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AN OPEN LETTER TO JOHN KERRY
Private Email | OCTOBER 9, 2004 | RAYMOND S. KRAFT

Posted on 10/10/2004, 1:39:55 AM by CHARLITE

Senator John Kerry c/o Democratic National Committee 530 S. Capitol St. SE Washington DC 20003

An Open Letter to John Kerry US Constitution Article 14 Section 3 Disqualifies You From the Presidency

Dear John

In April 1971 you testified as a Naval officer before Congress, giving the North Vietnamese what they hadn't gotten from American POWs in Hanoi: a confession of war crimes. According to Senator John McCain (14 May 1973 US News & World Report) your testimony was "the most effective propaganda they had to use against us." Your photograph is displayed in the Vietnamese Communist War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City (www.WinterSoldier.com) in the room of tribute to the American anti-war protestors who helped the North Vietnamese win the war. North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap wrote in his memoir in 1985 that if it weren't for anti-war activists such as you and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, which you led and represented, they would have surrendered; but as a result of your activism and that of others like yourself, American POWs stayed in prison longer, they were tortured longer, the war lasted longer, America surrendered, and thousands more Americans and Viets died. You gave aid and comfort to the enemy.

Now, on the campaign trail, you are calling the war against Saddam Hussein and terrorism in Iraq "the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time." You are giving aid and comfort to the enemy again.

The United States Constitution, Article 14, Section 3, provides that: "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President or Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States . . . who, having previously taken an oath . . . as an officer of the United States . . . shall have . . . given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof."

The law is perfectly clear. You have taken an oath to uphold the Constitution, as a Naval officer, as a Senator, and you seek to do so again as President. To uphold the US Constitution, Article 14, Section 3, you must resign from the Senate, and resign your presidential candidacy. Your presidency would be a violation of the US Constitution, Article 14, Section 3.

Very truly yours,

Raymond S. Kraft

Ray Kraft's Email: rskraft@vfr.net

What can you do to help defeat John Kerry?

1. Replace my name on this letter with your own. Print out several copies, sign them, and mail them, one to John Kerry at the Democratic National Committee (address above), one to each of your Senators and your representative, and others to local or major media newspapers and radio and TV stations.

2. Email this letter to as many people as you can. Using the exponential power of the Internet, we can send millions of copies of this letter to John Kerry and other influential people in the next two weeks.

3. By doing this, we can force the Big Media, and the internet media, and the Democratic National Committee, and John Kerry, to face up to the fact that if his antiwar activism gave aid and comfort to the enemy, as many of us think it did, then he is disqualified from the Presidency by US Constitution Article 14 Section 3.

4. Email this letter to as many talk show hosts and news sources, liberal and conservative, as you can, people such as Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, Sean Hannity, and the many others who are not as widely known. We can force this issue front and center, maybe even in time for the next debate.

You can mail your Senators and Representative at:

Senator _____ Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

Representative _____ Rayburn HOB Washington DC 20515


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1 posted on 10/10/2004, 1:39:58 AM by CHARLITE
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To: CHARLITE

ohh no not ANOTHER open letter.....


2 posted on 10/10/2004, 1:44:38 AM by MikefromOhio (Rudi Bahktiar is hot!!!! Too bad she works for CNN.....)
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To: MikeinIraq

this works! last time we sent out sf180's to Kerry campaign Kerry's camp had a sh!t fit LOL I sent them about 4 or 5 form 180's in the mail LOL


3 posted on 10/10/2004, 1:50:12 AM by FesterUSMC ("If you don't have the hammer, you are going to be the anvil, and I would rather have the hammer!")
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To: FesterUSMC

I know...its just we will see this thing reposted about a million times between now and the election....it makes my eyes go cross :)


4 posted on 10/10/2004, 1:56:10 AM by MikefromOhio (Rudi Bahktiar is hot!!!! Too bad she works for CNN.....)
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To: MikeinIraq

What division are you in?


5 posted on 10/10/2004, 2:01:45 AM by FesterUSMC ("If you don't have the hammer, you are going to be the anvil, and I would rather have the hammer!")
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To: FesterUSMC

im not really in a division....but I am right next to where 1st Cav is....


6 posted on 10/10/2004, 2:03:27 AM by MikefromOhio (Rudi Bahktiar is hot!!!! Too bad she works for CNN.....)
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To: MikeinIraq

What are you in?


7 posted on 10/10/2004, 2:29:12 AM by FesterUSMC ("If you don't have the hammer, you are going to be the anvil, and I would rather have the hammer!")
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To: FesterUSMC

Camp Victory, MNFI...we have like 17 names....

I am an IT contractor out of CENTCOM.


8 posted on 10/10/2004, 2:33:05 AM by MikefromOhio (Rudi Bahktiar is hot!!!! Too bad she works for CNN.....)
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To: MikeinIraq

ahhh my cousin will be deployed in a couple months, he's in the 1st Armored Div. he's a Staff Sgt. M1A1 Gunner


9 posted on 10/10/2004, 2:40:34 AM by FesterUSMC ("If you don't have the hammer, you are going to be the anvil, and I would rather have the hammer!")
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