More Vets Against Kerry
Dean
A second group of Vietnam veeterans opposing John Kerry has been POWs for Truth. They recenlty merged with Swift Boat Vets Truth, and are combining their resouces to buy up the right to run ads just like this one. From the group's web site:
Admiral Hoffman, the gorup's founder, was quoted as saying, "We welcome the POWs to this battle on behalf of truth, the real truth of who John Kerry is and how he betrayed his fellow veterans. His visits to Paris to meet with the enemy – and his subsequent public endorsement of their so-called 'peace plan' — only served to encourage our enemies and prolong the captivity of our POWs," said Admiral Roy Hoffmann, founder of Swift Vets and POWs for Truth.
"For John Kerry to now claim that his activities were part of an effort to help solve the POW problem is absolutely ludicrous. Kerry encouraged the North Vietnamese to keep us in captivity longer which meant more torture, more lost years (there was no slave labor) and, sadly, more death," said Vietnam POW Ken Cordier, who was held captive for six years and three months and was awarded two Silver Stars, a Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart among other decorations.
The new ad will air in three states as well as on national cable and is the most expensive media buy the group has made to date.
Should I even bother to point out for the umpeenth time how Senator Kerry could have dealt with these guys months ago quite easily? Amazing that he hasn't.
You realize, though, that these guys will probably continue to dog Kerry all throughout his administration until he signs that blasted 180 and issues some retractions?
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"...to dog Kerry all throughout his expected?/putative?/unlikely? administration..."
Other than Kerry's 8-strong "band of brothers", I wonder if there's any other Vietnam vets who are going to vote for him...it still amazes me just how angry they are after all these years...its like they're taking their frustrations out on Kerry...serves Kerry right, of course; that asshat shouldn't have come home and called his comrades war criminals.
He didn't deal with these guys months ago because he would have to apologize. He would have to admit that he was wrong about something he said and did. I do not see Sen. Kerry possessing that level of humility, that level of self-knowledge. The statement that he gave after he fell snowboarding that the Secret Service agent knocked him down is, I think, indicative of that mindset.
Personally, I do not think that I would want someone in the White House without some ability to be introspective. I do not think that Sen. Kerry has that ability, and the snowboarding, the SwiftVets incidents are demonstrative of this lack.
[N.B.: This is my opinion, guys. Opinion. I may be wrong, so don't take my head off; rather, convince me.]
"Other than Kerry's 8-strong "band of brothers", I wonder if there's any other Vietnam vets who are going to vote for him...it still amazes me just how angry they are after all these years...its like they're taking their frustrations out on Kerry...serves Kerry right, of course; that asshat shouldn't have come home and called his comrades war criminals."
No, he most certainly should not have done that. I'm not amazed at all that men who served their country, risked their lives, were wounded, crippled, blinded, or spent years in Communist P.O.W. camps, and then came home only to be spat upon by a bunch of rag-tag hippies, would still be seething about it, and would not want to see a traitor like Kerry strut and posture as the greatest war hero since Achilles and demand the Presidency as his birthright just because he was born in the West Wing (a TV show, for crime's sake!), and his initials are JFK.
I need a much better reason to vote for him than that. And so do our veterans.