TexasVet
Member
This time a sign set me off! I know the guy that put it up, as you can tell in the letter.
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8/2/04
Letter to the Editor,
On Hwy 356 there is a sign that states "Nobody died when Clinton lied, Can Bush say the same?"
As a Viet Nam War Veteran ( and just as someone who actually reads the news.), I am disgusted by the obvious mistatement. Of course people died when Clinton lied.
Some of us still, and will always, remember them.
In Haiti, 4 dead soldiers who went "for peaceful purposes" into a civil war. I will remember them.
When, twice, nations who had Bin Laden in custody tried to give him to Clinton, he lied and said that we did not need him as he and his group, Al Quieda, were not a threat to us. I will remember that!
After that came the USS Cole bombing, seventeen dead and 39 injured by Al Quieda. I will remember them.
Then the embassy bombings, 231 dead, by Al Quieda. I will remember them.
Then came Somalia, 29 dead American soldiers when Clinton lied and told the troops that they had no need for the armor that the on site commanders were begging be sent. That total included the only two Congressional Medals of Honor presented since Viet Nam. Deaths caused by Al Quieda members who trained the Somalis how to modify RPG fuses to shoot down Blackhawks. I will remember Sergeants Shugart (USA MOH) and Gordon (USA MOH) and the 27 others.
Of course, we should add the innocents who died in the African aspirin plant that Clinton bombed and told us it was a chemical weapons plant (hint: another lie). I will remember them.
Let us not forget Vince Foster, who TOLD us he died because of Clinton's lies in his suicide note. I will remember him, too.
Then, of course, the events of 9/11, perpertrated by that SAME group that Clinton told us was not a sufficient threat to go to the trouble of extraditing Bin Ladin when offered to us on a plate. We will all remember the thousands.
It sickens me that a member of the American Legion, a veteran, would post a sign that "forgets" these deaths for political purposes.
Now the party of my fathers has seen fit to send us another liar for a candidate. John Kerry, who came back from Viet Nam, decrying the horror and flinging away his medals (which are somehow now prominently on display!) and calling ALL Viet Nam veterans, and this is a direct quote, "murderers and war criminals", who now proclaims loudly his "valiant, proud" service and expects me, my brother veterans, our families and the families of those who never returned, to forget that and give him our vote. Those of us who actually fought for our country with pride (pride then AND now) will never forgive those comments. My response to them will be in the voting booth, as I cannot put it into words that the newpaper would print. And I will remember the Clinton dead.
(TexasVet)
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It may be only a little local paper, but I got mad.
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8/2/04
Letter to the Editor,
On Hwy 356 there is a sign that states "Nobody died when Clinton lied, Can Bush say the same?"
As a Viet Nam War Veteran ( and just as someone who actually reads the news.), I am disgusted by the obvious mistatement. Of course people died when Clinton lied.
Some of us still, and will always, remember them.
In Haiti, 4 dead soldiers who went "for peaceful purposes" into a civil war. I will remember them.
When, twice, nations who had Bin Laden in custody tried to give him to Clinton, he lied and said that we did not need him as he and his group, Al Quieda, were not a threat to us. I will remember that!
After that came the USS Cole bombing, seventeen dead and 39 injured by Al Quieda. I will remember them.
Then the embassy bombings, 231 dead, by Al Quieda. I will remember them.
Then came Somalia, 29 dead American soldiers when Clinton lied and told the troops that they had no need for the armor that the on site commanders were begging be sent. That total included the only two Congressional Medals of Honor presented since Viet Nam. Deaths caused by Al Quieda members who trained the Somalis how to modify RPG fuses to shoot down Blackhawks. I will remember Sergeants Shugart (USA MOH) and Gordon (USA MOH) and the 27 others.
Of course, we should add the innocents who died in the African aspirin plant that Clinton bombed and told us it was a chemical weapons plant (hint: another lie). I will remember them.
Let us not forget Vince Foster, who TOLD us he died because of Clinton's lies in his suicide note. I will remember him, too.
Then, of course, the events of 9/11, perpertrated by that SAME group that Clinton told us was not a sufficient threat to go to the trouble of extraditing Bin Ladin when offered to us on a plate. We will all remember the thousands.
It sickens me that a member of the American Legion, a veteran, would post a sign that "forgets" these deaths for political purposes.
Now the party of my fathers has seen fit to send us another liar for a candidate. John Kerry, who came back from Viet Nam, decrying the horror and flinging away his medals (which are somehow now prominently on display!) and calling ALL Viet Nam veterans, and this is a direct quote, "murderers and war criminals", who now proclaims loudly his "valiant, proud" service and expects me, my brother veterans, our families and the families of those who never returned, to forget that and give him our vote. Those of us who actually fought for our country with pride (pride then AND now) will never forgive those comments. My response to them will be in the voting booth, as I cannot put it into words that the newpaper would print. And I will remember the Clinton dead.
(TexasVet)
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It may be only a little local paper, but I got mad.
:banghead:
