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[fortdixlover]

The strongest reason Kerry should not be president is spelled out in letters I found, below. As a result of Kerry's activities and the activities of the VVAW group he ran, America pulled out of Vietnam, snatching political defeat from the jaws of military victory.

These events could have caused us to lose the Cold War as well, especially when Nixon/Ford were followed by weakling pacifist Jimmy Carter. If not for Reagan, we might indeed have lost the Cold War.

My question now is: is not electing a person who snatched political defeat from the jaws of military victory an absolutely reckless thing to do at a time when we face an enemy far more vicious than Soviet communism (i.e., nihilistic, brutal, suicidal Islamofascists)?

Will we allow history to repeat itself by not learning its lessons?

Will Kerry's fecklessness and leftism aid and abet Islamofascism as it did Communism?

FDL

http://www.tpromo.com/gk/romeo47/021504.htm

KERRY'S ALLY GENERAL GIAP
15 February 2004
By Regis H. Murphy, Jr.
GKO Contributing Writer

Since first learning about General Giap during a project in the eighth grade, I have found him interesting and respected him even though he indirectly attempted to kill me! General Giap was responsible for the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and the author of tactics that have offered grief to every army that has opposed them. That surprisingly even includes the Army of the Peoples Republic of China in the seventies!

That's why it surprised me to learn in his 1985 memoir about our war, General Vo Nguyen Giap wrote that if it weren't for organizations like Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi would have surrendered to the U.S.!

Knowing what I've learned of General Giap and the North Vietnamese leaders of that time, I believe they would have sued for peace and attempted to win over the whole country via a different tactic, the vote, but the shooting war and thus the loss of life would have ceased. I find it difficult to believe, however, that they would have surrendered without conditions. But who can offer with authority now what would have happened should the North Vietnamese not have received support from such organizations such as the VVAW and highly visible individuals like Jane Fonda and Kerry?

The Vietnam Veterans Against the War encouraged people to desert, mutiny and even tried to justify the 'fragging' of officers. If organizations like that would even attempt to exist in most countries of the world, I'm sure they would not continue to operate for long against their military and certainly not the government! I believe agencies like the VVAW take advantage of our liberalism and should not have the chance to harm us. What do you think?

Both friend and foe for his reputation as a soldier and nationalist who never modified his position for political gain respect General Giap. On the other hand, Kerry is a person who will prostitute his position on any given day and issue for his own advantage. Benedict Arnold was a decorated 'war hero' who would have probably supported Kerry today. Would you really want Kerry to have the power to send your children into harm's way? His record shows that he may change his position on any situation at any time if the pressure gets too much for him to keep a clear vision for his personal success.

Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North said, "John Kerry has blood of American soldiers on his hands" and predicted the Vietnam War issue "is going to blow up in Kerry's face." I for one agree with LTC North.

It may seem strange to some that it is easier for me to take the word of an 'enemy general' than the word of an American politician, but that is a fact of life and as they say a 'reality' check. What a 'comical tragedy' that some people who vow to protect us are recognized as 'allies' by some of our enemies!

Voters beware!

That's my opinion. This Is Still America!



http://exposingsatanism.org/Forum/lofiversion/index.php/t58.html

Aid and comfort to the enemy: The Kerry record

NOTE: Please join fellow Patriots and sign the petition demanding John Kerry's resignation. Link to -- http://PatriotPetitions.US/Kerry

"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." --George Washington

It's no surprise that John Kerry has devoted so much time and energy questioning George W. Bush's record as commander-in-chief. Nor is it any surprise that he recently launched a campaign calling on Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld to resign after a handful of military personnel humiliated al-Qa'ida terrorists in Abu Ghraib prison while attempting to obtain actionable intelligence about their plans to kill more of our troops.

These political attacks are just the latest round on Kerry's long list of black-bag antics designed to undermine America's military strength and resolve.

Kerry, who fancies himself a war hero, has spent much of his political career denigrating American military personnel and the nation they defend. But his anti-American actions preceded his first campaign for Congress -- indeed, they were the platform from which he launched his political career.

Like his comrade "Hanoi Jane" Fonda and so many other Leftist protagonists from the Age of Aquarius, Kerry was a child of wealth and privilege. Today, he is the wealthiest member of Congress (the "F" stands for "Forbes," after all) but don't expect that to be a central theme of his "man of the people" campaign. (In fact, the top five wealthiest Senators are all Democrats.)

