The Way It Is
a letter from the President of Vets for the Truth
Like so many veterans who have served their country honorably, I find it hard to accept the words and actions of many of my countrymen — politicians, professors, protestors from the 1960s — who miss no opportunity to condemn their country and those who fight to defend it. I am angry at them all, those scum of the earth who abuse the freedom that our veterans have bought at the price of their own lives and blood. I especially despise the George Soros/Michael Moore/Howard Dean crowd — the so-called “Shadow Government” that poses so much danger to our republic, and about which so few Americans know. Many of us veterans have vented our anger on those who would forfeit the freedoms that our nation cherishes, and yet we still lack the political organization and power that would enable us to be the force we should be in the defense of our country. We defended it with our guns and our lives, but we seem powerless to defend it through political action. Yes, some great patriots have tried to organize us. God bless those men and women who founded the Veterans Party; it is a great idea, but there is a reason that it and other organizations like it have failed to make the breakthrough we would all like to see. That reason for that failure has become clear to me in the last couple of years, starting with my involvement with Vietnam Vets for the Truth, a group that sprang up to expose the lies of John Kerry. And my observations of the wonderful efforts of the Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for the Truth confirm the conclusion I have drawn: it is just the nature of things that veterans can only organize for PROSCRIPTIVE, vice PRESCRIPTIVE, purposes. That is to say, we are most effective when we draw a line and say, “No farther!” I seriously doubt that any organized veterans group will ever be able to elect a candidate for major office. That is just not the nature of things. Veterans are simply not inclined to push for the election of one of their candidates on a large-scale basis. Sure, we can make a critical difference in certain close races, but as a general rule that is about as far as we can go. As the Swiftees, the POWs, and Vietnam Vets for the Truth demonstrated so clearly in 2004, however, we CAN make a vital difference when we say, “No farther” to candidates like John Kerry. And that is my point — we can be tremendously effective when we fight AGAINST those who we know in our hearts pose a clear and present danger to these United States. We have another chance to prove our mettle in denying office to another fraud who claims the right to the support of veterans — Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania. When he accused the Haditha Eight of “…killing innocent civilians IN COLD BLOOD” on May 17th, he, in my not-so-humble opinion, crossed the line, and in so doing he forfeited any claim he had on the support of his fellow veterans. That is why several veteran buddies and I formed “Vets for the Truth” and pledged to each other that we would do everything we could to deny a SEVENTEENTH TERM to a man whose military record is very similar to that of John Kerry’s. No, most of us are not residents of the 12th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, nor are most of us even Pennsylvanians. We are US military veterans from across the country who see in John Murtha the type of self-serving politician who uses a largely bogus military record to portray himself as one deserving our support. More importantly, however, we recognize in “al-Jazeera Jack” Murtha the tendency to ally himself with the most extreme left-wing, America-hating elements in the country simply to accommodate his outsized ego. His hunger for greater political power has caused him to sell out to the George Soros/John Kerry/Michael Moore/Hillary Clinton wing of the Democratic Party. More ominously, he has become the darling of Code Pink, the avowedly Marxist organization that not only harasses the families of our wounded military men and women as they visit their loved ones in Walter Reed Army Hospital but actively courts the most America-hating scum in the world — including Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Fidel Castro of Cuba, and Bashir Assad of Syria. Code Pink recently bestowed upon John Murtha an award for his anti-war activities. His grateful acceptance of that recognition “puts paid” to any claim he might manufacture for veterans’ support. While veterans should be expected to vote for Murtha’s opponent, as an organization we provide the most effective support for that candidate when we stand en masse and say, “No farther” to John Murtha. The defeat of that self-serving “Marine” will send a message to veteran-pandering politicians for generations to come that they cannot expect and will not receive automatic support from those of us who understand where they are coming from. We at Vets for the Truth invite all thinking veterans to join us as we pull out all the stops in showing the country that, while we are not particularly effective at uniting behind a candidate, we are unconquerable when we stand in front of politicians like John Murtha. Join us. Come to our “Boot Murtha” rally in Johnstown, PA, on October 1st. Send our website URL (www.bootmurtha.com) to every veteran and America-loving patriot you know. Stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us now and in the future as we do our part in denying political office to those who would sell out their country for a traitor’s reward—political power. Thank you. Larry Bailey, President, Vets for the Truth |
