Kerry Resignation

In that Senator John F. Kerry of the State of Massachusetts has disgraced himself and dishonored political processes through multiple egregious errors (some listed below), we the undersigned petition the Senator to resign from his office as Senator of Massachusetts, abandon his campaign for the presidency of the United States, and release his Democrat party delegates to select another candidate in 2004 more suitable to the office of the Commander in Chief. We are motivated to make this petition for these and other reasons:

1. Although Mr. Kerry gave four months of honorable service in Viet Nam, he dishonored that service through his support for the anti-American anti-war effort giving testimony before the Congress of the U.S. that American soldiers were committing illegal acts against citizens of Viet Nam, testimony he knew to be false or at best did not know to be true; testimony he has never disavowed. The anti-American anti-war effort is thought to be the single greatest cause for American defeat in Viet Nam.

2. Mr. Kerry showed disrespect to honorable service to this country by throwing away his and other veterans medals of honor in protest to the Viet Nam War effort, at first claiming to have thrown his own medals away including three purple hearts and more, and then later claiming to have thrown only a few ribbons of his own away and several medals of others. The latter claim was made only when it became a political liability for him.

3. Mr. Kerry has more recently shown his unfitness for making difficult command decisions by first voting to authorize force in Iraq, later claiming only to have authorized the threat of force, but not the actual use of force, and then later refusing to vote for the necessary funding for the forces already in Iraq. Mr. Kerry incredibly sought political cover for this inconsistency by claiming that he actually voted for the funding before voting against it!

4. Mr. Kerry demonstrates that winning an election is more important to him than the strength and honor of the United States in that when Americans need to be pulling together in support of the War on Terror and the War in Iraq, he has encouraged and participated in divisive tactics intended to weaken the resolve of the United States and its leaders, namely by blaming the Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld directly for atrocities he could not have caused or anticipated, and for calling for his removal as Secretary at a time when such would severely weaken American efforts to secure a free and independent Iraqi government. Mr. Kerrys blame America first mindset is not the kind of thinking needed in the top levels of the American government.

America needs presidents and candidates that think of America first rather than their political chances. For these and other reasons we appeal to Senator John F. Kerry to accept this petition and allow better men to serve in his place.