Anti-War Activist accused of Exploiting the POW issue (An oldie but a goodie)

Spinswimming blogspot ^ | August 22 2004 | bkm

[Dog]

I don't post vanities.... but I am making an exception this time. I need everyone to look at what a blogger named bkm has up on their site. I found it thru a link at Instapundit.

Anti-War Activist accused of Exploiting the POW issue

[kaehurowing]

Shows that a hyena doesn't change its spots.

[Smartass]

What "Hanoi John" is now doing, is not only trashing our Vietnam veterans again, but calling them liars. Not one thing has changed about this rotten SOB since 1969. In the worst way, "Hanoi John" wants "Unfit For Command" to be removed from the book shelves, and everybody to just slither away. Wrong. The "Unfit For Command" book will be continued in print, and OUR vets don't slither, they stand up and fight.   BOYCOTT MSNBC.

THANKS FOR   THE PING!


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[gdc61]

nice, if only they would run it.

[Valin]

This was such a nasty time in the US History

(If I may) You might want to take a look at the presidental campaigns in the earry years of the republic.

If you think it's bad now just wait until to dems realise that they aren't going to win.

[Valin]

Send it off to the gop.
I like it.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[SAMWolf]

Swifties Bump

[KQQL]

We Are Waiting

• Did Kerry commit war atrocities?

• Did Kerry lie about "Christmas in Cambodia"?

• Kerry's medals. Kerry returned from his 4 1/2 month stint in Vietnam with three Purple Hearts for wounds, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star for gallantry.?


http://www.investors.com/editorial/issues.asp?v=8/23

After all, it was Kerry himself — with the smart salute and "reporting for duty" opening of his convention speech — who made his military service the keystone of his campaign. And it is Kerry who has repeatedly compared himself favorably with President Bush on that score.

• Did Kerry commit war atrocities?

• Did Kerry lie about "Christmas in Cambodia"?

• Kerry's medals. Kerry returned from his 4 1/2 month stint in Vietnam with three Purple Hearts for wounds, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star for gallantry.?


http://www.investors.com/editorial/issues.asp?v=8/23
After all, it was Kerry himself — with the smart salute and "reporting for duty" opening of his convention speech — who made his military service the keystone of his campaign. And it is Kerry who has repeatedly compared himself favorably with President Bush on that score.

• Did Kerry commit war atrocities?

• Did Kerry lie about "Christmas in Cambodia"?

• Kerry's medals. Kerry returned from his 4 1/2 month stint in Vietnam with three Purple Hearts for wounds, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star for gallantry.?


http://www.investors.com/editorial/issues.asp?v=8/23

[radu]

Excellent find, Dog! I've got several of your threads bookmarked and this find is definitely a keeper! And a mass e-mailer.

Thanks for the "ammo" ping, Tonk!!!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

My Favorite post for dims and trolls
who slither in here each day.
And the Lame Stream media
who find the real news on Free Republic,
then rewrite and spin the truth.

ATTN : ABC CBS CNN FOX NBC
William B. Rood was not actually ON Kerry's boat.

Mommy Heinz!
Help!

Look what the Washington Post said on 8/21/04

"Although Kerry campaign officials insist that they have published Kerry's full military records on their Web site (with the exception of medical records shown briefly to reporters earlier this year), they have not permitted independent access to his original Navy records. A Freedom of Information Act request by The Post for Kerry's records produced six pages of information. A spokesman for the Navy Personnel Command, Mike McClellan, said he was not authorized to release the full file, which consists of at least a hundred pages. "

Look! What the Harvard Crimson wrote about me in 1970

Published on Wednesday, February 18, 1970
John Kerry: A Navy Dove Runs for Congress
By SAMUEL Z. GOLDHABER
Crimson Staff Writer

"...One time Kerry was ordered to destroy a Viet Cong village
but disobeyed orders and suggested that the Navy Command
simply send in a Psychological Warfare team to be
friend the villagers with food, hospital supplies,
and better educational facilities."


Now my shipmates on the
USS GRIDLEY CG-21
are attacking me.

Click Here Mommy
and see what
the USS GRIDLEY crew say.

They say I told lies in Tour of Duty
GRIDLEY CREW ARE LIKE
SWIFT BOAT VETS MEANIES!

Mommy : People can get
MY real book here, right now, online FREE!!
I'm so proud of it!
The New Soldier,
By John Kerry
and Vietnam Veterans
Against the War


Mommy : Please don't be mad
about my hero Al Hubbard.

