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Guide to Kerry's Voting Record (easy to read version)
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Posted on 02/17/2004 11:01:09 AM PST by JulieRNR21
Edited on 02/17/2004 11:55:25 AM PST by Admin Moderator.
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To: JulieRNR21
The most effective item is that he has voted AGAINST the very military weapons that have and will be used against our terrorist enemies.
To: ALOHA RONNIE
Excellent letter, Ronnie.
Lots of Nam Vets are starting to write them. There were a few in my local paper this morning!
God Bless You.
And thank you for your service for America!
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posted on
02/17/2004 11:57:03 AM PST
by
JulieRNR21
(One good term deserves another! Take W-04....Across America!)
To: JulieRNR21; PhiKapMom
Excellent post, Julie.
Thanks for ping, PKM.
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posted on
02/17/2004 11:57:23 AM PST
by
onyx
(Your secrets are safe with me and all my friends.)
To: KQQL
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posted on
02/17/2004 11:57:52 AM PST
by
ALOHA RONNIE
(Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.LZXRAY.com)
To: JulieRNR21
Yeah, I don't remember most of those items............
Tell me did kerry veto any pork spending?
Just wondering...............................
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posted on
02/17/2004 11:59:33 AM PST
by
WhiteGuy
(Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...)
To: South40; Admin Moderator
Thanks for moving the vote on cloning to the FAITH & VALUES section.
;)
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posted on
02/17/2004 12:00:43 PM PST
by
JulieRNR21
(One good term deserves another! Take W-04....Across America!)
To: JulieRNR21
;)
To: WhiteGuy
Tell me did kerry veto any pork spending? Just wondering Like his buddy, Teddy....I'd guess he got as much MA 'pork' as he could. Remember 'The Big Dig' tunnel in Boston....many American taxpayers have financed that huge pork belly!!!
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posted on
02/17/2004 12:09:26 PM PST
by
JulieRNR21
(One good term deserves another! Take W-04....Across America!)
To: truth_seeker
The most effective item is that he has voted AGAINST the very military weapons that have and will be used against our terrorist enemies. Exactly & John F'in Phoney claims to care so much about our troops fighting the war on terrorism....What a faker!
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posted on
02/17/2004 12:12:44 PM PST
by
JulieRNR21
(One good term deserves another! Take W-04....Across America!)
To: JulieRNR21
Teddy taught him well.
To: ALOHA RONNIE
Retired Green Beret Takes On 'Hanoi' John Kerry****
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 tribespeople 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 is 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.
[Provided by proud Mother of a veteran that served in Iraq]
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posted on
02/17/2004 12:23:24 PM PST
by
JulieRNR21
(One good term deserves another! Take W-04....Across America!)
To: PhiKapMom; JulieRNR21
Thanks for the Kerry Cliff Notes, 04 Edition. This is a very handy pocket sized edition that I will be sure to pass around.
To: JulieRNR21
Thanks Julie,
BOokmarked and bumped
To: JulieRNR21
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posted on
02/17/2004 12:42:07 PM PST
by
backhoe
(The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)... the 00's? The Decade of Lunatics...)
To: JulieRNR21
Good research. Thanks!
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posted on
02/17/2004 1:17:45 PM PST
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: PhiKapMom
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posted on
02/17/2004 1:33:20 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(The Democrats believe in CHOICE. I have chosen to vote STRAIGHT TICKET GOP for years !!)
To: PhiKapMom
Thanks for the ping. Bookmarked this baby.
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posted on
02/17/2004 1:34:03 PM PST
by
NEWwoman
To: JulieRNR21
Thanks
To: PhiKapMom
*Sigh* According to the DNC, talking about Kerry's voting record constitutes an "attack" (by the WH).
This is going to be one long and painful election.
To: JulieRNR21
thanks for posting this.
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posted on
02/17/2004 3:41:56 PM PST
by
The_Eaglet
(Opportunity: http://www.peroutka2004.com)
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