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We all need to write to our local papers and continue to push against Kerry. I write al least once a month to the editor and directly to reporters and columnists with the AP, Knight Ridder and national. Here is the latest letter that I have sent:

Kerry Does Not Flip-Flop on one important issue.

Senator Kerry’s positions on Iraq and Foreign Policy have been all over the map. So much so that it would be a difficult task for AAA to get you from his current position to his original position. However there is one area where Mr. Kerry has always been consistent: The reluctance to use American force when appropriate and necessary.

In the ‘70s, Kerry said we were wrong in Vietnam; it was a quagmire and we couldn’t win; the Vietnamese people did not care about democracy and our military were barbarians committing war crimes. The streets of America granted him his wish and as a result millions of people in Southeast Asia perished and millions are still yet yearning to be free.

In the ‘80s when Ronald Reagan was facing down the “Evil Empire” on the issue of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, Kerry was an ardent supporter of a “nuclear freeze”. It didn’t matter to Kerry that the Soviet Union was directly funding the American Communist Party and the nuclear freeze movement in this country. Reagan’s policy was too dangerous. Kerry’s position was peace at any price, not peace through deterrent force.

In the mid 80s with Nicaragua becoming a Soviet satellite in our own backyard, Kerry went to Managua, as a Senator, to come to a peaceful accommodation with the Sandinistas. He was willing to negotiate a Soviet client state in Central America.

In 1991, in Desert Storm, he advocated letting the UN Sanctions work and letting the Arab League take care of the problem. Never mind that Saddam had the mightiest military of any of the Arab nations. We should let someone else shoulder the burden.

Throughout his entire Senate career, Kerry has advocated eliminating weapons programs, military strength and funding for Intelligence services in favor of spending for social programs. In his world view a strong military is a bully, not a deterrent against attack; in his world view we must not possess the most technology advanced and most devastating weapons unless they are available to the rest of the world, including rogue states that sponsor terrorism. Never mind that we still exist only because we possess those weapons.

Now that we are back in Iraq, Kerry is singing the same tune; it’s a quagmire; it’s a mistake; we’re fighting the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Vote for me and I’ll bring your sons home.

If Kerry had his way millions of people in the former Soviet Union would still be under the same totalitarian rule that Southeast Asia now endurs, we would be looking over our shoulder at Nicaragua and perhaps other Central American countries and the people (particularly the women) in Afghanistan and Iraq would not have the option of voting for their leaders.

Kerry does not understand that the world changed on 9/11/01. The Neville Chamberlain school of International Relations is passé. Negotiating and reaching any accord with an enemy that kills innocent civilians, including children, in barbarous ways is not an option and even if it was, wouldn’t guarantee safety.

Subordinating our Nation’s right to self defense, whether reactive or preemptive, to the Global Community or the United Nations is not a rational means of defense. It is no longer important whether the rest of the world “likes” the United States. What is important is that the rest of the world, including the barbarians that kill the children of the world, know that when we speak of “serious consequences”, those consequences are as serious as they can imagine.

In the post 911 world our leader must “Walk Tall”. John Kerry is so stooped from “Walking Small” that he could never assume that posture.
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USMC Recon
Quang Tri
'68 & '69

[Spiess]

She summed it up lastnight for me, in a way I was not able to put to words.
Kerry stated he wanted to Unilaterally talk to N. Korea.
Kerry stated that he wanted to go into Suddan Unilateraly"not mentioning the UN is already there".
Kerry stated that He wanted a World Test when it came to Defending ourselves.

What the liberals are hidding is that fact that the Democratic party is Still the party of appeasment.