Posted on 07/26/2004 7:50:14 AM PDT by NonValueAdded
News flash from the Kerry Campaign trip in Florida ... as the Kerry motorcade left the hotel, John Kerry flipped the bird to a Swift Boat Veteran Against John Kerry. Our SBV exclaimed "That is what I came here for!"
Evidentially JFK didn't catch TehRAYza's speech last night!
Much as Cash-n-Kerry's a big loser, he's not worthy of hate (comptempt - sure!).
But...he hates us. He hates us and he doesn't care if we know it or not. He hates Americans. He hates this country. Can't let this fool in the White House.
Sigh--that picture would have been very helpful. I find it hard to believe that even this Dumb Gigolo would be so stupid...
WHY does he flip the bird so much?
Maybe when he gets it up for real, the wife says "shove it".
This may be the closest the guy gets to actual interactive sex.
Re your #160; Guf-ffaw! {8^{D~
Is that an actual quote from Genl FRANKS, or did someone make that caption up? I'd like to think it was legit!
He might not be quite as articulate as "Old blood & Guts" PATTON, an uncensored transcript of whose address to the 3rd Army before the D-Day Invasion I have on file somewhere - but it's rich!
I'd post PATTON's speech here, as it is pretty well documented (they cleaned it up quite a bit for the George SCOTT Movie, BTW) but if I did, I'd be banned forever!
Suffice it to say that General P. had a certain way with words.
I wonder what Old General B&G would have to say about our decorated "War Hero" JFK, eh?
I have a feeling that it wouldn't be all that "politically correct", don't you?
I pray daily that some entity very high in some secret part of the government understands this as well, and has taken precautions to be sure he never gets there.
/no sarcasm
Coasters, anyone>?
Ah, yes; In answer to your question...
Ironically, one of my better Friends (and I might be opening myself up to a little razzing here by admitting it) was, or at least claims to be, a Veteran of the Army Special Forces in VN, where he worked with the ROKs and other UN troops in various clandestine operations.
After he got back Stateside, he was "volunteered" to be an MP, and then assigned to the 3rd Infantry "Old Guard" as an Honor Guard. His war stories sure sound authentic, as near as I can tell, and he still has the scars left by a VC grenade in his leg.
After his ETS in the late '60's, he joined up with Kerry (Knows him well) and started some of the charter groups of the "Veterans for Peace" down South, as well as being a Union Activist. While politicking around Baltimore MD (Where I guess one goes to get a Master's degree in hardcore politicking) he became fast friends with "Al" Sharpton, and worked with him on a few projects of mutual interest.
The last I knew, this chap was running (as a Democrat, of course) in a local State election, and his Son, who is also a very bright and interesting person, is cruising with "Greenpeace". They feel every bit as passionately about their cause and ideaology as I feel about ours, but amazingly enough we are able to work around our differences sufficiently to have a positive relationship which has certainly been enriching to me.
The funny thing is, my "Favorite Socialist" as I call him (since my Mother passed on - she was a hardcore leftist, God rest her soul) is without a doubt the most interesting man I know; his grasp of History is phenominal, and he is perhaps the most facinating story-teller I have ever hung out with... And I've known a few dillies in my day!
He was a Merchant Mariner for years, and held a licence to sail full-rigged sailing ships in international waters. He's litterally sailed the seven seas, and up a few rivers here and there in between. If he is a "BS Artist", then he's the best I've ever known, as in subjects I do have some knowledge about, he's dead bang on every time and usually surpasses my expertise in most of them.
Although I don't think he completed his college degree, he is without a doubt one of the most brilliant individuals I've ever met. Any sterotype of the "Usefull Idiot" we tend to associate with Democrats, certainly does not fit this gentleman.
Now you may think less of me for associating with folks like my Friend here, but I'm really glad I've got 'em.
Oh; by the way, as a sometimes "Folk Musician" I get to hang out with some really interesting people with whom I have to be careful about mentioning "politics"!
As a "Conservative Folkie" I'm kind of an oxymoron; about as good a fit as a pork chop at a Bar Mitzvah... but most of 'em have a pretty good sense of humor about it and put up with me.
It's been helpful to me to realize that not all "lefties" are morons, elitists, or even neccecarily "Anti-American", as tempted as I am to drift into that sort of stereotypical thinking. There are some pretty decent, intelligent human beings out there who just don't happen to see things the way I do, for whatever reason. Part of it may be that we feed our minds and attitudes out of different troughs, as it were; if I really believed all of the college professors and the mainstream press and media, and that was essentially the only source of my information about the World and what goes on in it, Heck; I might be a liberal too! (*Shudder*...)
