Kerry & his Vietnam Buddies
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| Thu, 07-29-2004 - 9:52am |
Senator John Kerry has made his 4-month combat tour in Vietnam the centerpiece of his bid for the Presidency. His campaign jets a handful of veterans around the country, and trots them out at public appearances to sing his praises. John Kerry wants us to believe that these men represent all those he calls his "band of brothers."
But most combat veterans who served with John Kerry in Vietnam see him in a very different light.
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has been formed to counter the false "war crimes" charges John Kerry repeatedly made against Vietnam veterans who served in our units and elsewhere, and to accurately portray Kerry's brief tour in Vietnam as a junior grade Lieutenant. We speak from personal experience -- our group includes men who served beside Kerry in combat as well as his commanders. Though we come from different backgrounds and hold varying political opinions, we agree on one thing: John Kerry misrepresented his record and ours in Vietnam and therefore exhibits serious flaws in character and lacks the potential to lead.
We regret the need to do this. Most Swift boat veterans would like nothing better than to support one of our own for America's highest office, regardless of whether he was running as a Democrat or a Republican. However, Kerry's phony war crimes charges, his exaggerated claims about his own service in Vietnam, and his deliberate misrepresentation of the nature and effectiveness of Swift boat operations compels us to step forward.
For more than thirty years, most Vietnam veterans kept silent as we were maligned as misfits, addicts, and baby killers. Now that a key creator of that poisonous image is seeking the Presidency we have resolved to end our silence.
The time has come to set the record straight.
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"...and when Bush asked for money to provide the men equipment to save lives, Kerry voted no, while concurrently complaining that the men didn't have appropriate equipment. "
Kerry explained in an interview yesterday that this no
"Have you ever read a bill? They put alot of language in those bills that don't even pertain to anything the bill is designed for. If someone agrees with 80% of a bill, but not 20% should they vote for or against?"
As I explained in earlier posts, I have seen this happen too many times
Those who confessed, sure... they are in the same boat as Kerry... well not quite... instead of living in a mansion with a billion bucks most war criminals get to do a painful tour of hard labor at Leavenworth.
Tenent (a Clinton appointee and Bush holdover) is gone, we really don't know much about turnover in covert ops... after all it's covert. The greatest damage was done by Senator Robert Torricelli of NJ whose no longer in office, aside from his outing covert CIA sources on C-SPAN (and getting them killed) which was pretty devastating to intelligence... during the Clinton era the policies established by both the Democrats in the Senate and President Clinton all but assured destruction of functional intelligence. Search sometime for "Torricelli principle" to learn more.
He voted against getting troops defensive equipment such as modern flack jackets, while at the same time complaining about the lack of modern flack jackets while on campaign... he voted against deployed troops... when you vote against your troops during war... you make a statement... we can couple this with his admission to being a war criminal years earlier... and we can all agree there is no way to have someone in office who turns his back on deployed troops and admits to being a war criminal.
Yup the public is just too stupid... well actually not... Kerry voted against the bill because Dean was giving him grief running well in the primaries against the war... and Kerry had to show he could also vote against the war... thus it suited Kerry's need of the moment... that is the reason Kerry voted against our troops... however it makes a statement... his history of admitting to war crimes... only Democrats could think someone opposed to the military, opposed to every major defense system in the past 20 years, and opposed to intelligence (before 9/11) who is a self admitted war criminal is somehow a good leader for the military.... hahaha.... this is almost a comedy.
The bill was to support our troops, it had other stuff in it... what bill in the last half century hasn't... the spin is anyone trying to deny Kerry voted against supporting our deployed troops... when the time came to cast his vote up or down to fund our troops, Kerry voted no. That says about all anyone needs to know about him.
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