Head of Kerry's Vietnam Vets Against the War was Vietnam Vet phony
"Many of the stories were later shown to be fictional. Other so-called Vietnam veterans, such as the executive secretary of VVAW, Al Hubbard, a self-styled poet ("See what you've become, Amerika," ends one of his Vietnam odes),
turned out to have no record of service in Vietnam."


Mommy : Why does McCain
still campaign with Bush?
Mommy : Why doesn't Al Gore defend me?
He is a Vietnam Vet.

Mommy : Did Hillary
"leak" FBI Files on me?
I even used her famous slogan?

"Kerry entered and abandoned Vietnamese village and slaughtered domestic animals
owned by the civilians and burned down their homes with his Zippo lighter."



It only takes one idiot to raze a village!
(My original response!)

Mommy : Where is Ted Kennedy?

[radu]

Now why doesn't it surprise me to find out this is your blog? LOL! Very good, Brian!
Got it bookmarked for future "ammo". :-)

[radu]

.....And the Lame Stream media who find the real news on Free Republic,.....

I know for a fact some of the folks at CNN check out FR. During one segment a couple of weeks ago, they were talking about news found on different internet sites and they showed one of their staff on the computer. I almost fell outta my chair when I saw the screen.......there was a thread from FR onscreen. LOL!

[bad company]

Nice Catch!

[ppaul]

[E.G.C.]

BTT!!!!!!!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this. Now it will not disappear.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the link.

The best weapon we have against Kerry is the truth.

Now the best way to get that truth to the undecided is via the Swiftvets. We must contribute to the real warriors to keep the phoney warrior out of office.

https://www.swiftvets.com/swift/ccdonation.php?op=donate&site=SwiftVets

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the link.

The best weapon we have against Kerry is the truth.

Now the best way to get that truth to the undecided is via the Swiftvets. We must contribute to the real warriors to keep the phoney warrior out of office.

https://www.swiftvets.com/swift/ccdonation.php?op=donate&site=SwiftVets

[Samwise]

"We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans' Day waving small flags, calling to memory those thousands who died for the 'greater glory of the United States.' We will not accept the rhetoric. We will not readily join the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars-in fact, we will find it hard to join anything at all and when we do, we will demand relevancy such as other organizations have recently been unable to provide. We will not take solace from the creation of monuments or the naming of parks after a select few of the thousands of dead Americans and Vietnamese. We will not uphold traditions which decorously memorialize that which was base and grim."

--John F'ing Kerry

[jriemer]

More information that may yield clues in finding Mrs. Hardy:

From poster "Riprorin" on web-board "AnandTech" - link

""The angry young veteran's political ambition shone through his public earnestness. The 1970 congressional race that had propelled him into national politics also undercut his credibility, exacerbated by his drive to run for office again. Many saw him as exploiting the war for political gain. "Angry wives of American prisoners of war [POWs] lashed out yesterday at peace advocate John Kerry of Waltham, Mass., accusing him of using the POW issue as a springboard to political office," the Associated Press (AP) reported on July 22, 1971. "One of the women accused Kerry of 'constantly using their own suffering and grief' for purely political reasons."

Patricia Hardy of Los Angeles, whose husband had been killed in 1967, told reporters, "I think he couldn't care less about these men or these families." Cathi and Janice Ray, whose stepbrother was a POW, accompanied her. (Official records show that only one U.S. serviceman named Hardy was killed in the war, Marine Lance Cpl. Frank Earle Hardy, whose platoon was ambushed in Quang Tri on May 29, 1967. His name appears on panel 21E, row D14, of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington.)

The wife of Air Force Col. Arthur Mearns, a pilot missing since he was shot down in 1966, protested Kerry with them. Her husband later was declared killed in action. His name appears on panel 12E, row 055, of the wall.

"Mr. Kerry, when asked if he planned to run again for political office, said only that he was committed to political change and that he would use whatever forum seemed best at the time," according to AP. "He did not rule out mounting another political campaign." At the time, "I was totally consumed with the notion of going to Congress," Kerry later told the Washington Post. AP hinted that Kerry already held presidential ambitions. [Editor's note: Rememeber, this article is from 1971.]

A Boston newspaper agreed: "The gentle cloak of idealism and dignity which Kerry had worn during his televised testimony in Washington now appeared to be stitched together with threads of personal ambition and political expediency. Was this to be the payoff for one of the finest and most moving chapters of the counterculture antiwar movement? Just another slick Ivy League phrasemaker ego-freak political hustler with a hunger to see his name on campaign posters and his face on national television?""