John Kerry - My Reply to His Reply

I just went to John Kerry’s official site to see what his midnight speech had to say and how it rebuked the President’s speech. Interesting.

Much of what he had to say dealt with the costs of health care. I was looking for reasons that health care is now more expensive other than Bush is President – maybe that the cost of everything has gone up in 4 years; or maybe he could have given his running mate a hearty slap on the back for his efforts in that field.

There is a statement that George Bush attacked his record, but for some reason there’s no explanatory text after it. If he is insinuating that the President or Vice President has attacked his military record – even once – then Sen. Kerry is, once again, outright lying. Kerry is still trying to attack the President, and now the Vice President, for not serving in Viet Nam. Where was Mr. Kerry in the 1992 or 1996 elections? Both times Bill Clinton ran against genuine war heroes.

I served from January 1969 to October 1977, and I knew several active duty Marines who had continuously applied to go to Viet Nam and were denied. Does that mean that their service was a sham? According to the New Improved Kerry it would seem so. But Mr. Kerry’s own service in unraveling faster than he can fire campaign aides: it is now clear that Kerry fought his assignment to a combat unit tooth and nail. His three actual months in combat (he spent the first of his famed tour months in training at Cam Ran Bay – about as safe a place as you could find) have now been shown to have been a combination of Hero Kerry leading nonexistent raids, Hero Kerry beaching Swift Boats for his own personal greater glory – screw the others on board, and Hero putting himself in for bogus medals that were never earned or deserved.

If there were nothing else to say about his service, the fact that he decided to ignore his chain of command and fire off paper to higher levels should earn Mr. Kerry a bitch-slap of Biblical proportions.

When Mr. Kerry returned to the United States and appeared before the Fulbright Committee, I was at the American Embassy in Islamabad Pakistan, where we were expecting to take bombing and strafing from Indian aircraft during the War for Bangladesh. Any guesses how Kerry’s “testimony” made us feel?

I’m tired of Kerry lying about the “health care crisis”. I’m tired of his lies about the economy. And I am very tired of Kerry’s lies about anything to do with the military – now, then or anything else.