Posted on 02/24/2004 2:05:10 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:06:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Over the last week, you and your campaign have initiated a widespread attack on my service in Vietnam, my decision to speak out to end that war, and my commitment to the defense of this nation. Just today, Saxby Chambliss--a man elected to the US Senate on the back of one of the most despicable campaigns ever conducted against Max Cleland, a true American Hero--was carrying this attack for you.
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Dio... IT .....seems the Posts is quoting that VVAW memo you have up on your site.
Kerry was present at [VVAW's New York] offices in September 1970, when the group decided to write then-Mayor John V. Lindsay and demand that the city refuse to welcome another organization, one dedicated to representing other American servicemen.
The group John Kerry and his associates were protesting was The National Guard Association, which had its 1970 convention in New York at the Americana Hotel (now the New York Sheraton) from Sept. 13 to Sept. 17. Kerry's group set up a picket line in front of the Americana, and staged a protest rally against the Guard on Sept. 17, 1970 at 5:30 pm.
Why would they do such a thing? Here's the sort of rhetoric Kerry and Co. used to gather anti-war forces in a mimeographed flyer:
"The National Guard Uses Your Tax Dollar: "To support the military-industrial complex "To honor war criminals--Westmoreland, Laird, Nixon, etc. "To applaud campus murders by National Guard units "To encourage armed attacks on minority communities"
The decision to stage this defamatory protest against the National Guard--which then comprised 409,412 Army Guard and 89,847 Air Guard personnel--was made in John Kerry's presence and with his full knowledge. Executive-committee minutes for Vietnam Veterans Against the War note that among the six "members attending" a meeting to plan the protest was "John Kerry-NE Rep."
That is from a fiction title to a book written by Bill Weld, the ex Governor of Massachusetts and who Kerry defeated in defending his Senator-ship.
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