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Dispel the "Kerry as-War-Hero" Myth Right Now! (CLICK HERE)
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| 2-14-04
Posted on 02/14/2004 8:49:25 AM PST by 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:
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. Kerrys 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.
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.
TOPICS: Activism/Chapters
KEYWORDS: 2004; ccrm; kerry; warcriminal
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To: Enterprise; All
Cool.
BUMP!
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posted on
02/14/2004 10:06:09 AM PST
by
jmstein7
(Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
To: God luvs America
Excellent letter! Thank you for sharing it!
To: Alamo-Girl
I sent GLA's letter to CNN as well.
43
posted on
02/14/2004 10:07:17 AM PST
by
jmstein7
(Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
To: jmstein7
Thanks...just fired off the following e-mail:
Mr Matthews should check the credibility of his guests before reporting errant stories:
Feb. 13, 2004, 11:37PM
Story of purged Bush files has been around the block
By MICHAEL HEDGES
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON -- A White House reeling from questions about President Bush's Texas Air National Guard service was hit this week by explosive new charges: A retired Guard officer claimed he witnessed a 1997 effort to purge Bush's files of damaging material.
By Thursday night, Bill Burkett of Abilene was a cable news phenomenon, telling his account of Bush aides and Texas guard officers conspiring in a cover-up.
But lost in those accounts were details of a long and bitter feud -- which could provide a motive for this story -- between Burkett and a cadre of friends and the Texas guard.
And while Burkett told a consistent story this week, he had published a more controversial account earlier.
In an essay Burkett wrote for an anti-Bush Web site in March 2003, he claimed he was sent to Panama, where he contracted a fatal disease, as retaliation by the Texas Guard after "refusing to alter personnel records of George W. Bush."
But in a telephone interview Friday, he backed off the claim that he was ordered to falsify Bush's records.
"That statement was not accurate, that is overstated," he said. He insisted the other allegation -- that he witnessed an effort to sanitize Bush's Guard record -- was true.
Burkett first raised his claim in the late 1990s and repeated it to a number of reporters in 2000. He alleged that he overheard Bush's one-time chief of staff, Joe Allbaugh, tell a Texas Guard general to make sure there were no embarrassments in Bush's Guard record.
The story was not published then but was resurrected this week in major newspapers and on cable network talk shows as controversy swelled over whether Bush, who may face Vietnam War combat veteran John Kerry in the presidential election, completed his Guard service in the United States during that war.
In Burkett's account, he said he overheard both sides of a speakerphone call between Allbaugh and Gen. Daniel James III during the summer of 1997.
About 10 days later, he said he was approached by George Conn, a friend who coaxed him to the museum on the base in Camp Mabry in Austin, near the office of former Guard Gen. John Scribner. There, in a garbage can, he saw several pieces of paper.
"My eyes fixed on the first page," he said Friday. "It had Bush, George W. Lt1. What I did next still bothers me. I browsed through the top five or six pages."
All of those directly involved -- Allbaugh, Conn, James and Scribner -- emphatically deny Burkett's charges.
"This is baseless, groundless hogwash," Allbaugh said.
Conn, now a civilian working for the military in Germany, told the Boston Globe he had no recollection of the events described by Burkett.
Allbaugh said that during the governorship Bush asked him to find out if his Guard record was available. "What I found out then, for the first time, was that most of it was in Denver," Allbaugh said. "We did review it and there was nothing in there."
Details of Burkett's story rang false to some Guard officials.
For one thing, Texas Guard officials said no personnel records were ever stored at the museum. Also, even if the records had been scoured in 1997, it would have been too late. The bulk of the material in Bush's Guard records had been transferred to a Colorado facility where records are permanently stored and copied on microfilm, Guard officials said. Some Bush Guard records emerged from that facility this week.
Burkett could produce no one to directly corroborate his story. He said Friday that a few people knew about it around the time it happened. But he said two of those refuse to come forward, fearing retaliation by current Guard officials, and he didn't want to expose them.
A former Guard officer, Dennis Adams of Austin, did confirm Friday that Burkett told him about the records destruction in 1997. Adams said he was not surprised when Burkett told him what he'd overheard and seen.
"I have no doubt he is telling the truth," Adams said. "Bill is one of my heroes. He was trying to take on certain rotten SOBs inside the Guard."
Burkett and some friends from his Guard days have been involved in an ugly dispute with the Texas National Guard and officers appointed by then-Gov. Bush for several years.
One of those friends, Harvey Gough, said this week that he became so incensed at what he saw as malfeasance by the Guard's senior officers that he hired a private detective to delve into James' personal life. James is the son of former Gen. Chappy James, the first black four-star general.
Through a spokesman, James denied all of Burkett's charges.
Burkett, Gough, Adams and others have waged an ugly feud with the Guard over what they said was fraud, waste and corruption.
Burkett sued three officers in the Texas Guard in the late 1990s, claiming that they blocked him from receiving medical support after he went to Panama on a Guard-related mission and contracted a debilitating disease. Gough alleged in a lawsuit that he was subjected to anti-Semitic remarks from one of James' staffers, and when he complained, James retaliated by court-martialing him. Both lawsuits failed.
