Reply #27: Kerry better be careful [View All]

[Whoa_Nelly]

or the media whore attention will be all over him. That's not to say that Smirky's service record shouldn't be made more public...it definitely should. Every chance to expose the lying Bush, the better. It's just that Kerry is using his record to get Vet Vote, and he may be setting himself up for some rethug media whore probs.

Vietnam stance irks veterans

By TERRY GARLOCK

Now that U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) is claiming the veteran vote based on his war record, both sides of that story should be told.

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A young Kerry, however, broke faith with his brothers when he returned to the United States. With the financial aid of Jane Fonda, he led highly visible protests against the war. He wrote a book that many considered to be pro-Hanoi, titled "The New Soldier."

The cover photo of his book depicted veterans in a mismatch of military uniforms mocking the legendary image of Marines raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi in the 1945 battle for Iwo Jima, holding the American flag upside down.

Kerry publicly supported Hanoi's position to use our POWs as a bargaining chip in negotiations for a peace agreement. Kerry threw what appeared to be his medals over a fence in front of the Capitol building in protest, on camera of course, but was caught in his lie years later when his medals turned up displayed on his office wall.

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0104/29garlock.html