John Kerry's Vietnam Boomerang

The war is long over, the troops came home years ago, the US's "quagmire" in Viet Nam is long over, for everyone except John Kerry. What in the hell were the Democrats and John Kerry thinking?

John Kerry started the mess he now finds himself in but somehow it is Bush's responsibility to stop it? How ironic, John Kerry has to run to Bush to bail him out of the mess he himself created.

From The Wall Street Journal

What did Mr. Kerry expect, anyway? That claiming to be a hero himself while accusing other veterans of "war crimes"--as he did back in 1971 and has refused to take back ever since--would somehow go unanswered? That when he raised the subject of one of America's most contentious modern events, no one would meet him at the barricades? Mr. Kerry brought the whole thing up; why is it Mr. Bush's obligation now to shut it down?

And

The irony here is that a main reason Mr. Kerry has focused so much on Vietnam is to avoid debating Iraq and the rest of his long record in the Senate. He wants Americans to believe that a four-month wartime biography is credential enough to be commander-in-chief. But a candidate who runs on biography can't merely pick the months of his life that he likes--any more than a candidate who makes Vietnam the heart of his campaign can confine the resulting debate to his personal home video.

In another sign of how desperate Kerry is to get him out of his own Viet Nam quagmire, Kerry called Senator Dole to moan about Dole's comments about Kerry.

From NewsMax

"He said he was very disappointed, we'd been friends. I said John, we're still friends, but [the Swiftvets] have First Amendment rights, just as your people have First Amendment rights.

Dole told Kerry, "I'm not trying to stir anything up, but I don't believe every one of these people who have talked about what happened are Republican liars.

"And very frankly, Bush is my guy, and I'm tired of people on your side calling him everything from a coward to a traitor to everything - a deserter."

Dole said he urged Kerry, "Why don't you call George Bush today and say, 'Mr. President, let's stop all this stuff about the National Guard and Vietnam - and let's talk about the issues."

Dole said Kerry responded, "I haven't spent one dime attacking President Bush."

But the Republican war hero shot back, "You don't have to. You've got all the so-called mainstream media, plus you've got MoveOn.org and all these other groups that have spent millions and millions of dollars trying to tarnish Bush's image."

"Don't tell me you don't know what some of these people are doing," he told Kerry.


It doesn't end with Kerry though. Sen. Tom Harkin called VP Cheney a "coward". I would say that someone who lies and claims to have served in Viet Nam when he did not, is a real coward. Nothing could be more disugsting than for a politician to tread on the memory of those who died in Viet Nam, for his own gain. That is what Sen Tom Harkin has done.

From Business Week

If Kerry did shade the truth, he sure wouldn't be the first politician to do so. Only last week, voters were treated to the spectacle of Kerry point man and Iowa Senator Tom Harkin fulminating about the Swift Vets' ads. Yet Harkin is himself an exposed fabulist, having once claimed to have jousted in his F-4 Phantom with North Vietnamese MiGs.

The truth? He never saw combat, spent his war ferrying military planes from Japan to the Philippines for routine servicing, and apologized for his fictions when subsequently exposed by fellow Senator Barry Goldwater.


Not only did he not see combat, Harkin was never, ever in Viet Nam. Just like Kerry was never, ever in Cambodia.

This has got to be one of the strangest elections ever.

The Democrats, the anti-war party, running the campaign on the most anti-war of all wars, Viet Nam; then wailing to Republicans like Bush, Dole and McCain to get them out of their own mess.

The Democrats, the liberal party, supposedly supports first amendment rights, tries to deny veterans their first amendment rights. Kerry, a supposedly hornorable Viet Nam vet wants to be able to say whatever he likes but the Swift Boat vets, who also served honorably, are not to be allowed to speak out?

The Democrats, purport to support freedom of the press, yet tries to stop 527 groups like the Swift Boat veterans, who have only spent just over $2M dollars, while the Democrats spend over $62M on 527 ads.

The Democrats scream that Bush is working with the Swift Boat vets and yet they have no proof whatsoever. And yet here is proof positive that the Democrats are working with MoveOn.org.

And John Kerry leads the Democrats. Question is, where is he leading them?
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