John Kerry e-mail: Still using Veterans for personal political gain (traitorous hypocrisy alert!)

I hope this Veterans Day finds you and your family well. As you know, this has been a hard year for American troops, past and present. The 2,000th American fell in Iraq, and veterans across the country struggled with a VA healthcare system underfunded by $1 billion. Today, I am asking Americans to use Veterans Day to demand that our troops and veterans get what they deserve - leadership equal to their sacrifice.

Veterans Day means different things to different people. This Veterans Day, my mind returns again and again to a flight I took home from Baghdad in August -- and an unforgettable reminder of the obligation we have to all who serve the country we love. As we boarded the C-130, I looked into the cargo hold and saw a simple, aluminum coffin with a small American flag draped over it. We were bringing another American soldier home to his family and final resting place.

These brave Americans serving today deserve sound leadership and smart policies so that they can complete their missions and come home. That means a clear strategy in Iraq, shared with the American people. That means helping Iraqis economically, militarily and politically. That means Iraqis fighting for the future of Iraq. That means a phased process for bringing our troops home as benchmarks are met, including bringing home 20,000 American troops over the holidays after the first benchmark, Iraq's elections in December, is met. Then we can begin to make real the words "mission accomplished."

But on this Veterans Day, we must remember that leadership also means taking care of our troops when they return home. Tragically -- and unforgivably -- too often that doesn't happen today.

This year, America's veterans have suffered another round of deception and misplaced priorities. In June, the administration was forced to acknowledge what many had warned of for months: funding for veterans healthcare was woefully inadequate. The administration sought to cover up the $1 billion shortfall by taking money away from other necessities.

Veterans deserve leadership that understands the moral obligation we have to stand for those who have stood for us. They deserve leadership committed to mandatory funding of veterans healthcare ahead of tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. Most importantly, they deserve leadership with the courage to take politics out of providing for America's veterans.

On this Veterans Day of 2005, we must demand accountability from any elected leader whose misplaced priorities leave veterans out in the cold -- and at last demand commitment equal to our veterans' sacrifice.

From the man who trashed and lied about his fellow soldiers still in combat, rushed to get his 3 Purple Hearts and get outta harm's way, threw his (maybe someone else's) medals (maybe it was just ribbons) away onto the White House lawn in protest, said he'd never join a veterans organization, lied about Christmas in Cambodia on the Senate floor, voted against funding our troops in combat in 2004, etc. etc. etc.

Hey Kerry - on Veterans Day, I thought I'd remind folks about something you would prefer we all forget.

In 1998, after Clinton signed the Iraqi Liberation Act, you told Cokie Roberts on ABC that you wanted American boots on the ground to force regime change in Iraq.

And you further stated that you knew our allies would not support that effort, but that they would have a lot of explaining to do. And you thought it should be done regardless of the UN or our allies.

How about that, you lying scumbag?

LEGAL DEFINITION OF TREASON 2

Treason.

A breach of allegiance to one's government, usually committed through levying war against such government or by giving aid or comfort to the enemy.

The offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance; or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power.

Treason consists of two elements: adherence to the enemy, and rendering him aid and comfort.

Cramer v. U. S., U.S.N.Y., 325 U.S. l, 65 S.Ct. 918, 9327 89 L.Ed. 1441. See 18 U.S.C.A. 2381. A person can be convicted of treason only on the testimony of two witnesses, or confession in open court. Art. III, Sec. 3, U.S. Constitution.

Constructive treason. Treason imputed to a person by law from his conduct or course of actions, though his deeds taken severally do not amount to actual treason. This doctrine is not known in the United States.

High treason. In English law, treason against the king or sovereign, as distinguished from petit or petty treason, which might formerly be committed against a subject.

Misprision of treason. See Misprision of treason.

Petit treason. In old English law, the crime committed by a wife in killing her husband, or a servant his lord or master, or an ecclesiastic his lord or ordinary. 4 Bi, Comm. 75.

Treason-felony. Under the English statute 11 & 12 Vict., c. 12, passed in 1848, is the offense of compassing, devising, etc., to depose her majesty from the crown; or to levy war in order to intimidate either house of parliament, etc., or to stir up foreigners by any printing or writing to invade the kingdom. This offense is punishable with penal servitude for life, or for any term not less than five years, etc., under statutes 11 & 12 Vict., c. 12, § 3; 20 & 21 Vict., c. 3, § 2; 27 & 28 Vict., c. 47, § 2. By the statute first above mentioned, the government is enabled to treat as felony many offenses which must formerly have been treated as high treason.

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