Token Kerry Krunch
Dear John
Didn't mean to spend all my political comments on Bashing Bush. It's about your senseless contribution to making a mountain out of a molehill over whether you threw your ribbons or your medals over the fence. Frankly, John, you looked like an idiot trying to rewrite the dictionary... reminded me of Clinton saying " it depends on what your definition of is, is". Please allow me to rephrase your response. No charge.
I was a soldier in Viet Nam. I was on our side. I killed a bunch of them fellas in black pajamas. I got wounded three times, and did a bunch of other stuff that the military deemed heroic, so I got some medals.
When I got back to the states and away from the danger, I began to change my mind about the war. Maybe I felt guilty about the folks I had killed for a cause that no longer made sense. Whatever, I started protesting the war. I didn't want no stinking hero tokens from a government I had come to believe had betrayed us, so I told them to take 'em and shove 'em.
I didn't buy into the "Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out" mantra of the Leary Bunch, so it looked like the best thing I could do was to join the government, and try to reform it from the inside. My anger and my hopelessness began to subside and I eventually changed my mind about the recognition I had gotten from the government. I am proud of being a hero in the service of the country I love, I even polish my medals now and then. [At this point John you may think it ironic that you are being criticized by some chicken shit, draft dodging Texan riding on his daddy's coattails, but you probably shouldn't say that out loud.] Well, you get the drift, you can take it from here...
You see John, we once again need some of the courage you showed on the Bay Hap
River. You need to stand up in the face of an enemy just as dangerous to the safety of our nation as that machine gun nest was to you and your boat. You had some brave companions in Viet Nam, but this time you will have to go it alone. You need to say something no other politician has the guts to say, and they will try to beat you to death with your words, but please, jump up on your well televised soapbox and shout at the top of your lungs "I CHANGED MY MIND".
Then, once you see that you don't blow up in a fiery brimstone cloud for challenging Zeus, you might try this. Say something like "folks I'll tell you the truth, I don't know how the hell we are going to get out of the mess in Iraq. We shouldn't be there, and I shouldn't have voted to back up our President. It may prove to be one of the worst tactical errors we have ever made. Any hope of us being respected by the rest of the world has been reduced to slim and none. I am not sure how we can get it back, and I really don't know what to do now, but I will do my best, and I promise you I won't make it worse".
Well John, I would help you out some more but I'm not really turned on by the jive ass political rituals I would have to swear to in order to be on your staff. Besides that, I have a book to write.
Sincerely,
Jim
Dear John
Didn't mean to spend all my political comments on Bashing Bush. It's about your senseless contribution to making a mountain out of a molehill over whether you threw your ribbons or your medals over the fence. Frankly, John, you looked like an idiot trying to rewrite the dictionary... reminded me of Clinton saying " it depends on what your definition of is, is". Please allow me to rephrase your response. No charge.
I was a soldier in Viet Nam. I was on our side. I killed a bunch of them fellas in black pajamas. I got wounded three times, and did a bunch of other stuff that the military deemed heroic, so I got some medals.
When I got back to the states and away from the danger, I began to change my mind about the war. Maybe I felt guilty about the folks I had killed for a cause that no longer made sense. Whatever, I started protesting the war. I didn't want no stinking hero tokens from a government I had come to believe had betrayed us, so I told them to take 'em and shove 'em.
I didn't buy into the "Turn On, Tune In, and Drop Out" mantra of the Leary Bunch, so it looked like the best thing I could do was to join the government, and try to reform it from the inside. My anger and my hopelessness began to subside and I eventually changed my mind about the recognition I had gotten from the government. I am proud of being a hero in the service of the country I love, I even polish my medals now and then. [At this point John you may think it ironic that you are being criticized by some chicken shit, draft dodging Texan riding on his daddy's coattails, but you probably shouldn't say that out loud.] Well, you get the drift, you can take it from here...
You see John, we once again need some of the courage you showed on the Bay Hap
River. You need to stand up in the face of an enemy just as dangerous to the safety of our nation as that machine gun nest was to you and your boat. You had some brave companions in Viet Nam, but this time you will have to go it alone. You need to say something no other politician has the guts to say, and they will try to beat you to death with your words, but please, jump up on your well televised soapbox and shout at the top of your lungs "I CHANGED MY MIND".
Then, once you see that you don't blow up in a fiery brimstone cloud for challenging Zeus, you might try this. Say something like "folks I'll tell you the truth, I don't know how the hell we are going to get out of the mess in Iraq. We shouldn't be there, and I shouldn't have voted to back up our President. It may prove to be one of the worst tactical errors we have ever made. Any hope of us being respected by the rest of the world has been reduced to slim and none. I am not sure how we can get it back, and I really don't know what to do now, but I will do my best, and I promise you I won't make it worse".
Well John, I would help you out some more but I'm not really turned on by the jive ass political rituals I would have to swear to in order to be on your staff. Besides that, I have a book to write.
Sincerely,
Jim
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