Posted on 04/08/2003 9:06:48 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
"What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States"
— Sen. John Kerry (D-MA ) in New Hampshire
April 4, 2003
Over three decades ago, a young Swift Boat officer in Vietnam showed courage and resolve and earned medals for his actions in combat. Today as a candidate for the 2004 Democrat nomination for President, Senator John Kerry made contemptible, cowardly statements against the current administration. Declining to distance himself from the Democrat demagoguery against the Iraqi War and our Commander-in-Chief, Kerry pushed forward with a most offensive remark regarding the "regime change" in the United States. He now joins rank with traitors like of Peter Arnett and Ramsey Clark in undermining our country during wartime.
Lacking morality and ethics, Democrat leaders had the opportunity to call a press conference to condemn Sen. Kerry´s remarks. They did not. On the contrary, Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle ignored Senator´s Kerry´s odious comments, claiming he had not heard them. In contrast, Senator Daschle and other Democrats were quick to denounce a passing remark made by Senator Trent Lott at a party to honor Senator Strom Thurmond´s 100th birthday, demanding Lott´s resignation from his leadership post. Would they ever call for Senator´s Kerry´s resignation, or at least demand he withdraw from the 2004 Presidential race? Perish the thought!
Meanwhile, other Congressional Democrats, such as Rep. Bob Sherman (D-Calif) refuse to criticize Senator Kerry in the strongest terms. On Fox´s Hannity and Colmes Show, Rep. Sherman called Kerry´s remarks a "poor choice of words", while refusing to call for the Senator´s withdrawal from the 2004 election. We can think of more appropriate adjectives such as "treasonous", "shameless", "seditious" and "despicable" – words Americans used to describe Kerry´s remarks in newspapers, on radio talk shows and television.
The real regime change needs to take place in U.S. Senate. The Senate Democrats´ obstructionist tactics and their use of the filibuster to stymie Bush´s judicial nominee, Judge Miguel Estrada, is closer to the dictatorial rule seen in Saddam´s Iraq than any actions taken by President Bush. As long as the Democrat Party refuses to repudiate the disgusting and vile remarks made by its members, the less relevant it becomes in upcoming elections.
As it stands, Senator Kerry is unfit to run for President and undeserving to serve in the U.S. Senate. His defenders point to Kerry´s outstanding war record, as if that somehow excuses his current reprehensible remarks against the President´s policies. However, he earned those medals thirty years ago, long before the United States was attacked. He made his comments at a time when coalition troops were in harms way taking on casualties. Valiant soldiers, like Pvt. Jessica Lynch, were held as POWs and subject to torture. The tide was turning in our favor, as our men and mechanized units began their advance toward Baghdad, where they faced an uncertain fate.
As a decorated Vietnam War veteran he knew better than to make such demoralizing remarks. It is Senator Kerry´s choice – as well as ours. Will he show enough courage to repudiate his appalling statements and offer an apology to the Bush Administration? If not, hopefully voters will remember his transgression against the United States and reject him and the Democrat Party at the polls.
If Kerry once deserved honor for his service in Vietnam, that time is past. His great accomplishments were 30 years ago. Lately, he's been sounding like a traitor -- and it should be permissible to call him that.
It's been revealed that Kerry threw someone's elses medals over the White House fence. Don't know the whereabouts of his medals.
No one seems to be mentioning that yes he was in Vietnam but he came home and protested the war in the streets with the Bill and Hillary Clintons of that age and threw his medals away.. Ask Bob Dornan about Kerry. He was there and saw this HERO in action.
Kerry is a disgrace and embarassment to any veteran who ever wore the uniform and served.
I've seen reports that he tossed his ribbons in protest but still holds on to the corresponding medals. He's a hypocrite!!
John Kerry's War Record By Michael Benge
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 13, 2003
As Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, considers a bid for the White House, Americans should know a few things about him that he might prefer go unmentioned -- and I don't mean his $75 haircuts.
