April 23, 2004
Kerry's Life in the Navy
Though he doubted that the war could be won, and by now felt certain his role in it was wasteful and idiotic, he and PCF-94 fought on with astonishing valor and even foolhardiness. In one of the operations, sensing an enemy ambush, he grounded his boat, took off with an M-16 rifle, and ran down and killed a VC trying to arm a B-40 rocket launcher before he could fire. "He (Kerry) saved the day and our lives," Fred Short, one of his crewmen, said. Kerry won a Silver Star for his valor, pinned on his chest by Admiral Zumwalt himself.
Jesus Christ, do we want such a cold-blooded, clear-eyed killer in the White House? One day it's VC, the next it's our nation's children with John Kerry's rifle shoved up their left nostril. Is this what the Democratic Party stands for - murder?
That's a rather interesting take... I guess he should've just avoided the war altogether, eh? Or if he really felt it his duty to fight, he shouldn't have fought so well.
Money quote:
"By any standard," says Brinkley, "John Kerry had become a bona fide war hero." And so he had, in a war he opposed and in a role he thought to be ludicrous. There is no example in American history that I can think of, in which a future presidential candidate fought with such valor for a cause so obviously perverse in his own mind.