1. Kerry’s wounds were TRULY cuts and scratches. None of them required hospitalization, nor even more than a brief visit to the unit infirmary. His commanding officer did not want to give him the Purple Heart.

2. When he came home, while still a Naval officer subject to the UCMJ, he participated in anti-war organizations. He also went to Paris to secretly meet with Madame Binh to “negotiate” a brokered deal between the U.S. and North Vietnam’s Communist regime. Clear violation of U.S. law and the UCMJ.

3. Upon his separation from service, supported by evidence the FBI and CIA had furnished to the Naval Investigative Services, he received a General Discharge and his awards were revoked. Many years later, after the Democratic Party’s untiring work on his behalf, his discharge was upgraded to Honorable and his awards were restored.

4. But the efforts on behalf of John Kerry were costly. The Church Hearings effectively ruined the CIA and have crippled it to this day. The 1978 Foreign Intelligence Service Act is at the foundation the cause of the “wall of separation” between the FBI and CIA, enabling terrorist organizations and foreign spies to exploit the gap.

5. John Kerry had difficulty getting accepted into law schools upon his discharge from the Navy. A less than honorable discharge can be a problem. It also proved to be a problem when he applied to the Massachusetts Bar. The tireless work of Sen. Edward Kennedy prodded the Church Hearings, which were meant to expose and expunge the CIA’s files on domestic activities on behalf of the Soviet agents of dezinformatzia.

What a bizarre comment. Do you understand the limits of film? Do you understand that a whole truth couldn’t be told in any format?

Maybe you meant to say “I am incapable of enjoying a movie that doesn’t tell me what i don’t already know.”

I agree.
but it came 5 years after the fact that we had a couple of idiots Bush-Rumsfield- lead/push us into war.

I don’t need to tell my MOS or unit.

I have one purple heart.

John Kerry 1970-71 was more superior,
he has 3.

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What was your military MOS? What unit? Campaigns and countries?

Vets like you who are dopes for the Left are a minority. That’s why only 23% of the military voted for Oobonga.

Oh, and by the way, “pre-emption” is a sensible policy to have in today’s world of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons proliferation. You can’t adequately play defense in this kind of environment. Not with enemies who have stealth on their side. Our CIA is toothless, because it has no case officers and no agents in those countries that are hostile to us. It is very difficult to set up networks within Iran or other terror states, because your average Caucasian male, even if fluent in the language, is not going to pass unnoticed. You have to recruit perhaps some unsavory characters to get on the inside. Plus, your agents may have to “prove themselves” within the terrorist organizations and governments in order to be trusted. And that means the death of innocents.

I never served in a combat MOS when I was in the Army. But I do know combat veterans – Marines, Army, and Navy SEALS – who did go in harm’s way. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM BELIEVES IN THE MISSION. Officer and enlisted.

It was our armed forces more than “Iraqi civilians” who made the Surge work. Yes, we had the help of Iraqis who increasingly were feeding us good HUMINT about the enemy. But it all would not have happened without a supported Gen. Petraeus and his men.

YOU may have soured on the mission and the overall strategy, but yours is a voice that mainly counts in groups of veterans against the war. Kind of like what John Kerry did in 1970-71.

In the history books, the Gulf War with Iraq will look more like one conflict than two.
It will judge whether the cost was worthwhile in a historical window.

As Michael Yon said, it’s mostly in the rear view mirror now with an Iraqi government in control now.

Tries to take me down the path of retard.

But it is painful trying to explain why a retard like Donald Rumsfield was turned lose with his “We will fight with the army that we have” 50,000 brave young men and women national guard troops going into a country of 25 million with no plan to get out.

Collin Powell told the dingbats, Bush and Rumsfield,
that one million men and women would not be enough.

Bush and Rumsfield come from a long line of ‘Water Walkers’ that think their God is the only God and this planet is one big American experiment.

Well, Rumsfield got his butt fired, that is fact.

And Bush got McCain swamped with 8 million more voters wanting ‘Change’ in Iraq which had already been saved by the more stupid terrorists that have killed more civilians than Blackhawk and the Coalition.
The Surge helped the Iraqi civilians kill more terrorists and take back their country. ‘THE CIVILIANS AND THEIR COUNTRY.’

Now we have another ‘Water Walking’ Marlboro smoking Pres. Elect Bambi that HOPES he can go into the caves of Afghanistan and Pakistan with American troops and kill Sodom bin Lying, he also hopes you wont notice the CHANGE.

Most combat vets are not as dumb as you think/hope we are!
And we have lived history not just read about it!

Alinsky Rules for Radicals! -LOL

Who taught you the Alinsky Rules for Radicals? One of the rules is to take some stated ethical precept of the capitalist system and then cite instance after episode where the United States and the capitalist system fail to measure up to its own ideals. Ram it home and keep establishing hypocrisy in order to win the argument with the young people, who are easily impressed with such jejeune debate tactics.

But, anyway, there were many reasons for deposing the Babylonian Baathists. Pre-eminent is the fact that any violation of the 1991 Truce would trigger the resumption of hostilities.

Is that too much for your mind to absorb, retard?

You’re also historically ignorant. If one cannot see the political and military differences between widely separated eras and understand why countries behaved differently, then cherry picking one event and claiming to know all about it is simply hubris. Ignorant hubris, at that.

Rwanda- 500,000 slaughtered, What, couple years ago? Help UN!

Dafur you dufus.
250,000 slaughtered. AS OF TODAY. Help UN!

I guess we don’t invade other genocidal regimes killing black people,
Unless they have Light Sweet Crude Oil on their bodies.

Remember- Russia invading Georgia? Two months ago?
We didn’t do Shiite-
because Bush knew the Russians were only bullying a small country just like we did in Iraq.
Help UN! They are even building a Georgia Wall,
Do Something
please?

You need a modern history lesson- 101
and you call me ignorant. HA.

And don’t try to tell me I am un- American,

I am a combat veteran.
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You’re also historically ignorant. If one cannot see the political and military differences between widely separated eras and understand why countries behaved differently, then cherrypicking one event and claiming to know all about it is simply hubris. Ignorant hubris, at that.