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KERRY: 'WE WILL NOT READILY JOIN THE AMERICAN LEGION' (get this to them before he speaks Wed.)
Kerry Spot/National Review ^ | August 30, 2004 | jim geraghty

Posted on 08/30/2004 11:12:46 AM PDT by Cableguy

As John Kerry gets ready to speak to the American Legion on Sept. 1, during the GOP Convention, it is worth recalling some of his earlier comments on that esteemed organization:

We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans' Day waving small flags, calling to memory those thousands who died for the "greater glory of the United States." We will not accept the rhetoric. We will not readily join the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars-in fact, we will find it hard to join anything at all and when we do, we will demand relevancy such as other organizations have recently been unable to provide. We will not take solace from the creation of monuments or the naming of parks after a select few of the thousands of dead Americans and Vietnamese. We will not uphold traditions which decorously memorialize that which was base and grim. It is from these things the New Soldier is asking America to turn. We are asking America to turn from false glory, hollow victory, fabricated foreign threats, fear which threatens us as a nation, shallow pride which feeds off fear, and mostly from the promises which have proven so deceiving these past ten years.

Those comments came in the epilogue to "The New Soldier," the book put out by Vietnam Veterans against the War. The book's cover features a group of not-particularly sober-looking antiwar protesters (vets, presumably) flying the American flag upside down, with the hygene associated with the protesters in New York City right now.

When the speech was announced August 18, Kerry's communications director, Stephanie Cutter, told reporters that Kerry is a member of the American Legion.


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If anyone knows people who will be going to American Legion convention this week, please alert them to Kerry's comments and distribute his own words
1 posted on 08/30/2004 11:12:47 AM PDT by Cableguy
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To: Cableguy

I hope that a copy of these comments are passed out to the delegates at the American Legion convention.


2 posted on 08/30/2004 11:15:16 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: Cableguy

Great idea. I hope the word spreads.


3 posted on 08/30/2004 11:15:57 AM PDT by SolomoninSouthDakota
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To: Cableguy

So much for the opposition taking a vacation during the other candidate's convention. Surely Kerry could go windsurfing, or skiing. Bush stayed out of the limelight during Kerry's coronation, why can't Kerry?


4 posted on 08/30/2004 11:16:47 AM PDT by ServesURight
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To: Cableguy

If anything deserves a bump to the top ... this sure as hell does!


5 posted on 08/30/2004 11:17:52 AM PDT by hawkaw
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To: Cableguy

I wpnder if he's regretting his decision to attend, and speak..What's the over/under on the number of vets who stand and turn their backs?


6 posted on 08/30/2004 11:19:47 AM PDT by ken5050 (Bill Clinton has just signed to be the national spokesman for Hummer..)
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To: Mercat
There should be some veterans group that has the ability to reproduce and distribute not just the reproduction of the words. but a PHOTOCOPY of Kerry's book, cover and text. That will REALLY p*ss off the American Legion.

And if Kerry doesn't like it -- he's been trying to suppress that book -- what's he gonna do, sue them for telling the truth about Kerry? Talk about a tactic planned to backfire!

Congressman Billybob

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7 posted on 08/30/2004 11:20:36 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com Visit. Join. Help. Please.)
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To: Cableguy

In point of fact, Kerry did join the American Legion. It is listed on his Financial Disclosure forms. He also joined the VFW.


8 posted on 08/30/2004 11:21:43 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Cableguy

Great idea.

Read the Kerry legacy, and make sure it doesn't get worse, with his election to the highest office in the world:

http://www.crfvn.org/


9 posted on 08/30/2004 11:21:45 AM PDT by tuckrdout (Pardon Teri Schindler (Schiavo), sentence her husband/torturer.)
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To: Cableguy
Send it out to Hannity, Rush, and Brit Hume. Hopefully one of them will give it some air time.
10 posted on 08/30/2004 11:25:10 AM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Hannity Was Right, FReepers Tend To Eat Their Own)
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To: Cableguy

Someone need to tell Hannity about this, so he can get it on the air. Rush, also.......


11 posted on 08/30/2004 11:25:25 AM PDT by Ramtek57
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To: Cableguy

BTT


12 posted on 08/30/2004 11:27:40 AM PDT by chuknospam
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To: Cableguy

http://www.legion.org/?content=help_contact

Contact Us


13 posted on 08/30/2004 11:29:17 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Mercat

Watch... If Kerry's handlers see this happening he will "think better" of campaigning during the Republican Convention and "gracefully" withdraw...

