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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 3-Nov-06
John Kerry and Seymour Hersh trash the armed forces.

Web Log - November, 2006

John Kerry and Seymour Hersh trash the armed forces.

These morons are a disgrace to the nation.

This isn't a political assessment. Hillary Clinton would NEVER savage the armed forces the way Kerry does. Neither would Al Gore. Neither would Ted Kennedy, the other Senator from Massachusetts.

In 1971, Kerry said that American soldiers were committing war crimes "on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command." These atrocities included rape, torture, and cutting off ears, heads and limbs. He compared the actions of our armed forces to those of Genghis Khan.

When I wrote about this during the 2004 Presidential campaign, I said that I didn't care what Kerry said decades ago, but I wanted to know what he believes today. I pointed out that John Kerry couldn't be President, leading the nation in the war against terror, if he believes that the American armed forces are worse than the terrorists.

Well, I finally have my answer. On Wednesday, Kerry called in to the Don Imus radio show, and made the following remarks:

"But I'm not going to stand back from the reality here, which is they're trying to change the subject. It's their campaign of smear and fear. They're going at---and, incidentally, when you say I've done something in the past. I've told the truth in the past. I've never done anything except tell the truth. And I'm not going to take anybody's comment to suggest that somehow my telling the truth was a mistake.

The American people rely on the truth. And when I came back from Southeast Asia, I told the truth. And I'm proud that I stood up and told the truth then, and I've told the truth about Iraq every single step of the way."

So now we know. Kerry STILL believes that the American armed forces are nothing but rapists and terrorists who go around killing and mutilating people.

In 1972, when he ran for the House, Kerry filled out a questionnaire saying that he opposed the draft but considered a volunteer army "a greater anathema," and added the following explanation:

"I am convinced a volunteer army would be an army of the poor and the black and the brown. We must not repeat the travesty of the inequities present during Vietnam. I also fear having a professional army that views the perpetuation of war crimes as simply 'doing its job.'"

So, with that background, it shouldn't be a surprise that John Kerry believes that the people in our armed forces are stupid. Here's what he said, earlier this week:

"You know, education -- if you make the most of it, you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

This comment is completely consistent with his 1972 remarks on the volunteer army, so I have no reason to believe that he didn't mean it.

He's released a statement on his web site saying that it was "a verbal slip," and on the Don Imus show he called it a "botched joke," saying that he meant to call George Bush stupid, not the troops.

However, this doesn't make sense either, since both John Kerry and George Bush went to Yale, and Bush got higher grades.

John Kerry may have been taking a cue from New Yorker magazine journalist Seymour Hersh, who said the following last week: "In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation. It isn't happening now, but I will tell you -- there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq."

Two years ago, Seymour Hersh compared the American armed forces to Nazi Storm Troopers in Hitler's Third Reich.

Beyond the sheer stupidity of these two jackasses, John Kerry and Seymour Hersh, Kerry is a disgrace to Massachusetts, Hersh is a disgrace to journalism, and they're both a disgrace to the nation.

Fortunately for the nation, there are no other major journalists or politicians, Democrat or Republican, that I know of, spouting this kind of hate speech.

Fortunately, the men and women in our armed forces have a much better sense of humor than I have:

Members of the Minnesota National Guard's 34th Infantry Division with a sign mocking John Kerry. It says, "HALP US JON CARRY - WE R STUCK HEAR N IRAK" <font size=-2>(Source: Drudge Report)</font>

Members of the Minnesota National Guard's 34th Infantry Division with a sign mocking John Kerry. It says, "HALP US JON CARRY - WE R STUCK HEAR N IRAK" (Source: Drudge Report)

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