 John F. Kerry |
 John D. Rockefeller IV |
Posted on 11/22/2005 6:42:22 AM PST by yoe
In addition to its editorial on Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns yesterday, the New York Sun also ran a column by John O'Neill on the Democrats' Murtha madness. Although full access to the column was reserved for Sun subscribrs, Bruce Kesler of Democracy Project posted the column in full here.
O'Neill wrote:
"Senator Kerry, supposedly defending Rep. John Murtha, said, "I won't stand for the Swift-Boating of Jack Murtha!" As one of the 254 members of Mr. Kerry's unit in Vietnam who belonged to Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth, I found Mr. Kerry's comments most ironic."
"To us, Mr. Kerry's comments meant that no one should do to Mr. Murtha that which Mr. Kerry did to all of us and our fellow Vietnam veterans, living and dead. Mr. Kerry's disgraceful comments on many occasions in 1971 (while we were locked in combat), claiming falsely that we were "murdering" hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and committing rape and mayhem on a daily basis, are a part of the public record for which he has never apologized. This might be called "Kerrying" our soldiers."
"In his own strange way, in his recent comments, Mr. Kerry was trying by implication to compare himself to Mr. Murtha - the gravest of insults to Mr. Murtha, who was given a standing ovation by the House of Representatives (which then properly buried his immediate pullout suggestion 403-3). Mr. Murtha's long military record stands in stark contrast with Mr. Kerry's continuous self-promotion of his short and controversial service in our unit. More importantly, Mr. Murtha has never compared our troops in the field - now or then - to the "Army of Genghis Khan" or claimed our adversaries, whether the bloody communists and Khmer Rouge or the butchers of Al Qaeda, were simply democratic reformers. Can anyone - even in the cocoon of Washington or the incestuous world of Mainstream Media - imagine either side of the aisle spontaneously rising to clap for anything that Mr. Kerry ever did or said?"
"Mr. Murtha's distinguished military record does not mean he is not wildly and completely wrong in his pullout proposal..."
"O'Neill continued the theme of "Kerrying" our soldiers: Are the politicians like Mr. Kerry who led the campaign to send our kids to war (when it was popular) now to withdraw support while they are locked in combat and apparently succeeding because the task is difficult or unpopular? Will Mainstream Media "Kerry" our troops by portraying Abu Ghraib or isolated cases of prisoner mistreatment as the rule to demoralize our troops and nation, while ignoring the beheadings and butchery of those peacefully praying in Mosques or shopping in a Bazaar? Will the press's selective glorification of isolated figures such as Cindy Sheehan, Mr. Kerry, or Mr. Murtha drown out the actual voices of the large majority of our servicemen? I hope not. We pay our troops little and subject them to considerable danger. We can at the very least support them with stability of mission and honesty of reporting."
"Likewise, we ought not to "Kerry" our troops with after-the-battle second-guessing. The fog of combat produces in any war mistake and folly. Both World War II and the Korean War began with wholly avoidable military disasters - Pearl Harbor and the retreat to Pusan. Likewise, the Iraq War has had its share of mistakes and miscalculations (along with brilliant successes). But it simply Kerries our troops in the field to elevate network newsmen (who have likely never even spent a night in a tent) or self-promoted Congressional military heroes with two months of 35 years ago combat in a much different world into armchair Napoleons. That is why we rely instead upon the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the best professional military establishment in the world (when they are left alone). And we should remember the words of Thomas Dewey declining to make Pearl Harbor a campaign issue in 1944: "I would rather lose the presidency and win the war than the reverse."
It's great to hear from John O'Neill again.
Posted by Scott at 06:33 AM
kerry our troops priceless
the second time John Kerry has "Kerried" our troops
I love this term.
I did not read it until today but Murtha actuall said "we can't win militarily".
This is not incredibly damaging to the morale of the troops and incredibly embolding to the scumbags our troops are fighting.
Perhaps Kerry should learn to keep his mouth shut....
Anywhere in Europe?
John O'Neil is bang-on the money. His analysis is razor sharp.
NewsMax.com reported yesterday that it was Murtha who convinced Clinton to withdraw from Somalia.
Murtha is gutter filth masquerading as a human being.
Traitor John F-ing Kerry should get a swiftboat up his a--.
Our troops have become the enemy. We need to change direction in Iraq," said Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania
“The fact is that, unlike during other times of national threat or crisis, the United States of America is not at war.”
Jimmy Carter
Great article John O'Neil. I still frequent the SBVT website long after we deafeated Hanoi John Kerry. If Kerry decides to run again in 2008, we will be more than happy to come back down out of the moumtains and deliver him another well deserved asswhipping.
Please feel free to vist and thank John for all of his hard work in helping to expose Hanoi John Kerry for what he really is (a traitor). BTW, John O'Neil is an attorney (they usually all vote democrat) that voted for Al Gore in 2000 so he is hardly part of the "vast rightwing conspiracy".
http://www.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/
Semper Fi'
JarheadFromFlorida
Soon Dems will be saying, "I may be against the war, but I support the troops just like Kerry did."
BTW, I love John's new term, "Kerrying" our troops. This is a classic for sure and has now been officially adopted into my arsenal when verbally sparring with radical leftists and/or peace loving anti-war types.
Semper Fi'
JarheadFromFlorida
Sen. Kerry remains a dedicated leftist who only wants the defeat of America by our enemies.
He should be impeached immediately, especially if he starts up with the line: "Who wants to be the last American to die in Iraq or Afghanistan."
John F. Kerry |
John D. Rockefeller IV |
" I did not read it until today but Murtha actuall said "we can't win militarily". "
Read the Murtha quotes to get a sense of how Kerryish he really is. And at the very bottom, is the epilogue from his latest book.
He was against withdrawal from Iraq before he was for it.
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer , Nov 17,2005
Murtha: Well, I say that the fight against Americans began with Abu Ghraib.
It began with the invasion of Iraq.
That's when terrorism started.
Meet The Press , Sunday Nov 20, 2005
REP. JOHN MURTHA :The U.S. cannot accomplish anything further in Iraq militarily.
REP. MURTHA: Tim, I'm absolutely convinced that we're making no progress at all,
REP. MURTHA: ...We've become the enemy.
REP. MURTHA: ..There's no question we're going in the wrong direction and we're not winning.
REP. MURTHA:.. Even the military operations, Tim, when we throw people out of their homes, cause us tremendous problems.
REP. MURTHA: ..We have increased terrorism in the Middle East, is what we've done.
Murtha Speech, Nov 17, 2005
"....U.S. forces have become a catalyst for violence."
" All of Iraq must know that Iraq is free. Free from United States occupation."
Here's what Murtha wrote in the epilogue of his last book -"From Vietnam to 9/11: On the Front Lines of National Security "
"A war initiated on faulty intelligence must not be followed by a premature withdrawal of our troops based on a political timetable.
An untimely exit could rapidly devolve into a civil war, which would leave America's foreign policy in disarray
as countries question not only America's judgment but also its perseverance."
"It would be an international disaster I think if we pulled out."
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