Pundits keep saying it's the negative ads and "hard to prove truths" that are hurting Kerry. In all actuality, it is the fact that he illegally visited VC leaders in Paris to engage in secret and treasonous negotiations, he campaigned to lose the war on lies and slander against our fighting troops, and he continued to negate reasonable efforts to establish global military superiority and homeland security by standing against missile defense.
Kerry's public, admitted record is only reinforced by the rumors and complaints we no hear made by honorable and highly decorated peers who served in similar capacities to Kerry.
Kerry opposed the war with unscrupulous means and came home to continue undermining our defense establishment. Finally, he has continually attacked a sitting president for partisan reasons.
Kerry and his foreign-born wife have proven that they are not fit to occupy our whitehouse.
The particulars of his four month "stint" on the swift boats are interesting, but his polling values are falling because people have realized that he can't command our military.
My brother, Jim (retired Army) weighed in on this subject - in an email he sent to me this afternoon:
"HERE IS JUST ONE WAY THE VIETNAM PROTESTERS KILLED AMERICAN SOLDIERS:
When my unit overran an enemy headquarters in 1968 during the tet-offensive time frame, we captured enemy documents that were telling.
These documents were written orders from Hanoi to all communist units in the south. The orders directed all units to focus on attacking u.s. units exclusive to all other allied units, for the purpose of creating as many casualties as possible in u.s. units.
They even directed to by-pass other units if necessary to get to u.s. units. These documents cited how effective the anti-war movement was to their cause.
They pointed out that the higher the casualties, the louder the outcry would be to end the war! Of course they were right, and that was an effective way to win politically what they could not achieve on the battlefield.
THIS WAS AMERICAS CENTER OF GRAVITY!
Kerry's group, and people like him provided aid and comfort to the enemy and in fact caused american soldiers to be killed.
THE LAST TIME I LOOKED, THIS WAS CALLED TREASON!
ONE OTHER POINT; This controversy about Bush not serving in combat etc. etc. seems pretty ridiculas at this point. Before his first term you might have found that to be a relevant issue but not now.
The reason most of us look at a candidate's past military service is to evaluate how his past service reflects on how well he will lead in the white house as Commander-in-Chief etc.
Lets now fast forward to 2004. TIME TO EVALUATE BOTH CANDIDATES MILITARY SERVICE:
KERRY: 4 MONTHS FRAUDULENT SERVICE, VIETNAM.
BUSH: FIGHTER PILOT, NATIONAL GUARD,VIETNAM ERA. ALMOST 4 YEARS AS WAR PRESIDENT WITH TITLE OF COMMANDER- IN- CHIEF OF ALL ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES.
FREED OVER 50 MILLION PEOPLE THRU ARMED FORCE. CONTINUES TO DECISIVELY USE MILITARY TO ACHIEVE AMERICAS INTERESTS AND PROTECT AMERICA FROM ATTACKS.ETC. ETC.
THATS JUST MY OPINION ... WHAT DO YOU THINK? JIM
One that wasn't too hard to disprove was sKerry's claim to having been in Cambodia after having been sent by the President, on Christmas Eve of 1968 and having the event double seared in his memory. After telling this fib in many places and formats over decades it turns out to be completley untrue. Once a proven liar, always questioned.
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JOHN KERRY = Enemy of Vietnam Vets
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