Last September I was reading about the attacks on the World Trade Center and came across a story about a man named Rich Rescorla who got 3,700 people out of the burning tower before it collapsed. Yesterday I was watching a rally of Viet Nam Veterans For the Truth in Washington DC (live on CSPAN) and a woman was telling a story about her dad, Black Bart and how he pulled a guy named Rich Rescorla out of a creek bed in the Ia Drang Valley just before it was over whelmed with the enemy.
Black Bart's name is on the black wall with 58,000 others in Washington DC. He got no medal for saving Rich Rescorla's life. Rich lived and returned the favor by saving 3,700 Americans in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 before it collapsed on him. He refused to leave the building while there were still people inside.
John Kerry left Viet Nam in four months after finagling three purple hearts for three self inflicted scratches. He came home with his 8mm movies where he acted out his "heroism". He came home and testified before congress that Black Bart and Rich Rescorla were war criminals who had committed atrocities against the people of Viet Nam. He said America should pull out immediately and leave the POWs behind. The POWs that were being tortured while their captors tried to get them to admit they were war criminals. Many of them first heard of John Kerry when his testimony to congress was shown to them as evidence that they were guilty and should be punished.
He came home and then went to paris and meet with the enemy. Note that he was still a commissioned officer in the United States Navy when he did this. He met with the enemy and then he returned to the United States and he pushed the enemies "peace plan". Treason. Why wasn't he court-martialed? All of us should be asking this question and quickly before he goes and has a chat with Osama Bin Ladan and makes a deal with him. He got away with it once, didn't he?
Is it any wonder Viet Nam Vets are angry now? Thirty-three years later they have a voice, if not on network news, on the internet. No longer can the media spoon-feed us propaganda without fear of discovery. Just ask Dan Rather how that works.
Thirty-three years later when these men come corward and tell their stories, John Kerry calls them all liars. It wasn't enough to call them rapist and murderers I guess. His campaign day after day says the charges made in Unfit For Command have all been disproved when in fact not one has been disproved. Not One. In fact John Kerry has had to admit he wasn't in Cambodia after all, and Richard Nixon wasn't even president yet after all. And by the way when five boats were going down the river and one hit a mine, you know the story he told during his convention.. when he said they all fled but he stayed to pull the guy out of the river, opps no wait it wasn't that way after all, he admits now that it was him that fled and all the other boats stayed. Fog of war my ass.
Here is my point, and if your still reading I realize I am preaching to the choir but I'm on a roll . My point is that John Kerry is counting on American Apathy to win him the presidency. He knows one important thing. If you repeat a lie often enough people begin to think its true. His campaign manager even said this, out-loud, on TV. His campaign also said the media wouldn't dare challenge him on the Viet Nam issue. Wouldn't dare.
So far they have been mostly right. The internet is changing things. People have access to information now they never had in the past. With a few keystrokes they can Google up volumes of information and in a matter of hours be more educated on issues of fundamental importance than any generation ever.
John Kerry and company are counting on people not caring enough to bother checking facts and doing research on their own. CBS counted on it too. Intellectual apathy is the only thing that will win John Kerry the White House. Fortunately there are people sitting around in their pajamas that care very much and are making almost enough noise to be heard over the propaganda.
Black Bart's name is on the black wall with 58,000 others in Washington DC. He got no medal for saving Rich Rescorla's life. Rich lived and returned the favor by saving 3,700 Americans in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 before it collapsed on him. He refused to leave the building while there were still people inside.
John Kerry left Viet Nam in four months after finagling three purple hearts for three self inflicted scratches. He came home with his 8mm movies where he acted out his "heroism". He came home and testified before congress that Black Bart and Rich Rescorla were war criminals who had committed atrocities against the people of Viet Nam. He said America should pull out immediately and leave the POWs behind. The POWs that were being tortured while their captors tried to get them to admit they were war criminals. Many of them first heard of John Kerry when his testimony to congress was shown to them as evidence that they were guilty and should be punished.
He came home and then went to paris and meet with the enemy. Note that he was still a commissioned officer in the United States Navy when he did this. He met with the enemy and then he returned to the United States and he pushed the enemies "peace plan". Treason. Why wasn't he court-martialed? All of us should be asking this question and quickly before he goes and has a chat with Osama Bin Ladan and makes a deal with him. He got away with it once, didn't he?
Is it any wonder Viet Nam Vets are angry now? Thirty-three years later they have a voice, if not on network news, on the internet. No longer can the media spoon-feed us propaganda without fear of discovery. Just ask Dan Rather how that works.
Thirty-three years later when these men come corward and tell their stories, John Kerry calls them all liars. It wasn't enough to call them rapist and murderers I guess. His campaign day after day says the charges made in Unfit For Command have all been disproved when in fact not one has been disproved. Not One. In fact John Kerry has had to admit he wasn't in Cambodia after all, and Richard Nixon wasn't even president yet after all. And by the way when five boats were going down the river and one hit a mine, you know the story he told during his convention.. when he said they all fled but he stayed to pull the guy out of the river, opps no wait it wasn't that way after all, he admits now that it was him that fled and all the other boats stayed. Fog of war my ass.
Here is my point, and if your still reading I realize I am preaching to the choir but I'm on a roll . My point is that John Kerry is counting on American Apathy to win him the presidency. He knows one important thing. If you repeat a lie often enough people begin to think its true. His campaign manager even said this, out-loud, on TV. His campaign also said the media wouldn't dare challenge him on the Viet Nam issue. Wouldn't dare.
So far they have been mostly right. The internet is changing things. People have access to information now they never had in the past. With a few keystrokes they can Google up volumes of information and in a matter of hours be more educated on issues of fundamental importance than any generation ever.
John Kerry and company are counting on people not caring enough to bother checking facts and doing research on their own. CBS counted on it too. Intellectual apathy is the only thing that will win John Kerry the White House. Fortunately there are people sitting around in their pajamas that care very much and are making almost enough noise to be heard over the propaganda.
posted by Tess at 9/13/2004 04:45:00 PM
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