufacture” the needed consent. Con, hustle and manipulate—welcome to democracy, American style.
Well, that’s not my America. I’ve been challenging that and the powers that be ever since coming back from Vietnam. Doesn’t matter what party as I see no real difference between them—two ends of the same stick, the one the American people keep getting in the back. They lie and people die. George W Bush has become the “king of the hill” on the lie and die part. There’s a lot of people that lie and get away with it.”—Donald Rumsfeld. That’s one of the few honest things I’ve heard him say.
So, what’s all this about? Where am I headed with this little diatribe?
This is a partial and limited response to a “letter to the editor” in the Canyon Lake Week, a newspaper published by Doug Kirk in Canyon Lake Texas (Camus County—San Antonio area). Doug is a voice of reason in a sea of Bush ideologues (some are, but not by no means all) who opt for ideology over reason and logic (forget the facts, full steam ahead). I’ve not reprinted the letter that was written that gave impetus to this reply but as you read this commentary you’ll get the gist of what this person wrote. It’s getting too easy for people in this county to once again label fellow citizens as un-patriotic, un-American and traitors. This ought not to be.
“…it is people like you who cry anti-war slogans, criticize our commander-in –chief for liberating Iraq and Afghanistan from barbarian rule that I was referring to as wimps.” Also included in the “wimps with no backbone that do not deserve to be called Americans” category are, “…wives, mothers, and others that complain…” I felt this rated more than a simple letter to the editor in response.
For all that believe and think as does the person who penned those words, this is for you, one and all.
While you were at home baking cookies, I, and thousands of other “wimps with no backbone” were crawling around in Vietnam. While some were being “patriotic” proudly waving the flag of American self-righteousness and vociferously supporting that un-mitigated disaster, as is being done today with Iraq, I and thousands of others where getting shot to hell and back, just is happening in Iraq today.
35 years later, after all the pontificating about “never again” has faded from memory, that same flag of false and misguided patriotism once again “proudly” waves over America. It seems that never again is here again (that is if in fact it ever went away).
The ease at which those of you, that so blindly follow Bush, can label fellow citizens as “wimps without backbone that do not deserve to be called Americans” including those of us that are combat veterans concerns me in some ways more than Bush. Decorated for counter insurgency operations in 1966, three times wounded and a life fighting the effects of Agent Orange a wimp does not make.
By your statements one can only conclude that you believe the only patriotic Americans are those that toot the horn for Bush. I guess it makes no difference to you that the man you support has and is cutting funding to the Veterans Administration which to date has forced over 250,000veterans out of the system die to a lack of funding. All that while creating more vets.
If continuing my open opposition to the Bush cabal makes me a “wimp without backbone” I guess I’ll be a wimp without backbone for whatever life I have remaining. For I will go to my grave in opposition to any and all that preach perpetual war for perpetual peace and profits over people.
The thing that really stands out is that the vast majority of those that feel so free to label their fellow citizens as “un-patriotic, un-American, traitors, wimps, etc., especially those of us that actually wore a uniform and went to war, is that they themselves, for whatever reason, never wore this countries uniform let alone go to war as did those of us that are now labeled by them solely because we oppose Bush. Welcome to America. The arrogance of people to call anyone, let alone combat veterans wimps, un-American is astounding!
My right to criticize was born in the thick of war—your right to criticize was born in your front rooms from watching 30 second sound bites on Fox “news.”
“The rest of us…face the challenge of forcing change, making “America” mean something more than callousness, greed, smugness, orgiastic levels of consumption, disregard for the suffering of others and a willingness to kill to protect our privilege and power.” (Prof. Robert Johnson, UT, Austin)
As far as the statement about Iraq being liberated and the Iraqi people are now free is concerned, it would be laughable if it were not so sad.
The Iraqi people are now free, free to be a part of the 60% unemployed and free to watch Halliburton import thousands of foreign laborers to “rebuild” Iraq.
