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| Vietnam Veterans Denounce 'Hanoi John' | |
| 2004-03-02 | |
Hundreds of U.S. Army veterans and Vietnamese escapees demonstrated Saturday outside John Kerry's campaign headquarters in Manhattan to protest his betrayal of them. "Waving American and South Vietnamese flags and singing the U.S. national anthem, they held up signs saying 'Hanoi John,' and 'Kerry Betrayed Vietnam Vets'," Reuters reported. It claimed there were only 200 protesters, but New York Newsday reported twice that number. "We won't sit by and let the American people think that we are going to stand by somebody who stabbed us in the back," said Jerry Kiley, a veteran and one of the protest's organizers. "He betrayed us. He stabbed us in the back. We will never allow him to be our commander-in-chief. Ever!" Kiley exclaimed to the crowd on Park Avenue.
It's a beginning. Can I get an "Amen" children? | |
| Posted by:.com |
| #14 If the vets will be ghettoed in Boston, perhaps an additional rally should gather at the Vietnam memorial. Journalists stuck covering the Washington beat during the convention might jump at the chance to grab prime time coverage -- and if the rally is huge, it will be hard to ignore, especially if Foxnews jumps on it. |
| Posted by: wife of vet 2004-3-2 9:39:44 PM |
| #13 My ex's father was AF and in and out of Vietnam area for many years. He absolutely hates Kerry and from what I have heard is involved with veteran groups where he lives. I have a feeling he is getting the word out about what a scum Kerry is. And I as a veteran will do everything possible to let people know this is not someone we want as the commander in chief. I heard that the Vietnam Vets against Kerry are going to protest at the convention but that they had been assigned to a protest area a mile or more from the convention site. Major media will probably hush this protest up. They sure don't hush up any protest against Bush. Everytime Bush has been in NC the media has made sure they talk to the protesters. |
| Posted by: AF Lady 2004-3-2 8:42:15 PM |
| #12 Add me to the LONG list of Vets that hate Kerry. Did anyone hear Clelands rant about medical records? I wish Bush could get away with being half as evasive. OTH he kind of reminded me of a rat that is clinging to the last piece of floating debris. I could sense that even he didn’t believe the answers (poor Max). He probably thinks that he will win the next Senate race if Kerry wins. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2004-3-2 7:30:11 PM |
| #11 dataman1, as a recent vet I have to thank you for your service that you did. And to all vets, let us show what a spineless, back stabbing, military hating, special interest loving, communist supporting, socialist shitbag Kerry really is. |
| Posted by: LC Matthew 2004-3-2 3:04:22 PM |
| #10 All the vets I know (as a 26-year military retiree, that's a lot) hate John Kerry, whether they served in Vietnam or not. I did my 365 days, including (rare for Air Force types) at least a short stretch of armed combat under enemy fire. There are a dozen names of people I knew on that black marble monument, including three I would have given my life for. The three things that have made me happiest in the last 20 years is hearing from my Vietnamese mama-san (lives in California), visiting with a Vietnamese that was liaison officer for a group I worked with, and helping the local Vietnamese community adjust to life in Omaha, Nebraska. John Kerry is a piece of LLL fecal matter that will best be scraped up and flushed down the crapper - the sooner the better. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-3-2 1:48:38 PM |
| #9 He's got great hair though! That, along with the "Rock the Vote" crowed and the "news on the half hour" will make him a rambo tough. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-3-2 12:33:25 PM |
| #8 Kerry's people are making a big mistake by trying to downplay the story. As Steve and Steve say, it will come out. Kerry will need to explicitly renounce his 1970s slander and the sooner he does it, the better for him. Of course, even with a renounciation, a lot of people will assume he doesn't mean it now (or didn't mean it then) and that he is just an empty suit. |
| Posted by: mhw 2004-3-2 10:03:14 AM |
| #7 The Demo convention in Boston is gonna be fun, with no doubt as to who the nominee is going to be, the news crews will need to fill air time. They won't be able to keep the demonstrations under wraps forever, not with all that competition for stories. I'll make popcorn. |
| Posted by: Steve 2004-3-2 9:28:58 AM |
| #6 As a NAM vet I'm spreading the word on this Traitor to his uniform to whoever will listen. Chiner, I hope you are right. There is a lot of pent up feeling against this guy for what he did and for opening up old wounds about NAM again. Garrsion I couldn't agree more. FOX is the news channel now. Maybe the y will all get it sometime as their revenues go down and down. |
| Posted by: dataman1 2004-3-2 8:13:07 AM |
| #5 The ABCNBCCBS network nightly "news" program is not going to cover any story that would soil the image of their "chosen one", Hanoi John. Fortunately, the old broadcast network medium is so irrelevant today, it can no longer control what the vast majority of Americans view as news. Before Penis Jennings, Tommy Brokaw and Danny Rather came along, the three versions of the ABCNBCCBS network's nightly news shared 60 million viewers. Today the three nearly identical versions of the same old, lefty crap pulls in less than 20 million mostly elderly shut-ins. With luck, in a year or two, the ABCNBCCBS network will give up on pumping out its nightly propaganda for news altogether. |
| Posted by: Garrison 2004-3-2 4:23:13 AM |
| #4 Odd, most "big media" seem to be spouting about vets supporting K. Though I haven't noticed them mention any groups except Vets Against Nam. |
| Posted by: John Anderson 2004-3-2 3:37:02 AM |
| #3 Steve, I know you are right about the media at some point forced to cover this vet protest. Kerry is not the nominee at this time but when he does become 'da man' all stops are removed. Just watch. Chiner |
| Posted by: Chiner 2004-3-2 2:57:46 AM |
| #2 Amen. At some point Big Media will have to cover this. I have the feeling that the vets, the Vietnamese, and others can stage an event sufficiently large to make that happen. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-3-2 2:26:50 AM |
| #1 Strange.... I did not see this in the ABC news or CNN... Or any other 'major' news organization.... Do you think they will ever show any of Kerry's activities? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-3-2 12:58:39 AM |