What Have you Done to Us Lately

There is a big controversy raging over the issue that John Kerry has made a cornerstone of his campaign (i.e. Vietnam). Since I am not a veteran and I was not there, I will not join the fray. Instead, I will leave it to the American people to decide if they believe the 254 members of Swiftboat Veterans for Truth who claim that Kerry has distorted his service record or the 11 or so vets on his campaign payroll who say he is telling the truth. However, I will certainly question what John Kerry did when he came home after his semester in Vietnam. Timothy McVeigh was a decorated vet from the first Gulf War but we don't remember him for that.

Recently, the Kerry/Edwards Campaign has been forced to admit that he did, in fact, meet with an official from North Vietnam in 1970 while he was still a Naval Officer and obviously while we were still at war. In fact, The blockbuster book by John O'Neil, Unfit for Command, details this meeting at length. Furthermore, Kerry's involvement with the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Winter Soldier effort (both heavily supported by Jane Fonda) we now know served as great inspiration to our enemy at the time. Another image in O'neil's book shows a museum in North Vietnam dedicated to the heroes of theirs. Included are pictures of Fidel Castro, Mao Tse Tung and John Kerry.


Thus, it matters not to me what happened during the four months John Kerry spent speeding downriver in a swiftboat. What does matter is how he undermined our troops as a member of VVAW and later as a member of the Senate.