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FR Exclusive: Flashback -- Kerry Admits to Boston Globe that he Reenacted Combat Scenes (10/1996)
The Boston Globe Stacks -- 10/6/1996
| 08/19/2004
| Self using excepts from Boston Globe Report by Charles Sennott 10/6/1996
Posted on 08/18/2004 9:15:12 PM PDT by GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
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To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
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.
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posted on
08/18/2004 9:59:33 PM PDT
by
Riley
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To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
In it, Kerry admitted that he had used a video camera while in combat Video Camera? Must have been expensive in 1968!
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posted on
08/18/2004 10:08:17 PM PDT
by
Mike Darancette
(Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.)
To: BonnieJ
Does he mention WHY he re-enacted these scenes, esp. while he was still there? He needed to present it to Marlon Brando and Steven Spielberg about this idea he had for a movie about the Christmas ...
To: Riley
"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.
To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
Bump this for the morning.
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posted on
08/18/2004 10:19:16 PM PDT
by
TBP
To: ntnychik; devolve; Smartass; Happy2BMe; MeekOneGOP
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posted on
08/18/2004 10:30:55 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.)
To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
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.
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posted on
08/18/2004 10:42:44 PM PDT
by
willNJ
To: RightField
I think Kerry's time in Vietnam pretty much coincided with the apogee of US military success there. I think we had 500,000 soldiers, sailors etc. deployed at the time. All four branches of the service were involved but it would be very difficult to point to any one Army or Marine division, Air Force bombing group, or Navy unit or series of operations that was primarily responsible for our success, which could have simply been a function of superior numbers of troops and firepower. (I was in intelligence at MACV at the time.) At any rate, we couldn't indefinitely support those huge numbers of troops in the field, and when we began withdrawing and handing responsibility to the South Vietnamese forces, we lost the advantage, and thus the war. So the valiant efforts of countless individuals and groups seems to have been in vain.
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.
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posted on
08/18/2004 11:05:30 PM PDT
by
Sicvee
(Sicvee)
To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY; NavySEAL F-16; ProudVet77
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?
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posted on
08/18/2004 11:12:34 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
To: potlatch
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posted on
08/18/2004 11:13:37 PM PDT
by
devolve
( -- Kerry & POW's families - http://www.angelfire.com/film/macny/POW.html -)
To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
I'm just finishing
Ulysses Grant: Personal Memoirs, which has prompted me to look online for Civil War photos. Look at these Federal Scouts and Guides, Army of the Potomac - Brandy Station, VA, March 1864, and then picture Kerry with his comrades, his Band of Brothers (the non-Swift Vets for Truth kind), and see if you can detect a difference.
This was taken 11 months before the end of the Civil War, after three years of hard, hard fighting.
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posted on
08/18/2004 11:17:28 PM PDT
by
GretchenM
(A country is a terrible thing to waste. Vote Republican.)
To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
Creepy.
But Manchurian Candidates always follow the script.
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posted on
08/18/2004 11:17:32 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
(Hey, RNC! Get Bob Dylan to sing "Saving Grace" at the Convention!)
Oops - photo taken in March 1864; war ended in April 1865 = 13 months more or less.
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posted on
08/18/2004 11:19:02 PM PDT
by
GretchenM
(A country is a terrible thing to waste. Vote Republican.)
To: ApplegateRanch
Bonus points awarded for any evidence of swelling bank accounts or swollen knee caps among Kerry's comrades.
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posted on
08/18/2004 11:22:21 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
(Hey, RNC! Get Bob Dylan to sing "Saving Grace" at the Convention!)
To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
Kerry should know what boat he is on. OTOH, we are learning we cannot take any level of intelligence or recall for granted with kerry.
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posted on
08/18/2004 11:33:53 PM PDT
by
GretchenM
(A country is a terrible thing to waste. Vote Republican.)
To: GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY
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posted on
08/18/2004 11:36:25 PM PDT
by
Capitalism2003
(America is too great for small dreams. - Ronald Reagan, speech to Congress. January 1, 1984.)
To: Riley
I am increasingly convinced that Kerry's whole stint in the Navy was expressly intended as nothing more than decoration for his political résumé. 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.
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posted on
08/18/2004 11:38:12 PM PDT
by
GretchenM
(A country is a terrible thing to waste. Vote Republican.)
To: RightField
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.
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posted on
08/18/2004 11:40:35 PM PDT
by
wasnova
To: JohnHuang2; MJY1288
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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posted on
08/18/2004 11:41:15 PM PDT
by
GretchenM
(A country is a terrible thing to waste. Vote Republican.)
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