Kerry’s Opinion of Our Troops
John F. Kerry, who wants you to know that he served in Vietnam, explained recently on video that if you stay in school you can be smart and succeed. Otherwise, you could end up in Iraq. Don’t expect to see this on the nightly news, but expect to see it everywhere on the net.
Via LGF.
Update: Kerry won’t back down. He insists that he didn’t insult the troops, and instead was trying to criticize Bush. And he would get away with it, too, if our news were still filtered by the liberal media. But on the internet, everyone can hear his words exactly as he spoke them. Who are you gonna believe, him or your own lying ears?
Update 2: The whole mess with Kerry is outrageous, but this line from Kerry’s non-apology just made me sick:
If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they’re crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.
The first sentence is almost comically nonsensical. You know that he’s trying to say that he would never attack the troops because he’s a veteran. But if you read exactly what he said in that first sentence, he actually said that you’re only crazy if you think that he would insult the troops without also insulting the president. And he’s right, I suppose. As a new mad-dog Democrat, you’re crazy if you think that Kerry would pass up any chance to criticize the president.
But leave the word games aside and think about what Kerry intended to say: Because Kerry is a veteran, he would never criticize the troops. And that’s just hysterical, because in his younger years Kerry the veteran had this to say before Congress and on TV:
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….
They told the 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 very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.
Immediately after he returned from Vietnam he tried to make a name for himself by telling the country that US soldiers were ignorant thugs and sadists. Why should anyone be surprised that he still holds that opinion? Now he hopes that no one will remember what he said back then. But this is the information age, and that kind of deceit can no longer stand.