It just so happens that the combination of my life experience and rational alalysis of things in general, as well as the way I observe certian "patterns" evolve, has led me to accept and espouse a life-view and ideaology which is generally compatable with the "Conservative" definition.
I don't think that implies that I am neccessarily more or less intelligent than those who embrace an alternative perspective. Somewhere along the line we have to decide what we are going to accept as Truth, and what we are going to reject as spurious. What to us is "good", vs. "bad", "right", "wrong", and all that stuff. There are an infinite number of factors involved in the self-identification process, and no doubt a lot of folks take the easy way out and just believe what they are told to by someone they accept as an authority figure - be it a parent, a Teacher (thank you, NEA!) a Priest, Rabbi, Mullah, or a radio talk show host. I think that we have intellectually honest individuals on both sides of the issues, as well as flocks of "Sheeple" who are intellectually coasting along behind their particular "Leader/s".
Now I tend to believe that us "Conservatives" are more likely to encourage and stimulate individual, independant and critical rational analysis of the situations we find ourselves in than are the "progressives", who seem to be more than happy to encourage dependance and emotional impulse or blind obediance among their flock.
But it has been quite an education to me to be able to hobknob with some people who are quite capable of thinking for themselves, and yet still somehow come up on the side which makes little sense to me.
So as much fun as I have here in FReepland and such throwing my toys at the "other guys" from time to time and mocking their pet causes, many of which irk most of us to no end, I really feel blessed in being able to take a break from all of that adversarial stuff once in a while and actually getting to dialouge with these folks.
Not all of them are capable of it, of course - but I've found much to my amazement and delight that at least a few of them are.
And if you'll permit me to speculate, I think that our society and National interests might well be served were we to spend a little less time throwing our toys at each other and perhaps a little more time in sharing a keg, singing some songs, and having some intelligent, open, mature conversation with one another.
Perhaps if we were willing to honestly share what's on our hearts and minds from time to time, we might discover, as I think I may have, that we might not always be quite so bad as we make each other out to be.
Is that too much to ask?
Is it too much to dream?
Se'lah.
By the way, I have seen Gen. Patton's speech published here on FR in it's entirety, so if you wanna post it again, go right ahead!
"Desperado" in concert: [not by Linda Ronstadt!]
http://pro.lookingat.us/BergerVideo.html
"Frenchie" INTRO vocal:
http://pro.lookingat.us/LoveTwice.html
Leahy didn't have footage of Cheney giving him the same message, verbally, and we still haven't heard the end of it.
Coverage depends on which side of the political divide one lives.
As my Dad told me 40 years ago, "Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance."
Four months and 13 days, per three week old news, and Rush Limbaugh's research staff. The bastard Doofus-Dork-Lurch is the worst thing that can happen to this country if he steps into the White House next January.
Clinton (especially Hillary) initiated the attack politics of personal destruction and blame it on the other guy and was very good at it. They used the White House machine to do this 24/7/365 for 8 years.
If we were to engage in the things you suggest, especially at this time in our history, and let the LEFTISTS get control, the price will be DEATH of America, as well as many, many Americans at the hands of IslamicJihadists.
No, my friend it will be many, many years before those days return, if ever.
