Teresa: Anti-war Protesters Are 'The True Patriots'
By: Richard Stewart | Source: NewsMax.com
July 29, 2004 3:37AM EST

Teresa Heinz Kerry used her Democratic convention national debut to praise anti-war protesters as America's "true patriots," but couldn't find anything good to say about U.S. troops fighting the war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq.

"In America the true patriots are those who dare speak truth to power," Mrs. Heinz told the convention crowd, after contending that the names of the dead on the Vietnam War Memorial "testify to the awful toll exacted by leaders who mistake stubbornness for strength." "And that is why as president my husband will not fear disagreement or dissent," she pledged. "He believes that our voices – yours and mine – must be the voices of freedom. And if we do not speak, neither does he."

While Heinz Kerry had no trouble expressing sympathy for those working to undermine support for U.S. troops fighting abroad, the only time she had anything positive to say about America's military was when she talked about her husband winning his combat decorations "the old-fashioned way."

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