They are “free” to watch the wholesale privatization of their nation’s resources, infrastructure, economy and everything in-between by the same U.S. multinationals importing labor. But, the Iraqi people have been liberated.
They are free to see their fellow citizens subject to arrest, detention, torture, and murder in the same prisons that Saddam used for the very same purposes. But they have been liberated and are now free.
They are “free” to watch their country turned into what it never was until the politically driven and ideology based invasion—ground zero for fools and fanatics. But, Iraq has been liberated and the Iraqi people are now free.
They are free to wonder, with all the money Halliburton has been paid, when they will have potable water, electricity more than 8 hours a day, they are free to wonder about this and much more.
They are free to wonder why Americans pay no attention to their own General Accounting Office reports that clearly state that Iraq is worse off than before the invasion. (GAO report, 6/2004, “Iraq is Worse off Than Before the War Began”)
I could go on for a long time enumerating the theft of Iraq, but time and space prevent that. Be that as it may, one last thought on the “liberation” of Iraq.
For those willing to use the brains memory cells, you will recall that in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, not one time was “liberating Iraq” part of the discussion.
From beginning to end it was weapons of mass destruction, mushroom clouds over Manhattan, and the link between Saddam-bin Laden and al Quaida. All of which has proven to be false and deliberately so! It was when those “reasons” began to unravel that Bush’s adventure morphed in to a war of “liberation.” Deliberate deception just like Vietnam.
I for one am real tired of Bush and company pissin’ on my boots while trying to convince me it’s raining. The crazy part is how many of you are reaching for umbrellas.
Posted by Jack Dalton at July 06, 2004 12:28 PM | Trackback
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An Old Vets Opinion: Fools and Fanatics
By: Jack Dalton
http://www.ommp.org
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, right or wrong, is not only un-patriotic, but it is morally treasonable to the American people.”
President Theodore Roosevelt
History teaches many lessons one of which is about war—war not only can, but does bring out the worst in people. This is clearly evidenced here in the U.S. Blind hatred and xenophobic responses seem to rule the day.
Stand opposed to Bush and his cabal, openly—there isn’t debate on issues, but there is a lot of “citizens” that will lambaste other “citizens” with venomous name-calling and threats, then call it “patriotism.”
Write and publish an article, essay, or simply a short op/ed critical of Bush of his collection of “Mayberry Machiavelli’s” and you would be amazed at what comes forth from the good “Christian” folk that seemingly view Bush one step below the “second coming.” No debate on the issues, just venom, hate, name calling and threats.
There is not a writer that I’ve talked with that does not receive “hate” mail. Most of it isn’t worth the time of day and is treated accordingly. Occasionally there is an email that spurs some good debate, although I must admit it does not happen often, unfortunately.
Over the past few months however, I’ve noticed a marked increase in the level of just flat out venomous hate mail and threats from some of my fellow “citizens.” If throwing mindless threats and venom filled hate mail at their fellow citizens is what these good up-standing “Christian” folk mean by “patriotism” I want no part of it. If what they mean by “patriot” is to silently have “faith” and “trust” and then obediently following, without question, those that profess to be this nations “leaders” once again, you can count me out.
I learned a long time ago that politicians lie, some more than others. If it’s a politician, no matter whom or what position, I do not take that person on faith; nor do I trust, out of hand, the words that come from between their lips. I understand that politicians have multiple agendas, most of which are multi-faceted, which are generally hidden from us, the citizens of this nation. They need watching, closely, always; they need to be held accountable in absolute terms for everything they say and do (or don’t do) for they cloak their “full purposes” in secrecy and the flag.
To my way of thinking, being a “yes” man for whatever party is in power is not being a patriot it’s being a fool. Being a patriot requires, no, it demands active involvement and participation in the political process. That goes way past simply “trust and obey” and simply casting a “vote” every few years.
