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[badbobusnret]

Recieved in email from fellow vet. Interesting:

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"From: Don Bendell
To: HIDDEN ID'S
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 10:34 AM
Subject: COMMENTARY: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


I HAVE HAD IT!

Opinion by Don Bendell


Tonight I saw an ad on television funded and produced by the 527, Moveon.org, and my mind is still reeling. The ad, slamming President Bush naturally, shows an American soldier in the desert holding his weapon high overhead with both hands, and he is sinking in a quagmire, supposedly. At a time of war, you collective geniuses, that is the exact position of surrender, and yet you non-thinking, self-centered Bush-bashers have portrayed an American soldier on worldwide television indicating surrender! Do you folks even have a clue what the enemy’s propaganda machine will now do with your negative images? Do you even have a clue what this will do to the morale of our troops in harm’s way, and do you understand or even care that lowered morale can get men and women killed in a combat zone?

I want to know if there is a pro bono attorney who can tell me if the Moveon.org PAC principals can be charged with “aiding and abetting the enemy” or any similar charges? Write me please: mailto:don@donbendell.com.

What is going on now is ludicrous! The Kerry campaign admits that Kerry’s 1st Purple Heart was fake and there was no combat involved. They admitted he did not go into Cambodia on Christmas Day, 1969. He even lied about this on the floor of the US Senate, but what happens? Dan Rather hosts a so-called news show with forged documents trashing the President, does not admit the lies when the sham is exposed, and Kerry’s poll numbers go up. The Oval Office is one of the most hallowed pieces of ground in the world, where globe-altering decisions were made by FDR, JFK, Ike, Reagan, Truman, Honest Abe, and other great world leaders. Then, breaking with Presidential tradition, good old Bill Clinton used that historied and revered place to get head jobs from a 21-year old intern. And afterwards he used the same venerable room to videotape a lie about it, trying to cover it up.

Tell me, fellow Americans, is that when we started looking the other way and sold out our collective souls for political party loyalty, instead of loyalty to our country? Or was it when Clinton, an avowed draft-dodger, gave Kerry advice on how to win this election, like making G. W. Bush’s National Guard service, as a jet pilot; no less, seem worse than draft-dodging.

Why do I still get e-mails from democrats asking what Bush is hiding, when he signed a form to release his military records and Kerry still refuses to? Why does NBC interview a discredited, already-flawed Kitty Kelly and help sell her trash-filled book of gossip and lies, yet refuses to interview any of the 250 honorable, highly-decorated, respected democratic, independent, and republican members of Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth, www.swiftvets.com when they have a lot to say to voters in this country?

When the Democratic Party has produced such fine statesmen as Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and many more, how in the world can you embrace the Skid Row version of the Pillsbury Dough Boy, Michael Moore, and call his propaganda piece a “documentary” when it has been proven to contain 56 outright lies? http://davekopel.com/Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-in-Fahrenheit-911.htm How in good conscience can you do that?

Does anybody remember planeloads of innocent screaming American men, women, and children in jets loaded with jet fuel slamming into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, the heart of our military, and a lonely field in Pennsylvania, killing more than even Pearl Harbor? Does anybody remember that we have fine, lonely, but brave young men and women fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan? Are you even aware that, besides hundreds of little children being murdered in Russia, a number of the young girls in that school were gang-raped by the terrorists, or that kindergarten children, who should be drawing pictures of bunnies and flowers, were repeatedly stabbed in the back while they screamed until they died?

We are at war against some of the worst lunatics this world has ever known, and many of you only care about defeating Bush, because you believe the diatribe from the most extensive negative propaganda outpouring in US Presidential elections. I do not care if my grandchildren get stuck with some deficit debt. It will do them good to struggle like so many previous Americans have had to, but more importantly, if we do not take care of this problem now, our grandchildren will not have an America to struggle in.

I am sick of all the “want-to-be Woodward and Bernstein newscasters,” who no longer take pride in actually reporting the news. They instead want to create the news and then get to be portrayed in a movie by the latest Hollywood hunk. I am sick of the corporate monsters who hire them and affix their beady little eyes on the daily share and ratings, instead of simply taking pride in trying to report solid, timely news that is straight down the road without any political agenda attached.

And you, John Kerry: A real hero would never allow their President, during a time of war, to be attacked by their political supporters with lies and distortions, even if it cost them the election. You have fed the lies instead. With real heroes, their country and their fellow soldiers come first. And by the way, real heroes don’t take tripods and movie cameras into combat zones, and endanger their men, making home movies of themselves trying to act like they are real heroes.

John Forbes Kerry, I have known real heroes. There are real heroes who are friends of mine, and you, sir, are no hero.

You are all about “Me,” and not about “We.” In the middle of “Bush,” you will find the word “us,” but in the middle of “Kerry,” you will find the word “err.”

Wind-surfing is a perfect metaphor for your leadership abilities: You enjoy having the wind blow you first one direction, then the next, you drag your feet and stop, and most of the time, you are all wet.

Folks, we can fight the terrorists in any country “over there” or fight them here on our soil, but fight them and defeat them we must! And our first and most important contribution to that end is to solidly support our troops, from the commander-in-chief on down, and stop demoralizing them with this political cacophony. This is not daddy’s Vietnam: This is our survival!



Even if you disagree, you are an American; Please get out and vote!




Don Bendell served as an officer in four Special Forces Groups, including a tour on a green beret A-team (Dak Pek) in Vietnam in 1968-1969, and was in the Top Secret Phoenix Program, is a top-selling author of 21 books, with over 1,500,000 copies of his books in print worldwide, a 1995 inductee into the International Karate Hall of Fame, and owns karate schools in southern Colorado. His editorials on Bush/Kerry have been published all over, and he has been interviewed on FOX NEWS LIVE and many radio shows.



Permission is hereby granted to reprint, copy, or pass this on wherever and to whomever you choose. This is the 12th in a series of 12 editorials about John F. Kerry, and is posted on my website with the other 11.

Blessings,

Don Bendell



mailto:don@donbendell.com website: www.donbendell.com."

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[JimJ]

Well stated.

Just remember that Senator Kerry is Hanoi's War Hero.

As someome else pinted out, John Kerry defended is his country (sort of) before be fought against it.

That is what everyone sould know before they vote.
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Jim Jones

[neverforget]

I like this guy. I also receive his e-mails. Thanks for posting this.
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US Army Security Agency
1965-1971

[no_1_momlandj]

I think he pretty much said it all, didn't he?

[noc]

Thank you so much Don, I am humbled by you words.

...and away I go to send this to my local newpapers

[CeeBeeBratPH]

Reading this letter first upset me (as does most everything sKerry related) but then by the end I was reenergized to get the word out about Kerry...This man has no business leading this great nation during a time of war. He must not succeed in his efforts to further 'wimpify' the USA!

My second SBVF donation is in the mail today. CARRY ON!

[Tom Poole]

If I may be a "dittohead" and "cheerleader" briefly, kudos to Don Bendell. I served between hostilities and never saw combat. However, I too, have friends who are real heroes and you don't have to be one to recognize one. Kerry clearly does NOT fit the profile.
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'58 Airedale HMR(L)-261 VMO-2

[knightowl77]

Don wrote a great letter! I think we all should be writing letters like this to our local newspapers everyday until John Flip-Flop Kerry goes down in flames.
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I hope you don't mind an Army vet on your website. Former NCO in 82nd Airborne Div.
C 2nd/325th Inf

[smalltowngirl]

What do you think about the news that the Navy is dropping the investigation about the Silver Star? Any insight?
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"we stand at a crease in history". Gen.Tommy Franks,American Soldier

[Dimsdale]

Everytime Kerry had a choice between a Republican adminstration and a communist regime, he chose to negotiate with the latter. I imagine the choice was negligible between the socialist Democrats and those same regimes.

The Navy dropping their investigation of an nonexistant award, particularly for valor, is worthy of an investigation itself.
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Everytime he had a choice, Kerry chose to side with communists rather than the United States.

[grammaj]

What a terrific post! I checked back to Don Bendell's site and he has surely been working at his computer (typewriter).

I read his 11th editorial at his site and his words were so encouraging to President Bush while, at the same time, recognizing all of the disparaging remarks that are being made against him.