Posted on 08/18/2004 9:15:12 PM PDT by GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
While running for Senate against Bill Weld in 1996, a lot of the same issues that dog Kerry now were part of the political landscape. To placate some concerns, John Kerry allowed reporter Charles Sennott of the Boston Globe to watch five hours of his homemade video that was taken while he was on the Meekong Delta in Vietnam.
The article, which is entited: "The making of the candidates: JOHN FORBES KERRY" was published on page A31 of the Globe on 10/6/1996.
In it, Kerry admitted that he had used a video camera while in combat and had reenacted many of the events that transpired on the film while a member of PT-93 on the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.
Specifically, he told Mr. Sennott that he had captured film reenacting the area where he had won his Silver Star: "I'll show you where they shot from. See? That's the hole covered up with reeds."
He further added: "This is just something that I improvised. . . . The point was not to just take an ambush, but to go directly at them," as he pointed to the Globe reporter where "he brought the boat ashore," and explained how he "returned later with a Super 8 millimeter hand-held movie camera to record highlights of the mission."
"That's me right there. One of my crew was filming all this," Kerry gleefully told the paper.
The Globe reporter asked thr $64,000 question we all were wondering: How exactly did Kerry manage to steer his boat and shoot his video at the same time?
In response, Kerry told the Globe: "I'd steer, or direct, or fire my gun, and hold onto it when I could. Sometimes the other guys would pick it up."
Kerry also demonstrated to the reporter how he "gripped an imaginary ship's helm and thrusting his camera hand out to the side."
Kerry also goes on in the article to "clarify" how he threw other soldier's medals over the wall during the April 1971 protest in Washington and how he has recurring nightmares about his Vietnam experience.
With every passing week, I am increasingly convinced that Kerry's whole stint in the Navy was expressly intended as nothing more than decoration for his political résumé.
Video Camera? Must have been expensive in 1968!
He needed to present it to Marlon Brando and Steven Spielberg about this idea he had for a movie about the Christmas ...
"With every passing week, I am increasingly convinced that Kerry's whole stint in the Navy was expressly intended as nothing more than decoration for his political résumé"
My thoughts exactly. He thought he was the only man in action. What a NUT!!! I read an article several months ago written by a reporter in Kerry's state. He said the reporters called Kerry "LIVESHOT". Said he would knock other people down to get in front of a camera. I can just imagine what thoughts goes through his head everytime he looks in a mirror. The thought makes me sick.
Bump this for the morning.
Being in combat is a very truamatic experience. Most vets I know, including my Father, usually don't want to talk about it. They don't want to relive the horrors of seeing their comrades dying in front of them. They certainly would not go to the trouble of reanacting them on film. Everything Kerry says and does is bu----it.
I don't think that the Swift Boat operation was of much particular consequence, other than keeping the bad guys under control in a specific area. I think the newsworthy part of it was the projection of naval power inland, like on the rivers of China during the Boxer Rebellion.
I am extremely skeptical that Kerry ever got to Cambodia. During that particular time, US forces honored Cambodia's neutrality, even as North Vietnamese forces did not, and US forces did not cross the border. After Kerry's time in Vietnam, and after my own, we were not so restrained.
The $64,000 dollar question was answered correctly!
That means, we move up to the NEXT PLATEAU!
WHO PAID FOR THE USE OF THE (Navy's) BOAT AND CREW WHILE FILMING???
And the follow up:
WHO AUTHORIZED USING THE (Navy's) BOAT AND CREW?
And a third and final, for the money:
WERE YOUR MEN UNDER YOUR ORDERS TO PARTICPATE?
tricky tricky tricky
This was taken 11 months before the end of the Civil War, after three years of hard, hard fighting.
Creepy.
But Manchurian Candidates always follow the script.
Oops - photo taken in March 1864; war ended in April 1865 = 13 months more or less.
Bonus points awarded for any evidence of swelling bank accounts or swollen knee caps among Kerry's comrades.
save for later
OTOH, we are learning we cannot take any level of intelligence or recall for granted with kerry.
Email this to Drudge!
His commanders reached the same conclusion while he was in Vietnam. Contemporaneously they said he went there, positioned against the war, to create a reputation so he could run for political office. Which is precisely what he did, and did, and did.
Not of any consequence at all. No press coverage that I've heard of - though the existance of the patrols would have rated some minor coverage.
I thought you'd enjoy reading ApplegateRanch's post @ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1194404/posts?page=29#29, to wit:
"WHO PAID FOR THE USE OF THE (Navy's) BOAT AND CREW WHILE FILMING???
And the follow up:
WHO AUTHORIZED USING THE (Navy's) BOAT AND CREW?
And a third and final, for the money:
WERE YOUR MEN UNDER YOUR ORDERS TO PARTICPATE?"
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