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Viet Vet Urges Kerry To Come Clean
www.jenmartinez.com ^ | Sunday, May 25, 2003 | Larry J. O'Daniel #

Posted on 02/11/2004 5:36:13 PM PST by SAMWolf

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To: hershey
amazing how these candidates are all self-destructing
21 posted on 02/11/2004 6:35:18 PM PST by Fitzcarraldo
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To: SAMWolf
Let's call a spade a spade. He was in it all for his politcal future. No matter what he did in Vietnam it's what he did by getting out early and what he did when he came back that is atrocious. He's a self promoting lying little weasel. He should be ashamed of himself, he's a traitor as far as I'm concerned based on his testimony before congress about our troops. /rant
22 posted on 02/11/2004 6:35:37 PM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: Howlin; PhiKapMom
Kerry..... if he knew any of these things he keeps saying regarding actions taken by our military against the civilian population then he was obligated to take actions to report and stop it......

His testimony and talk is going to dig him a deep hole if this continues......
23 posted on 02/11/2004 6:38:23 PM PST by deport (BUSH - CHENEY 2004 ..... 265 days until Tuesday 2 November)
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To: SAMWolf
If John Freakin' Kerry witnessed any of the atrocities that he claimed were every day occurances AND DID NOT REPORT THEM AT THE TIME HE WITNESSED THEM, then he should be charged with NONFEASANCE and let the court decide if his inaction was MALFEASANCE or MISFEASANCE!
24 posted on 02/11/2004 6:38:37 PM PST by leprechaun9 (Beware of little expenses because a small leak will sink a great ship!)
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To: SAMWolf
I think Kerry was shot in the rear-end while running away from a firefight. A full investigation is needed. And then another, and then another, and then another. It is time for that scumbag coward Kerry to come clean.
25 posted on 02/11/2004 6:39:19 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: SAMWolf
Bump
26 posted on 02/11/2004 6:43:20 PM PST by Boot Hill
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To: SAMWolf; backhoe
Thanks for posting this information!

Backhoe -- Here is another one!
27 posted on 02/11/2004 6:49:37 PM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04)
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To: deport
Isn't this unbelieveable -- my inbox has been filled today with anti-Kerry articles. Someone is doing a data dump on Kerry but the broadcast media is still all gaga over Kerry!
28 posted on 02/11/2004 6:51:08 PM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04)
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To: leprechaun9
Agree but unfortunately it will never happen. Can't we all just get along? Let's move on. Nothing to see here.
29 posted on 02/11/2004 6:51:10 PM PST by Terry Mross
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To: SAMWolf
John Kerry: A Decorated Viet Nam War Criminal.

It must be true, he said so in his own testinony.

30 posted on 02/11/2004 6:54:38 PM PST by There's millions of'em (I believe John Kerry, don't you?)
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To: PhiKapMom
Someone is doing a data dump on Kerry but the broadcast media is still all gaga over Kerry!


Do you reckon Candidate #2 is doing it.... He said the other day that less than 25% of the primay delegates have been chosen. So he's thinking he still has a strong chance or that's how I read him.
31 posted on 02/11/2004 6:57:43 PM PST by deport (BUSH - CHENEY 2004 ..... 265 days until Tuesday 2 November)
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To: hadaclueonce
I had several uncles in WWII and some of them were very seriously injured. They would never talk about "the war" even when 2 or more of them were together. I could never understand that then because i viewed them as heroes and wanted to hear their stories.

After doing my time in Nam aug 70 -aug 71 w/101st airborne, phu bai...and coming back home (thankfully in one piece) I could understand it.

I have lots of friends that were there and when we are together, whether at a bbq or fish fry or just visiting, Nam is very seldom if ever mentioned. I am not a "war hero", nor do i profess to be...I was a REMF and damn glad of it...some of my friends were not so lucky and left some body parts over there.

point is, if you were there, you don't need to talk about it...unit number and location is enough to establish validity and then a warm handshake and a cold beer and then the topic moves to something important.
32 posted on 02/11/2004 7:06:32 PM PST by cajun-jack
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To: xkaydet65
That is the sanest suggestion I have heard throughout this whole flap. I agree.
33 posted on 02/11/2004 7:06:43 PM PST by PleaseNoMore
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To: deport
All this crap gives me a big bad headache. I did 3 tours in Vietnam, didn't like it at all. I would have loved to got back to the world but.....My parents weren't connected! Never ever would I have demonstrated against the war while my buddies were still in country. I cannot say what is fact or fiction with this Mr. Kerry but my gut tells me he is another fat cat politician who will do or say anything to get in office. I hope Mr. Bush gets his machinery moving and sets his records straight. Oooh my head.
34 posted on 02/11/2004 7:08:08 PM PST by JamesA (Stand up, stand together or die as one.)
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To: Fitzcarraldo
Nine dwarves was too many to last, alas. Heard Rush this afternoon, discussing the media's gushing over Kerry and the Clintons' use of surrogates to chop Dean off at the ankles. We're in for a long, hot summer.
35 posted on 02/11/2004 7:20:15 PM PST by hershey
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To: There's millions of'em
"John Kerry: A Decorated Viet Nam War Criminal".
It must be true, he said so in his own testinony

Isn't it convenient that he recommended himself for the decorations. I am beginning to believe that his entire version of his "heroic" action is a lie.
36 posted on 02/11/2004 7:20:20 PM PST by zygoat
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To: deport
Remember #2 candidate is staying above the fray -- yeah right.

Think Kerry has too much "mo" right now and being backed by the liberal broadcast media is helping him.

Something is going on though with AP and Reuters -- print media is digging like crazy on Kerry. I am like in shock at the articles coming out by these two news organizations.
37 posted on 02/11/2004 7:22:22 PM PST by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Support Bush-Cheney '04)
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To: SAMWolf
These crimes were not isolated incidents, he (Kerry) charged, but crimes committed on a day - to - day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command. Crimes that this country made them do.

These veterans personally raped women, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned on the power. They cut off limbs; blew up bodies; randomly shot at civilians; razed villages like Ghenghis Khan; shot livestock for fun; poisoned food; and ravaged the Vietnamese countryside. From his personal experience, Kerry asserted that the Vietnamese only wanted to work in rice paddies without our helicopters strafing and napalming them and their villages. Our men died while our allies refused to help and fight. Kerry said we rationalized destroying villages in order to save them; accepted a My Lai; enforced free fire zones by shooting anything that moves. Our GIs falsified body counts while leaders glorified body counts. In a well orchestrated political move, he asked, how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? The well scrubbed veteran began his career that day.

A problem arises. Kerry's testimony was largely untrue. These charges were investigated then and since. My challenge as we honor veterans of that war and others - Prove them or apologize.

Exactly! Bring it on, Hanoi John! Let's have it. As the article indicates, "Some of the unsubstantiated and uncorroborated accusations of Kerry were almost identical to specific charges leveled by Herbert. Both charged war crimes were ignored, uninvestigated, part of the routine."

This time we shouldn't ignore it.

38 posted on 02/11/2004 7:30:37 PM PST by Victoria Delsoul (Freedom isn't won by soundbites but by the unyielding determination and sacrifice given in its cause)
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To: Victoria Delsoul
Seems to me he also lied under oath to Congress during these hearings. Think he'll ever be held accountable?
39 posted on 02/11/2004 7:32:00 PM PST by SAMWolf (I misplaced my dictionary. Now I'm at a loss for words.)
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To: SAMWolf
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40 posted on 02/11/2004 7:34:47 PM PST by Darnright (6,875,029 Virginians did NOT vote for Ketchup Boy this past Tuesday)
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