John Kerry
I’m very upset with Senators Clinton and McCain for their remarks about John Kerry’s botched joke. Apparently, Kerry’s botched joke didn't have a fall out on election day. Although, Sen. Clinton received fewer votes than Eliot Spitzer.
Republican propagandist and ambitious politicians unfairly attacked Sen. Kerry for his comments. If you examine Kerry's comments objectively, it’s obvious that they were taken out of context and distorted for political advantage. He was clearly directing his criticism at Bush and not our troops.
The prepared text shows that Kerry omitted the word “us”. The text called for him to say: "Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting ‘us’ stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush." Kerry insists the comment was a botched joke about the president not about the troops and said “they know that's what I was talking about."
John Kerry killed the enemy up close and personal, which very few in Congress have done. Congress has repeatedly demonstrated how much it cares about the military-industrial complex. However, nobody has over the course of a life time demonstrated greater compassion for those that have killed up close and personal than John Kerry.
A credible source of information about John Kerry’s service in Vietnam is “Tour of Duty” by Douglas Brinkley; professor of history at the University of New Orleans.
Kerry was assigned to the U.S.S. Gridley, and served in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam. Upon returning to the U.S., Kerry requested service as a Swift boat commander. Swift boats, were heavily armed aluminum patrol boats, carrying a 5 man crew. While patrolling the rivers of the Mekong Delta, they often hit mines and came under rocket, mortar and machine gun fire. Kerry was responsible for transporting Navy Seals on counterinsurgency missions deep into the Viet Cong controlled jungles.
Admiral Elmo Zumwalt calculated sailors on Swift boats had a 75% chance of being killed or wounded while on duty. This explains how Kerry was able to earn a Silver Star, Bronze Star and 3 Purple Hearts in 4 months.
“Tour of Duty” describes Kerry’s gallantry in combat in detail. The third time Kerry was wounded occurred, when the boat hit a mine and an ambush ensued. Green Beret Lt. Jim Rassmann was blown overboard. Upon realizing Rassmann was missing he ordered the boat to turn around, went to the bow and although wounded, pulled Rassmann aboard.
An update to the event appeared in a Time magazine article entitled “The Character Test.” In 2003, Lt. Rassmann a Republican told a national TV audience at an Iowa caucus rally: “John came to the front under fire and pulled me over. Kerry could have been shot and killed at anytime, I figure I owe this man my life.” Lt. Rassmann recommended Kerry for the Bronze Star.
Colin Powell’s “My American Journey” reveals; “one of the darker chapters of American military history. A platoon headed by 1st Lt. Wm. Calley entered the hamlet of My Lai and herded 347 old men, women, children and even babies into a ditch and shot them.” The actual number of victims was over 500, but the Pentagon’s cover up continues. Powell goes on to express, “anger that so many sons of the powerful and well placed managed to wrangle slots in the Reserve and National Guard units.” Powell declares he could never forgive a leadership that said in effect: “the poorer less educated, less privileged (economic cannon fodder) are expendable, but the rest are too good to risk.” Chuck Hagel, Republican Senator from Nebraska stated the war in Iraq is being fought by the poor and middle class, not the sons and daughters of the wealthy and powerful.
HIstorian Brinkley’s “Tour of Duty” describes Kerry’s involvement with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. In 1970, Kerry gained a prominent roll in V.V.A.W. with a speech. Angered by the “atrocious conditions of V.A. hospitals”; Kerry said: “We are here to say that it is not patriotism to ask Americans to die for a mistake or that it is not patriotic to allow a president to talk about not being the first president to lose a war, using us as pawns in that game.” In April 1971, Kerry organized a week long antiwar demonstration in which no acts of violence were committed. In November, Kerry resigned from the V.V.A.W. because it had grown too radical. Former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey said: “People noted that I was a Medal of Honor winner. But there should have been medal winners for organizers of peaceful protests.”
Bush propagandist continue to criticize Kerry’s statement over 35 years ago that he and others had committed atrocities in Vietnam. The facts are found on Google Search: “Winter Soldiers Investigation”. The Winter Soldiers Investigation saw over 150 honorably discharged veterans voluntarily testify from personal experience that the My Lai massacre was not an aberration of what happened in Vietnam. Kerry attended the investigation, but did not testify.
On April 5, 1971 Senator Hatfield stated: "The moral sensitivity of the Nation has been aroused by the conviction of Lt. Wm. Calley. Several of the allegations made in testimony would place the United States in violation of the Geneva Convention. The testimony and allegations raised by the experiences of these veterans includes charges regarding the torture and murder of suspects and prisoners of war captured by Americans and South Vietnamese forces; the wanton killing of innocent, unarmed civilians; the brutalization and rape of women in the villages. I ask unanimous consent that the testimony presented by over 100 honorably discharged veterans in Detroit be placed in the Congressional Record."
Two weeks later; at Senator Fulbright request Kerry testify before the Senate, as a member of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Kerry testified: “These are not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day to day basis with full awareness of officers at all levels of command. It is impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in Detroit- the emotions in the room and the feelings of the men, who were reliving their experiences in Vietnam. They relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do...We wish that a merciful God could wipe away our memories of that service; as easily as this administration has wiped away their memories of us.”
Recently, Kerry made certain that the widows of soldiers aren't kicked off of our military bases within a matter of months. He is working to get additional money for mental health care for soldiers who are coming back with post traumatic stress syndrome.
