Useful Fools

Rather than clog up Roger Simon’s excellent blog comments, I am putting here a quick statement on Kerry.

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The politics will hopefully get a little more balanced if the American people find out (past the biased media) how most Vietnam Veterans and other vets and active military feel about Kerry for siding with our enemy, and slandering his “brothers in arms” and his country in 1971. Unlike the charges against Bush, we have solid proof - transcripts, videotapes and audio of Kerry discussing his visit to the North Vietnamese representatives in Paris, of him subsequently urging the US to immediately accept their terms, and his statement (on behalf of our enemy) that our troops would be given safe passage out of the country (in other words, he gladly carried the enemy’s surrender terms). Wait until the American people hear his sneering tones when he describes his country’s policies as equivalent to those of Genghis Khan (his words), of his claiming that atrocities were commonplace and part of US policy, of his assertion that we used weapons against the “oriental humans” of Vietnam that we would never use against Europeans, of his mischaracterizing of Vietnam Veterans as mentally ill victims, of his statement that we can’t fight communism all over the world, and many, many more lies.

Our nation needs a leader who has character. Kerry is not the one. His combat decorations are trumped by his opportunistic and treacherous post war behavior. Benedict Arnold was a much more significant warrior than Kerry, after all.

Kerry’s record on national defense issues is consistently poor. The Viet Cong weren’t the only enemies he sided with. The Sandinistas were another, and there have been more. Have you ever heard him criticize Fidel Castro?

At the time he said foreign leaders supported him, Kim Jong Il was running the text of his speeches in North Korea, so we know who they would vote for.

These are all facts and they bear on the nature of the man who might become president. But if this information gets out, the Democrats will accuse Republicans of “going negative” and the “politics of personal destruction” and all sorts of other things. The hypocrisy stinks!