Cynthia On Kerry

Cynthia Tucker, the socialist head of the editorial staff of the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation is spouting the usual liberal lies about the Republican Right Wing Attack Machine (A subsidiary of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy). The link may require registration, but don't worry, I'm gonna hit all the lowlights.

John Kerry's campaign has suffered from a curious redefinition of patriotism and heroism -- a revisionism that glorifies armchair warriors while denigrating combat veterans. His combat medals haven't quieted the Bush campaign machine, which sends its minions out to denounce Kerry as unpatriotic and anti-military.

GMAFB! Look, it was Kerry who brought up the Viet Nam bullshit. That makes his Viet Nam record a campaign issue. What he did after the war is also an issue. No one is denigrating his combat record (except for the first purple heart). Yeah, Kerry was a hero, but so was Benedict Arnold before he turned traitor. Kerry came back and joined VVAW. He testified about made up atrocities. And who knows about the medals? He keeps changing his story. He has four different versions of the medal throwing incident. Which one is true. That's what the RRWAM (a subsidiary of the VRWC) is asking.

It is an odd thing, but it did not start here. Two years ago, Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) defeated Max Cleland -- a Vietnam veteran whose service left him a triple amputee -- partly by challenging his patriotism. Chambliss doesn't want to own up to that now, but many remember his attack ads that featured photos of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden and questioned Cleland's "courage." (Chambliss, by the way, avoided service in Vietnam because of what he says was a bad knee.)

Another lie. The ad did not attack his patriotism. Didja ever notice that it's always the left who bring up the "attacking his patriotism" meme? No one was attacking Cleland's patriotism. The ad pointed out that Cleland was more interested in union jobs than national security and that was the truth. So Chambliss avoided service. So did Bill Clinton. As I have said many times, Viet Nam should no longer be an issue since we elected a draft dodger to two terms as president. It seems it's only you fucking liberals who want to make Viet Nam service an issue which is ironic since you were against the fucking war in the first place.

So it comes as no great surprise that the latest Bush tactic is to denounce Kerry for his activism against the Vietnam War. In a display of gall that can only be described as astounding, campaign strategist Karen Hughes, interviewed recently on CNN, insisted that reporters ought to prod more deeply into Kerry's activities during the Vietnam War.

What's wrong with that? Kerry brought up Viet Nam. It seems to be the centerpiece of his campaign. So that makes his anti-war stance and his membership in VVAW fair game. That makes his testimony to Congress when he testified about atrocities that never happened an issue. There is a left wing web site that claims Kerry actually said that he was told by others that these atrocities occurred so he really didn't give false testimony. OK. How does that differ from Bush stating that he was told by British intelligence that Iraq got yellowcake from Niger? The left screams that Bush lied. Kerry related what he had been told. Bush related what he had been told (and British intelligence still stands by its story). If one is lying, then both are. Make up your fucking minds you liberal assholes!

Guess what's coming next.

Indeed, they should (as they should further explore the activities of President Bush during that same war).

Jesus H. Christ! Bush has produced all his records and you still are not satisfied. What's it gonna take? A fucking time machine? "Set the Wayback Machine to 1972 Sherman. We're gonna see where Bush was." And may I point out, that Kerry, who said military service didn't matter when he was defending the draft dodger in 1992, on Good Morning America, brought up Bush's National Guard service. Bush has said nothing about Kerry's service or his activities after the war.

What they will find in Kerry's past is a young man who had the courage to say what so many were thinking and some, such as former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, only belatedly admitted -- the war in Vietnam was folly, unwinnable, a quagmire.

Yeah, McNamara, who could fuck up a wet dream, totally fucked up Viet Nam. The war was winnable if the politicians would have taken the leash off the military and let them fight the war. Ask the grunts who were there. They were pissed about having to fight a war with one hand tied behind their backs. We were kicking their asses, but then we had people like Jane Fonda and John Fonda Kerry undermining the war effort.

