There is an old saw concerning former Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody who, it was claimed, had three towns named after him — Peabody, Marblehead and athol.
For some years now, commoners and pundits alike have recognized that the middle borough's name, once applied to the former governor, can be appended all too easily to Senator Kerry, while it has been widely reported by the gossips that the latter village's name has been uttered, sotto voce, by the many members of the long suffering wait staffs Mr Kerry has cozened in the high-end clip-joints he habituates and liberally applied by them to him and his saucer shallow callow parties of fellow caboodlers.
Today, following the Bay State's Junior Senator's busy spooning of his latest and most highly altered views on the enormous Iraqi failures onto the pages of the New York Times - a paper once noted for some modicum of perspicacity, but no longer thanks to their diversification into the artful publishing of shoddy fiction, of which Mr Kerry's carefully crafted drivel is part and parcel - by means of his most recent maledictive exhortation, Mr Kerry again plants himself well behind the curve of recent history and shows how far his own percipience has slipped and how loosely and fleeting his grasp on reality has become.
Mr Kerry, after inflating himself to prodigious size by means of a bellows, tire pumps, helium tanks and whatever is available, has ascended the kitchen stool to his high horse and pontificated on his favorite topic — the waging of mechanized warfare.
So, Mr Kerry's three relatively rock solid — sturdy when one thinks of a weathered sandstone buttress spanning a growing chasm - points are these: that we fought against Saddam for the mirage-like WMD's, that it was a fiction that we were better off fighting terrorists in Iraq than here and last, that we're embroiled in an ever escalating civil war. He concludes with that cornerstone of all liberal thought for thirty years, that we're again involved in the same repetitive addiction that we were in Vietnam.
Sadly, in Mr Kerry's eyes, and in the perceptions of every Democrat, Vietnam is the defining moment everywhere. Korea was a Vietnam before Vietnam, as was the Civil War. If we had advanced towards Baghdad in Gulf War I, that would have precipitated another Vietnam. Similarly, additional Vietnams were narrowly averted in Grenada and Panama, thanks to the Democrats. and because of the preeminent likelihood of a Vietnam breaking out at any time, the Democrats will do everything in their power to insure that one does, while they decry the possibility of another one beginning.
However in a unique conundrum, despite the actual Vietnam conflict escalating under two previous Democratic presidents, another Vietnam cannot take place under a Democratic president again. Kosovo could never have become another Vietnam because Bill Clinton and Wes Clark are unparalleled military geniuses. al Gore would never allow a Vietnam, nor would Hillary Clinton, a greater military prodigy than even General Clark.
But Mr Kerry, the old Democratic canard about the WMD's has been pretty much put to bed with all the folderol and ballyhoo about the Saddam tapes and their translation showing that he was working on them, hiding them and that he was planning hit squads to kill European leaders and working with al-Qaeda and what not. Senator, you should read the translations, if only for your edification in the old intelligence end of things. We certainly wouldn't want you to get stuck in a caper without all the latest up to date intelligence, now would we?
Now about fighting the terrorists in Iraq and all, it appears that it's working pretty well, especially with the news that's trickling out — outside of the fact filters at the New York Times, which is why you should read something besides that yellow dog press — that the Iraqi's themselves are turning on the al-Qaeda boys and stringing them up themselves. Which, as far as us poor folk lost in the cheap seats and forced to pick up the gleanings after you big shots have left the table, is indicative of something positive going on.
Oh, yes, there's all the brouhaha about the endless and growing civil war that's being laid on and pushed around by the big names like John Murtha and Russ Feingold and big media and their water carriers. But we just don't see it happening and sure democracy is slow. Look at you. Look how long it takes for you to get things done — like the hundreds of days you missed in the Senate and the bills you forgot to write and the votes you missed when you were running for President last time.
Vietnam was just a tad bit different than Iraq. You should remember some of the actual delusions that you were involved in toward the end of that conflict which contributed to the madness, the american casualties and to the outcome. The cutting off of funding, the precipitate withdrawal of forces, the leaving of allies in the lurch, the mass murder of US sympathizers, the dreadful treatment accorded to the Hmong — you remember that, don't you Senator Kerry? You dragged all sorts of trumped up stories around in front of Congress.
as for Vietnam, you've beaten that one death. and now, with american combat deaths dropping precipitously in the past four months, your whole endless raft of statements on the Vietnam quagmire angle and your belittling of our understandings and how it all won't work are indicative of your own, well, similarity to Governor Peabody.
Perhaps, though, for all of us, it is better that you continue to write your fantastic chimerical wholly fictional and bombastic accounts of your views on military and international affairs — they show us that you're senseless in the Marblehead department.
Oh, yes, Senator Kerry, you ought to pound out your scabrous invectives in another forum besides the New York Times to get them read - they've been zinged more lately for fraudulent reporting than the old Izvestia was. Folks are turning away from that disreputable progressive coop lining fish wrapper in droves.
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