August 16, 2004
WHY ARE THE MEDIA AND THE BUSH CAMPAIGN IGNORING THE SINGLE ISSUE THAT CAN SINK THE KERRY/EDWARDS CAMPAIGN?
The most salient fact about Kerry’s military career, that is the center piece of his campaign, is that two thirds of his comrades hate him.
This is the issue that can determine the outcome of this election; if we can get the word out. But this is proving to be exceedingly difficult. For example, hundreds of Vietnam Veterans demonstrated outside the Fleet Center on the last two days of the Democratic National Convention including massing in front of Kerry’s Beacon Hill mansion face to face with State Police Swat Teams and Secret Service Agents.
And most of the media ignored us, even FOX. What’s up with that? The following links describe our experiences those nights and include a few pictures I took of the situation:
http://pep.typepad.com/public_enquiry_project/2004/07/report_from_the.html
http://pep.typepad.com/public_enquiry_project/2004/07/report_from_the_1.html
http://pep.typepad.com/photos/viet_vets_at_the_dnc/index.html
This issue will have no impact on the 30% of the electorate, who hate Bush and often America, but it will keep some Bush haters from voting and it will flip enough of the undecided to totally preclude a Kerry victory. Ninety percent of the electorate has made up its mind already and they split evenly. We only have to tilt a few undecideds our way and encourage a few to stay home and George W. Bush will win!
For example, I recently asked a Viet Vet buddy if he knew any Viet Vets who liked Kerry and he thought for a moment. He then said “I know two guys who hate Bush, but they can’t stand Kerry either.”
Everyone who wants to win the war on Terrorism must ask this question of every waffling voter they know:
IF TWO THIRDS OF JOHN KERRY’S FELLOW VETERANS HATE HIM, HOW COULD HE EVER EFFECTIVELY DEFEND AMERICA AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF?
You will undoubtedly be answered with objections to the validity, morality or win-ability of the Vietnam War along with assertions that Kerry’s opposition was the right thing to do. Tell them that most Vietnam veterans believe the Vietnam War was the Right War at the Right Time for the Right Reasons and it was worth it!
President John F. Kennedy decided to stop the locust swarm-like advance of Communism in Southeast Asia for morally right and geopolitically correct reasons. He made this important decision in the bipartisan tradition of Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower. President Lyndon B. Johnson loyally continued and expanded that noble effort to contain Communism.
Contain Communism? Modern Americans are prone to laugh at such a goal because they are totally ignorant of the bloody history of Communism because the Left liberal controlled Media-Academic Complex has done its best to erase it from our collective memory.
Here is the truth about Communism;
1 – From its inception by Karl Marx and its codification by Lenin, Communism was committed to unlimited violence to gain power and merciless unpredictable terror to keep it. The structure and brutality of the Soviet regime was purely the product of the fevered brain of Vladimir Ilych Lenin loosely guided by Karl Marx and totally driven by the Will to Power and a complete disdain for humanity. Communist theory was never more than window dressing and marketing to justify their grip on power. Lenin developed sophisticated propaganda tools – including hosts of American professors, artists and writers - as an instrument to totally destroy individual human rights.
2 – When it came to murder, however, Lenin was a piker compared to Stalin. Lenin was responsible for a mere few million deaths while Stalin obliterated scores of millions of thinking, feeling human beings, usually for no good reason. Soviet and Chinese Communism were the instruments of the destruction of more lives of men, women and children than all other human built agents of death in human history put together. Please note that this includes the European holocaust of the Nazis and the Asian holocaust of Imperial Japan.
Can there be any doubt that Kennedy and Johnson did the right thing in implementing Truman and Eisenhower’s containment strategy? Can there be any doubt that Nixon was also correct to continue that bipartisan policy? Now I will explain how this policy was, in part, actually very successful.
So what are the results of the American political failure to win that war even in the face of the great success on the ground brought about by our patriotic young soldiers and our superb military establishment? After we pulled out so ignominiously – I remember crying angrily as I watched those helicopters evacuating from the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon – over two million Cambodians were murdered by the Communist Khmer Rouge and another million were murdered by the Communist Vietnamese.
This clearly puts the lie to any claim of heroism on the part of anti war protestors under the leadership of John Kerry, Jane Fonda and their cohorts. There is no doubt in my mind that those people have the blood of countless millions of innocent Southeast Asians on their hands. Today these same Left Wing America haters are poised with the help of another generation of Academic hate-mongering “intellectuals” to condemn more millions of middle easterners this time.
Something no one else in the media will tell you is that the near destruction of the Communist Vietnamese military infrastructure and their economy and the eventual defeat of the Khmer Rouge bought enough time for Thailand to successfully deal with its indigenous Communist insurgency. This saved hundreds of millions of citizens of Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia from the murderous ravages of the greatest evil of the Twentieth Century. President Johnson was correct in his famous DOMINO THEORY speech and I know that, in his grave, he regrets the failure in Vietnam and Cambodia but he must take great comfort in saving the rest of Southeast Asia. My generation of veterans can at least go to our graves with that satisfaction for all our hard work, blood and grief.
In conclusion, you should vote for John Kerry if you don’t care about defeating the Terrorists. But if you think Islamist Terrorists are a threat to our way of life then you must vote for George W. Bush.