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) KERRY A 'LOOSE CANNON' This is not a political issue. It is a matter of his judgment, truthfulness, reliability, loyalty and trust all absolute tenets of command. His biography, Tour of Duty , by Douglas Brinkley, is replete with gross exaggerations, distortions of fact, contradictions and slanderous lies. His contempt for the military and authority is evident by even the most casual review of this biography. He arrived in country with a strong anti-Vietnam War bias and a self-serving determination to build a foundation for his political future. He was aggressive, but vain and prone to impulsive judgment, often with disregard for specific tactical assignments. He was a 'loose cannon.' In an abbreviated tour of four months and 12 days and with his specious medals secured, Lt. J.G. Kerry bugged out of Vietnam and began his infamous betrayal of all US soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen, including our POWs in the Vietnam War. His leadership in the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, his testimony before Congress in 1971, charging us with unspeakable atrocities remain as undocumented but nevertheless malicious stain on the men and women who honorably stayed the course. Senator Kerry is not fit to command. The real 'brothers' are my shipmates and veterans who reliably and honorably stayed the course. --Admiral Hoffman, United States Navy, retired KERRY HAS PERSONALITY DISORDER THAT WILL ENDANGER AMERICA If Lt. Kerry failed to heed the commandments of his military superiors 36 years ago, whom will he heed as president? It surely will not be the electorate who voted him into office. Senator Kerry has demonstrated a dangerous propensity to slip into multiple personalities depending on the audience he is addressing. This was clear of his Vietnam service and his actions upon returning home. It has been clear as a senator in his actions on various issues related to Iraq. It is a personality disorder that will endanger America in the event that he is elected president. -- Lt. Col. Jim Zumwalt, U.S. Marine Corps, retired KERRY'S INDECISIVENESS PUT BOATS AND CREW IN JEOPARDY The John Kerry that I know is not the John Kerry that everybody else is portraying.. I served alongside him and behind him, five feet away from him as third class gunner's mate, and watched as he made indecisive moves with our boat, put our boats in jeopardy, put our crews in jeopardy. If a man like that can't handle a 6-man crew boat, how can you expect him to be our commander in chief? I left the Navy, lived in Clover, South Carolina and managed boat dealerships. I'm an ordinary guy with no political agenda and no party affiliation. --Steve Gardner 'FIELD GENERAL' KERRY PRIME MOVER IN AMERICA'S DEFEAT I signed that letter because I, too, felt a deep sense of betrayal: Someone who took the same oath of loyalty as I did as an officer for the US Navy would abandon his group here to join this group here and come home and attempt to rally the American public against the effort that this group was so valiantly pursuing. You know, it is a fact that in the entire Vietnam war, we did not lose one major battle. We lost the war at home. And at home, John Kerry was the field general. Only last week--or two weeks ago--I saw on television where, when asked to respond for his support for the Iraq war, he said, "I cannot imagine going to war without the support of the American people." The same man who joined this group to rally the American people against our effort. This is not the making of a commander in chief. --Bob Elder KERRY--OPPORTUNIST OF THE WORST KIND My greater concern is for his shameful behavior after returning from only four months in Vietnam to condemn and malign the hundred of thousands of men and women who served their country honorably and that he, by his actions, aided and abetted the very enemy we were sent to Vietnam to defeat. In my specific experience in both coastal and river patrols over a 12-month period, I never once saw or heard anything remotely resembling the atrocities described by Sen. Kerry. If I had, then my obligation was to report them in writing to a higher authority and I would certainly have done that. If Sen. Kerry actually witnessed or participated in these atrocities, or as he described them, "war crimes," he was obligated to report them. That he did not until later, when it suited his political purposes strikes me as opportunism of the worst kind. That he would malign my service and that of his fellow sailors, with no regard to the truth, makes him totally unqualified to serve as commander in chief. --Jeff Wainscot KERRY ENGINEERED EARLY VIETNAM EXIT WITH FRAUDULENT PURPLE HEART While in Cam Rahn Bay, he turned in -- he trained on several 24-hour indoctrination missions. On one specific skimmer operation with my most senior and trusted lieutenant, the briefing from some members of that crew the morning after revealed that they had not received any enemy fire, and yet Lt. J.G. Kerry informed me of a wound and showed me a scratch on his arm and a piece of shrapnel in his hand that appeared to be from one of our own M-79s. It was later reported to me that Lt. J.G. Kerry had fired an M-79 and it had exploded off the adjacent shoreline. I do not recalling being advised of any medical treatment and probably said something like, "Forget it." He later received a purple heart for that scratch and I have no information as to how or whom. Lt. J.G. Kerry was allowed to return to the good ol' USA after four months and a few days in country; and then he proceeded to betray his former shipmates, calling them criminals and [accusing them of] committing atrocities. Today we are here to tell you just the opposite is true. Republican or Democrat, it doesn't matter. I for one, could not support and do not want Senator Kerry to be commander in chief of our brave and honorable men. --Commander Grant Everett, United States Navy, retired KERRY'S ARROGANCE ROOTED IN IGNORANCE --Joe Ponder KERRY "REQUIRES CONSTANT SUPERVISION" --Charlie Plumly, Captain, United States Navy, retired KERRY'S BETRAYAL CONTRIBUTED TO THE IMPOSITION OF TYRANNY ON THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE I'm a Georgia boy who joined the Navy to avoid the draft. After a couple of years in a safe, secure assignment in California, I felt an obligation to follow in the footsteps of my forebears and fight for my Country. I volunteered for Swift Boats, and was privileged to be accepted. I served in three Coastal Divisions during my one year tour from August 1967 to 68: Cam Rahn Bay, An Thoi, and Da Nang. Like so many combat veterans, I returned to civilian life, earning an MBA and joining the business world. I have signed the Letter to John Kerry in hopes that releasing his Navy medical records will clarify the credibility of his statements