An Open Letter to Kerry

I do not know what happened to you to change you from the young hero you were in and out of Vietnam. Perhaps the corruption of your many years in Congress has affected your sense of reality. I just finished watching your latest speech where you are attacking the Bush Administration for the “mistakes” they made in Iraq. As a member of the generation who survived the great depression and world war two; I am a realist.
Your position on Iraq is diametrically opposite to your position on Vietnam. I will not go into the other positions you have taken on domestic policy; but support for the WTO when our jobs are being out-sourced, your desire to give more money to corporations to make them behave, and your health plan to give the HTOs and Insurance companies more of our tax money make me reluctant to vote for anyone but Ralph Nader. I will tell you what I think you should do. You should step down and have Dennis Kucinich take your place.

I see everything on television. I sat and watched, while we bombed a helpless Baghdad like Hitler bombed a helpless Warsaw. They called it “shock and awe”. Hitler called his attack “blitzkrieg”, (lightning war). Both phrases are similar. Then we occupied Iraq like Hitler occupied Poland. We have compounded this by engaging in a torture of prisoners that would have made Adolph Eichman envious. The population did not greet us with wine and flowers, but started a war of resistance to enemy occupation. Insurrectionists and terrorists like these were called patriots in 1776. What would I do if I were you?

I would leave with all the dispatch that we used leaving Saigon, only I wouldn’t wait for the tanks to arrive. I would take all of my Iraqi traitors with me that wanted to go, and I would do it now. Shakespeare said: “Stand not upon your manner of leaving but go at once!” When I got safely home I would convene a grand jury to indict George Bush and his whole neo-com and corporate thieves for high crimes and misdemeanors. When they were safely ensconced in Leavenworth I would wait until the Iraqis got themselves organized. I do not believe they will have any civil war. I think that they will be ecstatic that the Americans have left, and being an intelligent people I believe they will work out their problems. If we have done anything good in Iraq it is that we have united the Iraqis. The hatred of a Sunni for a Shiite is nothing compared to their hatred for the occupiers. After things have stabilized in Iraq I would release all Iraqi money and give them money that has already been allocated for reconstruction.

Then I would turn the Pentagon into a roller skating rink.