Be sure to read this open letter from one of our nation's finest anti-Communists to the slanderer John Kerry. It's a pummeling:
The trouble you're having, John, isn't about your medals or coming home early or getting lost -- or even Richard Nixon. The issue is what you did to us when you came home, John.
When you got home, you co-founded Vietnam Veterans Against the War and wrote "The New Soldier," which denounced those of us who served -- and were still serving -- on the battlefields of a thankless war. Worst of all, John, you then accused me -- and all of us who served in Vietnam -- of committing terrible crimes and atrocities.
The Kerrion are absolutely wrong about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. They want to insist to the nation that Bush is behind it all, but without any real evidence. And, after all, when you look at what these men are saying, is there any doubt that this is a personal matter first and a political matter second? Sure, it's fair to say it's both, but come now! This is perhaps their last chance at redemption in the eyes of History. This is a grand stage from which they will have one last furious soliloquy in defense of the defining moment in their lives. To deny the human and personal element in these attacks is to be completely deluded.
From my own perspective (I was still a toddler when the Viet Nam War ended for America), I can't pretend to know the intensity of these feelings ---but I absolutely do not doubt them. But if that intensity can be made to serve the purpose of defeating a man whose mistrust of American power is staggeringly deep, then I am all for it. Whatever it takes, gentlemen, whatever it takes.