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Kerry: My Vietnam Med Records Already Public
NewsMax.com ^ | 4/18/04 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 04/18/2004 2:16:48 PM PDT by kattracks

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry claimed on Sunday that he's already released his medical records, including those that would prove he deserved three Purple Hearts in Vietnam - though reporters have been clamoring for weeks for Kerry to make the documents public.

Asked if he would "agree to release all your military records," Kerry told NBC's "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert, "I have. I've shown them."

In the next breath, however, Kerry pulled back from the claim that he had publicly released his Vietnam records, telling Russert, "They're available to you to come and look at. . . People can come and see them at headquarters and take a look at them."

Moments later Kerry seemed to suggest that he would not publicly release copies of the records to the press, saying, "I'm not going to . . . , " before changing the subject in mid-sentence.

The top Democrat insisted that the records would show he deserved his first Purple Heart, a decoration that has been questioned by his former commanding officer.

"The medical records show that I had shrapnel removed from my arm," he claimed. "We were in combat. We were in a very, very - probably one of the most frightening - if you ask anybody who was with me, the two guys who were with me, was probably the most frightening night that they had that they were in Vietnam."

However, Kerry's former commander, Grant Hibbard, told the Boston Globe earlier this week that Kerry's wound was no worse than "a fingernail scratch" and that there were widespread doubts in his office that Kerry's unit had taken any enemy fire whatsoever.



TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004; granthibbard; kerry; kerrysecrets; medicalrecords; unearnedpurpleheart
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1 posted on 04/18/2004 2:16:48 PM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
11/2/04 will be Kerry's most frightening night ever.
2 posted on 04/18/2004 2:21:20 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: kattracks
In the next breath, however, Kerry pulled back from the claim that he had publicly released his Vietnam records, telling Russert, "They're available to you to come and look at. . . People can come and see them at headquarters and take a look at them..........."

No, Gomer, not the redacted records that your minions went over with a fine-tooth comb. We want the FULL, military-issue articles.


3 posted on 04/18/2004 2:25:11 PM PDT by Viking2002
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To: kattracks
Vintage Kerry:

Flip 1: "I have. I've shown [medical records] them."

Flop 2: "They're available to you to come and look at. . . People can come and see them at headquarters and take a look at them."

Or is it nuance john?

Flip 3: "I'm not going to . . . , " before changing the subject in mid-sentence.

Mr. King of the flip-flops.

4 posted on 04/18/2004 2:27:33 PM PDT by demlosers
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To: Viking2002
I hope Matt Drudge does what is necessary to get at the bottom of this!
5 posted on 04/18/2004 2:28:42 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Kerry: how can we trust him with our money, if Teresa won't trust him with hers!)
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To: Viking2002
..Not the redacted records that your minions went over with a fine-tooth comb. We want the FULL, military-issue articles.

The full uncensored military records will be released at the time as Mrs. Kerry's tax records, Jamie Goreleck's central testimony before the 9-11 commission, and when pro-life democrats are allowed to speak before the Democratic Convention.

6 posted on 04/18/2004 2:29:52 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (What is behind and what is before is irrelevant compared to what is within)
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7 posted on 04/18/2004 2:31:26 PM PDT by Smartass (BUSH & CHENEY 2004 - THE BEST GET BETTER)
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To: FormerACLUmember
I'm hip to that! LOL


8 posted on 04/18/2004 2:33:18 PM PDT by Viking2002
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9 posted on 04/18/2004 2:34:29 PM PDT by Just Another Lurker (I'll go back to sitting in my corner now)
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To: kattracks
Another big Kerry lie.

He said, people can come to headquarters and look at them there -- sure, he will show them what he wants to show them.

What is in those records that he is so afraid to release?

Of course nobody would even be interested, if he didn't make his 4 months serivce in combat in Vietnam the centerpiece of his candidacy.

10 posted on 04/18/2004 2:35:49 PM PDT by FairOpinion (If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
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Maybe there are NO medical records because he had no medical incidents to justify ANY purple hearts. Unless we're shown evidence to the contrary, we should credit this guy only with what's publicly known. I'm really going to believe his campaign's paid workers on his bravery! NOT!
11 posted on 04/18/2004 2:36:19 PM PDT by SouthCarolinaKit
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To: kattracks
I saw a clip of Kerry being interviewed this morning. He looked like-- I don't know what. His face was strange. BOTOX time?
12 posted on 04/18/2004 2:36:30 PM PDT by Clara Lou
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To: SouthCarolinaKit
So he recieved the Frank Burns purple heart award.
13 posted on 04/18/2004 2:41:05 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: Viking2002
Big Phony Ketchup Boy has made his 120 or so days in Vietnam so central to his pathetic subsequent life and to his dreadful political campaign.

The fact that so much is intentionally hidden about his record stinks like a dead raccoon decomposing under the crawl space.

14 posted on 04/18/2004 2:41:24 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (What is behind and what is before is irrelevant compared to what is within)
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To: kattracks
"Being frightened" doesn't get a Purple Heart.
15 posted on 04/18/2004 2:41:38 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (Must get Moose and Squirrel ... B. Badanov.)
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To: Clara Lou
We have to assume that if the injuries were bad enough to require him to stay in the hospital a major amount of time that the Ketchup king would have filmed documentation of it. I am amazed he didn't have a camera there when the purple hearts were supposedly earned.
16 posted on 04/18/2004 2:45:23 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Kerry: how can we trust him with our money, if Teresa won't trust him with hers!)
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To: kattracks
What a liar. he knows he would be toast if the world say his real records. If I could afford it, I would fly there to see his records at headquarters. Any FReepers live by his headquarters? If so, check them out and give us a report.
17 posted on 04/18/2004 2:47:49 PM PDT by vpintheak (Our Liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain!)
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To: All
It's that song again, racing through my head

....."Flipper"

FLIPPIN' FLIPPER FLIPS FLACK

18 posted on 04/18/2004 2:50:16 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: kattracks
ONE NIGHT......

How about the grunts that slogged around in the jungle for a year, getting shot at every day.

Navy always did like giving each other medals, LBJ and Mccain are two.

19 posted on 04/18/2004 2:51:33 PM PDT by cynicom
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To: kattracks
In the next breath, however.....

Can this man ever say two consistant things in the same breath?

20 posted on 04/18/2004 2:55:28 PM PDT by LisaMalia (In Memory of Sgt. James W."Billy" Lunsford..KIA 11-29-69 Binh Dinh S. Vietnam)
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