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> Subject: .............................. Sobering Message.
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> Don Bendell is a former Green Beret captain, who served in Vietnam on an
> A-Team and in the Top Secret Phoenix program in 1968 and 1969, as well as
> in three other Special Forces Groups. He is a best-selling author of 21
> books, with over 1,500,000 copies of his books in print worldwide, and a
> seventh degree black master in four martial arts, who was inducted into
> the International Karate Hall of Fame in 1995 and Martial Arts Museum of
> America in 1996. And these are his words.
> e-mail: don@donbendell.com <mailto:don@donbendell.com>
>
> Thank you, John Kerry, for helping make us Vietnam veterans war heroes
> now, but you also were the primary reason that the American public grabbed
> sturdy unbending brooms of judgment and swept us into the closet of
> silence and shame for so many years. Now, with your latest unreported
> insanity, you are getting ready for our society to grab those same stiff
> brooms and sweep our brave, noble young men and women fighting against the
> War on Terror in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, into that cold, dark
> cell of heartbreak and betrayal, like we Vietnam veterans had to endure in
> silent dignity. I cannot and will not watch this country go through that
> again.
> The hardcore America-hating, Israel-hating, jihad-spouting Muslim clerics
> in the mideast are very excited and passing around a front page newspaper
> story from the very anti-American TEHRAN TIMES in Iran. In the country
> that is home of the world's toughest theocratic dictatorship, an e-mail
> from Presidential nominee, you, John Forbes Kerry, sent to the paper by
> your campaign committee, although they deny sending it, was printed
> word-for-word on the front page of Iran's main newspaper.
> Your message states emphatically that, if elected President, you, John
> Kerry plan to travel to the mideast and elsewhere and apologize for our
> actions and the actions of President Bush in the War on Terror. You are
> already apologizing. It says that you plan to apologize to friends and
> foes alike.
> That is right, folks. John Kerry will say he is "sorry," and in his mind,
> all those jihad extremists, who have vowed to kill all Americans wherever
> we are, will simply forgive us, hold hands with Kerry, start singing
> "Kumbaya," and all will be right in the world. This is insane! You have
> also made statements you will do these actions within 100 days of becoming
> President.
> Senior writer Kenneth R. Timmerman in the March 1st edition of INSIGHT,
> tells about the massive campaign contributions to the Kerry-for-President
> campaign by three Iranian businessmen living in the US, who are lobbying
> for the US lifting of sanctions on Iran and accepting the anti-Christian,
> anti-Jewish, anti-American Tehran regime and the close ties of one to the
> chairman of Mobil Oil. "Pro-democracy dissidents" in Iran are shocked and
> appalled at your remarks, and have reported that in Iran and other
> Mideastern countries, that all the extremists and anti-west mullahs who
> strongly supported the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, USS
> Cole, Marine Barracks, and anyplace Americans congregate, want you to
> become our President, but they are scared to death of George W. Bush. Just
> think, The Democratic candidate for President, you, John Forbes Kerry, is
> endorsed by the Al Q'Aida, Hezbollah, PLF, and Hamas.
> But on February 27, 2004, in a speech at UCLA , you, while trying to talk
> tough, despite voting against all major weapons systems for the past 18
> years, stated that you will continue the War on Terror, but would use our
> police forces, and especially those in foreign countries, and you would
> also put our troops back under the powder blue flag of the United Nations.
> You recently made comments about Bush making troops fight without Kevlar
> vests, but you, Senator Kerry, voted against buying them while you were in
> the Senate. Senate Bill 1689. Passed 87-12. You were one of the 12.
> Remember?
> Like the Kama Sutra, Senator, you change positions constantly. You're not
> going to end the War on Terror, but instead use police to handcuff
> terrorists and read them their rights; then a week later, you are going to
> end the War on Terrorism and apologize to everyone we have offended, such
> as Iran. What is it going be next week, John Kerry? You flip-flop more
> than a beached tuna on steroids.
> You convinced TV reporters Chris Wallace on Fox and NBC's Tim Russert that
> a photograph circulating the web and news showing you a few rows away from
> Jane Fonda at a September 1970 Anti-War Rally at Valley Forge, was simply
> a coincidence and that you and Hanoi Jane barely knew each other. But, in
> fact, Senator, there were only 8 speakers that day, including Fonda,
> Donald Southerland, and Bella Abzug, and Hanoi Jane funded that rally, and
> the keynote speaker was you, John Forbes Kerry, executive committee member
> of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
> We must be Americans first, and think about our political parties after
> that. Sometimes we lose sight of that. I have six grown children and two
> are democrats. I voted for Jimmy Carter. This is not about politics. It is
> about standing up to the ultimate playground bully, and not simply
> cowering and kissing his shoes.
> I left it "all on the field" in the jungles back there when I was
> medevaced out of Vietnam in March of 1969 and sent back to hospitals in
> "The World."
> Although You, Mr. Kerry, painted all of us Vietnam veterans with the
> yellow brush of My Lai and Tiger Force, most of us, draftees and lifers
> alike, actually poured our hearts out in the tropical rain forests and in
> the rice paddies, thoroughly gave it our all, and acted as warriors who
> had honor.
> I have a son earning his green beret at Fort Bragg right now and a
> daughter-in-law who was on orders for Iraq but is making me a grandpa
> again. I am not going to stand by and watch them go through the same
> treatment we did, because some of our well-meaning fellow Americans choose
> to wear blinders and believe things just because they heard it on the
> network news or simply not care enough to get involved.
> I am not a "baby-killer, torturer, or murderer," John Kerry. I am a
> Vietnam veteran and an American who will not soon forget, or ever want to
> see again, any more jets loaded with fuel and screaming, innocent
> Americans slamming into our buildings on our very own soil. I have shed
> enough tears for ten lifetimes. We all have. I will never again let my
> fellow countrymen get away with making American veterans feel like bastard
> stepchildren.
> Santayana said, "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to
> repeat it."
> John Kerry, I now call on my "Band of Brothers," those who have heard the
> sound of guns and cries of orphaned children, those who hate war more than
> anyone who has not been there, to join me in this difficult battle ahead.
> Republicans, democrats, independents, and the apolitical, I call on the
> 25,000,000 veterans of this country to help me confront this evil facing
> our great nation, not with guns and bombs, but with our voices, our votes,
> our computers, and with all our fighting spirit.
> My fellow veterans, your families, survivors, and neighbors: God bless you
> and God bless America.
> You want proof of all I have to say. Here are the references:
> http://michnews.com/artman/publish/article_2889.shtml
> http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=6246
> http://www.iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2004&m=03&d=01&a=12
> http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20040229-105340-2864r.htm
> http://johnkerry.com/pressroom/speeches/spc_2004_0227html
> http://nyyrc.blogspot.com/
> http ://www.daneshjoo.org/article/publish/article_3130.shtml
> Want more proof? Read the very exposing February 27, 2004 article, on page
> 8, of the NY Sun by Thomas Lipscomb, founder of Time Books and publisher
> of Admiral Elmo Zumwalt's best-selling book. "ON WATCH ." Also read what
> the man who pinned the Silver Star on John Kerry had to say about him. The
> article is entitled "Setting Straight Kerry's War Record"
> Please cut and paste this to a new e-mail and send it on to your friends
> and family BEFORE the election and let them decide if John Kerry needs
> their vote.
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