Letter I wrote
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Thought I would post a letter I wrote to the local paper..
As a Vietnam era veteran and son a wounded WW2 vet, I feel I must speak out against the paper patriotism of the far-right.
This group is always hooting about how patriotic they are; how much they love the military and support law enforcement. But talk is cheap. Actions are something else.
These “patriots” had no problem when George Bush sent our men and women off to die in a war for false reasons. Who can forget how Vietnam war veteran Sen. John Kerry was mocked at the Republican convention by sunshine patriots wearing fake bandages ridiculing the wounds he had received in Vietnam? And remember how they spread such false and malicious stories about Kerry that a whole new word entered the English language; “Swiftboating?” And let's not forget what they did to Georgia Sen. Max Cleland, the man who lost one arm and both legs in the battle of Khey Sahn. Saxby Chambliss ran an ad depicting Cleland as a mixture of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden while conservative darling Ann Coulter falsely claimed he had been injured in an accident with his friends "while drinking beer!"
Now this same gang tells us how much they love and respect law enforcement. But now that President Obama has called for measures that will help reduce gun violence and make the work of our law enforcement officials a bit safer; they will have none of it!
Instead, they are running around making asinine comparisons to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin!
It's not only a public demonstration of their total ignorance, but it demonstrates their moral hypocrisy as well!
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