"Kerry not a real hero" help me respond

[carrowsboy]

In my local paper today....

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12625278&BRD=2271&PAG=461&dept_id=462943&rfi=6

Kerry not a real hero

To the editor:

Benedict Arnold of Connecticut was an American patriot and a hero at Saratoga early in the American Revolution. However, this fact was canceled when he became a traitor later in the war. I served in a recon platoon and three infantry rifle companies during three tours in Vietnam. In 1971, I was wounded for a seventh time.

In 1971, John Kerry was working with Jane Fonda aiding the enemy that we were fighting. The protesters that they led were burning American Flags and carrying pictures of Ho Chi Minh and communist flags. The next year, propaganda posters could be found all over Vietnam's jungles of Fonda wearing an enemy uniform, manning an antiaircraft weapon in Hanoi, and of Kerry Leading a demonstration in Washington and at Valley Forge In 1971, Kerry published a book that was pro-Hanoi and whose cover mocked the flag raising at Iwo Jima. His book and speeches trashed an entire generation of the United States Armed Forces who fought in Vietnam. What kind of leader politics to go home early with three scratches leaving his men behind, and joins Hanoi Jane?

These activities make John Kerry, Jane Fonda and all others like them, traitors in my book. The blood of thousands of America's finest is on their hands. The North Vietnamese were encouraged to continue a war that they couldn't win on the battlefield, but on our home front. A war that was fought for a noble cause to stop communism and to save South Vietnam was defamed, smeared and ultimately lost. Lost by the Kerry-types, left-wing liberal politicians, most of the media, and hordes of college protesters, and draft dodgers. The draft dodgers were later given legitimacy and called real heroes by Jimmy Carter. This is a slap in the face to anyone who ever served and the most disgraceful act of any president in our history. Now, it breaks my heart to see the same thing starting to happen to our troops in Iraq. The attack against them is being led by many in the media, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Tom Daschle, Max Cleland, Wesley Clark, the sewer that most of Hollywood has become with its Michael Moore-
Colonel (Ret.) Robert Powell, U.S. Army Infantry
Carrollton, Ga.

[Warren DeMontague]

1. If the kook right wants to debate the Vietnam war, let 'em.

By all means. Let's have an honest, rational discussion of that horrible, bloody mistake as well.

[seabeyond]

2. from my perspective, he was there he fought

and he is allow to feel exactly what he expresses. i would in no way try to tell him he was wrong or didnt know what he talks. it is his to view, and be. respectfully

now if it were bush, i would jump in it, or cheney or limbaugh or hannity or all the others that have never been in battle, but i wouldnt be so arrogant to argue a vet that was there

[Sparkly]

3. Ridiculous

John Kerry did not aid the enemy, did not possess or become responsible for Jane Fonda, and did not "trash" veterans. After two voluntary tours of duty, he didn't go home "early," either.

The war wasn't lost by Kerry and other protestors; their message was that it was already lost. The Nixon administration already knew that fact by 1971, as did most of the country.

Nobody today is attacking the troops and it's outrageous even to suggest such a thing.

[SheilaT]

4. Even back then

I knew that the claim that the anti-war protests were prolonging the war was total bullshit. It still is. The war was prolonged because our government didn't see any reason to end it.

And Kerry wasn't working with Fonda, although he did turn against the war and testified on Capitol Hill against it. The war in Vietnam was not fought for noble causes. Too bad the Colonel who wrote that letter has remained bamboozled all these years about that illegal immoral war.

[shraby]

5. He also helped investigate BCCI

and the Iran/Contra crimes.