Some pundits on the Right like La Shawn Barber are chastising others on the Right for jumping all over Kerry’s blatant attack against US Service men and women. She asks us to:
“Think about it, people. Do you really believe that John Kerry, a war veteran, thinks American troops are dumb or would say so publicly during a war in the midst of an election cycle? When I first heard about his remarks, I knew instinctively that he couldn’t have meant that.”
Well gee La Shawn it sounded perfectly in tune to other statements he has made about people who should have been even closer to his heart, his own peers and fellow soldiers in Vietnam.
They told stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped 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 countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country …
And if you don’t believe going back decades is fair to the man then lets go back just one year ago on CBS News Face the Nation. Here he is commenting to the host.
“And there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the – of – the historical customs, religious customs,” Kerry said. “Whether you like it or not … Iraqis should be doing that.”
So yes La Shawn it is perfectly reasonable to believe he actually means it. He really does think that US Soldiers are idiots. No matter what his spin control freaks are trying to peddle as excuses.
The point is the entire Democratic Party is under the control of men and women who believe the worst about our men and women in uniform. Perhaps they are not as blatant and crass as Kerry is or perhaps they have been lucky and not been under the sort of spot light he has been. Likely though it is because none of the others could be perceived as a threat to that “other” Clinton.
For an example of just how far out the Democratic party can get we need only look to one of their luminaries Seymour Hersh. Here he is sounding not so far off in spirit than Dick Durbin, Murtha, Kerry, KOS Kidz who are by the way a huge influence, Pelosi and others. So yes it is not only possible that Kerry meant it, it is likely that he was actually trying to appeal to those on the left wing, who now control the party.
“In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation,” he said. “It isn’t happening now, but I will tell you – there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.”
So please La Shawn stop giving aid and comfort the enemy. The Democrats of today as defined by those I have named above are not a group of patriotic Americans who simply have a difference of opinion with the rest of us. At a fundamental level they are against everything we stand for and giving them an inch will only mean we lose, not that we will be perceived as gracious.
Source: The McGill Daily
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