Burkett also raised charges against James and others at Texas legislative hearings in the late 1990s.
Rep. Bob Hunter, R-Abilene, conducted one of the hearings and said this week that there was no substance to Burkett's charges.
Burkett's writing about Bush and the Texas National Guard can be found on a number of anti-Bush Web sites. On the eve of the Iraq war in March 2003, he described Bush as one of "the three small men," along with Hitler and Napoleon, who sought to rule through tyranny.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2402474 One more reason why MSNBC is the lowest rated cable news network as their propensity to create news from the left just makes them look ridiculous in the eyes of ordinary Americans!
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posted on
02/14/2004 10:07:26 AM PST
by
God luvs America
(Howard Dean is a deranged lunatic!!)
To: freebilly
If he's a liar, then he lied before Congress and led to American soldiers being called "baby killers" and spit on when they returned. If Kerry lied then he aided and comforted the enemy in a time of war by diseminating propaganda.
So either John Kerry is an unindicted war criminal or a traitor. Both charges would make him unfit for the highest office in the land.
45
posted on
02/14/2004 10:09:46 AM PST
by
weegee
(Election 2004: Re-elect President Bush... Don't feed the trolls.)
To: God luvs America; All
Might want to send this "Kerry as Hero Myth" email as a tip to Drudge as well.
Go to
http://www.drudgereport.com , scroll down, and post it in the text box that says "SEND NEWS TIPS TO DRUDGE".
46
posted on
02/14/2004 10:09:53 AM PST
by
jmstein7
(Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
To: God luvs America; All
Might want to send this "Kerry as Hero Myth" email as a tip to Drudge as well.
Go to
http://www.drudgereport.com , scroll down, and post it in the text box that says "SEND NEWS TIPS TO DRUDGE".
47
posted on
02/14/2004 10:09:57 AM PST
by
jmstein7
(Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
To: jmstein7
See my tag. I'm trying it out, since it is a rather pointed comment about our french-fried opponent (as opposed to our other Dim opponents).
48
posted on
02/14/2004 10:12:53 AM PST
by
alwaysconservative
(If a hero fireman later becomes an arsonist, should we still call him a hero? Aldrich)
To: jmstein7
Save for later.
49
posted on
02/14/2004 10:15:49 AM PST
by
freeangel
(freeangel)
To: 300winmag
Kerry proved himself a coward afterwards. While American POWs were being starved and beaten to elicit testimony against America and their fellow soldiers Kerry gave same freely in front of the world.
To: jmstein7
BUMP
51
posted on
02/14/2004 10:25:21 AM PST
by
Dante3
To: jmstein7
BUMP
52
posted on
02/14/2004 10:31:31 AM PST
by
kitkat
To: weegee
If he's a liar, then he lied before Congress and led to American soldiers being called "baby killers" and spit on when they returned. If Kerry lied then he aided and comforted the enemy in a time of war by diseminating propaganda. So either John Kerry is an unindicted war criminal or a traitor. Both charges would make him unfit for the highest office in the land.
BINGO! But let's keep focused on Dubya's Air National Guard service. How many times someone sits in a classroom reading flight manuals and policy procedures is of much greater significance than testifying to a Congressional panel about war crimes you've committed....
To: freebilly
Exactly!
So, send your emails!
54
posted on
02/14/2004 10:35:50 AM PST
by
jmstein7
(Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
To: jmstein7
Bump for e-mails!
55
posted on
02/14/2004 10:47:37 AM PST
by
RottiBiz
To: Peach
Just like when the Gore campaign dumped the Willie Horton mess on Dukakis - the pubbies got the blame.
56
posted on
02/14/2004 10:48:45 AM PST
by
OrioleFan
(Republicans believe every day is July 4th, DemocRATs believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
To: jmstein7
Who is John Kerry?
57
posted on
02/14/2004 10:49:01 AM PST
by
ApesForEvolution
(FREE 3D Online Golf Game - Independent Reseller of the Week: http://egolfinternational.com/carmyap)
To: ApesForEvolution
A world-champion LIAR!
58
posted on
02/14/2004 10:50:10 AM PST
by
jmstein7
(Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
To: jmstein7
In today's issue of one of the more popular DC-area Vietnamese newspapers (Pho Nho), there's a front page (top left) story unveiling Kerry's antiwar background, complete with the Fonda/Kerry crowd photo.
In the story, he's repeatedly called a "phan boi".
"Phan boi" = traitor.
59
posted on
02/14/2004 11:24:55 AM PST
by
angkor
To: All; WOSG; Landru; sultan88; jla; FBD; MeekOneGOP; BOBTHENAILER; Constitution Day; Wolverine
The NY Post is generally balanced in its coverage. Might want to tip them off to this story by calling them at (212) 930-8500 . After you call, please post their response in your conversation to this thread.
60
posted on
02/14/2004 11:28:11 AM PST
by
jmstein7
(Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
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