[lit-ideas] Fwd: It Takes Real Courage to Desert Your Post and Then Attack a Wounded Vet
- From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:46:51 -0700
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> Date: 27 août 2004 07:48:10 GMT-07:00
> À: goya@xxxxxxx
> Objet: It Takes Real Courage to Desert Your Post and Then Attack a
> Wounded Vet
>
>
> August 26, 2004
>
> It Takes Real Courage to Desert Your Post and Then Attack a Wounded Vet
>
> Dear Mr. Bush,
>
> I know you and I have had our differences in the past, and I realize I
> am the one who started this whole mess about "who did what" during
> Vietnam when I brought up that "deserter" nonsense back in January.
> But I have to hand it to you on what you have uncovered about John
> Kerry and his record in Vietnam. Kerry has tried to pass himself off
> as a war hero, but thanks to you and your friends, we now know the
> truth.
>
> First of all, thank you for pointing out to all of us that Mr. Kerry
> was never struck by a BULLET. It was only SHRAPNEL that entered his
> body! I did not know that! Hell, what's the big deal about a bunch of
> large, sharp, metal shards ripping open your flesh? That happens to
> all of us! In my opinion, if you want a purple heart, you'd better be
> hit with a bullet -- with your name on it!
>
> Secondly, thank you for sending Bob Dole out there and letting us know
> that Mr. Kerry, though wounded three times, actually "never spilled
> blood." When you are in the debates with Kerry, turn to him and say,
> "Dammit, Mr. Kerry, next time you want a purple heart, you better
> spill some American red blood! And I don't mean a few specks like
> those on O.J.'s socks -- we want to see a good pint or two of blood
> for each medal. In fact, I would have preferred that you had bled
> profusely, a big geyser of blood spewing out of your neck or
> something!" Then throw this one at him: "Senator Kerry, over 58,000
> brave Americans gave their lives in Vietnam -- but YOU didn't. You
> only got WOUNDED! What do you have to say for yourself???" Lay that
> one on him and he won't know what to do.
>
> And thanks, also, Mr. Bush, for exposing the fact that Mr. Kerry might
> have actually WOUNDED HIMSELF in order to get those shiny medals. Of
> course he did! How could the Viet Cong have hit him -- he was on a
> SWIFT boat! He was going too fast to be hit by enemy fire. He tried to
> blow himself up three different times just so he could go home and run
> for president someday. It's all so easy to see, now, what he was up
> to.
>
> What would we do without you, Mr. Bush? Criticize you as we might,
> when it comes to pointing out other men's military records, there is
> no one who can touch your prowess. In 2000, you let out the rumor that
> your opponent John McCain might be "nuts" from the 5 years he spent in
> a POW camp. Then, in the 2002 elections, your team compared
> triple-amputee Sen. Max Cleland to Osama bin Laden, and that cost him
> the election. And now you are having the same impact on war hero John
> Kerry. Since you (oops, I mean "The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth!")
> started running those ads, Kerry's polls numbers have dropped (with
> veterans, he has lost 18 points in the last few weeks).
>
> Some people have said "Who are you, Mr. Bush, to attack these brave
> men considering you yourself have never seen combat -- in fact, you
> actively sought to avoid it." What your critics fail to understand is
> that even though your dad got you into a unit that would never be sent
> to Vietnam -- and even though you didn't show up for Guard duty for at
> least a year -- at least you were still IN FAVOR of the Vietnam War!
> Cowards like Clinton felt it was more important to be consistent (he
> opposed the war, thus he refused to go) than to be patriotic and
> two-faced.
>
> The reason that I think you know so much about other men's war wounds
> is because, during your time you in the Texas Air National Guard, you
> suffered so many of them yourself. Consider the paper cut you received
> on September 22, 1972, while stationed in Alabama, working on a Senate
> campaign for your dad's friend (when you were supposed to be on the
> Guard base). A campaign brochure appeared from nowhere, ambushing your
> right index finger, and blood trickled out onto your brand new argyle
> sweater.
>
> Then there was the incident with the Crazy Glue when your fraternity
> brothers visited you one weekend at the base and glued your lips
> together while you were "passed out." Though initially considered
> "friendly fire," it was later ruled that you suffered severe post
> traumatic stress disorder from the assault and required certain
> medicinal attention -- which, it seems, was provided by those same
> fraternity brethren.
>
> But nothing matched your heroism when, on July 2, 1969, you sustained
> a massive head injury when enemy combatants from another Guard unit
> dropped a keg of Coors on your head during a reconnaissance mission at
> a nearby all-girls college. Fortunately, the cool, smooth fluids that
> poured out of the keg were exactly what was needed to revive you.
>
> That you never got a purple heart for any of these incidents is a
> shame. I can fully appreciate your anger at Senator Kerry for the
> three he received. I mean, Kerry was a man of privilege, he could have
> gotten out just like you. Instead, he thinks he's going to gain points
> with the American people bragging about how he was getting shot at
> every day in the Mekong Delta. Ha! Is that the best he can do? Hell, I
> hear gunfire every night outside my apartment window! If he thinks he
> is going to impress anyone with the fact that he volunteered to go
> when he could have spent the Vietnam years on the family yacht, he
> should think again. That only shows how stupid he was! True-blue
> Americans want a president who knows how to pull strings and work the
> system and get away with doing as little work as possible!
>
> So, to make it up to you, I have written some new ads you can use on
> TV. People will soon tire of the swift boat veterans and you are going
> to need some fresh, punchier material. Feel free to use any of these:
>
> ANNOUNCER: "When the bullets were flying all around him in Vietnam,
> what did John Kerry do? He said he leaned over the boat and 'pulled a
> man out of the river.' But, as we all know, men don't live in the
> river -- fish do. John Kerry knows how to tell a big fish tale. What
> he won't tell you is that when the enemy was shooting at him, he
> ducked. Do you want a president who will duck? Vote Bush."
>
> ANNOUNCER: "Mr. Kerry's biggest supporter, Sen. Max Cleland, claims to
> have lost two legs and an arm in Vietnam. But he still has one arm!
> How did that happen? One word: Cowardice. When duty called, he was
> unwilling to give his last limb. Is that the type of selfishness you
> want hanging out in the White House? We think not. Vote for the man
> who would be willing to give America his right frontal lobe. Vote
> Bush."
>
> Hope these help, Mr. Bush. And remember, when the American death toll
> in Iraq hits 1,000 during the Republican convention, be sure to
> question whether those who died really did indeed "die" -- or were
> they just trying to get their face on CNN's nightly tribute to fallen
> heroes? The sixteen who've died so far this week were probably working
> hand in hand with the Kerry campaign to ruin your good time in New
> York. Stay consistent, sir, and always, ALWAYS question the veracity
> of anyone who risks their life for this country. It's the least they
> deserve.
>
> Yours,
>
> Michael Moore
> mmflint@xxxxxxx
> www.michaelmoore.com
>
>
> PS. George, I know you said you don't read the newspaper, but USA
> Today has given me credentials to the Republican convention to write a
> guest column each day next week (Tues.-Fri.). If you don't want to
> read it, you and I will be in the same building so maybe I could come
> by and read it to you? Lemme know...
>
>
Michael Chase
(goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
CNRS UPR 76
7, rue Guy Moquet
Villejuif 94801
France
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