When Mr. Kerry pontificated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day, a group of veterans turned their backs on him and walked away. They remembered Mr. Kerry as the antiwar activist who testified before Congress during the war, accusing veterans of being war criminals. The dust jacket of Mr. Kerry's pro-Hanoi book, "The New Soldier," features a photograph of his ragged band of radicals mocking the US Marine Corps Memorial, which depicts the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, with an upside-down American flag. Retired Gen. George S. Patton III charged that Mr. Kerry's actions as an antiwar activist had "given aid and comfort to the enemy," as had the actions of Ramsey Clark and Jane Fonda. Also, Mr. Kerry lied when he threw what he claimed were his war medals over the White House fence; he later admitted they weren't his. Now they are displayed on his office wall.
Long after he changed sides in congressional hearings, Mr. Kerry lobbied for renewed trade relations with Hanoi. At the same time, his cousin C. Stewart Forbes, chief executive for Colliers International, assisted in brokering a $905 million deal to develop a deep-sea port at Vung Tau, Vietnam - an odd coincidence.
As noted in the Inside Politics column of Nov. 14 (Nation), historian Douglas Brinkley is writing Mr. Kerry's biography. Hopefully, he'll include the senator's latest ignominious feat: preventing the Vietnam Human Rights Act (HR2833) from coming to a vote in the Senate, claiming human rights would deteriorate as a result. His actions sent a clear signal to Hanoi that Congress cares little about the human rights for which so many Americans fought and died.
The State Department ranked Vietnam among the 10 regimes worldwide least tolerant of religious freedom. Recently, 354 churches of the Montagnards, a Christian ethnic minority, were forcibly disbanded, and by mid-October, more than 50 Christian pastors and elders had been arrested in Dak Lak province alone. On Oct. 29, the secret police executed three Montagnards by lethal injection simply for protesting religious repression. The communists are conducting a pogrom against the Montagnards, forcing Christians to drink a mixture of goat's blood and alcohol and renounce Christianity. Thousands have been killed or imprisoned or have just "disappeared." The Montagnards lost one-half of their adult male population fighting for the United States, and without them, there might be thousands more American names on that somber black granite wall at the Vietnam memorial.
As Mr. Kerry contemplates a run for the presidency, people must remember that he has fought harder for Hanoi as an antiwar activist and a senator than he did against the Vietnamese communists while serving in the Navy in Vietnam.
Michael Benge is a Foreign Service officer and a former Vietnam POW (1968 to 1973)
Source: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=5468
(1) Being a Vietnam vet does not immunize John Kerry from his own stupid remarks. Your remarks are right on target!
(2) The guy on Hannity and Colmes was "Brad" Sherman, not "Bob" Sherman as stated in the editorial. Sherman is a Democrat who represents the west San Fernando Valley area.
Bush never asked for or needed his Dad's help.
and both undoubtedly pre-mature.
Neither: "Ass"
He is definately a cowardly bushwhacker now!
I submit to you the names of Joe Foss, Audie Murphy and others.
What would you have become if you hadn't been born? The point is that one is measured by how they use their talents and opportunities. Kerry could have used his war record positively, but he is so arrogant and dishonest that he brings shame on all who served.
... and a butt ugly gold digger.
Kerry and Bush have many similarities in their background, including prep school and ivy league educations. Yes, Bush's family legacy put him in a position to seek the highest office in the land, but the reason he is successful is because he doesn't have any of the arrogance his background may predict. Contrast that with Kerry. There isn't a natural instinct in the man that Americans can relate to. Any poor fool that would cast a vote for a man whose stomach would turn if he had to spend an hour at their kitchen table should take note.
I don't know that cowardly is the right term.
Ketchup Boy showed personal Courage in Vietnam, which puts him one big step ahead of Billy Jeff Clinton who is an abject physical coward.
What he lacks is morals, ethics and decency.
He is right down there with Bill Clinton or a Herpes Virus.
Unfortunately, Clinton, Chretien and Chirac have proven that being a sociopath is no disqualification from high office.
So9
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