Reply #99: ScooterKen- For fun, I took yours and punched it up a notch

[bluedawg12]

Yours is great but, with 20/20 hind sight, I would have gone into a more aggressive response. Which, for today's exercise, is my point.If we learned anything from 2004 it's that playing by gentlemanly rules won't work in an alley brawl.

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It is a sad day for America when men who themselves served in uniform attack a fellow veteran of war. The swift boat veterans insult every man or woman who has proudly served in the United States military and, who like Sen. Kerry, have earned a purple heart.

They seem so distraught by their own lies, smears, and innuendo. Yet, they have had thirty years to settle this matter with the US military but never bothered to mention this until now.

The swift boat veterans for truth are not telling the truth.

They appear on TV in well paid ads to smear the good name of Senator John Kerry as he seeks to continue to serve our nation. The so-called swift boat veterans have come forward during this campaign to support Senator Kerry’s opponent, a man who never saw action over seas, a man who never set one foot in combat, a man with out one purple heart to his name.

The men appearing in the well paid, Republican funded, political campaign ads against Senator Kerry are a disgrace to our brave men and women in uniform today and those who served in Vietnam. Purple hearts are earned in the military and Senator Kerry has earned his. Senator Kerry put his life on the line, volunteered for Viet Nam, saw action, and earned the right to come home and tell the truth as did many young veterans at the time.

The fact that Mr. Bush never spoke out against that war is understandable, sometimes you have to go to war to in order to understand war.

Young men and women who go to war, then and now, enjoy the right of every American to come home and speak their mind. A young John Kerry spoke out as did thousands of other young men who had served in Viet Nam. Mr. Bush never spoke out about the war because he never saw the war.

Senator Kerry has continuously served his country for the last 30 years as a prosecuting attorney, tough on crime, and as a United States Senator who supports the military, is strong on defense, and thoughtful about spending your money on good systems that help our soldiers and sailors. He has voted against bloated, expensive, Republican boon-doggles, you would expect nothing less from a tough, plain spoken, war hero.

Senator Kerry would be happy to debate and compare his purple heart medals with Mr. Bush, but that would be so unfair, Mr. Kerry’s opponent has never earned a single one.