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joan foster	Aug 15 2008, 04:59 AM
Posts: 1,581 Group: Tier1 Member #6 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	Thank you so much, Mike. To this day, I wonder what historically insensitive clod decided Kerry should introduce himself to the Dem convention with a snappy salute and "I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty." I cannot even type that without rage. Imagine Brodhead or Burness , years from now,running for office and introducing himself wearing a Duke Lacrosse 2006 sweatshirt??? Emphasizing this period of his life and asking for glory for it...using his support for "the innocent players" as one of his credentials to get your vote. Those of us..the "baby killers" and wives of "baby killers"... who lived through his lying self-promoting scumbag testimony ...were now supposed to draw him to our bosom and hail him as one of our Band of Brothers? This is the most telling part of his complete disrespect for any of us. He was "one of us" now? A pro-military guy? Like Brodhead and Burness had Lacrosse Love surging through their veins! We were supposed to forget and go away. And watch him use us again. Wasn't gonna happen. The Swiftboat Vets were demonized for telling the truth of the history of their.lives ..my life, my husband's life...perhaps as a team member might be someday if they dare cross the party's canditate. The New York Times did the heavy lifting. People who hated Bush despised these guys and believed the worst of them. Just denied them the truth of their experience. Imagine, years from now, people who never experienced this case or understood it...calling Team Members liars if they said Brodhead or Burness was no supporter of theirs...because THAT is the winning narrative!!! Such is the politics of re-invention. It's not about the truth. It's about morphing into whatever it takes to win. Propping up a monied PHONEY who sold out a generation of guys who were just doing their duty...to launch himself. We lived with his defamation. My husband and his classmates, and the men who served with them. We lived with it. The Baby killers. And then he wanted to climb on our backs to ride us to victory again. I will never forget his testimony. NEVER. Either Kerry is a lying scum or my husband and some of the most wonderful men I've ever met are...so I'll leave that there. He is a God-damned Nifong...who put his finger in the air and decided who he needed to defame to get the votes he needed and then said what he had to say, got elected and left us to live with it. Almost every classmate of my husbands that we still have contact with...some Dems too...gave to the Swiftboat Vets. Every day after the convention, I wrote a LOE to some newspaper..every day. Sorry to be so emotional...but this is one chapter of my life that still remains very raw. I see the faces of the kids I knew who didn't come home ...young men just keeping their committments,....and I remember how Kerry characterized all of us. Thanks Mike, for seeing that too. KERRY SAID: "I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia,****not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the** full awareness of officers at all levels of command. ,**not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the** full awareness of officers at all levels of command. ,**not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the** full awareness of officers at all levels of command. MY HUSBAND WAS A COMBAT INFANTRY COMPANY COMMANDER for 6 months and a COMBAT ENGINEER for six months. In Cu Chi where the fighting was heavy. He received a silver star and unlike Kerry SERVED HiS FULL TIME.He returned to help set up the Vietnamese computer system very shortly before the fall of Saigon. Not one of all the honorable men I know saw these daily atrocities they were smeared with by this POLITICAL SCUM. Like the racist taunts and "blunt force trauma"...the Something Happened crowd finds that not enough. Kerry said differently. Nifong said differently. Our politics demand we believe OUR GUY. ,**not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the** full awareness of officers at all levels of command. Kerry again: "They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, tape wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country. " "I'm John Kerry (smirk, smirk) and I'm reporting for duty." Edited by joan foster**, Aug 15 2008, 07:13 AM.
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