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Kerry is not gettng my vote, this is just one of the reasons. Thanks for speaking up, Tomberline. I am a vet too, and not many vets like the guy. Jeff tomberdine wrote: >Sen. Kerry, the "noble statesman" and "highly decorated Vietnam vet" of >today, is a far cry from Kerry, the radical, hippie-like leader of Vietnam >Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in the early 1970s. > >Soon after Kerry, as a Navy Lieutenant (junior grade) commanding a Swift >boat in Vietnam, was awarded the Silver Star, he used an obscure Navy >regulation to leave Vietnam and his crew before completing his tour of duty. > >After returning home, he quit the Navy early and changed the color of his >politics to become a leader of VVAW. Kerry wasted no time organizing >opposition in the United States against the efforts of his former buddies >still ducking communist bullets back in Vietnam. > >Kerry participated in the so-called Winter Soldier Investigation where his >fellow protesters accused his fellow GIs of war crimes. > >Kerry's betrayal of American prisoners of war, his blatant disrespect for >the families of our missing in action, Vietnam veterans, the military, his >support for communist Vietnam and his waffling over the issue of use of >force in Iraq proves he is a self promoting Chameleon Senator who cannot be >relied on to protect the best interests of the United States. > >Although Kerry voted to support military intervention in Iraq he is now >claiming that he only approved the threat of force by the United States. > >The Constitution for the United States of America declares: "The President >shall be Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and >of the militia of the several States when called into the actual service of >the United States; he may require the opinion, in writing, of the principal >officer in each of the executive departments, upon any subject relating to >the duties of their respective offices, and he shall have power to grant >reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in >cases of impeachment." > >Read the following and decide for yourself if you trust this man to be our >Commander-in-Chief. > >Young John Forbes Kerry grew up well connected in the upper-class due to his >Forbes and Winthrop roots. > >After training, Kerry volunteered for Vietnam. He served a relatively >uneventful six months, far removed from combat, from December 1967 to June >1968, in the electrical department aboard the USS Gridley, a guided-missile >frigate that supported aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin. > >His ship returned to its Long Beach, Calif., port on June 6, 1968. Five >months later, Kerry went back to Vietnam, securing an assignment as "swift >boat" skipper. > >Kerry commanded his first swift boat, No. 44, from December 1968 through >January 1969. He received no medals while serving on this craft. > >While in command of Swift Boat 44, Kerry and crew operated without prudence >in a Free Fire Zone, carelessly firing at targets of opportunity racking up >a number of enemy kills and some civilians. His body count included-- a >woman, her baby, a 12 year-old boy, an elderly man and several South >Vietnamese soldiers. > >"It is one of those terrible things, and I'll never forget, ever, the sight >of that child," Kerry later said about the dead baby. "But there was nothing >that anybody could have done about it. It was the only instance of that >happening." > >Kerry said he was appalled that the Navy's ''free fire zone'' policy in >Vietnam put civilians at such high risk. > >Kerry experienced his first intense combat action on Dec. 2, 1968. He was >slightly wounded on his arm, earning his first Purple Heart. >In late January 1969, Kerry joined a five-man crew on swift boat No. 94 >completing 18 missions over 48 days, almost all of them in the Mekong Delta. > >Kerry earned his second Purple Heart after sustaining a minor shrapnel wound >in his left thigh on Feb. 20, 1969. > >--- >Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.596 / Virus Database: 379 - Release Date: 2/26/2004 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn