Conservatives Must Oppose Kerry's Nomination for Secretary of State

       
          Conservatives must oppose United States President Barack Obama’s nomination of Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) to be Secretary of State.

           Kerry’s long liberal record of being wrong on most foreign policy matters is sufficient reason to give pause to conservative Senators considering confirmation of their colleague for the most senior cabinet post, as is his highly dubious military record, in which he claimed to have been injured three times in just a few months during the Vietnamese War by enemy fire, which likely included being grazed by ricocheting bullets from his own firing.  The three Purple Hearts he won allowed him to be sent home early.  Note: my father served in the military in Vietnam and was aware of some soldiers shooting themselves in their toes for this reason, which makes the allegations against Kerry’s fitness to receive these medals that were raised during his campaign for president in 2004 as the Democratic nominee seem plausible, as do the doubts raised about his fitness for his other medals.

           The main reason to oppose Kerry for Secretary of State is because of his actions after the war.  He led a group of protesters that infamously tossed their medals over the White House fence (although he did so only symbolically) in repudiation of their own service – a fact that did not prevent the senior Senator from Massachusetts from later boasting about his service when he sought the office of Commander in Chief.  The so-called “anti-war” movement worked with Communists who did not want peace, but wanted the U.S. to lose the war to their Vietnamese comrades who were backed by the Soviets and Communist Chinese.  The Communist takeover of South Vietnam led to the imprisonment, torture and execution of multitudes of people, as well as the fall of the other Indochinese dominoes, Laos and Cambodia, to the Reds.  Over a million Cambodians alone were slaughtered or starved to death by the Communists.  To this day, no one is fully free in Indochina.

           Moreover, Kerry testified under oath before Congress about heinous crimes he alleged were committed by U.S. servicemen in Vietnam.  He had little first-hand knowledge of these events and was  proven to have falsely claimed in addition to have been off the Cambodian coast.  Much of Kerry’s allegations of atrocities have been proven to have been exaggerated or false.  Like his war protests, his testimony gave aid and comfort to the enemy by improving its morale, while hurting American morale and also allowing the enemy to use such events to wear down the resistance of American prisoners of war who were being tortured to make false propaganda statements against the U.S.

           For the same reasons that John Kerry was not fit to be President, he is unfit to represent the United States as the head of the Department of State and thus be fourth in the order of succession to be Commander in Chief.  Conservatives must oppose his nomination and urge all conservative Senators to vote against his confirmation as Secretary of State.