in 1971 that defamed those of us who served in Vietnam. In addition to signing this Letter, I want to refute Kerry's assertions regarding Swift Boat crews engaging in war crimes. We went out of our way to protect innocent Vietnamese, even when it placed us in deep peril. John Kerry's statements not only brought heartbreak to Vietnam Veterans and their families. They contributed to the imposition of tyranny upon the Vietnamese people. My 30 years of business travel in the Far East have provided a sad testament to Vietnam's plight. I have seen citizens of neighboring countries enjoy growing prosperity, while our former friends in Vietnam have languished in isolated poverty and hopelessness. This is John Kerry's legacy. I deeply resent John Kerry's using his Swift Boat experience, and his betrayal of those who fought there as a stepping stone to his political ambitions. --Bernard Wolff KERRY'S FALSE ACCUSATIONS RUINED LIVES, HARMED AMERICA In 1971, when John Kerry spoke out to America, labeling all Vietnam veterans as thugs and murderers, I was shocked and almost brought to my knees, because even though I had served at the same time and same unit, I had never witnessed or participated in any of the events that the senator had accused us of. I strongly believe that the statements made by the senator were not only false and inaccurate, but extremely harmful to the United States' efforts in Southeast Asia and the rest of the world. Tragically, some veterans, scorned by the anti-war movement and their Allies retreated to a life of despair and suicide. Two of my crewmates were among them. For that, there is no forgiveness. --Richard O'Meara KERRY DOESN'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ENDURING TRUTHS AND A BOLD-FACED LIE The officers and men with whom I served were honest and honorable. I can only speculate what went on with John Kerry's boats and crew. I do know that I didn't see anything remotely resembling war crimes committed by American sailors, soldiers or airmen. To the contrary, I saw time after time where American fighting men knowing placed themselves in greater danger to protect civilians and avoid what the politicians called "collateral damage." About one-third of our operations were to assist the people of Vietnam. John Kerry returned to this country and, under oath, told my parents, my brother, my sister, my neighbors, he told everyone I knew and everyone that I would ever know, that I and my comrades had committed unspeakable atrocities, that we tortured people, raped women, burned villages without any reason--that sort of thing. He never let up on that. That wasn't even the worst part. He told the parents, brothers and sisters of the 58,000 brave men who paid the full measure that it's not so bad--they're just war criminals anyway.... Now he's parading around in a Navy flight jacket with patches all over it. I was in Vietnam three times longer than the senator and I didn't see anyone wear flight jackets in 90-degree weather. Now that it suits his purpose, he wants to be a war hero &endash; one wearing a leather flight jacket and telling people it brought him luck in Vietnam. I just want a commander in chief who knows the difference between the truth and a fanciful flight that gets you somewhere. I want someone who knows the difference between a bold-faced lie and the enduring truths. From what I've seen, John Kerry isn't close. --David Wallace THE GALLING IRONY OF KERRY'S OPPORTUNISM: It just galls one to think about it. --George Elliot KERRY'S WORST ATROCITY OF ALL I think the greatest atrocity of all was when we pulled the financial rug out from under the thousands of military officers and South Vietnamese government officials and assigned them to three and four years of hard time in reindoctrination camps. --Capt. Adrian Lonsdale, US Coast Guard, retired KERRY'S OPPORTUNISTIC EXPLOITATION OF SWIFT BOATS -- WANTS TO HAVE IT BOTH WAYS I signed this letter because I feel he used Swift Boats for Sailors to proclaim his action, his anti-war statements after the war, and now he uses the same Swift Boats for Sailors to support his claims of being a war hero. He cannot have it both ways and we are here to ask for full disclosure of the proof of his claims. --Jim Steffis MORE STATEMENTS BY KERRY'S COMMANDERS AND CREWMATES COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004 |
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com "There is no one better prepared to keep the American people safe than this man. And if you have any question what John Kerry is made of, just spend three minutes with the men who served with him 30 years ago who still stand by his side. [Emphasis added.] They saw up close that this man is a leader and he has courage, determination and he would never leave any American behind." John Edwards
id John Kerry pick a running mate or hire a lawyer when he selected John Edwards? That ambulance-chaser extraordinaire Edwards' first task on the ticket is to defend Kerry against the three-decades-old charges of betrayal and sedition and purple-heart fraud and engineering an early battlefield exit and political opportunism argues strongly for the latter... That Kerry felt compelled to hire a lawyer rather than select a running mate who would provide balance for his ultra-left-wing credentials, or his wimpishly metrosexually Eurocentric proterrorist national-insecurity proclivity, tells us everything we need to know about John Kerry's view of his central vulnerability. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, Chief of Naval Operations from July 1970 to July 1974, anticipated this move by Kerry when he observed, "With Kerry's large ambitions, his career in Vietnam will haunt him if he were ever on the national stage." PLAINTIFF PETTIFOGGER DOES "THREE MINUTES" DEFENSE John Edwards, the man who made his millions as plaintiff pettifogger, should feel right at home on the other side of the aisle. He will doubtless work it with the same syrupy Southern drawl and Southern-belle eye flutter. He will surely continue to confect out of whole cloth his requisite villains and victims, in this case, respectively, Bush/Cheney + the haves, and Kerry/Edwards + have-nots, i.e., Edwards' "two Americas," (notwithstanding Kerry's missus' late husband's billions and Edwards' pillaged-from-the-injured multi-millions, and although the too "pessimistic" shibboleth, itself, has apparently been stricken from the Edwards script). In place of the junk science and no less shoddy so-called expert witnesses he regularly employed to sway credulous juries, Edwards will use on an equally credulous subset of the electorate the standard demagogic techniques of the run-of-the-mill (even if "son-of-a-millworker") leftist politico: lies, illogic, sleight of hand... and a splash of snake oil to lubricate the Left's ever churning agitprop-and-money-laundering machine.
COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004 |
- THE DEMOCRATS ARE GONNA GET US KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES 2
KERRY-DEMOCRAT CONTEMPT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY[annotated]
THE DEMOCRATS-ARE-GONNA-GET-US-KILLED (kerry, clinton + sandy berger's pants) SERlES1
dox in sox on lummox in box on fox
THE REAL "REAL DEAL"
(what Kerry's commanders and crewmates REALLY think of him--with transcripts)
Did John Kerry pick a running mate or hire a lawyer when he selected John Edwards?
THE TERRORISTS' USEFUL IDIOTS
all the usual suspects
A Vote for Kerry is a Vote for the Terrorists
ELECTION BOTTOM LINE:
TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER or TERRORIST ANNIHILATOR
UNFIT #6: The Deadly Kerry-Hollywood Axis
HOW CAN YOU PUT YOUR CHILDREN'S LIVES IN ITS HANDS?
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#1-making the tough choices in a post-9/11 world
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#2-understanding the job description
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#3-sang-froid and the "nuclear" button
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief
#4 - Kerry champions tolerance for terrorists
sanitizing evil
Kerry Cabal Censors Nick Berg Decapitation
"Loose Cannon" Kerry's AWOL/PURPLE-HEART FRAUD
pro-islamofascist-terrorist radical chic
USEFUL IDIOTS
MOORE IS LESS--THE MOVIE
The Cycle of Violence:
NOW WITH HYPERLINKED INSTRUCTION MANUAL
JOHN KERRY'S RECKLESS TET-OFFENSIVE-GAMBIT REPLAY:
the left's jihad against America is killing our troops, aiding + abetting the terrorists and imperiling all Americans
bill clinton, boy "genius," unwittingly bares all on BBC
deconstructing clinton "just because I could"
vetting missus clinton...
The Parallel Universe of Jamie Gorelick
nepotism + tokenism = a nancy pelosi
(or a hillary clinton)
Kerry's Belated Condemnation Focuses on Process
Kerry Lacks Moral Authority to Condemn Content
"CRY BUSH" + Iraqi-Prisoner "Abuse"
What are the Dems up to?
DON'T BELIEVE YOUR LYING EARS (The Perjurer Returns)
(Clinton: Claims I Turned Down Bin Laden are 'Bull')
The Mary Jo White Memo:
Documentation of clintons' and Gorelick's willful, seditious malfeasance
What is the REAL Reason for Gorelick's Wall?
MUST-READ BOOK FOR DEMOCRATS:
How clintons' Failures Unleashed Global Terror
(Who in his right mind would ever want the clintons back in the Oval Office?)
The Man Who Warned America
(Why a Rapist is Not a Fit President)
UDAY: "The end is near
this time I think the
Americans are serious, Bush is not like Clinton."
If you think that's bad, think about his career as a far left anti-war activist.
Maybe he was only showing the count of how many "Band of Brothers" he really has.
My question for all here and for the folks at home is,
in this age of computers, can we not find out how many
Navy personell actually took the three hearts solution,
and left Vietnam? Was it in the thousands? After all look at the casualty figures, look at the total number of Purple hearts given, certainly there should have been others who
got three and went home?
Or was Kerry the only one?
The ONLY ONE???
Thanks for the ping!
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