John Kerry's "AWOL Dump" On America at a Time of War
Author: Jim Guirard -- TrueSpeak Institute
Source: Distribution to Selected Lists of "Word Warriors" -- January 2007
On the same day that "Hanoi Jane" Fonda was on the National Mall dumping on US foreign policy at a time of war in Iraq and worldwide, her former Vietnam Era comrade-in-arms John "AWOL" Kerry was doing very much the same destructive thing at the World Economic Forum in Doha, Switzerland.
To the applause of many confirmed America haters in the crowd, this "Always Weak On Liberty" Senator said in part that America "is a sort of international pariah" -- and did so with a most dangerous choice of words which repeatedly depicted America and Americans as "them" rather than "us" or "we." To this observer, there was a between-the-lines flavor of "those damned Americans."
It can only be expected that the man -- realizing that he has "stepped in it" once again -- will repeat the feeble "I was misunderstood" and "a joke gone bad" defenses he made last Fall for asserting that American students should study harder and not to be academic failures fit only for duty in Bush's war in Iraq.
The man's more-of-the-same Doha Dump on America's struggle for peace and stability in Iraq should remind us that the earlier "L'Affaire Kerrybedum" -- his demeaning of those who serve in the American military -- should not be swept from the national memory. It should be understood and remembered in all of its ugly particulars, just as his new Blame America words at Doha should be.
Both of these incidents should bring to mind how fortunate we are that such a reactionary-Left and unreliable person as John Kerry was not elected President of the United States in 2004 -- or ever will be, now that he has again and again so clearly reminded us of who and what he is in terms of national security affairs.
In the last several months -- as he will now be doing again with respect to Doha -- the man has proven quite clearly that the metal of which he is made is some unique alloy of mercury (silken, slippery and highly poisonous), feldspar or "fool's gold" (flashy but valueless), lead (thick headed) and aluminum foil (shiny but short on both grit and gravitas).
On the periodic table of electoral politics, this element should be called "kerrybedum" (keh-RIB-ee-dumb) and be placed between the elements of "Scamalot'" and "Filibuster" -- and is what down-to-earth, shin-kicking (sic) Texans derisively refer to as "Big hat, no cattle."
A Common Chemistry -- J. Kerry and J. Chirac
The only other known creature of this peculiar chemistry is the equally narcissistic and untrustworthy Prime Minister of France, le grand Monsieur Jacques Chirac of the infamous Charaqi-Iraqi "Oil for Food" conspiracy.
Ironically, the two men -- Frenchman Chirac and Swiss-educated Francophone Kerry -- even share the same haughty and dismissive "Parisian" attitude toward any long-term prospect for liberty and democracy for the 25 million tormented citizens of Iraq.
Remember, please, that it was a Chirac-led trade mission which sold the French nuclear power plant to Saddam Hussein's Iraq in the mid-1970s, the one the Israelis most wisely bombed into Hellfire in 1981.
And realize also that it is Kerry who is today leading the charge to cut and run (or blink and slink) from the Bush-led liberation, peacekeeping and democratization efforts in Saddam's former police state -- with much of his hate-Bush and demean-the-military antics a virtual echo chamber of his friend Chirac's pontifications in Europe.
Be that as it may, here are the ten apologies which were due from Mr. Kerry, but not one of which was ever given -- no more than truly sincere apologies will ever be given for the weak-kneed "Kerrybedum" transgressions at Doha:
- Apology for the original slight and insult to the US military and those young academic failures who "get stuck" serving in it
- Apology for the multiple lies about a "joke gone bad"
- Apology for multiple lies to the effect that "I was referring to Bush" (not the students)
- Apology for many hate-Bush diatribes against the entire National Security leadership
- Apology for failure to sharply attack the al Qaeda, the Hizballah, the al-Sadr and other "Jihadi MURDERdom" terrorists
- Apology for failure in this same timeframe to praise and applaud the heroism of American and Coalition forces in Iraq
- Apology for a half-hearted "apology" based on an assertion that his unambiguous words were "misunderstood" and "falsely" reported
- Apology for failure to offer even this insincere and faux apology on camera, but only on his own self-serving website
- Apology for refusal to subject himself to Q&A examination (or lie detector test, or truth serum) of any kind
- Apology for failure to offer a blanket mega-apology for his 35-years of "AWOL" (Always Weak on Liberty) and of "ACE" (Aid and Comfort to the Enemy) activities, ten examples of which are as follows:
- Kerry AWOL on South Vietnam, after 32 years still a single-party communist dictatorship
- Kerry AWOL on the dozen or more post-Vietnam "dominoes" which fell to communism during the Carter-Mondale years of 1975-80
- Kerry AWOL on the 1983 liberation of Grenada from Soviet/Cuban colonialism, the first of these dominoes to be returned to Liberty and Democracy
- Kerry AWOL on the 1980s Reagan-Bush military buildup and the resulting ten-year "rollback" of the Soviet Empire
- Kerry AWOL on the 1990 liberation of Nicaragua from its "Stalinista" (Reagan's label) regime
- Kerry AWOL on the Reagan-Bush "induced collapse" of the Soviet Union and its Evil Empire in the late 1980s and early 1990s
- Kerry AWOL on the 1991 Bush-Quayle liberation of Kuwait from Saddam Hussein's Iraq
- Kerry AWOL on the 46 years of Fidel Castro's "Socialism or Death" tyranny in Cuba -- and now in staunchly Castroite "Cubazuela" and "Cubaragua"
- Kerry AWOL now on the Bush-Cheney liberation, stabilization and long-term democratization of the New Iraq
Until just a few days ago when he announced his non-candidacy for the Presidency, all of this had to be viewed in the light of the Senator's continued political ambitions -- on a familiar career path which Mr. Kerry has now set aside, at least until the 2012 elections when he will probably be back again.
Familiar it is because another such Presidential contender -- former Senator and 1972 Democrat nominee and 49-state loser George McGovern -- followed exactly the same pattern: First, a brief period of youthful heroism and battlefield devotion to duty, followed then by a headlong (and lifelong) AWOL plunge into reactionary-Left "progressive" politics with respect to America's national security needs.
And like his "Kerrybedum" and "Hanoi Jane" acolytes, this same old weak on liberty George McGovern is back again, too. Apparently, these old anti-warriors never die. They just keep flailing away -- always to the perverse delight of America's enemies.
JIM GUIRARD -- TrueSpeak Institute 703-768-0957 Justcauses@aol.com
A DC-area attorney, writer and anti-terrorism strategist, Jim Guirard was longtime Chief of Staff to former Democratic US Senators Allen Ellender and Russell Long. His TrueSpeak Institute is devoted to truth-in-language and truth-in-history in public discourse.