Kerry Coverup Continues
Sun March 28th, 2004 22:38 MSTAs we have been investigating Kerry’s antiwar record, so have others. The Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal summarizes this nicely.
Kerry is a liar. This should come as no surprise given his outrageous testimony to the Senate in 1971 where he slandered America and gave the standard enemy propaganda line.
For quite a while he successfully covered up his participation in a meeting where the VVAW, an organization in which he was an officer, discussed assassinating US Senators. But that cover-up has come apart, as former comrades and FBI files prove that he was there. One of his comrades reports that Kerry tried to get him to change his report of Kerry’s presence. Now Kerry says he can’t remember the meeting where such an outrageous plan was debated and where Kerry reportedly resigned from the VVAW. Do we really want a presidential candidate with early dementia?
And, it looks like he may be lying about having resigned from VVAW also.
In an eerie event reminiscent of those years, some of the FBI files have been stolen from the historian who had them!
This guy is a real piece of work!
Here’re yet a few more ‘mind-bending’ quotes and headlines from my morning newspaper. All have left me slack-jawed and astounded since first reading them. And, frankly, I wonder how others feel when they read this kind of rubbish:
George Bush, says Ralph Nader, in an AP column, “is a giant corporation residing in the White House camouflaging as a human being.”
(As for me–an ‘average American’–I understand that Senator Kerry is married to a Heinz catsup heiress, and this fact alone leaves me wondering: Just where does Nader draw the line between “corporate” and “monolith”?)
And from our friends at the Associated Press, the headline: “Kerry Looks to Raise $20M in Six Weeks.”
(I suppose my question here, is: John Kerry, according to another newspaper, owns five homes scattered about the U.S., their collective value estimated around a cool $30M! Now, with that said, I ask, does anyone besides me see a problem with any of this?)
Yet another byline reads: “Kerry’s Vietnam Dissent Splits Vets,” or so writes one Paul Barton, of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette: “Looking more like a graduate student than a veteran (in reference to Kerry’s 1971 congressional meeting with former Senator J. William Fullbright), Kerry sported long hair and wore no tie. But his shirt displayed multiple combat medals, including three Purple Hearts.”
(Perhaps I’m just being ‘anal’ here, but, as I recall, when a man earned a second [or even a third] Purple Heart, didn’t he instead receive a tiny metal device–say, a copper star, or something like it–to be affixed to his original award? Not to label Kerry a grandstander, or anything like that, but is there an underlying reason why he donned three Purple Heart medals before meeting with Fullbright? Am I wrong to think Kerry’s glaringly-obvious political ploy, ‘overkill’?)
In the same article, Barton writes: “Former Sen. J. William Fullbright of Arkansas couldn’t have known it at the time, but when he invited a 27-year-old Vietnam veteran from Massachusetts to address his committee in 1971, he cast a spotlight on someone destined to become a senator himself….”
(My question here, is: Is there anyone out there who still doesn’t see the irony here? Anyone still think Fullbright didn’t orchestrate the meeting? Anyone still think the Kennedys’ and the Democratic Party didn’t purposely conspire to spotlight and advertise Kerry as one of their newly ‘emerging’ stars? I ask, is there ANYONE out there who truly thinks Kerry’s medals–a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and three Purple Hearts–came simply as a result of Kerry’s personal heroism? I mean, he spent 120 days ‘on the line’ in Vietnam, according to reports. Was the man simply some sort of a superhuman, or could he have been ‘constructed’ by the Democratic machine, with the intention of ‘manufacturing’ yet another Ltjg. John Kennedy hero action-figure-type?)
I’m not going to openly state that I think the Democrats historically inclined to lie, cheat, steal, fabricate, or propagandize–and, no, I’m not gonna’ call ‘em a bunch of lying bastards, either–but, in fact, I do think they’re very highly suspect when it comes to the presentation of unvarnished truth.
But then, I’m just me. And I figure, if we’re gonna’ run the particulars’ of George Bush’s military record through the political wringer, why then shouldn’t we do the same with Mr. Kerry, our country’s favorite Frenchman?
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I’ve seen the Republicans work some real chicanery through the years. But, when it comes to unadulterated propaganda, no one can out-do the Democrats, not even Stalin-era Soviets.
Yet more Commie agitprop from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, and one Seth Blomeley, in a headline reading, “Bush, Kerry get names on state ballot by proxy.”
“By proxy,” writes Blomeley, “President Bush and his challenger, U.S. Sen. John Kerry, filed Monday to be on Arkansas’ ballot. Whether the Vietnam War was good for America was a topic of disagreement between the proxies. Filing for Bush, a Republican, were Nick Bacon of Rose Bud, director of the state Department of Veterans Affairs, and Gay White of Little Rock, widow of former Gov. Frank White.
Bacon won medals for service in Vietnam, as did Kerry,” writes Blomeley. “But Bacon said he doesn’t like that Kerry came home and protested the war. He [Bacon] compared Kerry to actress Jane Fonda, who also protested the war.
‘We haven’t forgotten the old days,’ Bacon said, speaking of himself and other veterans. ‘Prisoners of war were subject to undue harassment, beatings and pressure from the North Vietnamese because of Kerry and people like Jane Fonda.’