Senator Kerry believes that any soldier, who desires to serve his country by putting on the uniform and doing what the commander-in-chief asks of them is a patriot and that their sacrifice is best honored by giving them the kind of policy that is successful.
Republican propagandist and ambitious politicians unfairly attacked Sen. Kerry for his comments. If you examine Kerry's comments objectively, it’s obvious that they were taken out of context and distorted for political advantage. He was clearly directing his criticism at Bush and not our troops.
The prepared text shows that Kerry omitted the word “us”. The text called for him to say: "Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting ‘us’ stuck in a war in Iraq. Just ask President Bush." Kerry insists the comment was a botched joke about the president not about the troops and said “they know that's what I was talking about."
John Kerry killed the enemy up close and personal, which very few in Congress have done. Congress has repeatedly demonstrated how much it cares about the military-industrial complex. However, nobody has over the course of a life time demonstrated greater compassion for those that have killed up close and personal than John Kerry.
A credible source of information about John Kerry’s service in Vietnam is “Tour of Duty” by Douglas Brinkley; professor of history at the University of New Orleans.
Kerry was assigned to the U.S.S. Gridley, and served in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam. Upon returning to the U.S., Kerry requested service as a Swift boat commander. Swift boats, were heavily armed aluminum patrol boats, carrying a 5 man crew. While patrolling the rivers of the Mekong Delta, they often hit mines and came under rocket, mortar and machine gun fire. Kerry was responsible for transporting Navy Seals on counterinsurgency missions deep into the Viet Cong controlled jungles.
Admiral Elmo Zumwalt calculated sailors on Swift boats had a 75% chance of being killed or wounded while on duty. This explains how Kerry was able to earn a Silver Star, Bronze Star and 3 Purple Hearts in 4 months.
“Tour of Duty” describes Kerry’s gallantry in combat in detail. The third time Kerry was wounded occurred, when the boat hit a mine and an ambush ensued. Green Beret Lt. Jim Rassmann was blown overboard. Upon realizing Rassmann was missing he ordered the boat to turn around, went to the bow and although wounded, pulled Rassmann aboard.
An update to the event appeared in a Time magazine article entitled “The Character Test.” In 2003, Lt. Rassmann a Republican told a national TV audience at an Iowa caucus rally: “John came to the front under fire and pulled me over. Kerry could have been shot and killed at anytime, I figure I owe this man my life.” Lt. Rassmann recommended Kerry for the Bronze Star.
Colin Powell’s “My American Journey” reveals; “one of the darker chapters of American military history. A platoon headed by 1st Lt. Wm. Calley entered the hamlet of My Lai and herded 347 old men, women, children and even babies into a ditch and shot them.” The actual number of victims was over 500, but the Pentagon’s cover up continues. Powell goes on to express, “anger that so many sons of the powerful and well placed managed to wrangle slots in the Reserve and National Guard units.” Powell declares he could never forgive a leadership that said in effect: “the poorer less educated, less privileged (economic cannon fodder) are expendable, but the rest are too good to risk.” Chuck Hagel, Republican Senator from Nebraska stated the war in Iraq is being fought by the poor and middle class, not the sons and daughters of the wealthy and powerful.
HIstorian Brinkley’s “Tour of Duty” describes Kerry’s involvement with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. In 1970, Kerry gained a prominent roll in V.V.A.W. with a speech. Angered by the “atrocious conditions of V.A. hospitals”; Kerry said: “We are here to say that it is not patriotism to ask Americans to die for a mistake or that it is not patriotic to allow a president to talk about not being the first president to lose a war, using us as pawns in that game.” In April 1971, Kerry organized a week long antiwar demonstration in which no acts of violence were committed. In November, Kerry resigned from the V.V.A.W. because it had grown too radical. Former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey said: “People noted that I was a Medal of Honor winner. But there should have been medal winners for organizers of peaceful protests.”
Bush propagandist continue to criticize Kerry’s statement over 35 years ago that he and others had committed atrocities in Vietnam. The facts are found on Google Search: “Winter Soldiers Investigation”. The Winter Soldiers Investigation saw over 150 honorably discharged veterans voluntarily testify from personal experience that the My Lai massacre was not an aberration of what happened in Vietnam. Kerry attended the investigation, but did not testify.
On April 5, 1971 Senator Hatfield stated: "The moral sensitivity of the Nation has been aroused by the conviction of Lt. Wm. Calley. Several of the allegations made in testimony would place the United States in violation of the Geneva Convention. The testimony and allegations raised by the experiences of these veterans includes charges regarding the torture and murder of suspects and prisoners of war captured by Americans and South Vietnamese forces; the wanton killing of innocent, unarmed civilians; the brutalization and rape of women in the villages. I ask unanimous consent that the testimony presented by over 100 honorably discharged veterans in Detroit be placed in the Congressional Record."
Two weeks later; at Senator Fulbright request Kerry testify before the Senate, as a member of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Kerry testified: “These are not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day to day basis with full awareness of officers at all levels of command. It is impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in Detroit- the emotions in the room and the feelings of the men, who were reliving their experiences in Vietnam. They relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do...We wish that a merciful God could wipe away our memories of that service; as easily as this administration has wiped away their memories of us.”
Recently, Kerry made certain that the widows of soldiers aren't kicked off of our military bases within a matter of months. He is working to get additional money for mental health care for soldiers who are coming back with post traumatic stress syndrome.
Senator Kerry believes that any soldier, who desires to serve his country by putting on the uniform and doing what the commander-in-chief asks of them is a patriot and that their sacrifice is best honored by giving them the kind of policy that is successful.
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