When it comes to politicians I am rather cynical. That cynicism is not arbitrary or capricious, a whim; it did not just “happen.” It was born and nurtured.
It was born from having willingly marched off to the Vietnam War in August on 1965 (I enlisted behind the end of the Cuban Missile crisis and in 1965 asked to be sent to the ‘Nam) with all the fervor of a born and bred right-wing hawk. “My country right or wrong; love it or leave it”—there was no middle ground. Back then I would have made Bill O’Riley and Rush Limbaugh look like bleeding heart liberal do-gooders.
From October of 1965 until I left Vietnam in April of 1967, I was wondering what war the politicians and generals were telling the American people about, as it sure wasn’t the war me and my friends were in the middle of. One of the hardest lessons for anyone to learn is that your so-called leaders are willing to lie and deceive even those that they send into that “Heart of Darkness” that is war.
The language of deception was the political norm back then just as it is today with and about Iraq. Catch words and phrases all meant and designed to create specific psychological metaphors in an effort to create and maintain their “necessary illusions” and to “manufacture” the needed consent. Con, hustle and manipulate—welcome to democracy, American style.
Well, that’s not my America. I’ve been challenging that and the powers that be ever since coming back from Vietnam. Doesn’t matter what party as I see no real difference between them—two ends of the same stick, the one the American people keep getting in the back. They lie and people die. George W Bush has become the “king of the hill” on the lie and die part. There’s a lot of people that lie and get away with it.”—Donald Rumsfeld. That’s one of the few honest things I’ve heard him say.
So, what’s all this about? Where am I headed with this little diatribe?
This is a partial and limited response to a “letter to the editor” in the Canyon Lake Week, a newspaper published by Doug Kirk in Canyon Lake Texas (Camus County—San Antonio area). Doug is a voice of reason in a sea of Bush ideologues (some are, but not by no means all) who opt for ideology over reason and logic (forget the facts, full steam ahead). I’ve not reprinted the letter that was written that gave impetus to this reply but as you read this commentary you’ll get the gist of what this person wrote. It’s getting too easy for people in this county to once again label fellow citizens as un-patriotic, un-American and traitors. This ought not to be.
“…it is people like you who cry anti-war slogans, criticize our commander-in –chief for liberating Iraq and Afghanistan from barbarian rule that I was referring to as wimps.” Also included in the “wimps with no backbone that do not deserve to be called Americans” category are, “…wives, mothers, and others that complain…” I felt this rated more than a simple letter to the editor in response.
For all that believe and think as does the person who penned those words, this is for you, one and all.
While you were at home baking cookies, I, and thousands of other “wimps with no backbone” were crawling around in Vietnam. While some were being “patriotic” proudly waving the flag of American self-righteousness and vociferously supporting that un-mitigated disaster, as is being done today with Iraq, I and thousands of others where getting shot to hell and back, just is happening in Iraq today.
35 years later, after all the pontificating about “never again” has faded from memory, that same flag of false and misguided patriotism once again “proudly” waves over America. It seems that never again is here again (that is if in fact it ever went away).
The ease at which those of you, that so blindly follow Bush, can label fellow citizens as “wimps without backbone that do not deserve to be called Americans” including those of us that are combat veterans concerns me in some ways more than Bush. Decorated for counter insurgency operations in 1966, three times wounded and a life fighting the effects of Agent Orange a wimp does not make.
By your statements one can only conclude that you believe the only patriotic Americans are those that toot the horn for Bush. I guess it makes no difference to you that the man you support has and is cutting funding to the Veterans Administration which to date has forced over 250,000veterans out of the system die to a lack of funding. All that while creating more vets.
If continuing my open opposition to the Bush cabal makes me a “wimp without backbone” I guess I’ll be a wimp without backbone for whatever life I have remaining. For I will go to my grave in opposition to any and all that preach perpetual war for perpetual peace and profits over people.
