Who is John Kerry?
As you are well aware, we have arrived at that painful intersection on the calendar, the election cycle.
As the Chinese curse says, "May you live in interesting times" In case you haven't noticed, we are! It is very exciting and nerve wracking to wake up everyday to see what further developments await us.
The idealist in me is excited by the hand that history has dealt us. While really horrible things have happened and could still happen (and probably will happen), we, as a people, have been given an extraordinary opportunity to bring freedom to oppressed people of the world. This is unprecedented in history. We can be remembered as the Americans who are not conquering people, but liberators.
Or we can be remembered as Fickle. Soft. Unnerved. Weak. Decadent.
In case you are not aware, the Democratic candidate, John Kerry, served in Vietnam. While it is generally conceded that he did so honorably, he returned to the U.S. and became a war protester. He became the president of an organization known as Vietnam Veterans Against the War (V VAW). While I believe that the 1st Amendment protecting free speech is expansive and absolute, I find the activities of this group in a time of war to be fairly radical. I am willing to concede that this was a very turbulent time in our history, and most people have put the protests and activities in context and generally forget what occurred. This would not have one grain of significance today except for the fact that Kerry wants to be the Commander in Chief..
I found this website and feel it is important and that it needs to be brought to the attention of as many people as possible.
Winter Soilder
This website shows what Kerry did as a protestor and member of V VAW. It is very enlightening.
For instance, Kerry wrote a book called "The New Soldier". This book is out of print and is difficult to find. It is a book that Kerry does not want you to know about. The book is on the website. You can read it and look at the pictures. (I don't know if it is the entire book or not.) http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/index.php?topic=NewSoldier
The website also has:
timelines
quotes
Kerry testimony before congress complete FBI Files on V VAW
While this is all fairly good stuff, it is somewhat pedestrian. What has me going is this picture.
It is a picture of Kerry meeting with the Communist leaders of North Vietnam in 1993. Again, fairly pedestrian stuff. What has me going is WHERE it is hanging:
That's right, the North Vietnam Communists have "honored" Kerry as a contributor to the victory the communist achieved. In all fairness, the North Vietnam Communists believe the war protestors gave them the upper hand and made victory possible. But then again, there are no other war protestors running for Commander in Chief this year…….
I can't encourage you enough to go look at the picture and the background on the museum in which it was found.
It is so important to be educated and up on not only current events, but background. We know who Bush is now. He brought us through some very dark times. He's not perfect, but name me a candidate that is! Who is Kerry? 20 or so years in the Senate and nothing to show for it? A Rich guy for the "little guy"? A North Vietnamese war hero? Is this the Manchurian Candidate? Do we want him to "lead" the war on terror? Will we be safe waiting for permission slips from the U.N. (specifically France, Germany and Russia) before we go after our enemies? Hey, at least he has great hair!
Our votes this coming November will be critical to our future. To paraphrase Prime Miniser Margaret Thatcher from the first Gulf War to the first George Bush, Don't go wobbly on our troops, and our future. We are facing an extremely evil enemy. We will be fighting it for many years. If we (as a people) go wobbly we will prove Osama Bin Laden's tactics right; Americans have no resolve to follow through. Hit America, then ride out the wrath. They'll go home. Think Black Hawk Down. Bin Laden trained those troops in Somalia. Turning around now and changing tactics will only prolong the war (if we survive it).
As the Chinese curse says, "May you live in interesting times" In case you haven't noticed, we are! It is very exciting and nerve wracking to wake up everyday to see what further developments await us.
The idealist in me is excited by the hand that history has dealt us. While really horrible things have happened and could still happen (and probably will happen), we, as a people, have been given an extraordinary opportunity to bring freedom to oppressed people of the world. This is unprecedented in history. We can be remembered as the Americans who are not conquering people, but liberators.
Or we can be remembered as Fickle. Soft. Unnerved. Weak. Decadent.
In case you are not aware, the Democratic candidate, John Kerry, served in Vietnam. While it is generally conceded that he did so honorably, he returned to the U.S. and became a war protester. He became the president of an organization known as Vietnam Veterans Against the War (V VAW). While I believe that the 1st Amendment protecting free speech is expansive and absolute, I find the activities of this group in a time of war to be fairly radical. I am willing to concede that this was a very turbulent time in our history, and most people have put the protests and activities in context and generally forget what occurred. This would not have one grain of significance today except for the fact that Kerry wants to be the Commander in Chief..
I found this website and feel it is important and that it needs to be brought to the attention of as many people as possible.
Winter Soilder
This website shows what Kerry did as a protestor and member of V VAW. It is very enlightening.
For instance, Kerry wrote a book called "The New Soldier". This book is out of print and is difficult to find. It is a book that Kerry does not want you to know about. The book is on the website. You can read it and look at the pictures. (I don't know if it is the entire book or not.) http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/index.php?topic=NewSoldier
The website also has:
timelines
quotes
Kerry testimony before congress complete FBI Files on V VAW
While this is all fairly good stuff, it is somewhat pedestrian. What has me going is this picture.
It is a picture of Kerry meeting with the Communist leaders of North Vietnam in 1993. Again, fairly pedestrian stuff. What has me going is WHERE it is hanging:
The War Remnants Museum
(formerly the "War Crimes Museum")
in Saigon Picture taken May 2004
That's right, the North Vietnam Communists have "honored" Kerry as a contributor to the victory the communist achieved. In all fairness, the North Vietnam Communists believe the war protestors gave them the upper hand and made victory possible. But then again, there are no other war protestors running for Commander in Chief this year…….
I can't encourage you enough to go look at the picture and the background on the museum in which it was found.
It is so important to be educated and up on not only current events, but background. We know who Bush is now. He brought us through some very dark times. He's not perfect, but name me a candidate that is! Who is Kerry? 20 or so years in the Senate and nothing to show for it? A Rich guy for the "little guy"? A North Vietnamese war hero? Is this the Manchurian Candidate? Do we want him to "lead" the war on terror? Will we be safe waiting for permission slips from the U.N. (specifically France, Germany and Russia) before we go after our enemies? Hey, at least he has great hair!
Our votes this coming November will be critical to our future. To paraphrase Prime Miniser Margaret Thatcher from the first Gulf War to the first George Bush, Don't go wobbly on our troops, and our future. We are facing an extremely evil enemy. We will be fighting it for many years. If we (as a people) go wobbly we will prove Osama Bin Laden's tactics right; Americans have no resolve to follow through. Hit America, then ride out the wrath. They'll go home. Think Black Hawk Down. Bin Laden trained those troops in Somalia. Turning around now and changing tactics will only prolong the war (if we survive it).
posted by Ree-C Murphey @ Tuesday, July 20, 2004
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home