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October 8, 2007
Kerry Ought to Know What "Phony Soldier" Means
Posted by Dave Blount at October 8, 2007 8:57 AM
As Sweetness & Light points out, it's ironic that John Kerry would pretend not to understand what Rush Limbaugh meant by "phony soldiers." After all, Hanoi John has known a few himself. Here he is with Al Hubbard, denouncing American efforts to defend democracy from totalitarianism:
As National Review reported back in the day, Al Hubbard was executive director of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He claimed to have been an Air Force captain who had been injured during a two-year stint in Vietnam.
But it came to light he wasn't really a captain. Then we learned that there was no record of his having served in Vietnam. It seems the only injuries on record were sustained playing basketball and soccer. But it can be confirmed that Hubbard was arrested for throwing cow manure on the steps of the Pentagon.
Kerry was well aware of Hubbard's phoniness. Spinning as only a moonbat can do, Botched Joke congratulated Hubbard for getting caught in the captain lie:
Al owned up to the rank question. He thought it was time to tell the truth, and he did it because he thought it would be best for the organization.
Nonetheless, Hubbard's anti-American fibs are included in Kerry's subsequently written The New Soldier:
Al Hubbard Sgt., 22 Troop Carrier Squadron Aug. '65-June '66
Emotions: Walking down the flight line at Saigon past stacks of aluminum cases containing American bodies and past stacks of aluminum luggage containing American currency. Seeing the tight, sad face of an Airman loading the bodies aboard a dirty Air Force Transport and the wide smiling face of a stewardess greeting the passengers aboard a clean Pan American Clipper Jet.
Hearing a Vietnamese beg you to leave his country and an American colonel tells you to bomb his country. Hearing a Vietnamese invite you to live in his home, after the war and an American explain why you can't live in his block, after the war.
Flying over barren, brown, safe American held terrain and over lush, green unsafe enemy terrain. Feeling happy to be leaving a country in which you do not belong and sad to be returning to a country in which you are not allowed to belong.
Sacrificing a portion of your consciousness so you won't have to deal with being there and building mental blocks so you won't have to deal with having been there.
- Al Hubbard
Apparently Kerry included this in the book despite knowing that Hubbard had never been to Vietnam. But then Kerry himself has a problem with fictional memories, as when spending Christmas 1968 in Cambodia was "seared — seared" into his memory (he was lying).
There are even those — namely the guys who served with him — who might call Kerry a phony soldier himself.
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For some reason Kerry's book isn't easy to get ahold of nowadays. |
On a tip from Charles.
