Letter to the Editor

An answer

Monday, June 21, 2004

Dear Editor,

Here is the answer to Bob Thayer's question on Friday's Open Forum.

Question: "By the way, do you have any proof Kerry called his comrades rapists, baby killers, village burners?"

Testimony before the 1971 Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 23, 1971, Kerry claimed that U.S. soldiers had "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam." (I would suggest you check the congressional records if you don't believe me. You see us God loving conservatives can quote facts not lies.) And let's not forget.

On that same day he (Kerry) led members of VVAW in a protest during which they threw their medals and ribbons over a fence in front of the U.S. Capitol. Kerry later admitted the medals he threw were not his.

And apparently you don't understand the term "Draft Dodger"

Excerpts from a letter your hero Bill Clinton wrote to Col. Eugene Holmes director of (ROTC) program:

"When the draft came, despite political convictions, I was having a hard time facing the prospect of fighting a war I had been fighting against, and that is why I contacted you. ROTC was the one way left in which I could possibly, but not positively, avoid both Vietnam and resistance.

"After I signed the ROTC letter of intent I began to wonder whether the compromise I had made with myself was not more objectionable than the draft would have been, because I had no interest in the ROTC program in itself and all I seemed to have done was to protect myself from physical harm."

And by the way, he wrote this letter after he left for England and after he burned his draft notice.

You see, not serving in the military after you are drafted makes you a "draft Dodger i.e. Bill Clinton. Or do you believe everyone that volunteered for service is also a "draft dodger" since they volunteered and were not drafted? Let's be careful with that answer.

You're making it too easy. Let's try a little harder next time OK?

And by the way, do you have any question on Kennedy or Daschle? Remember I only deal in facts.

Kirt Matson

McCook

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