Kerry grew up hobnobbing with the Massachusetts Cape glitterati, a life of leisure including all the accoutrements -- the best schools, the best vacation homes, the best yachts, etc. He socialized with the rich and famous, especially the Kennedy clan elites, where he was taken under the wing of his future patron saint, Teddy. He attempted to emulate John Kennedy's PT-109 heroics by joining the Navy and using his connections to obtain an assignment for a short tour on a swiftboat in Vietnam. Kerry then went on to collect three Purple Hearts in just two months -- all of dubious merit, but requisite for a ticket home to pursue his political aspirations.

Unlike John F. Kennedy, however, when John F. Kerry got home, there was no hero's welcome. The nation was in turmoil over our continued role in Vietnam, the result of limited but well-publicized Leftist protests against the war. So Kerry, ever the opportunist, endeavored to become the Left's most "useful idiot" (as Lenin called Western apologists for Soviet propaganda), collaborating with Fonda, et al., and leading protests accusing his "brethren" in Vietnam of all manner of atrocities.

Kerry was (and remains) an effective spokesperson for his Leftist cadre. His anti-war protest period culminated with his 1971 congressional testimony, after which he told the press, "There are all kinds of atrocities and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free-fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50-caliber machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search-and-destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare. All of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions...."

Regarding the substance -- and source -- of Kerry's claims, Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking intelligence officer ever to defect from the Soviet bloc, says "KGB priority number one at that time was to damage American power, judgment, and credibility. ... As a spy chief and a general in the former Soviet satellite of Romania, I produced the very same vitriol Kerry repeated to the U.S. Congress almost word for word and planted it in leftist movements. KGB chairman Yuri Andropov managed our anti-Vietnam War operation. He often bragged about having damaged the U.S. foreign-policy consensus, poisoned domestic debate in the U.S., and built a credibility gap between America and European public opinion through our disinformation operations. Vietnam was, he once told me, 'our most significant success'."

As for the success of Kerry's anti-democracy protests and his leadership of the VVAW and association with Fonda's Winter Soldier Investigation, General Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnam's most decorated military leader, wrote in retrospect that if not for the disunity created by such stateside protesters, Hanoi would have ultimately surrendered.

But the consequences of Kerry's actions should not stop with the fall of Saigon.

Kerry, by his own account, violated the UCMJ, the Geneva Conventions and the U.S. Code while serving as a Navy officer, and he further stands in violation of Article three, Section three of the U.S. Constitution.

Upon entering the Navy in 1966, John Kerry signed a six-year contract (plus a six-month extension during wartime) and an Officer Candidate contract for five years of active duty and active Naval Reserve. This indicates that Kerry was clearly a commissioned officer at the time of his 1970 meeting with NVA Communists in Paris -- in direct violation of the UCMJ's Article 104 part 904, and U.S. Code 18 U.S.C. 953. That meeting, and Kerry's subsequent coddling of Communists while leading mass protests against our military in the year that followed, also place him in direct violation of our Constitution's Article three, Section three, which defines treason as "giving aid and comfort" to the enemy in time of warfare. (As General Vo Nguyen Giap is his witness....)

Thus, we refer our readers to the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, which states, "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President ... having previously taken an oath ... to support the Constitution of the United States, [who has] engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

It is for this reason -- for his record of giving aid and comfort to the enemy while a member of the U.S. Armed Forces in violation of his oath -- that we insist John Kerry resign his seat in the U.S. Senate. He has dishonored his family, dishonored his state and dishonored our nation. He is not fit for public office at any level of government, much less, the highest office in the land. John Kerry should resign.

Above Right: Photograph of John Kerry meeting with Comrade Do Muoi, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, in Vietnam, July 15-18, 1993. This photo is part of a tribute to John Kerry in the War Remnants Museum (formerly the "War Crimes Museum") in Saigon.

[susanlprince]

If Kerry had a plan to balance the federal budget, I would not vote for him.

If Kerry had a plan to put every single American to work, I would not vote for him.

If Kerry had a plan to improve America's education system and make it the finest in the world, I would not vote for him.

If Kerry had a plan to fight national and international crime and wipeout the illegal drug problem, I would not vote for him.

If Kerry had a plan to improve the healthcare system and allow each and every American to aquire the care they need, I would not vote for Kerry.

If Kerry had a plan to wipeout global terrorism, I would not vote for him.

If Kerry had a plan to stop illegal immigration, I would not vote for him.

If Kerry had a plan to clean up our environment, I would not vote for him.

I, in good conscience, can not possibly vote for a person to lead this country who has his picture hanging in the Vietnamese Communist War Remnants Museum because he gave "aid and comfort" to the enemy, through his actions upon returning from war. I just couldn't do it. No way.

I cringe to think that this country could possibly elect a man such as this! I just don't understand.