Too Much, Too Fast!

Too Much, Too Fast
By: Keith Brock
October 28, 2009
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“Too much, too fast,” said Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry, this past Monday regarding Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s request for a troop surge in Afghanistan. “His request goes too far,” said Kerry.

When hearing this comment I was somewhat taken aback. First, of all the people to have out in front of the camera speaking about the level of troops or the tactics to be used in the fight in any theatre of war, Senator Kerry is probably the worst choice of anyone in Congress. He must be making President Obama cringe when he does this; if not, President Obama has a lot to learn about the patriotic American People. John Kerry is not the man to send out in front of the cameras for much of anything when it comes to the military. The military knows this, evidently President Obama doesn’t.

I firsts read about Kerry’s tour of duty in the Vietnam War when he was running for President. He enraged the Swift Boat soldiers he served with by his stage prop of a Swift Boat that moved across the stage delivering him to the people at the Democratic National Convention, the one a young Senator named Barack Obama spoke at, in Boston, MA.

For good or bad, Kerry is seen as someone who used the system to get ahead, stood on the shoulders of others, and sometimes on their head and faces to get his face out front, to become a Senator.

How hasn’t heard how Kerry threw his medals over the White House fence in a protest of the Vietnam War. Those must have been magical medals because the word is that he still has them. So, who’s medals did he throw over the fence? More importantly is the act of deception. But if he possibly typed up the recommendations for his own medals, then I guess they didn’t mean that much – except he didn’t toss his own out, but someone else’s and that is the root problem I have with Senator John Kerry. He goes off to Washington to get into power, planning it from the beginning by volunteering for a tour of duty in Vietnam, in what he thought was a fairly safe tour of duty, only to find out that it was not as safe as he thought.

It’s kind of a coincidence that Kerry just happened to take a typewriter to the war front in Vietnam. Of course, all those recommendations did happen to be typed. Did he ever produce the person who signed them? I think the name supposedly represents a nonexistent person, or one that was not available to make the recommendations. It is all laid out in a book written about Kerry.

Most of the people who served with Kerry were outraged that he came back to the United States as a hero; then lied about them for political gain stating that massacres were going on by these heroic soldiers. They consider Kerry the spawn of the devil and make no bones about it. Kerry is now: powerful, married to an extremely rich woman; he did pretty well after all, didn’t he? Too many people who go to Washington end up rich and powerful and that is a enervation of our system. Some are accused of despicable acts of perfidy for the power, and riches that come with it.

The men who served with Kerry saw something entirely different than the man he came back the States and portrayed himself to be. They could barely contain their rage.

In their eyes Kerry was out for Kerry; an interloper and gamer of the system. In fact, John O’Neil, who served in the Coastal Division 11 in Vietnam, the same unit John F. Kerry had been assigned, was so angry about what he found out about Kerry after he left Vietnam that he was instrumental in the writing of the book “Unfit For Command” Swift Boat Veterans Speak out Against John Kerry, in 2004. The book was on the New York Times bestselling list and is worth reading since Kerry seems to want to hog up the limelight again. Know thy ruler, I say!

To give you an idea of the loathing for Kerry his fellow soldiers had for him, I give you the chapters of the "Unfit for Commmand." They say a lot in themselves:

Part I: John Kerry in Vietnam
One: Debating Kerry
Two: The Reluctant Warrior
Three: The Purple Heart Hunter
Four: War Crimes
Five: More Fraudulent Medals


Part II: Antiwar Protester
Six: A Testimony of Lies
Seven: Meeting with the Enemy
Eight: Kerry’s Antiwar Secrets
Nine: Kerry’s Communist Honors
Ten: Unfit for Command

Rear Admiral Roy F. Hoffman, USN (Retired), Commander of the Swift Boats in Vietnam, 1968-1969 had this to say about John Kerry:

“I do not believe John Kerry is fit to be commander in chief of the armed forces of the United State. This is not a political issue. It is a matter of his judgment, truthfulness, reliability, loyalty, and trust – all absolute tenets of command.”

I can only hope that Senator Kerry melds back into the background where he has been quietly living in riches and power; out of the spotlight and not causing too much damage, hopefully, to America. I am not interested in hearing him as the new spokesman for the way forward, especially after looking back at the path traveled.

Finally, I would like to suggest that Senator Kerry does have the right message, just to the wrong person. He should be saying this to the President of the United States, Barac Obama. We The People know that he is doing Too Much, Too Fast. The message is correct;  jus the wrong messenger and the wrong target.  Of course, Kerry never was to Swift, per the Swift Boaters.  The book is worth the read.