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Veterans
Should Politically Banish Kerry for Disgracing The Marine Corps
Memorial, January 26, 2004
On the cover of The New Soldier by John Kerry and Vietnam Veterans Against The War, hippies clad in a mismatch of military uniforms are pictured mocking the legendary image of Marines raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi in the 1945 battle for Iwo Jima. Today, the Iwo Jima image is a memorial statue that sits above Arlington National Cemetery and honors all Marines killed in action since 1775. It is one of the most recognized and visited sites in our Capitol City. The New Soldier never made it on the reading list at our military academies. In the cover photo that ridicules the Marine Corps Memorial, one of Kerry’s cronies is tugging on our flag, which is hung upside down as the ultimate symbol of sedition and treachery to all veterans who rallied behind our flag in battle. On the day of that shameful photograph and with its mass circulation on the cover of The New Soldier, at least 6,821 Marines who died at Iwo Jima turned over in their graves. Of all the reasons why John F. Kerry will not become President of the United States, the biggest reason has to be that, once he returned home from Vietnam, he betrayed his fellow servicemen who remained at war. Kerry not only allied with the likes of Hanoi Jane Fonda, but, before the United States Senate in 1971, Kerry went as far as to belittle the bravery of embattled troops by generalizing their every action in Vietnam as an atrocity. No one questioned General George S. Patton, III, when he accused Kerry of treason in giving aid and comfort to the enemy, especially when it was revealed that North Vietnam incorporated Kerry’s exploits into its communist propaganda machine. However, because of the prevalence of treason at the time and the monumental task of prosecuting Kerry and his proclaimed “revolutionaries,” Kerry’s actions went unpunished and the associated advances of communism went unhindered. Fortunately, today’s veterans and Americans who overwhelmingly support our armed forces tend to disparage those who dishonor military service and then pretend to be capable of our country’s highest office. This political reality afflicted Bill Clinton, whose anti-military past kept him from winning any more than forty-nine percent of the popular vote. No wonder Kerry’s presidential campaign is doing its best to subvert his estrangement from veterans and service people in general. The tact of Kerry for President looks a lot like Clinton-Gore’s approach to deceiving voters that such an obvious liability is really the opposite. When Kerry marched in the Veteran’s Day parade in Phoenix last year, in tow behind him were a few people carrying “Veterans for Kerry” placards. Some placard carriers looked like the ragtag types on the cover of The New Solider in that they were unshaven, wearing circa 1971 clothes and appeared disoriented. The ongoing insult is that “Veterans for Kerry” is supposed to represent the veteran community’s support of Kerry, when the reality is that very few veterans support him. Most veterans cannot forgive Kerry for Vietnam Veterans Against The War and its promotion of communism when we were fighting communists. As far as U.S. Marines are concerned, we ought to ensure that Kerry is forever banished from the White House for dishonoring our Memorial on the cover of The New Soldier. 
Rick Erickson is an attorney and Major in the Marine Corps (Reserve) currently serving as Deputy Judge Advocate to the Commanding Officer, NORAD/USNORTHCOM. Rick’s experience as an infantry officer in Mogadishu, Somalia led to his appointment as Director. |
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An interesting analysis of news
reporting!
Study: CBS Most Anti-Bush Network.
--A study released Friday by MediaChannel.org, a directory Web site for media criticism, showed that the American television networks have been far more critical of President Bush than his would-be successor, Senator John Kerry. Of the three nightly news programs on the broadcast television networks, CBS's Evening News led the pack in favoritism toward the Massachusetts Democrat. The analysis, conducted by the independent media analysis company Media Tenor International concluded that while the incumbent Bush received a good deal more coverage than Kerry, it was far more likely to be negative than positive. "Network news broadcasts in January and February contained on average nearly three times more negative news statements about President Bush than about Senator John Kerry," the Web site said. Dan Rather's broadcast was the most lopsided in its treatment of the two presidential candidates, virtually mirroring its coverage. Thirty-five percent of its statements about Bush were negative while only 9 percent were positive. In contrast, 38 percent of CBS's mentions of Kerry were positive and just 8 percent were negative. The study confirms Rather and his colleagues' position as the most biased of the "Big Three" against President Bush. An earlier report following the ending of the campaign to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein from power conducted by the Center for Media and Public Affairs showed that CBS was the most negative toward the efforts to rebuild Iraq. |
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Another perspective RE: John Kerry
From Don Bendell ... An Open Letter to John Kerry:
My wife had rotator cuff surgery earlier this year, and the
recovery is terribly painful. Then, she developed a staph-epi infection, and they had to cut the same scar open and operate on her again. Just thinking about the pain and anxiety of facing that painful surgery a second time in the same wound makes me cringe. That experience, however pales in comparison to what I am going through right now, in my heart.
