John Kerry's Intern Eruption: The Year of the Skunk

It’s the Chinese year of the Monkey and I guess that means something if you are Chinese. I’m not Chinese so I suggest that 2004 be the year of the Skunk. When you look at a skunk, it appears cute, even pretty with its black and white fur and that cute little nose and button eyes. Of course, if you threaten one, you are rudely introduced to the business end of this fluffy, adorable little creature and it’s an encounter you will never forget. Neither will anyone else near you for several days.

Perhaps the Democrats should change their mascot from the donkey to a skunk. It would be more honest.

Chris Lehane, who was Clinton’s chief digger-of-dirt, was assigned to the Gore campaign where his talents were put to good use. The revelation of GW’s DUI arrest on election-eve had Mr. Lehane’s fingerprints all over it. That’s his style. It’s what he does best—destroy people’s lives.

His assignment this year was to assist General Wesley Clark. Of course, before Mr. Lehane could start spreading more of his wild accusations about the President, Clark had to get the nomination. To that end, Lehane spent months, according to Craig Crawford of Congressional Quarterly, trying to plant the seed of 60-year-old Kerry’s extra-marital dalliance with a pretty 24-year-old reporter. In this case, the enemy wasn’t a Republican, it was a fellow Democrat. It’s all the same to him. The boss (Bill Clinton) says “go get him” and he does.

The problem was the total political naiveté of Wesley Clark. He actually spilled the beans in front of startled reporters when he said "Kerry will implode over an intern issue." Confusing Kerry for Clinton, Clark called the alleged mistress an intern, when she is actually a reporter for the Associated Press. It's an honest mistake.

Showing his stripes, Clark is now panting all over Kerry asking him “permission to come aboard” in one of most staged and nauseating endorsements I think I have ever seen. Wesley read his glowing support of his new best friend from three by five cards. Honestly, he looked like a groveling goof-ball standing there next to that pillar of arrogance demonstrating what levels a man will sink to in the hopes of getting the nod for Vice President. Clark reminded me of the infamous Igor--“Yes, Master, Yes, Master….”

The only amusing thing was that while Kerry was making his grandiose statement of “the General will never stand behind me but next to me” speech, he was probably thinking “get this creep away from me.” Keep in mind, it was just a day or two prior to this love-fest that Clark was spreading his pre-programmed rumors. But, because he wants Clarks’ supporters, Kerry will smile and hold hands with a man that he would probably rather punch in the face. Politics certainly makes strange bedfellows.

Now we have the thrice regurgitated news of the President’s Texas National Air Guard service. It came up during the Richards/Bush Gubernatorial race and again in the Bush/Gore Presidential race. It didn’t fly then and hysterical lefties are hoping the third time will be the charm.

It’s pitiful when you think about it. What else to do they have? The economy is on the upswing, the Iraqi war is going well, despite the remaining problems, there hasn’t yet been another attack on American soil and al Qaeda threatens but that seems all they have the ability to do. All they are able to do is blow up other Muslims in Iraq, much to the anger of the locals. Letters intercepted reveal pleadings for help because the Americans aren’t running as expected. “They aren’t afraid of us!” the startled terrorist laments. They know Americans feared and ran from them under a democrat president. Poor things, they must be so confused.

A dentist who peered into Bush’s mouth 30 years ago and probably told him to floss more doesn’t remember him! Was this a national news flash? Did the major networks break into their regular anti-American programming for this bulletin? How about that he was treated for pesky hemorrhoids? Does this indicate drug use? There is a story here…somewhere…maybe…could be…MUST BE!

Do they ever mention that Lt. Bush had to agree to serve two solid years, with no breaks to become a pilot? That the fighter he climbed into was a dangerous one? No, you never hear about that. That isn’t news. There is no potential scandal there. God forbid that might make him look good! By comparison, Bush spent more time in the Guard flight training than Al Gore did in the Army, including his short and pampered five months in Viet Nam. Bush certainly spent more time in the military than draft-dodging Bill Clinton. He spent more time in training than John Kerry did in Viet Nam grandstanding into Cambodia illegally with his swift boat.

So what is the left’s problem? Their problem is the man who is going to win the Democrat nomination. He is a decorated sailor to be sure. I think it’s stretching it call him a “war hero.” I’ve heard of him rescuing one man who fell off his boat. How many others in Nam risked their lives to save others? They didn’t ask be called “heroes” and they sure didn’t want or deserve to be called “war criminals” and “baby killers” by the likes of John Kerry. The left is trying to make light of Kerry’s post-war antics. The Democrats want to center only on the fact that he was in Viet Nam and Bush wasn’t. It won’t work.

That odor people smell is from the seemingly adorable creatures on the left. But remember, when threatened, they release their secret weapon. They spray their rumors, dirt, lies and allegations all over everyone within reach, even each other if deemed necessary. Once this stuff gets on you, it’s the devil to get off.

Backhoe, is this item posted any where?

http://www.counterpunch.org/willson1015.html

October 15, 2002

An Open Letter to Sen. John Kerry on Iraq
by BRIAN WILLSON

Dear John,

It has been a long time since we have had contact. As you might remember our very first meeting was at VVAW's Dewey Canyon III, "A Limited Incursion Into the Country of Congress," April 19-23, 1971, in Washington, D.C. I'm sure you remember asking the Senate that week in an impassioned speech, "How do you ask a man to die for a mistake?" You also stressed the importance of being "totally nonviolent."

