Dispel the "Kerry as-War-Hero" Myth Right Now! (CLICK HERE)

various | 2-14-04

[jmstein7]

Dispel the "Kerry as-War-Hero" Myth Right Now!  (CLICK HERE)

 

In case nobody noticed, I should point out that almost every time we have a Media FReep -- e.g. the Imminence Myth or the Bush Recession Myth -- the media shuts up about the topic for a while (probably because they know they've been caught).

Anyway, there is an important myth that needs to be dispelled right now -- the myth that Kerry is a War Hero.  Click here if you don't know why this is a myth.

Here are three steps you can take to help dispel the myth.

1)  Open the "Write for W" window by clicking HERE.

Make sure to enter your ZipCode in the top box and press enter.  You will see a list of local papers.  Check off every paper on the list.  Then, fill in all the personal information and write an email.  If you don't have time, or need an idea as far as what to write, you can look at this sample email:

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A person cannot be both a War Hero and a War Criminal.  John Kerry is not a War Hero, as he, himself, has admitted that he committed war crimes.  On Meet the Press on May 6, 2001, Tim Russert played John Kerry an audio tape from April 18, 1971, where Kerry was asked whether he committed war crimes in Vietnam.  Kerry’s response, on the 1971 tape, was:

 I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions. . .

 Therefore, having admitted to committing war crimes, it is disingenuous for Kerry to now claim the mantle of “Hero.”  It is even more disingenuous for the media to keep perpetuating the “Hero” myth. 

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Go ahead and send it!

2)  Fox News tends to listen to reason.  So, by all means, send them this email as well (if you need semicolons instead of commas, you can do it by hand or automatically find-replace in Word:

Afterhours@foxnews.com,Foxreport@foxnews.com,
Atlarge@foxnews.com,Hannity@foxnews.com,Beyondthenews@foxnews.com,
Colmes@foxnews.com,Bullsandbears@foxnews.com,Heartland@foxnews.com
,Cash@foxnews.com,Ontherecord@foxnews.com,Cavuto@foxnews.com,
Patsajakweekend@foxnews.com,Dayside@foxnews.com,Special@foxnews.com,
Forbes@foxnews.com,Studiob@foxnews.com,Friends@foxnews.com,
Beltway@foxnews.com,Foxmagazine@foxnews.com,Myword@foxnews.com,
Comments@foxnews.com,Oreilly@foxnews.com,Comments@foxnews.com,
Warstories@foxnews.com,FNS@foxnews.com,Cavuto@foxnews.com,
Newswatch@foxnews.com

3)  Make sure to email the major news outlets.  I have broken them into three separate lists for your use:

letters@newsweek.com, letters@time.com, conedit@ajc.com, letters@baltsun.com, letter@globe.com, news@globe.com, letterstoeditor@bostonherald.com, opinion@charlotte.com, letters@suntimes.com, news@cleveland.com, letterstoeditor@dallasnews.com, letters@denverpost.com, business@det-freepress.com, letter@detnews.com, viewpoints@chron.com, letters@latimes.com, HeraldEd@herald.com, politics@startribune.com, letters@newsday.com, letters@nytimes.com, Inquirer.Opinion@phillynews.com, DailyNews.Opinion@phillynews.com, letters@post-gazette.com, letters@uniontrib.com, chronletters@sfgate.com, letters@examiner.com, letters@sjmercury.com, editpage@seattle-pi.com, opinion@seatimes.com, editor@usatoday.com, letter.editor@edit.wsj.com, Letterstoed@washpost.com, wtnews@wt.infi.net, feedback@cnn.com, cnn.onair@cnn.com, crossfire@cnn.com, viewer@c-span.org

comments@foxnews.com, hardball@cnbc.com, letters@msnbc.com, opinion@msnbc.com, TheNews@msnbc.com, dateline@news.nbc.com, nightly@news.nbc.com, today@news.nbc.com, MTP@nbc.com, speaker@aim.org, takeaction@americasvoice.com, pat@theamericancause.org, cbnonline@cbn.org, viewer@c-span.org, cato@free-market.net, drudge@drudgereport.com, comment@foxnews.com, letter@globe.com, insight@wt.infi.net, jwatch@erols.com, imus@msnbc.com, hq@lp.org, marklevin@aol.com, jacolumn@toto.net, feedback@usatoday.com, editor@dolphin.gulf.net, TalkBack@CNN.com,Reliable@CNN.com,NewsNight@cnn.com

late.edition@cnn.com,InsidePolitics@CNN.com, Dateline@nbc.com, MTP@nbc.com,today@nbc.com,lauren.kapp@abc.com, oreilly@foxnews.com,special@foxnews.com, hannity@foxnews.com,Nightly@nbc.com,evening@cbsnews.com, Letters@washpost.com,nytnews@nytimes.com, letters@nytimes.com,letters@nypost.com

Now, this put this on notice that people are wise to their misstatements, and, if challenged, they will not be able to claim that they didn't know.

