[Coop]

[beaureguard]

Haven't seen Bendell's article posted here previously. Another good article about JFK, and his postwar activity.

[biblewonk]

ping

[Conspiracy Guy]

I wish I could send this to Don.

Kerry

I thank you for your service,
Way back in Viet Nam.
But that is no free ticket,
To let you pull this scam.
You spit upon our nation,
Betrayed our young brave men.
You called them baby killers,
It’s not true now, nor then.
I’ll vote for Bush this coming fall,
And pray you'll go away.
If you should win, we all will lose,
That's all I have to say.

Conspiracy Guy 2/16/4

[DeaconRed]

Excellent! ! ! !
We need to get this out, but NOT until Scarry is nominated.
just MHO

[SpinyNorman]

Your medals and mine are not a free pass for lifetime, Sen. Kerry, to bypass character, integrity and morality.

Will this fit on a bumper sticker?

[Cicero]

Bendell says he has an expose coming out in the April issue of American Spectator that further details his charges against the senator.

[jmaroneps37]

Its material like this that will stop lurch's campaign before it really gets started. Look there are rats who would literally vote for hitler before they voted for W but; the truth of what a piece of crap lurch really is, will deliver us the victory that we expected to get from running against how-odd? dean.
This is great stuff indeed!

[sport]

Calling a democrat a liar is like saying rain is wet.

Ademocrat lies because he/she is incapable of telling the truth, even a simple one such as "the sun is shining".

The same applies to the main stream media.

Satan will tell the truth before either a democrat or a member of the main stream media does.

[mountaineer]

The parting shot from Bendell in his column: "Medals do not make a man. Morals do."

And a real war hero doesn't go around telling everyone he's a hero. Kerry is a fraud on so many levels.

[xrp]

Attention Senator Kerry:

Having been born after the Vietnam War, I could care less about your service there. What you did 35 years ago makes no bearing on what you do today. President Bush, on the other hand, fulfills his job function as mandated by the US Constitution to defend freedom and liberty from the Islamikazes. I do not trust a Democrat to protect me from the Islamikazes. I do trust President Bush to do this. This makes my voting choice simple.

[wewillnotfail]

bump for later

[greenwolf]

I was a green beret officer who volunteered for duty in Vietnam and fought in the thick of it in 1968 and 1969 on a Special Forces A-team on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, just for starters. We were the elite. We saw the most action. Everybody in the world knows that. But we did not just kill people; we built a church, a school, treated illnesses, passed out soap, food and clothing, and had fun and loving interaction with the indigenous people of Vietnam, just like our boys did in Normandy, Baghdad, Saigon and everywhere American soldiers ever served. We all gave away our candy bars and rations to kids, our hearts to oppressed people all over the globe. My children and grandchildren could read your words and think those horrendous things about me, Mr. Kerry. You are a bald-faced, unprincipled liar and a disgrace, and you have dishonored me and all my fellow Vietnam veterans. Sure, there were a couple bad-apples, but I saw none, and I saw it all, and if I did, as an army officer, it was my obligation to stop it, or at the very least report it. Why is there not a single record anywhere of you ever reporting any incidents like this or having the perpetrators arrested? The answer is simple. You are a liar. Your medals and mine are not a free pass for lifetime, Sen. Kerry, to bypass character, integrity and morality. I earn my green beret over and over daily in all aspects of my life.

There had to have been individual soldiers and groups of soldiers who tried to help the ordinary people of Vietnam, but that was not the policy of the government we were supporting. I've seen interviews with VietNamese farmers who claimed that the VietMinh had given them land taken from absentee landlords (they had been sharecroppers with no hope of owning land), only to have the South Vietnamese government retake the territory, and hand the land back to the absentee landlords.

That's not the sort of cause most people would fight for, to say the least. That's sure as hell not the cause you draft anybody for.

[ZULU]

Kerry is less of a war hero than Benedict Arnold.

His name belongs right up there with Judas Iscariot and Ephilates.

He's a traitor.

[secretagent]

Why is there not a single record anywhere of you ever reporting any incidents like this or having the perpetrators arrested? The answer is simple. You are a liar.

Pretty easy to bat this one down. Kerry cited the Winter Soldier Investigation, not his own experience of the sensational war crimes.

Republican Senator Mark Hatfield called for an investigation of the WSI. The subsequent Naval Investigative Service supposedly unmasked the WSI witnesses as imposters, but no one can find that report..

A good group has started to see if they can expose the WSI:

http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/

They seem slow today - hopefully a popular site this season.

[BonnieJ]

Last night on Hannity & Colmes, Oliver North brought up the subject of John Kerry and his 4 months in Vietnam and his medals, questioning the validity of it all. Colmes shut him down but they won't be able to silence this story all the many months until November.

[the invisib1e hand]

great great piece.

my bet (as stated elsewhere) is that Kerry's issues with his Vietnam service are his own, and are rooted in his own malformed conscience.

[20yearvet]

I served up in Phu Bai in 1972, and while I was not out in the bush I knew those who were. I recall passing our food out to refugees as they walked past our camp. I also recall being called a baby killer when I returned home thanks to Kerry and his friends at VVAW. I knew of Kerry then, and I will recall when it is time to vote. In my opinion Kerry is in the same class as Benedict Arnold, both fought for there country and both betrayed it.

[Plumrodimus]

"They personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam."

I think that's was what the Viet Cong did to the indigenous Montagnards wasn't it?

[sharktrager]

We all gave away our candy bars and rations to kids,

Isn't giving those rations to civilians a war crime?