Summer Soldiers

NY Sun ^ | 11/21/05 | JOHN O'NEILL

[dervish]

Senator Kerry, supposedly defending Rep. John Murtha, said, "I won't stand for the Swift-Boating of Jack Murtha!" As one of the 254 members of Mr. Kerry's unit in Vietnam who belonged to Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth, I found Mr. Kerry's comments most ironic.

To us, Mr. Kerry's comments meant that no one should do to Mr. Murtha that which Mr. Kerry did to all of us and our fellow Vietnam veterans, living and dead. Mr. Kerry's disgraceful comments on many occasions in 1971 (while we were locked in combat), claiming falsely that we were "murdering" hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and committing rape and mayhem on a daily basis, are a part of the public record for which he has never apologized. This might be called "Kerrying" our soldiers.

In his own strange way, in his recent comments, Mr. Kerry was trying by implication to compare himself to Mr. Murtha - the gravest of insults to Mr. Murtha, who was given a standing ovation by the House of Representatives (which then properly buried his immediate pullout suggestion 403-3). Mr. Murtha's long military record stands in stark contrast with Mr. Kerry's continuous self-promotion of his short and controversial service in our unit. More importantly, Mr. Murtha has never compared our troops in the field - now or then - to the "Army of Genghis Khan" or claimed our adversaries, whether the bloody communists and Khmer Rouge or the butchers of Al Qaeda, were simply democratic reformers. Can anyone - even in the cocoon of Washington or the incestuous world of Mainstream Media - imagine either side of the aisle spontaneously rising to clap for anything that Mr. Kerry ever did or said?

'snip'

[kellynla]

BTTT

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I sometimes think the whole concept of "exit strategy," born in Vietnam, should be deep sixed. What was the exit strategy in WW2? The term implies inability to succeed or complete the job.

Amen to that, brother! We are in a decades-long conflict with a malignant force set loose in the world. There is no "exit strategy" from this conflict. "Exit" is another word for surrender and, eventually, dhimmitude and slavery under islamic rule. Christopher Hitchen's new article, "Nowhere to Go" makes this exact point. As he says, "Withdraw to where, exactly?".

[Syncro]

Kerry: "I won't stand for the Swift-Boating of Jack Murtha!"

Well then sit down and SHUT up, traitor!

LOL, Kerry has been Swift-Boated! Har. He has coined a good phraze...lets hope it continues to haunt him!

Thanks for the ping IT.