Send an email to Bob Kerrey

[PSU84]

It's time for Medal of Honor winner and former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey to speak out against the lies that the Bush campaign and its fellow travelers have been spreading about John Kerry's service In Vietnam. Send an email to Bob Kerre who is now the President of the New School University in New York: [e-mail]

[emulatorloo]

1. read this editorial Bob Kerrey wrote aug 14. . .

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64007-2004Aug13.html

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The former Navy personnel who are attempting to discredit Sen. John Kerry's record of service in Vietnam are doing so to argue that he is unqualified to be commander in chief. Most appear to be angry with him on account of his opposition to the Vietnam War, not his service in it. They have done a better job of damaging the reputation of the U.S. Navy than they have of damaging John Kerry.


Moreover, they ignore what I consider to be the most important qualities any commander in chief must possess. If elected in November, John Kerry will make an exceptionally good commander in chief.

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[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. He Won The Medal Of Honor

That trumps Bob Dole's Bronze Star...


And he dated Deborah Winger.....


Nuff said.....

[PSU84]

3. Well, OK then.

He's speaking out.

Still, I'd like to see him on TV, because that's where 95% of the public gets their news. (Sad, but true.)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. You Are Correct....

nt

[NYCGirl]

5. Great article by Kerrey!

Excerpt: (my favorite passage in bold)

But at the top of my list of reasons for believing Kerry can and will do this most difficult of jobs is that he has the requisite sympathy for the men and women who give up many of their rights as citizens in order to defend ours. My confidence also comes from knowing that he knows what it's like to have served under leaders who lacked the moral clarity or the political backbone to sustain an effort from beginning to end.

He also understands from personal experience and practice that strong and determined diplomacy can enable the United States to avoid having to send our sons and daughters into harm's way in the first place.

Evidence backs up my claim in each of these three areas. Kerry demonstrated time and again the sympathy I speak of by fighting for veterans' health and educational benefits. Can his opponents cite one instance in which he failed to put his political career on the line for those who have already served?

Long before it became cool to do so, Kerry was arguing that we must take care of our veterans if we are going to be able to enlist the volunteers we need in our military. In the post-Selective Service era, in which fewer and fewer members of Congress or their children have worn the uniform, Kerry's actions on behalf of veterans speak for themselves.