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This flier was sent to news organizations Friday, Aug. 20, 2004 by the Kerry campaign after it was spotted by a volunteer for John Kerry in a Bush-Cheney campaign office in Gainesville, Fla. A volunteer for John Kerry said Friday he picked up a flier in a Bush-Cheney campaign office in Gainesville, Fla., promoting Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group the Bush campaign has insisted for weeks it has no connection to. (AP Photo/HO)
U.S. veterans of the Vietnam war, John Lancater (L), Andre Sauvageeot (2nd L), Phil Karber (2nd R) and Chuck Searcy (R), wear T-shirts in support of the U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry, in Hanoi August 21, 2004. With the U.S. presidential race taking a decidedly bitter turn over John Kerry's Vietnam war record, U.S. veterans in Hanoi are selling T-shirts supporting his run for the White House. REUTERS/Kham
Also, don't know if anyone else on this thread commented on this yet, but the flyer says VETS not VETERANS. I pointed it out here:
The Kerry Kool-aiders are grasping are straws. There is NOTHING remotely wrong with this flyer. They are just trying to make something out of nothing.
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How hard is it to obtain a flier announcing a rally of a 527 group and send it to a TV station, claiming it was picked up at a Republican office? They are getting a bit pitiful.
Your snippet is similar to some of the saner ones I've seen at DU. The hate there is astonishing at times, but I'm under impression most are from adolescents presently suffering the ill effects of rampant hormones.
For those too young to remember Vietnam and Watergate, those were some of the darkest days in America. As a high school kid our class was the first class to have nobody drafted or allowed to go to Vietnam. I was anti-war although not to the point of going to the protests, but would go to the concerts that were all anti-war. Most of us didn’t go to the major protests that Kerry and his organizations formed that were in every city in this country and especially college towns like Eugene.
These protests were well organized and funded primarily by different branches of the Communist Party. The Soviet Union believed they could overthrow this country from within and millions of us were sucked into these protests over the war. Many of us believed the war was wrong and believed Communism was a legitimate form of government. We were told that China was the model and since Russia was so censored, the Gulag was never known. Many of us later learned that we were wrong, dead wrong while many like Kerry never did.
What we didn’t understand was the pain that these protests were causing the Proud and Honorable Soldiers returning from the war. These men did their patriotic duty, to fight for their country in what turned out to be a just and moral war. These men were fighting and dying so that 10-20 million SE Asians would not be slaughtered by the most brutal forms of Communism known to mankind. These Vets were the best and brightest getting wounded and killed so that a small country a half a world away could have a chance at freedom. When these men finally came back to their free country they were spit on and called baby killers. How could we???
I am so sorry for being so wrong. My apologies to all the honored Vets who made this country strong and especially to those who served in Vietnam and never received their dues. We were fooled. Fooled by a well organized and well funded masquerade. This facade was founded by the Communist Party and it’s main General was John Kerry. Kerry organized Vietnam Vets Against the War which was the flagship for all war protest. His medals, Jane Fonda and his Band of Brothers, which included the Black Panthers, gave him instant credibility.
Kerry used this power to stab his fellow Vietnam Veterans in the back. We have now found that baby killing was the exception as in any war. We find that razing villages like “jenjis shawn” (how French) was not done, except perhaps by Kerry. We find that the testimony in front of Congress and elsewhere was a total fabrication by him and his lying witnesses. These are the wounds that are flowing freely again and this is the reason so many vets feel betrayed again. Now these Vets find out that Kerry was making these lies up!
When he went in front of the country again after all these years of letting bygones be bygones and saluted, reporting for duty; millions of Vets felt the bayonet turn in their backs. They remembered walking across those tarmacs and having protesters unjustly spit on their faces. They remember the shame of no parades or pride in wearing their uniforms. They see the heroes of Desert Storm and say, why not me? They remember Kerry leading protests against them and against their Honorable Duty, making them the villains. Now with history finally on their side, they are ready to finish this argument and it needs to be finished. Now they know where the enemy lies. This is no longer just about a Presidential race, but about Truth and Honor.
I salute every Vietnam Veteran from the bottom of my heart!
Pray for W and The Truth
