VN Vet's accessment of the puke Kerry.
how many dead, American, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian, Nicaraguan are there with all their blood on Hanoi John's hands?
Thank you, Don Bendell.
I hate Kerry's words,lies,betrayal,..and can only imagine how it would feel to be the target of all his anti war venom against his comrades in arms....and the baby killer accusations it encouraged.
Kerry wants to show you his medals ..but wants us to forget his tossing medals over a fence at the Capitol as though they were trash.
He lied to his fellow protesters,encouraging them to believe they were his own.Kerry is a self aggrandizing,pompous fraud.
I served with the Mobile Riverine Force on some of the same rivers as Hanoi John and I know from direct experiences much of what he says Amercian soldiers did there is 100% Bull.
I met his type on college campus when I returned. To fit in with long-hairs and profs on campus, to make themselves important and the center of attention, they made up BS whoppers just like Kerry's stories. To most Vets they were pathetic then and John is pathetic now.
The following were letters to the editor in today’s Amarillo Globe News. As you can see, Terry McAuliffe and Michael Moore have succeeded, at least a little bit! If you go to the website I’ve posted, you can write replies to the Globe News…I wish you’d join me in refuting some of this absolute garbage! (As you can see, only ONE of the letters is from an Amarilloan! Our wonderful paper is owned by some company in Georgia, I think, so they include letters from all over the country.)
Thanks, MS
http://www.amarillo.com/stories/022004/opi_response.shtml Editorial Draws Combative Response: Kerry and Bush: no comparison
February 20, 2004
When I saw your Feb. 10 editorial, my mouth utterly dropped open. Comparing John Kerry's and George W. Bush's military records is laughable.
Kerry actually fought in Vietnam; Bush hid in his father's friend's office. His records have been scrubbed just as his records were sealed. Please tell me you know that his records were sealed. If you don't, you have no business writing such an editorial.
Clinton protested the Vietnam War. So did Kerry when he came home. I protested the Vietnam War and the Iraq War. Poor old W. didn't have the guts to go to war or protest it. Instead he went AWOL from the National Guard.
It's time for George to find out what it's like to pay for his lies, and his ignorance. His smirking face on "Meet the Press" turned my stomach. "I was honorably discharged" was all he could say. He never answered anything. He responded to every question with the same answer like a good boy - with what he had memorized.
It is funny no one ever remembers seeing him at meetings for the National Guard. Daddy bought him out of that mess, like he did everything else.
Paulyne Taylor
Amarillo
Editorial on military issue misleading
Your Feb. 10 editorial is enormously misleading, implying that John Kerry has made an issue of President Bush's service. Below is a quotation from a recent AP story on the question:
"Kerry said Tuesday he had nothing further to say about Bush's record. 'I just don't have any comment on it,' Kerry told reporters between campaign stops in Tennessee and Virginia. 'It's not an issue that I chose to create. It's not my record that's at issue and I don't have any questions about it.' "
It is the press, not Kerry, that has pursued the question. You have an obligation to point that out to your readers.
Daniel Garber Princeton, N.J.
If you make a promise, keep it
The author of your Feb. 10 editorial, "Military service debate not a battle worth fighting," ignores the entire thrust of the question about President Bush's service in the Texas National Guard. That question concerns whether he deserted, not whether National Guard service is admirable or commendable.
By miscasting the words of presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry, you commit a dangerous sophistry: You suggest that his opinion about the admissibility or relevance of military service in campaigning is at all related to his opinion about the admissibility and relevance of shirked commitments.
I think Bush's potential failure to honor his promise of military service is infinitely more relevant and damning than Bill Clinton's choosing not to make such a promise.
Benjamin Sagan
Orange, Calif.
Don't send others to do what you wouldn't
With reference to your Feb. 10 editorial, the issue is not that Bush "only" served in the National Guard. The issue is the fact that he seems to have been AWOL during that service (regardless of payroll records, no one can remember him, which is highly unusual among those who have served together).
Many joined the Guard to make certain they would not see combat in Vietnam.
Many young men from wealthy, politically connected families were able to get their names at the top of the Guard list (Democrats included).
What is a bit hard for many of us to stomach is our troops being sent to die by a man who obviously was not willing to do the same - and possibly did not even bother to fulfill the commitment he made to save himself from that fate.
Richelle Krause
Seattle, Wash.
bump.
I served has a tank commander on and M48A3 tank on the DMZ in Vietnam. I killed enemy soldiers with the cupola mounted Browning M2 50 caliber machine gun that it was equipped with. My gunner killed enemy soldiers with 90 mm canister rounds from the main gun. I don't care what John Kerry says, I am not a war criminal, nor is my gunner for having done so.
I will never vote for a man who has so calumnied his comrades in arms, seemingly for political gain.