The thing that really stands out is that the vast majority of those that feel so free to label their fellow citizens as “un-patriotic, un-American, traitors, wimps, etc., especially those of us that actually wore a uniform and went to war, is that they themselves, for whatever reason, never wore this countries uniform let alone go to war as did those of us that are now labeled by them solely because we oppose Bush. Welcome to America. The arrogance of people to call anyone, let alone combat veterans wimps, un-American is astounding!
My right to criticize was born in the thick of war—your right to criticize was born in your front rooms from watching 30 second sound bites on Fox “news.”
“The rest of us…face the challenge of forcing change, making “America” mean something more than callousness, greed, smugness, orgiastic levels of consumption, disregard for the suffering of others and a willingness to kill to protect our privilege and power.” (Prof. Robert Johnson, UT, Austin)
As far as the statement about Iraq being liberated and the Iraqi people are now free is concerned, it would be laughable if it were not so sad.
The Iraqi people are now free, free to be a part of the 60% unemployed and free to watch Halliburton import thousands of foreign laborers to “rebuild” Iraq.
They are “free” to watch the wholesale privatization of their nation’s resources, infrastructure, economy and everything in-between by the same U.S. multinationals importing labor. But, the Iraqi people have been liberated.
They are free to see their fellow citizens subject to arrest, detention, torture, and murder in the same prisons that Saddam used for the very same purposes. But they have been liberated and are now free.
They are “free” to watch their country turned into what it never was until the politically driven and ideology based invasion—ground zero for fools and fanatics. But, Iraq has been liberated and the Iraqi people are now free.
They are free to wonder, with all the money Halliburton has been paid, when they will have potable water, electricity more than 8 hours a day, they are free to wonder about this and much more.
They are free to wonder why Americans pay no attention to their own General Accounting Office reports that clearly state that Iraq is worse off than before the invasion. (GAO report, 6/2004, “Iraq is Worse off Than Before the War Began”)
I could go on for a long time enumerating the theft of Iraq, but time and space prevent that. Be that as it may, one last thought on the “liberation” of Iraq.
For those willing to use the brains memory cells, you will recall that in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, not one time was “liberating Iraq” part of the discussion.
From beginning to end it was weapons of mass destruction, mushroom clouds over Manhattan, and the link between Saddam-bin Laden and al Quaida. All of which has proven to be false and deliberately so! It was when those “reasons” began to unravel that Bush’s adventure morphed in to a war of “liberation.” Deliberate deception just like Vietnam.
I for one am real tired of Bush and company pissin’ on my boots while trying to convince me it’s raining. The crazy part is how many of you are reaching for umbrellas.
Posted by Jack Dalton at July 06, 2004 12:28 PM | Trackback
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I, too, am in contact with veterans from WW II, Korea, Vietnam, Grenada/Panama and the Gulf Wars; the consistent messages I recieve, either by letter, E-mail or in person are diametrically OPPOSITE what this man has to offer.
It should be of particular note that the men who actually served WITH John Kerry on that "Zippo boat" in the Mekong Delta; his commander, the surgeon who attended his "injuries", and those in his crew, all OPPOSE him..and have made NO bones about it.
Kerry's status with no small munber of vets is thin, especially those who served in RVN...I have heard the word "traitor" uttered more than a few times. And, for a "patriotic American veteran", why is John Kerry glorified in the People's Republic of Vietnam as a "Hero of the People's Revolution", along with Jane Fonda, et al?
Makes one think, does it not?
It should be of particular note that the men who actually served WITH John Kerry on that "Zippo boat" in the Mekong Delta; his commander, the surgeon who attended his "injuries", and those in his crew, all OPPOSE him..and have made NO bones about it.
Kerry's status with no small munber of vets is thin, especially those who served in RVN...I have heard the word "traitor" uttered more than a few times. And, for a "patriotic American veteran", why is John Kerry glorified in the People's Republic of Vietnam as a "Hero of the People's Revolution", along with Jane Fonda, et al?
