Ask Kerry to sign the 180 and release his records.
Posted on 08/17/2004 11:03:10 PM PDT by FairOpinion
A number of the combat commanders, fellow officers and other men who served with Sen. John Kerry in Vietnam have challenged his accounts of combat heroism in a new book, "Unfit for Command" (Regnery Publishing), by John E. O´Neill, who took over command of Swift Boat PCF 94 from Lt. Kerry, and Jerome R. Corsi, a political scientist who has written extensively about the Vietnam War protest movement. Each of these excerpts from "Unfit for Command" includes comparisons of Mr. Kerry´s earlier published accounts to recollections of others who served with him.
First of three excerpts
Kerry, now the four-term senator from Massachusetts and the Democratic presidential nominee, is also the only known "Swiftee" who received the Purple Heart for a self-inflicted wound. None of Kerry's three Purple Hearts was for serious injuries. They were minor scratches, resulting in no lost duty time. Each of these decorations is controversial, with considerable evidence (and in two cases, incontrovertible and conclusive evidence) that the injuries were caused by his own hand and not the result of hostile fire. Kerry's injuries are a subject of ridicule among fellow Swiftees.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Ask Kerry to sign the 180 and release his records.
I got my copy yesterday and the volume of documentation,direct quotes and footnotes is impressive.
What is just unbelievable is the number of times, you read a sentence like-(sometimes 3 times on a page)
Kerry imagined this,
Kerry made this up,
Kerry lied about this,
Kerry fantasized this.
Each trip that Kerry took to Fantasy Island is fully documented by the eye witnesses, sometimes 20 others-whose recall is 180 from Kerry's.
Plus supporting paperwork .
As more and more people receive and read the book, the first reaction is shock that Kerry could have gotten away with this total fabrication for decades.
But, then you look at the treatment the book is getting now and you understand.
I am amazed that a newspaper finally printed the story. They also did not make the SBV look like liars. Maybe Kerry's campaign will finally start imploding.
Ouch. That's gotta hurt.
The Washington Times is a conservative paper.
It's still not in the "mainstream media".
Peck told him: "Kerry, follow me no closer than a thousand yards. If you get any closer, I'll teach you what a real Purple Heart is."
HAHAHAHAHA ! DAMN!
-John Kerry- some selected, informative links...--
If you wish to support the SBV, click the picture:
That is one very damning quote.
Peck was the skipper of PCF-94. His January action (that resulted in him and Alston being wounded) was the one kerry tried to claim as his own. He caught on very quickly that kerry couldn't be trusted.
Yes, but it's still being excerpted in the media......and with the amount of "talk" this will generate and the amount of people it will reach who maybe normally wouldn't buy the book, it is SOOOOOOO worth it!!!!! This AIN'T going away!!
HEY, the website
http://swiftboats.net/
is back up!
That's the one that does the best it can to list EVERY
swiftboat veteran it can, and the boat(s) he served on,
and when.
Brinkley's book (Tour of Duty) the authorized and official biography of the weird one has Kerry writing in his diary that he has yet to be fired on by the enemy...and that comment is written nine days AFTER his so called first purple heart incident
HEY, the website
http://swiftboats.net/
is back up!
That's the one that does the best it can to list EVERY
swiftboat veteran it can, and the boat(s) he served on,
and when.
Very interesting. I haven't heard this pointed out before.
Kerry's house of cards is starting to collapse.
I bet he gets elected (I hope not) because most of the public are idiots when it comes to knowing who they are voting for.
"John Fraud Kerry reporting for duty, UN you now have total comtrol of our military. Just make sure you send someone in my administration a memo if you send our forces to war."
I wish that bogus site would just die.
It lists kerry as having been on PCF-66 (which he wasn't) for his entire time there. It doesn't list him on PCF-44 or PCF-94 (which he was).
