Who's to blame for nation's Vietnam wounds? Kerry

Chicago Sun Times ^ | 8/29/04 | Mark Steyn

[Gritty]

Great Steyn!

[BelieveNFreedom]

Thanks for posting this great article. I have a feeling that in the long run, whether we like it or not, the issues related to what happened with the boats and the Silver Stars and the Purple Hearts is not going to decide the election; the average person on the street will not sort it out. But this material can't be ignored or denied, because it is based on the man's clear, on-record statements. And very importantly, these points have weight with people who both supported and opposed the war at the time. There were plenty of decent people who opposed the war and didn't go over to the Jane Fonda treason level, and people like that don't find Kerry's post-war actions honorable.

[mylife]

theres 'naught wrong with rugby, pints and free will

[stockpirate]

This one is Treason!

You just do not realize how sick jfk is until you read this.

VVAW worked with the NV to get US not to bomb NV troops during an attck by NV.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201299/posts

And this one go to 54
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201386/posts

[mylife]

Wait till they start in on the unauthorized paris meetings with the NVA while Kerry was in uniform.

[mylife]

Oh Ive seen it pirate. Kerry has it all over him. He just wont stop punching and kicking the tar baby.

Meanwhile GWB is cool as a cucumber.

[mylife]

I see by your tagline you approve of Marks column ;^)

[unspun]

Thank you for posting this fine, fine commentary.

[Bobibutu]

"Because Kerry didn't just call for U.S. withdrawal, he impugned the honor of every man he served with."

And everyone else in VNam.

[mylife]

Kerry and VVAW spilled the beans on military ops to the enemy

[mylife]

Says it all doesnt it Bob?

[mylife]

Thank Mr Steyn, we need more like him in this world

[mylife]

a brief history of Brittan and Aden

[Caoilfhionn]

There is so much material on him it's revolting, but I'll try to limit myself to just the Vietnam fiasco for the moment. Kerry has been honored at the Communist Museum in North Korea as one of the contributors to their victory. The display photograph's "unquestionable significance lies in its placement in the American protesters' section of the War Crimes Museum" in Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon.

"The Vietnamese communists clearly recognize John Kerry's contributions to their victory," he said. "This find can be compared to the discovery of a painting of Neville Chamberlain hanging in a place of honor in Hitler's Eagle's Nest in 1945."

The last I checked, the North Koreans were the enemy. But, in fact, Kerry has a long and well-documented history of providing "aid and comfort" to the enemy in time of war -- particularly in the case of North Vietnam, Nicaragua and Cuba. Kerry, by his own account of his actions and protests, violated the UCMJ, the Geneva Conventions and the U.S. Code while serving as a Navy officer. Kerry met, on two occasions, with North Vietnamese negotiators in 1970 and 1971, willingly placing himself in violation of Article three, Section three of the U.S. Constitution, which defines treason as "giving aid and comfort" to the enemy in time of warfare. Thus, in accordance with the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, which states, "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President ... having previously taken an oath ... to support the Constitution of the United States, [who has] engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof," It is for these reasons that John F. Kerry is unfit for public office.

[crazyhorse691]

I enjoy reading articles like this where it is obvious that the writer gets it. There is a great deal of anger towards JFK. And he has the stupidity to ask WHY.
JFK you are going down and going down hard. Mercy is not given to dishonorable men.

[mylife]

Mercy is not given to dishonorable men.

The media and the left dont get it, The Swiftees do

[AaronInCarolina]

Vietnam all started with liars and lies of the Democrats. Why should the Dems be any different now.

They are not. Notice that while the anti-war movement festered while Democrats were president, it exploded when Nixon won the presidency. It took on a whole new dimension and a quantum leap upward in terms of radicalism and vitriol. Even Kerry may not have been so against the war until an event that happened in November of 1968... Nixon (a Republican) was elected president and Kerry's whole attitude changed. Suddenly he's out in a matter of months and he protesting the war now and calling his comerades and his President monsters.

Fast-forward 30 years... Kerry practically begs Bill Clinton to go in and toss out Sadam Hussein, who was a real threat to the whole world because the whole world knew that he had WMD's, and had used them on his own people. For 5 or six years Kerry has been screaming that Hussein was a danger to America, and indeed the whole world. Then an event happened in November 2000... George W. Bush, a Republican, was elected president. And George W. Bush did exactly what Kerry has been begging some president to do for 5 or 6 years... Take out Sadam Hussein and disarm him. Suddenly it was 1969 all over again. A change of attitude conspicuously related to a change in presidency from Democrat to Republican. Notice how nobody in the present-day anti-war movement raised a single peep about Clinton's exploits in Yugoslavia, in a war that had absolutely zero national interest to the U.S., or posed any threat whatsoever to U.S. security. But let a Republican president do what many Democrats had been calling for for years (overthrow Hussein) and their tune changes from hawk to dove overnight. It's nothing but politics and its putrid.

[kellynla]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201595/posts

[mylife]

Hmmm..I did a search on the title.

Its so nice lets post it twice ;^)

[stockpirate]

bunp for later