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Retired Green Beret takes on John Kerry
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> > > Open Letter to John Kerry:
> > >
> > > My wife had rotator cuff surgery earlier this year, and the
> > > recovery is
> > > terribly painful. Then, she developed a staph-epi infection, and they
> > > had to
> > > cut the same scar open and operate on her again. Just thinking about
> > > the
> > > pain and anxiety of facing that painful surgery a second time in the
> > > same
> > > wound, makes me cringe. That experience, however pales in comparison
> > > to what
> > > I am going through right now, in my heart.
> > >
> > > The old hurts are surfacing and the feelings of betrayal by
fellow
> > > 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 us were American soldiers who grew up
> > > idolizing
> > > John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and all the other heroes. That was why I
> > > volunteered. But for political expediency, John Kerry has rewritten
> > > history,
> > > again. After spending only four months in the country of Vietnam, John
> > > Kerry
> > > testified before Congress in 1971 with these exact words about
> > > incidents he
> > > supposedly witnessed or heard about from other vets: "They personally
> > > raped,
> > > cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to
> > > human
> > > genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies,
> > > randomly
> > > shot at civilians, razed villages, shot cattle and dogs for fun,
> > > poisoned
> > > food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam."
> > >
> > > I was a green beret officer who volunteered 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 were the elite. We saw the
> > > most
> > > action. Everybody in the world knows that. But we did not just kill
> > > people,
> > > we built a church, a school, treated illnesses, passed out soap, food,
> > > and
> > > clothing, and had fun and loving interaction with the indigenous
> > > people of
> > > Vietnam, just like our boys did in Normandy, Baghdad, Saigon, and
> > > everywhere
> > > American soldiers ever served. We all gave away our candy bars and
> > > rations
> > > to kids. Our hearts to oppressed people all over the globe.
> > >
> > > My children and grandchildren could read your words, and think
> > > those
> > > horrendous things about me, Mr. Kerry. You are a bold-faced,
> > > unprincipled
> > > liar, and a disgrace, and you have dishonored me and all my fellow
> > > Vietnam
> > > veterans. Sure, there were a couple bad-apples, but I saw none, and I
> > > saw it
> > > all, and if I did, as an army officer, it was my obligation to stop
> > > it, or
> > > at the very least report it. Why is there not a single record anywhere
> > > of
> > > you ever reporting any incidents like this or having 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 character,
> > > integrity, and
> > > morality. I earn my green beret over and over daily in all aspects of
> > > my
> > > life.
> > >
> > > 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 Guard service in with being a
> > > draft-dodger, conscientious objector, and deserter, just so you can
> > > try to
> > > sabotage the patriotism of our President who proudly served as an Air
> > > National Guard jet pilot. I have a son earning his green beret at Fort
> > > Bragg
> > > right now, and his wife serves honorably in the Air National Guard,
> > > just
> > > like President Bush did, and I am as proud of her as I am my son. I
> > > volunteered for Vietnam and have no problem whatsoever with President
> > > Bush
> > > being our Commander-In-Chief. In fact, I am proud of him as our
leader.
> > >
> > > John Kerry, you personally derailed the Vietnam Human rights
Bill,
> > > HR2883, in 2001, after it had passed the House by a 411 to 1 vote, and
> > > thousands of pro-American Montagnard tribespeople in Vietnam died
> > > since then
> > > who could have been saved, by you. Earlier, as Chair of the Senate
> > > Select
> > > Committee on MIA/POW Affairs, you personally quashed the efforts of
> > > any and
> > > all veterans to report sightings of living POW'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 International, recently signed a
> > > contract with Hanoi, worth BILLIONS of dollars for Collier's
> > > International
> > > to become the exclusive real estate representative for the country of
> > > Vietnam.
> > >
> > > "Hanoi John," now that it works for you, you beat your chest
> > > about your
> > > Vietnam service, but to me, you are a phony, opportunistic, hypocrite.
> > > You
> > > are one of those politicians that is like a fertilizer machine: all
> > > that
> > > comes out of you is horse manure, 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, is a
> > > best-selling author with over 1,500,000 books in print, a 1995
> > > inductee into
> > > the International Karate Hall of Fame, and owns karate schools in
> > > southern
> > > Colorado.
> > >
> > >
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