Later Monday, Ron Oliver of North Little Rock, chairman of the state Democratic Party, filed for Kerry and dismissed Bacon’s comments. ‘That was an argument made back then,’ Oliver said. ‘A lot of people didn’t put much stock in it back then. I think even fewer people do today. [Kerry] was exercising his right to protest a war he thought was wrong even though he chose to fight in it, which the president did not do….’
‘We were there [in Vietnam] doing our duty,’ Bacon said. ‘Most of us felt like we were there doing what had to be done to stop the Communist aggression. History has proven us right. [Wars in] Vietnam and Korea helped stop the Cold War. You don’t always win as fast as you’d like to win.’
Countered Democrat Ron Oliver: ‘Certainly, Mr. Bacon has a right to his opionion, but I don’t think that opinion is shared much by Arkansans or Americans now. I think most people realize that the Vietnam was a mistaken cause and was a source of a lot of misery for this country and took a lot of lives probably unnecessarily. Senator Kerry pointed that out. He was right….’
–There are a couple of items worth mentioning here, for those who live outside Arkansas:
(1) Democrat Ron Oliver, a non-vet, argues that a lot of people in ‘71 didn’t put much stock in the idea that Jane Fonda caused considerable harm to POW’s. He also adds that he feels Bacon’s opinion is not one ’shared’ by Arkansans and Americans now, though rather oddly, Oliver failed to add that Mr. Bush re-captured Arkansas from Al Gore and the Democrats in the 2000 election (and Al Gore’s home state of Tennessee, as well). Am I wrong in thinking that perhaps Oliver is the one who is wrong on how ‘Americans and Arkansans really feel about Vietnam?’ It also seems a bit odd to note that Oliver, in his patriotic zeal to promote Kerry and degrade Bush’s military service, was not himself a veteran…. Normally, I wouldn’t think this issue all that important, but with the Democrats shouting like hawks these days, the issue of service has been placed on the front burner.
(2) Reporter Blumeley, similarly, argued that Nick Bacon, like Kerry, ‘won medals for his service in Vietnam.’ Well, I say not so fast, Mr. Blumeley…not so fast, my friend.
In a bitter campaign in which John Kerry openly contends that his wartime heroism is ‘higher’ than that of his opponent, and thus his military service vastly more distinguished, it is odd that Blumeley failed to elaborate on the military service record of Mr. Nick Bacon, my neighbor from Red Bud, Arkansas. For it seems that on August 26, 1968, near Tam Ky, Vietnam–years before John Kerry arrived in-country–Staff Sergeant Nick Bacon, of Bravo Company, 4th Battalion, 21st Infantry, llth Infantry Brigade, “Americal” Division, performed to a degree ‘above and beyond the call of duty,’ and was subsequently awarded his nation’s highest accolade for military valor in the field, the Medal of Honor.
Apparently–in the eyes’ of Democrats, anyway–Nick Bacon’s Medal of Honor doesn’t rate the same publicity as do Mr. Kerry’s Silver Star and three Purple Hearts.
Thirty-plus years ago, I believed that there were many within the Democratic Party who, if only privately, sympathized with Communists–though I didn’t state this feeling openly, in part, because many of the Democrats of our past were WWII vets and members of pretty good standing, men like H.H. Humphrey, Truman, et al. But these days I’m not so sure.
Hi. Is the election over yet? Will Kerry just go away now? Puhlease?
Please get some facts before you start spouting off about Kerry. At least he showed up for the war. Where was your man Bush? And these are points that come from the Brilliant Michael Moore sight.
You still have not answered the questions surrounding your National Guard “service.” Let me repeat them as simply as I can for you (all of them based on the investigative work of the Associated Press and the Boston Globe):
1. How were you able to jump ahead of 500 other applicants to get into the Texas Air National Guard, thus guaranteeing you would not have to go to Vietnam? What calls did your father (who was then a United States Congressman representing Texas) make on your behalf for you to get this assignment?
2. Why were you grounded (not allowed to fly) after you either failed your physical or failed to take it in July 1972? Was there a reason you were afraid to take the physical? Or, did you take it and not pass it? If so, why didn’t you pass it? Was it the urine test? The records show that, after the Guard spent years and lots of money training you to be a pilot, you never flew for the rest of your time in the Guard. Why?
3. Can you produce one person who can verify that he served with you in the Guard during the year that your Texas commanders said you did not show up? Why have you failed to bring forth anyone who served with you in the Guard while you were in Alabama? Why hasn’t ONE SINGLE PERSON come forward?
4. Can you tell us what you did when you claim to have shown up in Alabama for Guard duty? What were your duties? You were grounded, so what did they have you do instead?
5. Where are the sign-up sheets that would have your name and service number on them for each weekend you showed up? Aaron Brown on CNN told us how, when he was in the reserves, he had to sign in each time he reported, and his guest from the Washington Post said, that’s right, and there would be “four copies of that record” in the files of various agencies. Will you ask those agencies to release those records?
6. If you were in fact paid for that time when you apparently went AWOL, will you authorize the IRS to release your 1972-73 tax returns?
