Kerry for President? HELL NO!
Dear Senator Kerry:
Since it has become clear that you will probably be the Democratic nominee
for President, I have spent a great deal of time researching your war
record and your record as a professional politician. The reason is simple, you
aspire to be the Commander in Chief who would lead my sons and their
fellow soldiers in time of war. I simply wanted to know if you possess the
necessary qualifications to be trusted in that respect.
You see, I belong to a family of proud U.S. veterans. I was a Captain in
the Army Reserve, my father was a decorated Lieutenant in World War II; and I
have four sons who have either served, or are currently serving in the
military. The oldest is an Army Lieutenant still on active duty in
Afghanistan after already being honored for his service in Iraq. The
youngest is an E-4 with the military police. His National Guard unit
just finished their second tour of active duty, including six months in
Guantanamo Bay. My two other sons have served in the national guard
and the navy.
In looking at your record, I found myself comparing it not only to that of
my father and my sons, but to the people they served with. My father served
with the 87th Chemical Mortar Battalion in Europe. They landed on Utah
Beach and fought for 317 straight days, including the Cherbourg Peninsula,
Aachen, the Hurtgen Forest, and the Battle of the Bulge. You earned a
Silver Star in Vietnam for chasing down and finishing off a wounded and
retreating enemy soldier. My father won a bronze star for single handedly
charging and knocking out a German machine gun nest that had his men
pinned down.
You received three purple hearts for what appears to be three minor scratches.
In fact you only missed a combined total of two days of duty for these wounds.
The men of my father's unit, the 87th, had to be admonished by their commanding
officer because: "It has been brought to our attention that some men are
covering up wounds and refusing medical attention for fear of being evacuated
and permanently separated from this organization..." It was also a common
problem for seriously wounded soldiers to go AWOL from hospitals in order
to rejoin their units.
You used your three purple hearts to leave Vietnam early. That's why you were
so adamant about getting that 3rd one! In fact you DEMANDED you receive one!
My oldest boy came home from Iraq with numerous commendations and then
proceeded to volunteer to go to Afghanistan and from there back to Iraq
again. My sons and father have never had anything but the highest
regard and respect for their fellow soldiers.
Yet, you came home to publicly charge your fellow fighting men with being
war criminals and to urge their defeat by the enemy. You even wrote a
book that had a cover which mocked the heroism of the U.S. Marines who raised
the flag on Iwo Jima. Our current crop of soldiers has a philosophy that no
one gets left behind; and they have practiced that from Somalia to the
battlefields of the Middle East. Yet as chairman of a Senate committee
looking into allegations that many of your fellow servicemen had been left
behind as prisoners in Vietnam, you chose to defend the Vietnamese regime.
You even went so far as to refer to the families of the POWs and MIA's as
"Professional malcontents, conspiracy mongers, con artists, and dime-store
Rambos". That's YOUR OWN Words!
As a Senator you voted against the 1991 Gulf War, and have repeatedly
voted against funds to supply our troops with the best equipment, and against
money to improve our intelligence capability. I find this particularly
ironic since as a Presidential candidate you are
highly critical of our pre-war intelligence in Iraq. However, you did
vote to authorize the President to go to war, but have since proceeded to do
everything you can to undermine the efforts of our government and our
troops to win.
Is this what our fighting men and women can expect of you if you are their
Commander in Chief? Will you gladly send them to war - only to then aid
the enemy by undermining the morale of our troops and cutting off the
weapons they need to win?
Our country is at war Senator, and as has been the case in every war
since the American Revolution, a member of my family is serving their country
during the war. Now you want me to trust you to lead my sons in this fight?
Sorry Senator, but when I compare your record to those who have fought and died for
this nation, and are currently fighting and dying, the answer is not just no,
but Hell No!
Sincerely,
Michael Connelly
February 14, 2004
Dallas, Texas
Forward this to EVERYONE you know --
we can NOT afford to have this man as the President of the United States!!
Kerry is as UN-American as any Senator could be. As a Senator he has hardly attended any of the meetings of the Senate committees of which he was a member.
Except to vote for higher taxes and less support for our soldiers.
He not only should not be President, he should be impeached!
It is time to take a stand!!
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