The old hurts are surfacing and the feelings of betrayal by
fellow citizens, and their leader stirring them up, are breaking my heart again. I am being cut in the same scar. How did we who served in Vietnam suddenly become cold-blooded killers, torturers, and rapists, of the ilk of the Nazi SS or the Taliban? Most of us were American soldiers who grew up idolizing John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and all the other heroes. That was why I volunteered. But for political expediency, John Kerry has rewritten history, again. After spending only four months in the country of Vietnam, John Kerry testified before Congress in 1971 with these exact words about incidents he supposedly witnessed or heard about from other vets: "They 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, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam."
I was a Green Beret officer who volunteered for duty in
Vietnam and fought in the thick of it in 1968 and 1969 on a Special Forces A-team on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, just for starters. We were the elite. We saw the most action. Everybody in the world knows that. But we did not just kill people, we built a church, a school, treated illnesses, passed out soap, food, and clothing, and had fun and loving interaction with the indigenous people of Vietnam, just like our boys did in Normandy, Baghdad, Saigon, and everywhere American soldiers ever served. We all gave away our candy bars and rations to kids. Our hearts to oppressed people all over the globe.
My children and grandchildren could read your words, and think
those horrendous things about me, Mr. Kerry. You are a bold- faced, unprincipled liar, and a disgrace, and you have dishonored me and all my fellow Vietnam veterans. Sure, there were a couple bad-apples, but I saw none, and I saw it all, and if I did, as an army officer, it was my obligation to stop it, or at the very least report it. Why is there not a single record anywhere of you ever reporting any incidents like this or having the perpetrators arrested? The answer is simple. You are a liar. Your medals and mine are not a free pass for lifetime, Senator Kerry, to bypass character, integrity, and morality. I earn my green beret over and over daily in all aspects of my life.
Eight National Guard green berets, and other National Guard
soldiers, have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and you totally dishonored their widows and families by lumping National Guard service in with being a draft-dodger, conscientious objector, and deserter, just so you can try to sabotage the patriotism of our President who proudly served as an Air National Guard jet pilot. I have a son earning his green beret at Fort Bragg right now, and his wife serves honorably in the Air National Guard, just like President Bush did, and I am as proud of her as I am my son. I volunteered for Vietnam and have no problem whatsoever with President Bush being our Commander-In-Chief. In fact, I am proud of him as our leader.
John Kerry, you personally derailed the Vietnam Human rights
Bill, HR2883, in 2001, after it had passed the House by a 411 to 1 vote, and thousands of pro-American Montagnard tribes- people in Vietnam died since then who could have been saved, by you. Earlier, as Chair of the Senate Select Committee on MIA/POW Affairs, you personally quashed the efforts of any and all veterans to report sightings of living POW's, when you held those reins in Congress. You have fought tooth and nail to push for the US to normalize relations with Vietnam for years. Why, Mr. Kerry? Simple, your first cousin C. Stewart Forbes, CEO, of Colliers International, recently signed a contract with Hanoi, worth BILLIONS of dollars for Collier's International to become the exclusive real estate representative for the country of Vietnam.
"Hanoi John," now that it works for you, you beat your chest
about your Vietnam service, but to me, you are a phony, opportunistic, hypocrite. You are one of those politicians that are like a fertilizer machine: all that comes out of you is horse manure, and you are spreading it everywhere.
Medals do not make a man. Morals do.
Don Bendell
Canon City, Colorado
Don Bendell served as an officer in four Special Forces
Groups, is a best-selling author with over 1,500,000 books in print, a 1995 inductee into the International Karate Hall of Fame, and owns karate schools in southern Colorado. |
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in Vietnam, and it's kind of cute But if Bush can't talk to Kerry about the horrors of
war, then Kerry's life experience consists of living off other
men's What does a kept man know about taxes? Kerry claims he will stand up to powerful interests, but
he At pains to make Kerry sound like a normal American, his Kerry's campaign has stoutly insisted that he will pay
off the The Democrats' joy at nominating Kerry is perplexing. To
be Kerry is like some character in a Balzac novel, an
adventurer If Democrats want to talk about middle-class tax cuts,
couldn't Don't forget: He voted to kill the Bradley Fighting Vehicle He voted
to kill In short, he voted to kill every military appropriation
for He also voted to kill all anti terrorism activities of
every Is THIS the PRESIDENT that you want?? ************** John Kerry - American Icon I would like to add my two cents about my John Kerry
experience. When I met him, he was wearing a shirt with a picture of
his When we first flew him into Phnom Penh, he went to the
back of Then when we picked him up in Cambodia, he was an hour
late getting Then we took him into Noi Bai airfield in Hanoi. After
we picked Well, Mr. Senator sticks his head up in the cockpit and
says During the flight, he told everyone how he had taken a
Cessna I don't know about other pilots out there, but it's hard
to After Kerry left the plane, the Navy Captain came up to
us, Clinton R. Kindell, CPA P.C. |
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