Kerry was, as he now acknowledges, angry about the official lies, the ludicrous military strategies, the lives lost. His rhetoric, as he concedes, was over the top. But his crusade to end the war -- based on his observations as a naval officer who had come under fire after volunteering for hazardous duty -- was the very definition of patriotism.

And undermining the war effort when he returned was not. Anyway, the RRWAM(A subsidiary of the VRWC) is not questioning his patriotism. I am, but that's because I'm a Viet Nam vet who is pissed at John Fonda Kerry for stabbing in the back the soldiers he left behind in Viet Nam. No, the RRWAM (A subsidiary of the VRWC) is questioning his voting record while in the Senate. He has voted against every major defense system. Pointing that out is not questioning his patriotism. It's saying that he is weak on defense. It's only you people on the left who somehow equate being weak on defense as being unpatriotic.

That honorable definition may be returning to vogue as the war in Iraq grows increasingly unpopular. According to a New York Times/CBS poll, nearly half the country now questions the wisdom of the war. And nearly half -- 46 percent -- believe U.S. troops should come home as soon as possible.

And that's what you fucking liberals want isn't it? You want us to leave Iraq with our tails between our legs, like we left Somalia when the draft dodger was running things. Then you can continue on with your dream of making the United States a multicultural socialist utopia. Well fuck that! We are fighting WWIV and you liberals who have been on the wrong side of history since WWII are on the wrong side of history again. Because of you assholes it took us 40 years to win the Cold War (WWIII), and if you have your way it will take us 40 years to win the war on terror. The only problem now, is the terrorists are bringing the war to us. How many more innocent Americans will have to die before you fucking liberals realize what we are fighting?

But, in public at least, Bush seems almost obscenely serene about his decision to send young Americans to die by the hundreds in Iraq. Never mind that he avoided combat in the relative safety of a National Guard "champagne unit" that sheltered other sons of the wealthy and well-connected.

Yep! Let's bring up Bush's National Guard service again. He served. Clinton didn't. But it was OK for Clinton to send Marines to Haiti. It was OK for him to send troops to Kosovo who by the way, were only supposed to be there for a year. And another thing. We people on the right didn't dance with glee when American military men died on Clinton's watch. You assholes on the left just love it when an American soldier dies. Look at how the left reacted to Pat Tillman's death. You have a new poster boy in Rene Gonzales. When's he gonna run for Congress? He'd fit in perfectly with Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Lee.

His vice-president, Dick Cheney, is similarly self-righteous, though he had "other priorities" during the Vietnam era. Perhaps it is mere coincidence that his wife, Lynne Cheney, gave birth to their first child exactly nine months and two days after the Selective Service lifted its ban against drafting childless married men.

Once again, why is that an issue? We had a draft dodger as a president for eight years. Viet Nam service is not a requirement to be in gummint anymore. You assholes said that back in 1992. I am so sick of this bullshit!

Kerry, by contrast, has seen the waste of war up close. After the combat death of his close friend, Dick Pershing, in 1968, he wrote a letter to the girlfriend who would become his first wife, Judy: "If I do nothing else in my life I will never stop trying to bring to people the conviction of how wasteful and asinine is a human expenditure of this kind."

Give peace a chance. Kumbaya. What are you gonna say when some fanatic asshole sets off a biological bomb in a big city? What are you gonna say when there is another aircraft hijacking? There will be since clueless Minetta is trying to be oh so politically correct. Let's frisk little old ladies since it is not politically correct to take extra precautions with men of Middle Eastern origin. Tell me again, how many little old ladies took part in 9/11?

Goddamit! We're in a war, and people like Cynthia Tucker (Who is fast becoming the black Molly Ivins) wants to put in charge of the war someone who has spent his entire career in the senate trying to gut the military. And no, I am not saying John Fonda Kerry is unpatriotic by doing so. I'm saying he is a socialist asshole who cannot be trusted with national security.

If you liberals think that's calling him unpatriotic that's too fucking bad! If the shoe fits ...

Posted by denny at May 2, 2004 10:47 PM