Troop-trashing Kerry Objects to Bush's 'Bring 'Em On' Comment

NewsMax.com ^ | 7/07/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Among the many Democrats complaining about President Bush's dare for Saddam's loyalists to "bring 'em on" is presidential candidate John Kerry, who called the remark "unwise (and) unworthy of the office."

Kerry's complaint about Bush's expression of confidence in the U.S. fighting force is particularly ironic, however, given his own comments about American GI's in 1971, after he returned from combat duty in Vietnam.

Talk about making things tough on our own. Here's what the White House-wannabe told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that April, while testifying as a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War:

Kerry accused U.S. soldiers of having "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 a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam."

The damning quote comes from Kerry's own anti-war book, "The New Soldier," which he reportedly had yanked from bookstore shelves when he embarked on his political career.

But before he ran for office, the ambitious Democrat apparently wasn't particularly concerned that his words might do damage to our troops on the front lines.

For more on Sen. Kerry's anti-war activities, see "Kerry Protested Vietnam With 'Hanoi' Jane and 'Radical' Ramsey"

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[chiefqc]

Oh well, one more dumb-o-crat has become toast.

[jmaroneps37]

lurch, shut up and go away.

[jagrmeister]

Kerry will never be forgiven by war veterans for likening them to war criminals before congress during the Vietnam war. His "Benedict Arnold" act then was an act of disgrace and cowardice that will forever dog him.

[OldCorps]

I thought the "bring em on" comment was unnecessary bravado that will only serve to encourage moslems to attack US soldiers even more. Yes, the democraps are spineless twerps, but I kinda resent Pres. Bush talking tough when his life isn't at risk, but the lives of soldiers in Iraq are.

'Course what do I know, I'm only a retired infantry soldier.

[jagrmeister]

Bush's life is always at risk as President and Commander In Chief. 9/11 taught us that terrorists will attack us whether we talk tough or not. To terrorists, weakness is provocative. I don't see "bring 'em on" as a taunt. I see it as the President expressing confidence in our troops ability to handle whatever threat comes their way and I am livid at the liberal media for dishonestly portraying those words as a "taunt". They'll repeat that mischaracterization enough though for people to buy it.