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"The measure of a person's character is their whole history up until the present," he said. "It's not what they say they believe or what they'll do when president or all these platitudes. ... And he has consistently taken the side of our enemies and other countries that oppose us or have a different viewpoint."
Worth a repeat! In fact, worthy of a sign!

I was born in 1961, which makes me a little young to understand first-hand what our returning Viet Nam vets went through. But this I now understand in my heart- that instead of the understanding and forgiveness they so desperately needed and deserved, they were met with vicious disdain and disrespect for their sacrifices. They were attacked and robbed of what they needed and deserved most, much as some of our brave soliers are experiencing today when they return from Iraq.

Now when I look at someone like the abominable John Kerry, I don't just see a conniving medal-grubbing manipulator who lied about his fellow soldiers to the Senate subcommittee and who has never once recanted or apologised for his false words, (even after his Winter Soldier conspirators were thoroughly discredited). I also see a man who has committed a more henious sin...fomenting a hateful environment which denied the returning soldiers what they needed to heal their hearts and minds. Not only denying them their dignity and self-worth, but creating a mythos of the anti-war protestor which has survived to this day and now stalks our Iraq veterans.

It is absolutely repellant to me that the same people who practically celebrate the intentional snuffing of unborn babies lives can then turn around and shout "baby-killer" to our soldiers. It creates a hateful rage inside I didn't know I was capable of feeling. May God forgive me.