Kerry using Vietnam grief for self promotion

[winston churchi]

Enough said.

 

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From my former Boss' husband...this next paragraph.

I know exactly how Don Bendel feels. This Hanoi John Kerry SOB spent all of 3 months in-country. I spent over 2 years in the Central Highlands of Vietnam as a green Beret officer, and all of it was in the jungle. I also spent time in Laos and Cambodia that is highly classified, fighting the same enemy. The guys with me all that time, didn't get to go back to the ship
at night for a shower and a hot meal, like John Kerry. I have medals too, all of them earned -- Bronze Star, VN Cross of Gallentry w/Silver Star, Air Medal, and others. Let me tell all who want to listen, the bravest men -- those who deserve it more than me, Don, John Kerry, or anyone else -- are the ones who didn't get to come back. John Kerry is a piece of crap who gave
aid and comfort to the enemy while we were at war -- just like Hanoi Jane (Fonda). But his crime is much bigger than hers, for he was a soldier, an officer, who knew he was lying when he said it. He made up lies about our guys, threw someone e;se's medals over the White House fence, and wore the uniform of our country's enemy while sitting in front of a Viet Cong flag, all on news media cameras. I believe the name we have for people like
that, is -- Traitor. Ray M.

which was a reply to this story:

The old hurts are surfacing and the feelings of betrayal by fellow citizens, and their leader stirring them up, are breaking my heart again. I am being cut in the same scar. How did we who served in Vietnam suddenly become cold-blooded killers, torturers, and rapists, of the ilk of the Nazi SS or the Taliban? Most of us were American soldiers who grew up idolizing John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and all the other heroes. That was why I volunteered. But for political expediency, John Kerry has rewritten history, again. After spending only four months in the country of Vietnam, John Kerry testified before Congress in 1971 with these exact words about incidents he supposedly witnessed or heard about from other vets: They 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, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam.

I was a green beret officer who volunteered for duty in Vietnam and fought in the thick of it in 1968 and 1969 on a Special Forces A-team on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, just for starters. We were the elite. We saw the most action. Everybody in the world knows that. But we did not just kill people, we built a church, a school, treated illnesses, passed out soap, food, and clothing, and had fun and loving interaction with the indigenous people of Vietnam, just like our boys did in Normandy, Baghdad, Saigon, and everywhere American soldiers ever served. We all gave away our candy bars and rations to kids. Our hearts to oppressed people all over the globe.

My children and grandchildren could read your words, and think those horrendous things about me, Mr. Kerry. You are a bold-faced, unprincipled liar, and a disgrace, and you have dishonored me and all my fellow Vietnam veterans. Sure, there were a couple bad-apples, but I saw none, and I saw it all, and if I did, as an army officer, it was my obligation to stop it, or at the very least report it. Why is there not a single record anywhere of you ever reporting any incidents like this or having the perpetrators arrested? The answer is simple. You are a liar. Your medals and mine are not a free pass for lifetime, Senator Kerry, to bypass character, integrity, and morality. I earn my green beret over and over daily in all aspects of my life.

Eight National Guard green berets, and other National Guard soldiers, have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and you totally dishonored their widows and families by lumping National Guard service in with being a draft-dodger, conscientious objector, and deserter, just so you can try to sabotage the patriotism of our President who proudly served as an Air National Guard jet pilot. I have a son earning his green beret at Fort Bragg right now, and his wife serves honorably in the Air National Guard, just like President Bush did, and I am as proud of her as I am my son. I volunteered for Vietnam and have no problem whatsoever with President Bush being our Commander-In-Chief. In fact, I am proud of him
as our leader.

John Kerry, you personally derailed the Vietnam Human Rights Bill, HR2883, in 2001, after it had passed the House by a 411 to 1 vote, and thousands of pro-American Montagnard tribespeople in Vietnam died since then who could have been saved, by you. Earlier, as Chair of the Senate Select Committee on MIA/POW Affairs, you personally quashed the efforts of any and all veterans to report sightings of living POWâ?Ts, when you held those reins in Congress. You have fought tooth and nail to push for the US to normalize relations with Vietnam for years. Why, Mr. Kerry?

Simple, your first cousin C. Stewart Forbes, CEO, of Colliers International, recently signed a contract with Hanoi, worth BILLIONS of dollars for Collier's International to become the exclusive real estate representative for the country of Vietnam.

"Hanoi John", now that it works for you, you beat your chest about your Vietnam service, but to me, you are a phony, opportunistic, hypocrite. You are one of those politicians that is like a fertilizer machine: all that comes out of you is horse manure, and you are spreading it everywhere.

Medals do not make a man. Morals do.

Don Bendell

Canon City, Colorado

> >Don Bendell served as an officer in four Special Forces Groups, is a best-selling author with over 1,500,000 books in print, a 1995 inductee into the International Karate Hall of Fame, and owns karate schools in southern Colorado.

 

[winston churchi]

And to think people are actually voting for this 'man'.

Here the Kerry camp can disgrace themselves by stating Bush should take his 9/11 promo. off the air....

So Kerry could continue his promo of Vietnam. A war he proudly associates himself while running for President of the great country.

This is okay and acceptable for Kerry and his camp.

I am wondering how long it will take Americans to realize this man is taking the 'piss' out them.

 

[kcmcdonald]

I'm a member of the national guard. I swear to God this man better not become commander and chief of me. I'll be so pissed off. hopefully reports like this get out and the public can see what fucking coward John Kerry is.

THat man has lost all rights to declare himself a Vietnam Vet. If anything he is a fucking pussy who couldn't handle the infantry and couldn't even hake it on a boat for a whole tour. Hannoi Kerry should be labled the Traitor that he is.

Bush in '04

 

[winston churchi]

...but the media loves him....no matter what. Traitor, liar, inconsistant...none of that matters for this position he is applying.
All that matters is that he wins...what difference does it make what he does once he gets there....he is not GW and that is it...no other logic behind it...

 

[Freedom Lover]

Your posting illustrates what I have been saying for many years now. John Kerry, the socialist democrats and their lapdogs, the socialist press, are willing to say anything, do anything and take any position that will help them gain and retain power. This philosophy makes them dangerous to our country and enemies of individual liberty, economic freedom and responsible citizenship. Those, like Kerry, the democrat party and the socialist press seek power for power's sake. That is not what this country is all about. It is, however, about freedom!

Note: See my posting "From My Perspective" last month and "From My Perspective II" posted a couple of days ago. You might find them interesting.