No Joy In Mudville
Mudville Gazette may be the milblog with the best coverage of Kerry's Swift Boat flap.
I liked this bit:
This remark gets relocated to the main post from the comments:I remember Kerry surrounding himself with 'veterans' testifying to war crimes, many of those 'veterans' never spent a day wearing Uncle's suit. Others never served a tour in the Southeast Asian War Games, he reported their ravings as fact.
As each of my children went through school I'd have to deal with Mr. Kerry's slander again. That's bad enough, what about the children of the young men who came home in those shiny aluminum caskets? Who told them that Daddy wasn't a rapist? Who told them that Kerry deliberately lied while under oath? One of my sergeants was killed trying to get a batch of children out of the line of fire in some little ville I never knew the name of. According to Kerry that man was a murderer. His children would have been in their early teens in 1971. I wonder how they took that 'testimony'?
I don't need the Swiftee's ad to know that John Kerry is scum. I've lived for thirty-five years with the memory of a lot of fine young men who served with honor and dignity and never grew old. John Kerry may just as well gone to each of those 58,000 graves, called a press conference at each one and when the cameras got rolling, pissed on them.
I saw my first combat death in May of '65. There isn't a month that goes by when one of those still-young men doesn't visit me in my sleep. None of them would forgive me if I were to support that lying sack of shit. I owe them this.
Yea - America has one last chance to piss on it's Vietnam vets this fall.
Well, one of the two Americas does.
Posted by Mitch at
August 21, 2004 07:18 AM
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Wow.
As long as it's ok to praise Kerry if you were never in Vietnam, but only those who were there have the right to criticize him, the mainstream press can safely ignore guys like this. And they will.
Posted by: Brian Jones at August 21, 2004 09:30 AMIt doesn't matter by now what the press says or doesn't say. There are thousands of Vietnam vets who remember very well what Kerry said, and a lot of them have family who know damn well that Daddy or hubby or Uncle Joe is no war criminal. I had two uncles who did tours in Vietnam, and I served sixteen years in the Army, Guard and Reserve myself. I could never vote for Kerry. Never.
Posted by: Kevin at August 21, 2004 10:19 AMIn the year 2004, would it not be prudent to reject a presidential candidate whose campaign is based entirely on the politics of 1974?? Is this not itself a delusion?
Alas, we owe a great debt to John Kerry for providing, finally, an opportunity for all veterans, and for those who love them, to set the record straight about what did and did not happen in Vietnam, and to expose --clearly and directly-- the mendacity and duplicity behind those whose delusional portrayals of the American soldier denigrated and exploited his honor and valor to promote their own personal and political agenda. That they did this routinely and without attribution, until they infected the culture and society with lies and damn lies, not only corrupted our youth and distorted our national heritage, but also substantially eroded our ability to defend and protect our democracy.
That they now presume for themselves that honor and valor as the measure of their character and evidence of their qualification to lead is beyond the utmost contempt. It deserves every bit of the scorn and retribution it receives, and hopefully, the American voter will bitch-slap that scum back into the fever swamps where it belongs, once and for all.
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
Posted by: Eracus at August 21, 2004 02:01 PM