Makes one think, does it not?
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Yep Kerry has been there
http://www.snopes.com/photos/images/kerry03.jpg
http://www.snopes.com/photos/images/kerry01.jpg
Wish I could find a picture of showing the war "hero" chucking his medals like worthless pieces of clutter
http://www.snopes.com/photos/images/kerry03.jpg
http://www.snopes.com/photos/images/kerry01.jpg
Wish I could find a picture of showing the war "hero" chucking his medals like worthless pieces of clutter
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chadtm80 wrote:Yep Kerry has been there
http://www.snopes.com/photos/images/kerry03.jpg
http://www.snopes.com/photos/images/kerry01.jpg
Wish I could find a picture of showing the war "hero" chucking his medals like worthless pieces of clutter
If I have to choose between a war hero and a coke abuser, I'll choose the former.
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Vets, like any other demographic group, do NOT all vote in lockstep. Its silly to imply that they do.
This soldier has certainly has a right to his opinion (and I agree with him hands down). So did Kerry when he came back from Vietnam and chose to protest against our continued involvement. Vietnam was a mess for this country, and he was hardly the only person OR the only vet who protested it.
This soldier has certainly has a right to his opinion (and I agree with him hands down). So did Kerry when he came back from Vietnam and chose to protest against our continued involvement. Vietnam was a mess for this country, and he was hardly the only person OR the only vet who protested it.
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Great letter, I guess...but is it then okay to say....
Bush knew about 9/11
Bush is worse then Hitler
Bush betrayed America
Bush is stupid
Michael Moore's suggestion that Bush was a "deserter"
"We have a president who owes his election more to a dynasty than to democracy."
"How dare they drag the good name of the United States of America through the mud of Saddam Hussein's torture prison," Gore states
"We were both inspired to come here after the sitting president said the vile and vicious and hateful comments he did on Tuesday," said O'Donnell refering to Bush's speech calling for a fair debate on the gay marriage question.
Lying requires a certain competence: at least, it requires an understanding of the difference between truth and falsehood. When a 3-year old tells you an obvious falsehood, it isn't really fair to call it a lie. The same was true of the huge whoppers that Reagan came out with when he got out of the control of his handlers. The poor soul probably had no idea. With Bush, I suspect it is more or less the same.
"This President is not interested in being a good president," the former Vermont governor Dean said in an interview with Rolling Stone. "He's interested in some complicated psychological situation that he has with his father."
Bigot Bush to Use Back Door on Gay Marriage
" Bush isn't president, but he plays one on TV. His presence in the White House is an affront to everything that this country stands for. His fake presidency is treasonous; our passive tolerance for it sad testimony to post-9/11 cowardice. As I wrote in December 2000, "George W. Bush is not the President of the United States of America." And millions of Americans agree.
I could go on and on.....
I think the words above are as bad as calling someone unpatriotic?!
Bush knew about 9/11
Bush is worse then Hitler
Bush betrayed America
Bush is stupid
Michael Moore's suggestion that Bush was a "deserter"
"We have a president who owes his election more to a dynasty than to democracy."
"How dare they drag the good name of the United States of America through the mud of Saddam Hussein's torture prison," Gore states
"We were both inspired to come here after the sitting president said the vile and vicious and hateful comments he did on Tuesday," said O'Donnell refering to Bush's speech calling for a fair debate on the gay marriage question.
Lying requires a certain competence: at least, it requires an understanding of the difference between truth and falsehood. When a 3-year old tells you an obvious falsehood, it isn't really fair to call it a lie. The same was true of the huge whoppers that Reagan came out with when he got out of the control of his handlers. The poor soul probably had no idea. With Bush, I suspect it is more or less the same.
"This President is not interested in being a good president," the former Vermont governor Dean said in an interview with Rolling Stone. "He's interested in some complicated psychological situation that he has with his father."