I still want to hear Kerry explain how one gets a non-friendly fire shrapnel wound in a boat, while engaging the enemy on shore. It simply defies the laws of physics. If the VC fired a mortar or RPG at the boat and hit it they would have killed everyone in the boat. If they missed and hit the water there would have been no shrapnel. The only possible way to get shrapnel from the enemy in this situation is if the Vietcong had dropped a round on themselves with the resulting shrapnel hitting the boat. M40 grenades have very distinctive shrapnel and a medic or doctor with any experience would spot it instantly.
its the magic shrapnel, he learned about that from JFK and the Warren Commission report or his buddy Teddy...
'When Kerry was dispatched to go to An Thoi with Lt. Tedd Peck (who would retire as a Navy captain), Peck told him: "Kerry, follow me no closer than a thousand yards. If you get any closer, I'll teach you what a real Purple Heart is." '
Is that from the book? I can't see it in this article...
| Most fellow Swiftees who were with Kerry at Cam Ranh Bay never knew until Kerry decided to run for president that he had somehow successfully maneuvered his way to this undeserved Purple Heart. But in Coastal Division 14, Kerry's attempt to gain the award through fraud marked him as someone who could never be trusted. When Kerry was dispatched to go to An Thoi with Lt. Tedd Peck (who would retire as a Navy captain), Peck told him: "Kerry, follow me no closer than a thousand yards. If you get any closer, I'll teach you what a real Purple Heart is." |
An excerpt from, Unfit for Command.
***On March 15, 2004, Admiral Hoffmann's telephone rang again. Once again, the caller was John Kerry. Kerry had clinched the Democratic nomination, and he
knew that Hoffmann was organizing Swiftees to bring out the truth about him, his exaggerated military record, and his antiwar lies that had slandered his fellow
veterans. Kerry made the admiral an offer: If you will back off and drop your efforts, I will ensure that my biography, Tour of Duty, which I know is unfair to you,
will be changed to make it accurate in a revised edition. Here is my secretary's number - you can get me anytime.
The offer from the Democratic presidential candidate was an attempt to flatter Hoffmann, a warrior whose coin is not power or wealth, but honnor--an honor deeply
impugned by Kerry's book. Hoffman, after all, is a wounded survivor of the amphibious assault at Wonson, Korea, where his minesweeper still lies below the frigid
waters of Wonson Harbor. Kerry knew that winning Hoffmann over to his side would thwart the Swiftees' efforts to discredit him. Hoffmann told Kerry that he and
the vast majority of his shipmates could never forgive him for his defamation of our Navy and other U.S. Armed Forces by his slanderous and undocumented
accusations of unspeakable atrocities in Vietnam before the U.S. COngress in 1971, his leadership in the VVAW, and his association with the traitorous Jane Fonda
and others of her ilk. Surprisingly, Kerry responded by simply saying that he "was expressing his conviction."
If Admiral Hoffmann were truly a butcher whose conduct "sickens" John Kerry to this day, an impression one could easily gain from reading Tour of Duty, then why
did Kerry offer to change inaccuracies he knew were in Tour of Duty in exchange for Admiral Hoffmann and the Swiftees ceasing their activities? In emails on May
3, 2003, and on May 7, 2004,trying to dissuade Swiftees from joining Admiral Hoffmann, Wade Sanders referred to the group as "bitter drunks," something the
sailors involved deeply resented. Moreover, Sanders referred to Joe Ponder, a seriously disabled Swiftee who cried when talking about Kerry's charges, as "a
whining crybaby."*** - pages 68-69
The swift boat controversy - six letters
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
FYI, Kerry's military and medical records have indeed been released to the public ["As swift boat controversy swirls, DuPage Dems host Kerry crewmate Wasser," August 17, 2004]. They are posted on his website, www.johnkerry.com. Also, it's hard to trust the opinions coffered by men who never served with John Kerry, or the opinions of a man (John O'Neill) who is funded by a Republican-leaning PR agency. That's like asking me to trust a blind man to cut my hair; it's not a good idea and somebody might get hurt.
Josie Nericcio
Los Angeles, CA
Thanks for the ping!
I wouldn't include the parentheses. Most people can smell a phony. ;^)
thanks for the ping
THANK YOU, Sir!
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