Posted on 08/25/2004 12:51:45 PM PDT by NorCoGOP
August 25, 2004 Posted at 12:30 PM, Pacific
DID THE DOG GO INTO CAMBODIA? DID THE DOG BARK AT THE CIA MAN, THUS PROMPTING THE CIA MAN TO GIVE KERRY THE HAT? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DOG?
This Washington Times story by John McCaslin raises a host of new questiosn for John Kerry:
"VC surfaces A new four-legged angle -- actually a dog named "VC" -- has suddenly materialized surrounding Sen. John Kerry 's swift boat service in Vietnam.
In a 2004 presidential candidate questionnaire for Humane USA, Mr. Kerry was asked whether any pets have had an impact on his life.
"I have always had pets in my life, and there are a few that I remember very fondly," Mr. Kerry replied. "When I was serving on a Swift Boat in Vietnam, my crewmates and I had a dog we called VC.
"One day as our Swift Boat was heading up a river, a mine exploded hard under our boat," he continued. "After picking ourselves up, we discovered VC was MIA (missing in action). Several minutes of frantic search followed, after which we thought we'd lost him. We were relieved when another boat called asking if we were missing a dog."
Said Mr. Kerry: "It turns out VC was catapulted from the deck of our boat and landed, confused but unhurt, on the deck of another boat in our patrol."
J.J. Scheele, program director of Humane USA, confirmed yesterday that her organization did, in fact, receive the above statement from the Kerry campaign.
No military records on Mr. Kerry's Web site, which aides say is a complete accounting, mention a mine exploding under his boat or any dog. The only report of a mine detonating "near" Mr. Kerry's PCF 94 was March 13, 1969, when Mr. Kerry says he was injured and a man knocked overboard."
So how close was the other boat? Close enough for the crew to say 'we served with Kerry?' I'd say so, if they caught his dog.
He was writing a script for his next motion picture starring President Kerry. There's someone in Hollywood right now fleshing out the characters. Believe it.
good recap - need to add the fact that Kerry is now admitting that the first purple heart 'may have' been self-inflicted.
I found this linked via Hugh ("Release the photos of the snappy yellow tux") Hewitt's website blog.
Actually it would be interesting to know when the dog was last seen. Don't the Vietnamese eat dog?
Could that dog have been "Teddy Salad"?
(Ten extra points if anyone gets that reference!)
The dog did until he tried to escape from Kerry by flying to the other boat.
Did he ever tell you the time he single handedly routed the Monfgolians and became the King of Siam?
I can imagine Kerry sitting in an old style tan hunter hat with a large moustache puffing on a pipe in a study.
Does he now have a dog named Osama?
Before the Internet, an investigator might have to hand-search thousands of archives, travel to many different cities, and follow thousands of leads to accumulate the data necessary to unravel Kerry's complex web of lies. Even after all the data was collected, the investigator would have to untangle, analyze and interpret all the data, then write a report or book, and then try to get it through the mass media gatekeepers. "What are the odds?" the young Kerry must have asked himself.
Now we have the Internet and the almost instant access to information and thousands of minds concentrating on mining, accumulating, analyzing and publishing it. Kerry must really be pissed at Al Gore and his confounded invention.
I have this bizarre mental image of Kerry....
Picture every time that he gets up to (surprise!) talk about his Vietnam experience, I get the mental image from American Pie...
"This one time...at band camp...."
Appropo?
The Times has been doing a good job.
I have to say, I was impressed with Stephen Dinan's report today also.
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040825-125217-7993r.htm
It includes the info that it was John Hurley who stated that the 1st purple heart may have been for self-inflicted wounds.
Just who were the sane ones?
bump to print.
I would add the claim of getting a lucky hat during a "secret mission" to Cambodia.
I'm betting he and his crew, tired of eating the same old thing day after day, traded the dog for a few hundred pounds of rice, which Kerry then tried to cook with a grenade...
When PCF number 3 hit a mine, all the crew were injured and the boat was trashed.
Kerry said the boat hit a mine and the dog went flying...and the rest of them? Damage to the boat, injured crew, spot report?
Another Seared--Seared--Memory
From a John Kerry speech commemorating Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 20, 2003:
I remember well April 1968--I was serving in Vietnam--a place of violence--when the news reports brought home to me and my crewmates the violence back home--and the tragic news that one of the bullets flying that terrible spring took the life of that unabashedly maladjusted citizen.
In fact, Kerry did not go to Vietnam until November 1968.
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