Kerryed Again
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In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below. *
“You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.” – John Kerry
Thanks for your honesty Senator. Not that you’ve ever uttered a truth about United States Servicemen and Women, but thanks for remaining true to who you are. Thanks for strengthening the Botched Joke-American elitist stereotype of the greatest, best educated, best trained, best led, brightest Military Force (read the report) this planet has ever known. But, mostly for reminding us that we need to get on our knees and give daily thanks that our Servicemen and Women will never have to call you Commander-in-Chief. While we are down there, we’ll also pray for the people of Massachusetts.
You were the Presidential candidate for your party. Their leader and spokesman. Thank you for showing the true face of the Democrat party leadership and reminding us how you collectively view the men and women that volunteer to serve in our country’s Armed Forces. In a time of war and elections, it’s a sobering and important reminder of how your party thinks.
“And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women….” – John Kerry on Face the Nation
I, as probably do a few million other Veterans and serving Soldiers, have a real desire to pound the snot out of you. That is the sort of reaction you expect from us beady-eyed, illiterate, red-necked scum isn’t it? Is that not how you and the rest of the Botched Joke-Americans view Soldiers and Veterans? That we’re a collection of uneducated dolts whose only vocation is breaking things and killing people? Makes me angry enough to want to run to the Whitehouse and throw someone else’s medals over the fence.
Soldiers and Veterans John are the people with whom you pompously profess solidarity yet have made a career out of disparaging. Maybe it’s time for you to make your pilgrimage back to the enchanted kingdom of Massachusetts where you’re the great warrior and Prince Ted of Chappaquiddick reigns.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
This may shock you, but I don’t give a rats hind legs about the combat service of which you’re so proud. The service you used in attempts to redefine yourself from Jane Fonda cohort to warrior when the political winds told you that our nation desired warriors much more than it did Fonda-ites. Reporting for duty. I loved it. Although, now that the liberal polls say the war is not too popular you revert to your true self. It doesn’t matter a flip-flop to me whether you are the great pretender or the toughest warrior that ever strapped on a swift boat. I’ll leave settling of that question between your conscience and the 58,000 souls accounted for on The Wall. You can work out the rest of it with those disagreeable but highly decorated Combat Veterans that served with you, albeit briefly, and who you so eloquently described for Congress.
“They told stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan…. “– John Kerry Congressional Testimony
I’ve always been more concerned with your Veteran status than with the validity of your service. Of course, being an old Soldier I’m kind of stupid and slow, but you knew that. I got my G.E.D. in night skool. Still, I wager Johnnie, that you have yourself one of those upgraded Jimmie Carter Discharges. I could be wrong and just as soon as you release all of your records to public scrutiny, I’ll happily apologize if it turns out that I am. I don’t expect that it’ll come to any apology. Some day John, when you’re wherever it is you’re headed in the next life, a historian will get those documents you so fear releasing and share with the humankind how close a charlatan came to being the leader of the world’s most powerful nation. That’s your legacy John. You might consider commissioning Sandy Berger to go review your Navy personnel file for you.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
It’s not about you getting “Swift Boated” again John. It’s not about how many deferments someone else got. It’s not about a draft dodging ex-President. It’s not about who served in the National Guard and who didn’t. It’s not about politicians right or left that didn’t serve. It’s never been about you or any of that. Not understanding that is your problem. It’s always been your problem. A problem that so easily transfers to and identifies the political party you lead.
It’s about the Soldiers and Veterans John. It’s about never allowing ourselves to be Kerryed, or Durbined, or Kennedyed or Murthaed or anything else again without speaking out until the world comes to know you for who you are and your political party for what it is.
“We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans’ Day waving small flags, calling to memory those thousands who died for the “greater glory of the United States.” We will not accept the rhetoric. We will not readily join the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars-in fact, we will find it hard to join anything at all…” From The New Soldier, By John Kerry, 1971
Love that book cover Johnnie. Happy Veterans Day to you.
*In Flanders Fields, Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD, (1872-1918)
Copyright (C) 2006 J. D. Pendry
November 5th, 2006 at 8:25 am
Well Stated, Sgt Major. If I may, I’d like to add some comments also made during his infamous 1971 “testimony” before eh Fulbright Commission that doesn’t receive as much attention.
“The country doesn’t know it yet, but it has created a monster, a monster in the form of millions of men who have been taught to deal and to trade in violence…”
“..there will be some recrimination but far, far less than the 200,000 a year who are murdered by the United States of America…”
To him, we that served in Viet Nam were “murderers” and “monsters.” These words are not a “botched joke,” but his recorded “testimony.”
Kerry has a long history of anti-military statements, although he portrays himself as a “war hero,” something not one person I served with ever claims.
November 29th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
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