Posted on 10/30/2004 3:46:30 PM PDT by doug from upland
My son in law is in the Navy. After 5 years, he re-upped last year for 3 more. He has thought of making it a career and proudly serves his country.
But like many, many of his comrades, he wonders what he will do if John Kerry becomes the commander in chief.
He knows all about Kerry --- testifying to lies in the Senate, the Winter Soldier lies, the questionable medals, the visits to Paris, the vote whether to assassinate senators, etc. He knows that Kerry's words were used to torture men in custody.
Soldiers and sailors everywhere are worried. Those who have made it a career know that the commander in chief will change and it might not be someone with whom they agree. But he is the commander in chief, and they do their job to serve the country. That is what comes first.
But our warriors have never faced anything like this. Clinton loathed the military and hurt the military, but they survived. With Kerry, they know that they are facing the prospect of being commanded by someone who can truly be called a traitor.
Many of our finest will wonder what to do. Would commander in chief Kerry force them to wear the blue helmets of the U.N.? Would he turn them over to a world court for justice? Would he veto funding bills like the $87 billion?
I had written previously that under Kerry, we might need a draft because of the number of soldiers who would not serve under him.
Right now, our military is the best in the world. Among the reasons are that the men and women respect their commander in chief. And their commander in chief respects them. We will have a nightmare on our hands if the commander changes right now.
If Kerry is elected, you can kiss military retention goodbye.
Probably very likely! I know if I were still on active duty I would sure consider getting out IF sKerry was elected!
I go to basic on the 23rd of November...I've pondered this too. I plan on making a career out of the Air Force so I will have to wait and see what the situation is when it is time to re-up.
i got out of the navy after 5 years when clinton was elected and everything i was scared of happened on his watch
Not a tough decision to make at all.
Please thank your son for his service....If Kerry is elected we will need a draft. Almost no military man/women will serve under a CIC such as him. He abandoned his Band of Brothers in Vietnam and spoke ill of them.
Truly poetic justice if these loser college students would all vote for Kerry and have to be drafted....
I totally feel his pain. I recently retired after 22 years of service and Kerry is doing the same thing now that he did in 1971. He is falsely accusing the military of not being competent in Tora Bora and in Al Quaqaa. Again he does this for political self gratification and even though he says he is not criticizing the troops in fact he is. The President does not micro manage daily operations in Iraq. We have the best trained and equipt military in all the world and John Kerry refuses to acknowledge it. Every time he or his pundits say the President did not have enough troops on the ground in Iraq at the outset I want to scream because I was there part of thousands of troops that were in standby in Kuwait, Dahran, Bahrain etc. In stand by in case Sadaam's army proved to be tougher then it was. We were only allowed to return home after the Fall of Baghdad and in coordination with the recommendations of the Tommy Franks and the Generals in the field. Kerry makes me sick. He has no idea how to fight a war in the 21st century. He remembers vietnam and thinks you need thousands of troops to take imaginery hills. He would be the worst thing for the military ever and in my opinion he would turn our military over the UN for them to use at their disposal. I pray for our troops everyday and I pray that John Kerry will not be given the opportunity to ruin the best fighting force in the world today. Thank You and thanks to your son for continuing to keep us safe.
Best of luck to you. Godspeed.
In that light, there is more than we thought hanging on whether or not Bush wins re-election. The very security of our nation hangs in the balance.
I can understand why your son is worried, My son is in Iraq now he is a Marine and he and his other fellow Marines are also worried if Kerry gets elected. I keep telling myself and son not to worry about it, but as a parent I will always worry as long as he is in Iraq, as long as George W. Bush remains our Commander and Chief we all will have less to worry about.
We are forever grateful for your 22 years, Tom.
First, thank your son for his service to our country, sir.
You bring up a point that I have worried about too - morale of the troops under an anti-war president.
A Kerry election would be a blow to our allies - who Kerry called "The Coalition of The Bribed." It's a tremendous slur against nations who have private citizens beheaded because of their government's involvement in the war.
Finally, I fear that with a Kerry election, Tony Blair, along with John Howard would be isolated in the war on terror.
The military survived every a**hole President - LBJ, the Peanut, and Clinton. Fortunately, we have an institution that transcends occasional electoral blunders.
I tend to agree, but we have never had a John Kerry in office. We have never had a genuine traitor who is worshipped as a war hero by the other side.
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