Posted on 08/14/2004 7:15:31 AM PDT by stayout
There was a post yesterday that shows that the picture put out by the campaign may have been doctored to include this person as being on Kerry's boat.
But this is great news.
Maybe Kerry can go to Najaf and get some films showing how big a hero he can be now.
I hope it's already at the printers and on the way to the newsstands, because when this comes out, that will be revealed as a lie as well. What's he going to say then, "Oh yeah, it wan't January, either. Must've been February. That's right, I remember putting ornaments on the Valentine's tree in the Officer's Quarters."
If this can be confirmed, then President Bush himself needs to be getting this out.
ping
Yes, but is it series?
Wow! I assume I should be skeptical and hesitant to accept this report as factual... I also assume that O'Reilly and the many others who have disdained the Swiftboat Vets for Truth will view this as another "low blow" and ridiculous charge/challenge to the decorated war hero (JFK).
John Kerry has made his Vietnam experience the cornerstone of his candidacy and qualifications for the presidency. While we know his record of the past 20 years in no way prepares or qualifies him for the presidency, I think it is certainly valid to question what he purports to be his primary qualifications.
Thanks for posting.
It just might be useful to start some choruses of "Say it ain't so, John!" - through the mainstream media. For example, if we emailed letters along these lines to newspaper editors along these lines - how could they protest?:
To the editor:
"The right-wing conservatives are accusing Kerry of lying about his military service and heroism. This must be stopped in its tracks. Kerry should immediately release all his military records and show the entire nation that this is all a smear campaign."
Heh-heh
It's a familiar pattern. See also the 9-11 families and Kirsten Breitweiser. Media coverage is so slanted, it is prone.
BTTT
http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com/page2.html
| On March 13, 1969, a mine detonated near Kerry's boat, slighting wounding Kerry in the right arm. He was awarded his third Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for valor. PCF (Patrol Craft Fast) 94 crew in March 1969, |
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David Alston is the black fellow (in case you've been out of the loop)
Is this photo semi-staged where some served under Kerry and Alston was an add on for political correctness. Remember, in Viretnam JK often mouthed off about being president some day
That is funny!
WTF,O???
While I've never been on one, I didn't think Swift boats had any sort of galley. Why in the world would a sack of potatoes be on a Swift boat? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but this statement makes no sense to me at all.
"From Jan. 30 to March 13, 1969, Kerry and the crew of the PCF-94 would conduct 18 missions"
= 43 days, correct?
http://www.johnkerry.com/about/john_kerry/service_timeline.html
Late January through
Early March, 1969
Starting in late January 1969, this crew completed 18 missions over an intense and dangerous 48 days, almost all of them in the dense jungles of the Mekong Delta. Kerry's crew included engineman Eugene Thorson, later an Iowa cement mason; David Alston, then the crew's only African-American and today a minister in South Carolina; petty officer Del Sandusky of Illinois; rear gunner and quartermaster Michael Medeiros of California; and the late Tom Belodeau, who joined the crew fresh out of Chelmsford High School in Massachusetts. Others rotated in and out of the crew. The most intense action came during an extraordinary eight days of more than 10 firefights, remembered by Kerry's crew as the "days of hell."
They met, and the picture is not doctored. The falsehood is that Alston served under Kerry. Another falshood is that Alston was injured in action that in any way involved Kerry.
Kerry was a "double-naught spy" in the best tradition of Jethro Bodine.
Kerry had another boat before taking over on PCF-94 on Jan 30.
And Lt. j.g. John Kerry, whose crew on PCF-44 had rotated back home, needed men to lead.
The press needs to talk to the crew of PCF-44 about the bogus Cambodia stories and the crew of both boats about whether Alston served on the boat with Kerry.
Last I heard Al-Sadr claims to have 3 shrapnel wounds too!
I could argue that I played on the same field as Mickey Mantle. In the old days, they used to allow fans onto the field after the game. My brother and I did just that after a Yankee game, and we tossed a rubber ball to each other in the outfield. Actually, why stop there? I played on the same field as Babe Freaking Ruth.
Well...........wee doggie..........
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