Bigot Bush to Use Back Door on Gay Marriage
" Bush isn't president, but he plays one on TV. His presence in the White House is an affront to everything that this country stands for. His fake presidency is treasonous; our passive tolerance for it sad testimony to post-9/11 cowardice. As I wrote in December 2000, "George W. Bush is not the President of the United States of America." And millions of Americans agree.
I could go on and on.....
I think the words above are as bad as calling someone unpatriotic?!
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stormie_skies wrote:Vets, like any other demographic group, do NOT all vote in lockstep. Its silly to imply that they do.
This soldier has certainly has a right to his opinion (and I agree with him hands down). So did Kerry when he came back from Vietnam and chose to protest against our continued involvement. Vietnam was a mess for this country, and he was hardly the only person OR the only vet who protested it.
But all of them are not running for President nor are they campaigning using his war hero medals and status. But Kerry is. That is a big issue to me and his protesting of war because of this war on terrorism.
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But all of them are not running for President nor are they campaigning using his war hero medals and status. But Kerry is. That is a big issue to me and his protesting of war because of this war on terrorism.
Why should his later protests take away from the credit he deserves for voluntarily serving in a combat zone? If anything, I think his service lends credibility to his protests, because he knew the monster he was protesting first-hand.
It seems so petty to me that people pick apart a man who served because he wanted to, did right by his country and even earned a few medals, just because you disagree with his politics (either then or now). Especially when the people doing the picking avoided combat service themselves (Bush, Cheney and a good amount of the Republican leadership).
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stormie_skies, get your "facts" straight...
The ONLY reason John Kerry entered US Naval ROTC was because his draft board would not approve his application to study (?) in France for a deferment; his undergraduate days were mostly dedicated to anti-war protests as a member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS; Marxist-ideologues).
Once "in country" his service totalled LESS than one year, in which he received an inordinate number of decorations, some fo them questioned by the same men he served with on that Mekong River Delta boat...and, afterwards, he returned to the US, spouting unsubstatiated charges against the same Armed Forces he left behind (I was one of these).
The victorious People's Republic of Vietnam, after the war, granted both Kerry and Jane Fonda the title of "Hero of the Revolution" (read: NVA/VC winning) for their efforts to denigrate and protest US military involvement. Note that, in ANY other time in our nation's history, those two (amongst many others) would have been charged with "giving aid and comfort to the enemy", if not TREASON.
After that, he advanced himself by shamelessly marrying not one, but TWO heiresses, divorcing the first after beggaring her fortune; his subsequent election to the Senate has been a consistent line of "politically correct" votes...anti-military, anti-life, anti-religion, etc., etc.
THIS is the man who wants "we, the people" to send him to the Oval Office?
Not while I still have one breath in my sick, ravaged body.
The ONLY reason John Kerry entered US Naval ROTC was because his draft board would not approve his application to study (?) in France for a deferment; his undergraduate days were mostly dedicated to anti-war protests as a member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS; Marxist-ideologues).
Once "in country" his service totalled LESS than one year, in which he received an inordinate number of decorations, some fo them questioned by the same men he served with on that Mekong River Delta boat...and, afterwards, he returned to the US, spouting unsubstatiated charges against the same Armed Forces he left behind (I was one of these).
The victorious People's Republic of Vietnam, after the war, granted both Kerry and Jane Fonda the title of "Hero of the Revolution" (read: NVA/VC winning) for their efforts to denigrate and protest US military involvement. Note that, in ANY other time in our nation's history, those two (amongst many others) would have been charged with "giving aid and comfort to the enemy", if not TREASON.
After that, he advanced himself by shamelessly marrying not one, but TWO heiresses, divorcing the first after beggaring her fortune; his subsequent election to the Senate has been a consistent line of "politically correct" votes...anti-military, anti-life, anti-religion, etc., etc.
THIS is the man who wants "we, the people" to send him to the Oval Office?
Not while I still have one breath in my sick, ravaged body.

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