I am posting this on a number of boards that I participate on. If you see it twice, I am sorry. I would rather you see this twice than not at all.
This guy is gravy training on any ticket that will give him some political power. I got this from another friend who emailed it to me.
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My =ife had rotator cuff surgery earlier this year, and the recovery is terribl= painful. Then, she developed a staph-epi infection, and they had to cut th= same scar open and operate on her again. Just thinking about the pain and =nxiety of facing that painful surgery a second time in the same wound, make= me cringe. That experience, however pales in comparison to what I am going=through right now, in my heart.
=nbsp; The old hurts are surfacing and the feelings of betrayal by fel=ow citizens, and their leader stirring them up, are breaking my heart again= I am being cut in the same scar. How did we who served in Vietnam suddenly=become cold-blooded killers, torturers, and rapists, of the ilk of the Nazi=SS or the Taliban? Most of u= were American soldiers who grew up idolizing John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and a=l the other heroes. That was why I volunteered. But for political expedienc=, John Kerry has rewritten history, again. After spending only four months =n the country of Vietnam, John Kerry testified before Congress in 1971 with=these exact words about incidents he supposedly witnessed or heard about fr=m other vets: They personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, =aped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the pow=r, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villag=s, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravage= the countryside of South Vietnam."
&n=sp; I was a green beret officer who vo=unteered for duty in Vietnam and fought in the thick of it in 1968 and 1969=on a Special Forces A-team on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, just for starters. We =ere the elite. We saw the most action. Everybody in the world knows that. B=t we did not just kill people, we built a church, a school, treated illness=s, passed out soap, food, and clothing, and had fun and loving interaction =ith the indigenous people of Vietnam, just like our boys did in Normandy, B=ghdad, Saigon, and everywhere American soldiers ever served. We all gave aw=y our candy bars and rations to kids. Our hearts to oppressed people all ov=r the globe.
&n=sp; My children and grandchildren coul= read your words, and think those horrendous things about me, Mr. Kerry. Yo= are a bold-faced, unprincipled liar, and a disgrace, and you have dishonor=d me and all my fellow Vietnam veterans. Sure, there were a couple bad-appl=s, but I saw none, and I saw it all, and if I did, as an army officer, it w=s my obligation to stop it, or at the very least report it. Why is there no= a single record anywhere of you ever reporting any incidents like this or =aving the perpetrators arrested? The answer is simple. You are a liar. Your=medals and mine are not a free pass for lifetime, Senator Kerry, to bypass =haracter, integrity, and morality. I earn my green beret over and over dail= in all aspects of my life.
&n=sp; Eight National Guard green berets,=and other National Guard soldiers, have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan= and you totally dishonored their widows and families by lumping National G=ard service in with being a draft-dodger, conscientious objector, and deser=er, just so you can try to sabotage the patriotism of our President who pro=dly served as an Air National Guard jet pilot. I have a son earning his gre=n beret at Fort Bragg right now, and his wife serves honorably in the Air N=tional Guard, just like President Bush did, and I am as proud of her as I a= my son. I volunteered for Vietnam and have no problem whatsoever with Pres=dent Bush being our Commander-In-Chief. In fact, I am proud of him as our l=ader.
<=SPAN>John Kerry, you personally deraile= the Vietnam Human Rights Bill, HR2883, in 2001, after it had passed the Ho=se by a 411 to 1 vote, and thousands of pro-American Montagnard tribespeopl= in Vietnam died since then who could have been saved, by you. Earlier, as =hair of the Senate Select Committee on MIA/POW Affairs, you personally quas=ed the efforts of any and all veterans to report sightings of living POW=E2??s, when you held those reins in Congress. You have fought tooth and=nail to push for the US to normalize relations with Vietnam for years. Why,=Mr. Kerry? Simple, your first cousin C. Stewart Forbes, CEO, of Colliers In=ernational, recently signed a contract with Hanoi, worth BILLIONS of dollar= for Colliers International to become the exclusive real estate re=resentative for the country of Vietnam.
&n=sp; Hanoi John, now =hat it works for you, you beat your chest about your Vietnam service, but t= me, you are a phony, opportunistic, hypocrite. You are one of those politi=ians that is like a fertilizer machine: all that comes out of you is horse =anure, and you are spreading it everywhere.
Medals do not make a man. Morals do.
Don Bendell
Canon City, Colorado
Don Bendell served as an officer in four Special Forces Groups, i= a best-selling author with over 1,500,000 books in print, a 1995 inductee =nto the International Karate Hall of Fame, and owns karate schools in south=rn Colorado.
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