Egads....Kerry Profile On Democracy Now This A.M.

[K8-EEE]

Very interesting Kerry profile by a Dem Now guest who is a Boston Globe reporter, pretty in-depth stuff.

It ended on a pretty dramatic note. Let me preface this by saying that I admire the bravery Kerry showed both in combat in VietNam and in protesting after -- two things that Bunnypants would NEVER do. W stands for WIMP!

Anyhow it seems that while he was standing up for the Vets, nothing controversial there, he was also making statements regarding the US GI's raping & pillaging in VietNam. I know this is true in many cases and I admire anybody with the guts to say unpleasant truths.

But we can count on the simple-minded Freeps to twist this into anti-military rants! Hold on, it'll be a bumpy ride. Really I don't know how they can compare GWBs keeping the Mexican border safe from the Vietnamese with Kerry's service -- the soldiers on the missions he was on, had a 70% death/injury rate!!

[liberalhistorian]

1. Most freeps and wingnuts

are gung-ho, armchair generals who have no fucking clue what being in a real war is like and who have never spent one damn day in uniform. They get off on blood and guts and gore as long as it's someone else, or someone else's kids, whose blood and guts and gore are being splattered.

They call anyone not obsessed with and who doesn't glorify war and its attending violence "cowards", but they'd piss in their pants at the very thought of any kind of military service at all. THIS is why they can diss someone like Kerry and call him "un-American" and "un-patriotic" without suffering a cerebral hemorrage due to massive cognitive dissonance.

[Faygo Kid]

2. I remember John Kerry and VVAW

Old enough to have been drafted for Vietnam, but got a high lottery number (247 - no one ever forgets). I admired Kerry back then, 30-plus years ago, for speaking out from a strong position. Admire him now, but my candidate is whoever stands the best chance of beating Bush. It may very well be him.