Our second and many subsequent meetings occurred in Massachusetts after you were elected Lt. Governor, 1982-84, while I was active in veteran's issues in Western MA. As director of a veterans outreach center in Greenfield, and the Western Massachusetts Agent Orange Information Project, I served on the Massachusetts Agent Orange Task Force under Governor Dukakis' veterans commissioner and your office as Lt. Governor. I subsequently also served on Dukakis' homeless veterans task force.

When you decided to run for the Senate in 1984 against Ray Shamie, a wealthy businessman, remember that I loyally supported your campaign as one of the dozen or so Vietnam veterans the press called Kerry's Commandos, you called "Doghunters." We accompanied you throughout the state, and fended off right wing criticism from folks such as General George Patton III, who accused you of "giving aid and comfort to the enemy" for your earlier VVAW activities. I'm sure you remember with fondness that critical time that launched you into national office. Your lawyer brother, Cameron, concluded that it was the veterans' support that pulled your first campaign out of a nose dive and created the necessary "galvanizing energy."

Your critics had suspected that your activities, both in the war, and in years following, were prompted, at least in part, to an intense political ambition, even as you addressed your Yale law school graduating class with an anti-Vietnam War speech shortly prior to enlisting in the U.S. Navy. Your career in the Senate has revealed your all consuming ambition, but that is quite typical of politicians.

The first hint of a bit of disconnect in your style was when during your first Senate campaign you denied returning your war medals, with a thousand other veterans, in protest of the war during Dewey Canyon III. That was a bit of a shock, since for most veterans who returned their medals in that emotional ceremony on Friday, April 23, 1971, it was a very proud and healing moment. Your 1984 campaign response: You had returned the medals of a WWII acquaintance at his direction. All those 13 years everyone thought you had had the courage and leadership to return medals that to veterans who returned them represented medals of dishonor drenched in the blood of innocent Vietnamese who did not deserve to die for a lie, any more than our fellow US Americans. I guess you knew then that you were to be running for office.

The second hint occurred at the celebration party you organized for us "doghunters" at your friend John Martilla's Beacon Hill house in Boston in late June 1985, 6 months into your term as a junior Senator. In the wee hours of the morning, you made two comments that troubled me: (1) you stressed your initials as "JFK" that would help you one day in your quest for the White House, and (2) that after War Department briefings (and perhaps CIA as well) about the need for funding and training contra terrorists in Afghanistan and Nicaragua you had a new appreciation for their importance in furthering U.S. policies. That did not mean that you necesaarily voted for Contra aid but that once in power, information becomes part of an elite circle preempting genuine democracy. I had driven in from Greenfield for that celebration party, and after those remarks I immediately left the party and drove the two hours home. I never forgot it, obviously.

In late September 1986, you, along with some other Senators and Representatives, reluctantly supported the four veterans (myself being one of them) participating in the open-ended Veterans Fast For Life (VFFL) on the east steps of the Capitol building, protesting aid to the Contras. During that fast one of your fellow Senators, Warren Rudman (R-NH), stated in October 1986 that our "actions are hardly different than those of the terrorists who are holding our hostages in Beirut." Shortly thereafter, both our VFFL offices and separate housing accommodations were broken into with many files of our activities and addresses of supporters taken. The FBI initiated a "domestic terrorist" investigation of the members of the VFFL which was revealed later when an FBI agent refused to comply and was fired after nearly 22 years service in the agency.

In September 1987, as you remember, I was severely assaulted by a US weapons train in Concord, CA, during a peaceful protest of a Pentagon munitions train moving lethal weapons to Central America, suffering permanent injuries. Later it was revealed that they suspected me of planning to "hijack" the train, and had accelerated the train 12 miles above the legal speed limit of 5 mph rather than stopping and awaiting police arrest.

Such is life. Contra "terrorists" in Nicaragua called freedom fighters by US presidents, while nonviolent protestors of terrorist policies are labelled the "terrorists" to be investigated. Then look what happened with our terrorists, the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Now the Congress is giving the resident of the White House virtual carte blanche authority to launch pre-emptive strikes against more evil lurking beyond our borders. It is a no-brainer to many outside the beltway that we are really experts at knowing how to create rage, then revenge, with our policies of aggression and arrogance.

In the life of being a Senator, John, I'm afraid that your career again proves that power corrupts (and blinds), and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Of course you have many friends in the same camp. With your vote for essentially agreeing with the selected resident of the White House's request for incredible authority in advance to wage wars against whomever he wants, you have contributed to finalizing the last of the world's empires, and the likely consequent doom of international law, peaceful existence, and hope for the future possibilities of Homo sapiens. Of course, it also means that searching for the motivations of other people's rage and desperate acts of revenge will be overlooked, dooming us to far more threats and instability then if we had seriously pursued a single-standard in the application of international law equally with all nations in the first place. We are too much of a bully to do that, and have stated over and over again that the American Way Of Life is not negotiable. Can you understand that this means species suicide?

I'm sorry and terribly fearful for this state we are in. Your vote is terribly misguided, John. Now that veterans have reorganized throughout the nation as once again an important part of the growing movement, know that we shall work hard for your defeat, whether as a Presidential candidate or for another Senate term.

Sincerely,

S. Brian Willson
Arcata, California
Veterans For Peace

Email:bw@brianwillson.com

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