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   From: GoGW04!!@electBUSH.com   
      
   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.   
      
   --   
   Left-wing liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being.   
   They are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,   
   selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.   
      
   Liberals HATE America!   
      
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