JOHN KERRY NOW SAYS HE WANTS TO HELP VETERANS

John Kerry has spent 24 years in the US Senate without authoring a single piece of successful legislation concerning US veterans. Moreover, he has built his political career in large part by publicly, and unfairly attacking veterans as war criminals, rapists and murders. For example, in 1971, John Kerry gave the following Congressional testimony:

"I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command….

They told the stories at times they had 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 in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country."

Herman Munster's Testimony

But, Senator Kerry is now using veterans to further his career in a new way. On his campaign site, Kerry asks us to "support our troops". Kerry says:

We must be mindful of what America has always asked of our servicemen and women. It takes a special individual to see your buddy get hit, and put yourself between him and incoming fire so that medics can tend to him. It takes a special person to work day by day in an environment where it is impossible to distinguish friend from foe.

And it takes a special kind of asshole to come back from combat and shit on the very people who served along aside you. But hey, starting in 2008, Kerry wants to help veterans. He wants us to to help those men and women that fought for us. Starting in 2008 he intends to do just that. Apparently, from Johnny's point of view, veterans who served before 2008 were murderers and rapists not deserving of our help. The only reason I can think of for this sudden change of tune is that there must be an influx of Hispanic veterans in Massachusetts and Johnny feels this is a good way to get their vote.

CT