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This item was originally posted 2006.08.03.09:36.

There is a special place in Hell for those who served in the military, yet use their veteran's status as a platform for dishonoring the men and women who daily put their lives on the line to defend the nation during the War on Terror.  And that place, currently the abode of Benedict Arnold, will one day be inhabited by the likes of John Kerry and John Murtha.

John Kerry used his self-aborted tour of duty in Vietnam as a springboard for his political career, first running for office as a (self) decorated combat veteran and then, when that didn't work, morphing into a "Winter Soldier," who joined with phony veterans who never served in the military, much less in Vietnam, in spreading lies about those who honorably did their duty in a war they were not allowed to win.  Being anti-Vietnam became his ticket to Washington.  He is a despicable excuse for a human being.

Kerry being largely irrelevant these days, the mantle of Benedict Arnold was picked up and shouldered by John Murtha, the poster child for term limits.  This partisan hack is currently the most visible in a long line of Democrat standard bearers who think that a stint in the military inoculates them and their party against any criticism when it comes to their views on the war.  As the voters have shown thus far, this tactic has not worked.  In fact, it has often backfired.  One reason is that some of their opinions are so off the wall or ill advised as to be ridiculous, a case in point being Murtha's suggestion that troops in Iraq redeploy to Okinawa.  (Not that the leftist media would ever actually analyze and comment upon such a monumentally stupid suggestion.)

All this is not to suggest that having a difference of opinion over how to fight the war is unpatriotic, as long as that difference of opinion is based upon fact instead of partisan political posturing and as long as the motive is to win this war, as opposed to undermining or running away from it.  And, equally important, as long as the critics do not abuse the troops as so many protestors (Kerry, prominently among them) did during Vietnam.

That is where Kerry and Murtha have earned their own Yellow Badge of Cowardice in the current conflict.  Kerry, in comparing our troops to Genghis Khan and Islamofascist terrorists, and Murtha in branding Marines as murderers even before an investigation into the events in Haditha is under way.  Others, such as Sen. Dick Durbin and Democrat Party Leader "Howling" Howard Dean, have compared our troops to Nazis, but my despicability meter on them registers slightly better than it does for Kerry and Murtha, who dishonor the uniform in which they served.

I, for one, am sick and tired of those liars who claim to support the troops while undermining the war in which those troops are so bravely fighting, bleeding and dying.  And when those liars cynically use their miltary stint as a resume burnisher, well, as I said, there is a special place in Hell.

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Contributed by Shane Briscoe on August 5, 2006 at 01:31 PM in Best of Old War Dogs, Jean Fraud Kerry, Mad Jack Murtha, Shane Briscoe | Permalink

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