7. How did you get an honorable discharge? What strings were pulled? Who called who?
Look, I’m sorry to have put you through all this. I was just goofing around when I made that comment about wanting to see a debate between the general and the deserter. I had no idea that it would lead to this. And there you were, having to suffer through Tim Russert on Sunday, saying weird things like “I’m a war president!” I guess you believe that, or you want us to believe that. Americans have never voted out a Commander-in-Chief during a war. I guess that’s what you’re hoping for. You need the war.
But we don’t. And our troops in the National Guard don’t either. I know you see the writing on the wall, so why not come clean now? We are a forgiving people, and though you will not be returned to White House, you will find us grateful for a little bit of truth. Answer our questions, apologize to the nation, and bring our kids home.
Amy
As a Vietnam Veteran, I was smeared by John Kerry’s lies. Our country was smeared too. That you have pulled some questions from Michael Moore’s site is unfortunate. Michael Moore is a discredit to my last name. But the questions are nonsense. Oh, and it’s spelled “site.”
How did Bush get ahead? Simple - he applied to be a pilot. The other applicants were for the safer, 6 month tour, which had a long line. There was no line for pilots. Now, don’t you feel smart?
He stopped taking the physical because he was through flying. Duh. The F-102 was being phased out.
As for your records questions… I was in the Naval Air Reserve. The last squadron I was a member of could not find my records. I was never paid. There is no record I was even there. I doubt if anyone remembers me. And yet I was almost killed in that squadron. So if you imagine that somehow the military keeps perfect records, well, you’re wrong.
I know how the military works because I was in it. Then. I joined the US Navy 2 days after John Kerry did. I was in Cam Rahn Bay two months before Kerry wounded himself there.
Why don’t you ask John Kerry why he won’t authorize the Pentagon to release his records. Not all of his records are on his web site.
Why don’t you ask John Kerry why every single one of his commanders denounced him in a press conference on May 5th?
Why don’t you ask John Kerry how he got his first purple heart, only awarded for injuries in combat, when he got a scratch from a weapon he fired himself in an area where there was no enemy., It was at Cam Ranh Bay, an R&R facility. Ask him about that, would you? And ask him why his own commanders said that he had written himself up for a purple heart and they refused to sign it, and why the other officer on the boat said there was no enemy.
Ask him why Admiral Zumwalt was concerned because Kerry was killing too many civilians - stating that maybe Kerry needed a strait-jacket.
Ask him why his propaganda is being used right now by the Vietnamese. Then ask him why his picture hangs in a place of honor in the Saigon War Remnants Museum - in a room reserved for those who helped the communists win. Ask him why he felt it necessary to meet with the enemy, and then present their propaganda line to the whole country, accusing all Vietnam Vets of commiting atrocities and of being psychological wrecks. We didn’t appreciate that.
I’ll bet Michael Moore didn’t mention any of this, did he?
As for you speaking for the troops of the National Guard, pardon me for ROLMAO. Was Terry McCauliffe speaking for the National Guard when he said that the National Guard was the easy way out? I’ll bet they loved that. I know my brother, a Vietnam Era Guardsman, didn’t. My best friend, who, like Bush, flew a century series fighter in the Guard, was killed doing so. Your outrageous allegations, and McCauliffe’s slander his name. He’s dead. DEAD. He can’t defend himself from this slime.
Did Michael Moore tell you any of this?
Maybe you should ask yourself why.
Better to have not when to Vietnam if you was going to be a traitor to your brother in arm.
Thank you, John Moore for the beautiful description of your time in Vietnam. I flunked the physical for the Army or I would have been able to vouch for the stories or probably would have been dead as I was to be a First Lieutenant on a tank. Thank you for your service and keep up the good work.
To John Moore(useful fools)
Well, 1st of all, you are a USELESS FOOL. Second, I don’t know if you’re related to that fat piece of s–t, that disgustingly obese man that(reportedly)smells so bad, you can’t get closer than 3 feet from him Michael Mooremoneyfromyousuckers, the guy who called his pile of manure a “documentary”, but when people questioned him, and showed him that 90% of it is nothing but lies,he says “Oh, it is just an “opinion piece”. It doesn’t HAVE to be totally accurate.” Funny, Fat Slob didn’t annonce that before all those Liberal America-hating Socialists suckers gave him their 10 dollars, now they have to see in all the papers, “It’s all a lie. It was just Fatso’s idea of a joke. Well, the joke’s on you. Surveys have shown 99% of the people paying were libs anyway, the movie will not get more than a handful to think about switching their vote. But that was early. Now after everyone has had time to find out about the fiction, it has made many people that were undecided angry that the left-wing Hollywood types are trying to trick them, and the movie has actually gained Bush many supporters, and has motivated the already conservative base. See, sometimes being a fat asshole backfires on you! Bwhahahahahawaahawaahaawawaahawaaha!!!!!
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jean
Maybe you should read a little more closely before you spout off about me. I have a disclaimer right on my blog that I am not Michael Moore. I can’t stand the bastard. What got you thinking that I do is a mystery to me. My last name? The guy is a stain on people named Moore.