If you have a PING list, please PING it.

Also, please feel free to respond with other email lists to email the info to, or with bad email addresses.

 

[dsc]

If this article is accurate, I don't see anything to criticize in Kerry's Naval service.

Likely the troop with the rocket didn't fire because he was too close. But seeing as how he was an enemy with a weapon, and he didn't drop it and put his hands in the air, I don't care if they shot him in the back or up the kazoo.

[reg45]

Benedict Arnold was a war hero, until ....

[FR_addict]

Thanks for posting Kerry's 1971 response. He is a war criminal by his own words. He committed war crimes so his only excuse is others committed war crimes too. DId he command men to commit war crimes?

I would love to see Kerry's records released. I think there would be a lot of dirt there.

[Joy Angela]

KERRY IS TOAST! - Nichols Notes
(Hillary Gets Ready to Spread the Jam!)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1078451/posts

[NewLand]

DONE! BUMP! BTTT!

[luvbach1]

Kerry's specialty was coup de grace shooting severely wounded Vietnamese as they tried to crawl away.

But wouldn't he rejoin with "everybody was doing it?" Of course, not everybody was doing it. But apparently Kerry was.

[luvbach1]

We really don't knoiw what is true. According to Ketchup Man, American soldiers doing their duty were commiting atrocities too.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

I have never believed Kerry to be a war hero!That is just pure fiction.

[tracer]

My post on an earlier previous thread:

Pic of 'JFK' sex storm girl Posted by tracer to longtermmemmory

On News/Activism 02/14/2004 9:17:03 AM PST #141 of 154

".....I have questions re: whether one or more of the very minor "wounds" that lead up to the third Purple Heart that got this back-shooting "war hero's" candy @$$ sent back to CONUS after only four months in-country -- leaving the remainder of his "band of brothers" to bleed and die in his place.

Do the math: in light of your own experience or that of Nam vets that you know or know of -- how likely is it that a riverine force boat commander officer serving in a reportedly low-intensity area of operations would be both zinged three (count 'em, three)times in only four months AND be lucky enough for all three zings to result in very minor yet PH-able wounds?"

"Why is it that nobody else, TIAAO -- reporters, politicians, former and active real-deal operators, talking heads, talk show hosts, etc. -- has raised this question?"

"It's a reasonable question, too, IMO. And, no, I don't consider myself to be the smartest guy in the world or country, on the block, here, or even under my own roof."

"Let's raise and examine this question, given that it was Sir Kerry-Heinz and Company who "opened the door " to this line of questioning by assailing GW's military service and having chosen to create a campaign plank and obsess ad nauseum about the purported exploits some thirty years ago of an anti-war, Fonda-fawning, America-hating, medal-tossing, world-class clymer who "married well" ("Heinz loses," as the commercial says) -- and lives, breathes, and operates far to the left of even Teddie "Aqualung" Kennedy, the Marxist favorite son of the People's Republick of Messachusetts."

"Attention: All lurkers with ties to Rush, Hannity, G. Gordon, etc. What say ye??"

[jveritas]

I sent your post to Brit Hume and Sean Hannity.

[AgThorn]

same here ... about 10 or so of those addresses are not good ...

[jmstein7]

Bump-a-roo!

[AmericanVictory]

Thanks.

[jmstein7]

BTTT.

[rocky88]

emailed to Fox, other cable news outlets as well as my local media here in the Buffalo, New York area (thanks to GeorgeWBush.com)...I also included my own opinions about trusting an anti-war activist with our family's lives in the War on Terror.. I hope I get pubbed!

[jmstein7]

Hannity just covered this and read Kerry's 1971 comments!!!!!!!!!!!

[jmstein7]

ALERT:

Hannity will be PLAYING the Kerry 1971 audio clip (I committed war crimes) on H&C tonight!!! Set your VCRs!

[Republicus2001]

"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged" - Abraham Lincoln

[tapatio]

Here is another little piece from that same article

http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/kerry/061603.shtml

Kerry initially hoped to continue his service at a relatively safe distance from most fighting, securing an assignment as "swift boat" skipper. While the 50-foot swift boats cruised the Vietnamese coast a little closer to the action than the Gridley had come, they were still considered relatively safe.

"I didn't really want to get involved in the war," Kerry said in a little-noticed contribution to a book of Vietnam reminiscences published in 1986. "When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing."