Posted on 08/21/2004 1:18:05 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Presidential candidate John Kerry can count on the support of at least one group of Vietnam Veterans – and they're still in Vietnam.
Following Kerry's denunciation of the ad by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, criticizing him for exaggerating his war record, a group of former U.S. soldiers gathered in Hanoi to express their support for Kerry and to call President Bush a "draft dodger" for his service in the Texas Air National Guard during the war. And they were selling T-shirts to tourists to raise money for Kerry's campaign.
The $5 shirts sport a picture of President Bush with a line crossed through it and have "Americans Overseas for Kerry" emblazoned across the front. The proceeds are earmarked for donation to the Kerry campaign.
"The first day they came in, we had a stack at a cafe and were examining them, and four Japanese tourists asked if they could buy them," said Chuck Searcy, an Athens, Georgia, veteran who served in Vietnam for one year.
Searcy, who has lived and worked in Vietnam for nine years, is a representative of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.
"It's an effort on the part of a few of us to bring some attention to Kerry's war record to counter some of the allegations and some of the lies being made of his service in Vietnam," he told Reuters.
Searcy said arrangements for printing the shirts were made by Larry Holzman, a Hanoi-based American who runs DTK International, a non-profit organization that markets condoms and contraceptives in Vietnam.
"We had very serious disagreements among ourselves about the war," Searcy told Associated Press in criticism of the ads, "but the creed was that we never spoke ill of another veteran. That ethic has been violated in this election, and it's pretty shameful."
The Swift Boat Veterans would probably agree. In their second ad, a young John Kerry appears on behalf of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April 1971, testifying that his fellow troops in Vietnam "had 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 in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country."
According to the May 19, 1997, Viet Nam News, Searcy was part of a contingent of former members of VVAW, who came to Hanoi to honor Ho Chi Minh and to mark the 30th anniversary of VVAW's founding which fell on the North Vietnamese communist leader's birthday.
The new blockbuster, Unfit for Service, notes that Kerry also praised Ho Chi Minh in 1971, comparing him to George Washington.
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Subject: The Marines
Incredible!
ACLU Upset At Marines
If you look closely at the picture above, you will note that all the Marines pictured are bowing their heads. That's because they're praying.
This incident took place at a recent ceremony honoring the birthday of the corps, and it has the ACLU up in arms. "These are federal employees," says Lucius Traveler, a spokesman for the ACLU, "on federal property and on federal time. For the! m to pray is clearly an establishment of religion, and we must nip this in the bud immediately."
When asked about the ACLU's charges, Colonel Jack Fessender, speaking for the Commandant of the Corps said (cleaned up a bit),
"Screw the ACLU." GOD Bless Our Warriors, Send the ACLU to France.
He's a real snake in the grass.
It's interesting to see how many of the Vietnam era protestors, who spat on us then, now are suddenly entralled by a Vietnam vet and spouting his service.
Let me start over (sorry I'm so poor at explaining).
I should have said RIGHT click on the picture and then hit "copy." Then come here LEFT click on the page and hit "paste." That should leave a string of letters and numbers. But to make a picture it has to be enclosed with symbols. But if I write them out they'll try to make a picture and you won't see what I told you. SO, just put the line of information in a post or a private post to me and I'll combine them and put them here for you, if you'd like.
Hey Searcy! Where were you in April 1971 when Kerry was trashing our Vietnam veterans before the world?
Hey Searcy! Where were you in April 1971 when Kerry was trashing our Vietnam veterans before the world?
YIKES! Not on "copy" by "Copy image location"
sorry for the double post.
Disregard.
There are some (possibly genuine) Vietnam vets who later turned into peace creeps hanging around Hanoi, Saigon, Phnom Penh, etc. these days (I worked there in 1995-2000), so this is not surprising.
Interesting highlight for some enterprising Freeper to research: Andre Sauvegeot (sp?), one of the veterans pictured in the linked photos, was Kerry's translator in the early 1990's when Kerry and Bob Smith roamed Vietnam in connection with their POW/MIA committee investigation, so there is a personal/professional link between those two.
Big Time!
Bump
Friggin traitors! Revoke their citzenship and let them stay in commie-land.
Also quick Google search says he was GE's representative in Hanoi 1993-2003, possibly benefiting from normalization of relations in Clinton years. He was a US Army Colonel with 8 years in Vietnam.
Thank you!
Your welcome, it the simple things in life that making freeping so much easier lol. some days you need 2 windows open, 1 on FR the other on Photobucket.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/a/aclu-marines.htm
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=ACLU+Upset+At+Marines+&btnG=Google+Search
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