Not to say he will get the reception that his daughters got in Miami or anything like that...


14 posted on 08/30/2004 11:29:33 AM PDT by RedEyeJack
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To: Cableguy

The cover of "The New Soldier" is a picture of long-haired men mimicking the famous Iowa Jima photograph of six marines raising the American flag over the island. Iwo Jima is where nearly 7000 marines died in World War II. Six marines were forever immortalized in the photograph as they raised the flag, and only three of the six ever got to go home again. The merry band pictured on Kerry’s book cover further demean the marines at Iowa Jima and our country by raising an upside down flag.


15 posted on 08/30/2004 11:30:40 AM PDT by Maria S ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Hillary Clinton, 6/28/04)
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To: maggiefluffs

If anyone is a member of the Legion, please contact the appropriate people. I don't think it makes sense for us to just spam them.


16 posted on 08/30/2004 11:31:17 AM PDT by Cableguy
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To: Cableguy

17 posted on 08/30/2004 11:34:23 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (https://www.swiftvets.com/swift/ccdonation.php?op=donate&site=SwiftVets)
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To: ken5050
"What's the over/under on the number of vets who stand and turn their backs?"

About a week ago, I suggested to Swift Vets that they hand out complimentary copies of Unfit to the delegates on the first day of the convention.

AL contact info

18 posted on 08/30/2004 11:35:29 AM PDT by Bonaparte (the lyric said forevermore, forevermore's a memory...)
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To: RonDog; Carl/NewsMax; ALOHA RONNIE; Cableguy

This hatred of the Veterans spewed by Kerry when he came home from Nam, should be gotten to every vet in America and in particuliar the American Legion members at this meeting.


19 posted on 08/30/2004 11:37:26 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (https://www.swiftvets.com/swift/ccdonation.php?op=donate&site=SwiftVets)
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To: Cableguy
Ramsey Clark to Join Panel for Saddam’s Defense

arabnews press release 25 August 2004


NOTE :
Ramsey Clark is pictured below with Kerry and
Vietnam phony vet Al Hubbard
Who was head of the
Vietnam Veterans Against the War movement.



Al Hubbard Sgt., 22 Troop Carrier Squadron Aug. ’65-June ’66
- Al Hubbard, proven fraud who never set foot in Viet Nam.
The only Vietnamese he ever met was
when he was collaborating with the North Vietnamese in Paris
on the American Communist Party's nickel.

John Kerry's explanation:
"He (Hubbard) simply exaggarated his particular position.
But nobody knew it at the time. And those things happen."

NEW:
FReeper smith288 has an online version of
Kerry's "The New Soldier"
You can read it without downloading pdf files!
CLICK HERE


The New Soldier, (46 pages)
By John Kerry
and Vietnam Veterans
Against the War

PART I (pdf file)
PART II (pdf file)
PART III (pdf file)

Kerry hopes everyone
in the USA gets this book!

NEW:
“Without question,
we were held captive longer
because of the anti-war people,
the Kerrys, the Fondas and Haydens,
the names we knew over there -
they encouraged the enemy to hang on.”
Excerpt from “Stolen Honor” website
- Leo Thorsness
Former Vietnam POW
CLICK HERE


Jane Fonda tells the student audience at the Michigan State University in 1969;
"I would think that if you understood what communism was, you would hope,
you would pray on your knees, that we would someday become communist."

Joe Moore, Can Tho Airfield 550th Signal Company


Copy and paste the links to everyone you know.

Send this url for the Steve Gardner video

http://swift2.he.net/~swift2/gardner2.mpg

Send this url for the online version

http://ejsmithweb.com/fr/newsoldier/

Send this url for the Stolen Honor website

http://www.stolenhonor.com/


Print this out (46 pages) and disribute it,
especially to the liberals you know.

http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/New%20Soldier%20Inro.pdf

http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/New%20Soldier.pdf

http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/New%20Soldier%20Epilogue.pdf

20 posted on 08/30/2004 11:40:38 AM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Hippie Dippie Hanoi Kerry and Hippie Dippie Hanoi Jane sitting in a tree! F-R-E-N-C-H-I-N-G)
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