MoveOn.org’s 2004 candidate is haniebny (without honor)
by Bill Levinson

“The scum of the earth, enlisted for drink” was how the Duke of Wellington described the typical recruit of the early nineteenth century, and he was probably correct. The typical Redcoat enlisted because he could find no other work, or even to escape debtor’s prison or prosecution for a crime. Nonetheless, the Iron Duke added, the British Army usually made a “fine fellow” of him. While the American citizen-soldier of the 21st century has at least a high school education and may in fact be a reservist or National Guard member who has left a comfortable civilian job to sojourn in Iraq’s 120-degree sunny clime, John Kerry (a self-confessed war criminal who threw his medals away before he decided that he didn’t throw them away as opposed to the “Sepoy General” who made his reputation in hells like Assaye long before his triumph at Waterloo) regards the American citizen-soldier as the scum of the earth, enlisted only because he or she is too stupid to get a civilian job.

As reported by the Associated Press,

The war of words, tough even for this hard-fought campaign season, came after Kerry told a group of California students on Monday that those unable to navigate the country’s education system “get stuck in Iraq.”

We savvy quite well, Mr. Kerry. Our Armed Forces are the dregs of society, people who enlist only because they can’t “navigate the country’s navigation system.” The truth is that many of the people who are sweltering in Iraq while you enjoy Teresa Heinz Kerry’s money are being sent home in wheelchairs or boxes because your remarks about Americans “terrorizing” Iraqis have helped the enemy recruit even more terrorists. With few exceptions, like the torturers of Abu Ghraib, every single member of our Armed Forces is infinitely superior to you in terms of personal character, ethics, and integrity. In fact, even the Abu Ghraib gang didn’t get thousands of fellow soldiers killed the way your treasonous commentary probably did during the Vietnam War. In fact, you, John Kerry, are a confessed war criminal. Perhaps you were just following der Fuhrer’s orders, ja, or perhaps you really vasn’t there?

From History News Network, Tim Russert’s interview with John Kerry in 1971 (http://hnn.us/articles/3552.html)
SEN. KERRY: There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions and all of this is ordered as a matter of written established policy by the government of the United States from the top down.

Statement by John Kerry to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations April 23, 1971
http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html http://pages.xtn.net/~wingman/docs/kerryst.htm
I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command…. They told the stories at times they had 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 in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam

In Sharpe’s Eagle, the contemptable Sir Henry Simmerson– who symbolizes the worst aspects of the English aristocracy– loses the King’s Colour by sending other men into danger and then abandoning them. (Afterward, he tries to blame the major whom he had ordered to lead the attack, and who had died while trying to protect his soldiers.) The Duke of Wellington’s spymaster tells Simmerson, “Take my advice and a pistol, go behind that tent, and blow out what is left of your brains.”

Perhaps John Kerry is the reincarnation of the fictional Simmerson. In any case, our advice to him is to dig a deep hole, crawl into it like the stinking rodent he is, and then pull the hole in after him. Kerry is not worthy of the courtesy a lady or gentleman would accord a pet or a domestic animal. John Kerry is in fact the very scum of the earth and, unlike the Duke of Wellington’s typical recruit, there is little chance of ever making a human being of him, let alone a fine fellow.

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