California Conservative

Speaking in Boston’s Faneuil Hall this morning, John Kerry said that President Bush is stifling dissent to his policies.

Invoking bitter memories of the public tumult over the Vietnam War three decades ago, Sen. John Kerry is accusing the Bush administration of stifling dissent about its failed Iraq policies by branding critics as unpatriotic. “The spirit of intolerance for dissent has risen steadily, and the habit of labeling dissenters as unpatriotic has become the common currency of the politicians currently running our country,” Kerry, (D-MA), said in remarks prepared for delivery Saturday at Boston’s Faneuil Hall.

When have you heard President Bush, or any administration official, say that anyone is unpatriotic? Kerry’s paranoia about that label has him seeing things that aren’t there and hearing things that haven’t been said. If we went by Kerry’s rules, the President wouldn’t be able to defend himself against the idiotic rantings of Joe Wilson, John Murtha and Nancy Pelosi.

What’s more disgusting is that his wife actually called the President un-American and used foul language to talk about him. In fact, Kerry himself was heard calling President Bush an idiot by a Newsweek reporter.Kerry said “How can I be losing to this idiot?” And now he’s upset that the President isn’t taking it? Give me a break.

Kerry’s remarks came exactly 35 years after he posed a haunting question during a speech before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as a young anti-war Vietnam veteran wearing military fatigues. “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” Kerry said in 1971.
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“As in Vietnam, we have stayed and fought and died even though it is time for us to go,” he said. “A majority of our casualties in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon had given up on victory. That must not happen in Iraq.”

That’s typical Kerry. He’s living in the past. The contrasts between Vietnam and Iraq are stark and obvious. LBJ didn’t care about winning the war. Nobody is stupid enough to think that Bush doesn’t want to win in Iraq.

In Vietnam, LBJ was talking to pilots who were on missions to pull off their planned targets of destroying supply lines to hit symbolic targets. Bush has given his generals full control to adjust to changing conditions on the fly.

As for Kerry’s comment about casualties, it might be wise for Kerry to notice that our casualties have been dropping dramatically since the first of the year. But why let pertinent facts get in the way of a good diatribe, right?

Kerry had hoped his military background would be a pillar of his 2004 presidential bid.

A few short months in Vietnam can’t erase a political career marked by pacifism. Kerry’s undoing was his being on the wrong side of history over the past 20+ years. Those of us old enough remember Kerry decrying the positioning of Pershing II missiles in Europe, saying that that would only lead to further escalation of the Cold War. The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed 7 years later.

This is the same John Kerry that voted against the first Gulf War, then touted it as the model of how a coalition should be built when this President Bush was preparing to go to war.

In short, Kerry’s bloviations are boring, bombastic and BS. He’s a legend in his own mind. And a national disgrace.

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This entry was posted on Saturday, April 22nd, 2006 at 9:36 am and is filed under Author: Gary Gross, Iraq, Liberals, Military, Patriotism, W. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.