Directed to your blog by HH.
One of the best I've read and glad to have the newly learned term "Blue Falcon". I read your piece just after viewing the new SwiftVets ad. God help us if Kerry even comes close!
New to your blog and also directed here from HH. I pray that if I start to piss you off that you sit me down and straighten me out. I definately don't want to be on your short list. 
One has to wonder what a "Dynomutt" is now.
Great Blog. HH sent me. Good stuff.
I was "Blue Falconed" by a CSM who thought his @#$% didn't stink, but now he has been kicked out of the military for being a P.O.S.
Justice has been served, except that all the lies he told to his superiors have been so unique that they actually believed them....in do time
I don't see the evidence that Kerry was a BF. Yes, he decided that the war was immoral and he decided to get out of it as soon as possible. But I don't see any evidence that he screwed over his fellow soldiers or was only interested in his own advancement. To stand up publically and to go to Congress and say what he said takes a lot of courage. I don't doubt that Kerry saw the military as a springboard into politics. But none of the testimony from the people that he served with shows me that he didn't serve honorably and bravely. Here is the more important thing in my mind. Kerry indicated that he was always interested in eventually going into politics. By publically coming out against the war and accusing his fellow soldiers of committing human rights abuses--especially in congress, Kerry probably thought at the time that he was killing any chance at a political carreer or at least his military service was not going to help him. He also probably thought that he was helping his fellow soldiers by getting them out of a war which was getting them killed. I have watched some of Kerry's testimony in front of congress and read some of the accounts of his fellow soldiers who talked about him. None of them said that he was a BF. Today we know that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was an operation which worked in coordination with Karl Rove, who has a history of smearing honorable veterans. Look what he did to Max Cleland and John McCain.
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Damn, that was good, Froggy.
The best summation of Kerry I ever remember reading. Even in mid-2006 it's worth emailing. Or maybe especially in mid-2006...
Thanks.
Very well said. Gave more than my wife knows about to the Swifty's, I ain't no hero, went to the Vietmam Veterans against John (served in Vietmam) Kerry demonstration in DC the September before the election. I figured my three hundred sumthin sumthin pound frame would fill the crowd a little. I was proud of the people I met there.
Having been a self centered immature idiot myself, I can vouch that Murtha and Kerry fit the bill.
In my case, I got smacked in the head with a spiritual two by four when I was thirty five, so at least I'm not as self absorbed as I was and have actually matured a little. Got a way to go yet but I'm only sixty years old.
To this very day I mourn the deaths of the millions and the lives that were destroyed when Kerry and his ilk first betrayed every one that served back then and then led our country into betraying those we left behind........
Thanks for your post.
Probably because you haven't bothered to read any actual source material, Amos. Why don't you break down and read "Unfit for Command" instead of quoting Joe Conason, David Corn and the rest of the smear gang. It's a short little book and I'm sure you could power your way through it.
I find it mildly amusing that you "see no evidence" when nearly every one of Kerry's contemporaries in Vietnam loathes him. You are probably still waiting for him to release his service records, aren't you? Uncover your eyes and maybe you'll see some evidence. Uncover your ears and maybe you'll hear some.
Outstanding! And REALLY well written. I have not been here before, but I will be back, and often.
I hope you will not find this ingratiating, but I would like to thank you -- ALL of you -- for having the grace and determination to sleep in cold and wet places so that people like me can sit here in our comfortable, warm, dry prosperity and security. There is no way we will ever be able to repay people like you, Froggy, other than to thank you from the bottom of our hearts every livin' chance we get.
John Kerry Murtha. Two assholes from the same mold.
Great Article.
"By publically coming out against the war and accusing his fellow soldiers of committing human rights abuses--especially in congress, Kerry probably thought at the time that he was killing any chance at a political carreer or at least his military service was not going to help him."
Wow, that is some astonishing ignorance Amos. Or is it just willfull blindness? John Kerry slandered his fellow servicemen after he technicalitied his way out of Vietnam. That appealed to the anti-American left. Of course he can also claim to be a great American military hero with his three purple hearts. Thats what you call calculated political method.
It has been hinted in certain quarters that Kerry's leaving Vietnam was encouraged by his fellow Swifties. The action reports depict someone who was reckless, a showboat, marginally competent at best. (Though to give the devil his due, not a physical coward.) Who'd want someone like that on his flank? Or as a unit commander?
Very enjoyable read.
If I hadn't known that the military had its share of ass crackers before, I did after reading John Ringo. John Ringo is pretty good at filling in the "not so perfect military" with the goon squads.
It reminds us that no organization should be put on a pedestal, because humans tend to have this tendency to fall out at times in very unfortunate circumstances. Very breakable and expensive, it becomes.
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