Posted by
Beckymo on Wednesday, November 01, 2006 3:25:23 PM
I am so tired of hearing that only those who served have the right to speak out about what is going on in Iraq or elsewhere. Sen. Kerry, covering his own butt, spinning his Freudian slip into overdrive, implies that because VP Cheney and others did not serve, while he did, that they have no right to speak out about our war effort.
Well, I'm a 54 year old woman who clearly never served in the military. My father and uncles served in WW2, but no one was a career soldier. They served because they either enlisted or were drafted after Pearl Harbor. Ironically, when these men spoke out in favor of Vietnam, men like John Kerry and his anti-war cohorts (most of whom never served) told those honorable men that they were wrong, that they shouldn't speak, because "Vietnam wasn't like WW2".
Now, Kerry and his ilk want to make Iraq into Vietnam, when they are nothing alike. But, like way too many of my 'boomer' generation, they want to stamp their collective feet and throw another massive tantrum, led by Pelosi and others, forcing us to come home before we have accomplished our goals. They seek to undermine President Bush the way they undermined Presidents Johnson and Nixon, and in all instances, undermine our nation's security and honor.
Thank God for those young men and women who are smarter and braver than most of my generation ever was. Senator Kerry should shut the hell up and go back to clipping coupons with Teresa.