Posted on 08/21/2004 8:28:40 AM PDT by palmer
The point of contention is not related in any way, shape or form to the single VC.
The point of contention is whether or not Kerry "attacked a NUMERICALLY SUPERIOR enemy WHILE under withering fire." Rood's account does not get to that point of contention. Kerry's Silver Star citation recites that ht action of Kerry beaching HIS boat directly in front of enemy ambushers resulted in routing a score of VC. The Swiftees dispute that point.
Rood recalled the fleeing Viet Cong was "a grown man, dressed in the kind of garb the VC usually wore." There were other attackers as well, he said, and his boat and Kerry's boat took significant fire.
Doesn't Kerry himself describe the VC as a teen in a loin cloth? I'm quite certain he and his supporters have but this guy Rood, while trying to say the Swifties are wrong is actually at odds with Kerry's acount of the incident and closer to the Swifties.
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Just sent them $25.
You are confusing the March 13 incident (Rassmann, where the Swiftees say there was no enemny fire) with the incident of February 28, where the Swiftees say that Kerry did not beach his boat in the face of numerically superior (but firing) enemy.
Thanks for the bump, just sent another $25.
It doesn't matter. The single VC is not in any way a point of material contention.
Well they are NOT making him available to the press. A hit and run statement. What would you know. I knew it was fishy from the get go. That's why the mainstream media is losing credibility. The disinterested, passionate pursuit of the truth is not their primary objective. Its to serve a partisan agenda - namely, do whatever it takes to get Kerry elected. They must think the American people are stupid if they don't notice what's going on.
The bias is obvious.
So why is this on the Trib's front page instead of its editorial page?
Why won't they give a statement or interviews? What exactly are they afraid of or embarrassed about, if Kerry such a great brother in arms. You would think the media would want them available to help out their Golden Boy. TM Something does NOT compute here.
Confusing incidents is just what the Kerry Campaign wants us to do. Kerry has just barely enough cover on this stuff to give his supporters in the media a reason to dismiss the Vets. Here's what I notice in this piece:
1. Doesn't mention that Rood's recollection of the "typical VC" holding the rocket wasn't conflicts with Kerry's official story in "Tour of Duty." The media has generally ignored Kerry's varying versions of events.
2. Doesn't mention Cambodia, or any of the other allegations.
3. Rood is concerned about the Swifties "impugning vets not in the media spotlight." The next logical question is asking him how he feels about Kerry's Winter Soldier BS.
What are the sources for the Swift Boat Vets' account of this incident? One guy, more than one?
Good question since its an unsourced personal opinion. It belongs on the op-ed page. Then again the partisan media's journalistic ethics stink.
Uh... not exactly. Now those 'American veterans' living in HANOI are backing KERRY! How very fitting - MORE commie traitors supporting Kerry. Who'd a thunk it, right???
Yes, and they won't allow anything out that might compromise their unanimity of support for Kerry. The whole thing is a fraudulent public relations exercise. People will see right through it.
Oh, so that's why Swiftboats were used to insert Navy seals and CIA men in Cambodia. I always kind of wondered about that.
My conscience and my stomach will not allow me to count them in the mix. So...by my count, still 254 to 10.
I haven't read the book "Unfit for Command," but have studied Elliott's affidavits. I think that the evidence there was not a score of VC in front of Kerry's boat when he beached it comes from Kerry's biography, of all places.
Just part of the MSM strategy I guess. Their only hope is to "discredit" the SBVT like the Washpost and WSJ did for the Rassman story. They need reference stories like this one to point to later to say that SBVT are "completely discredited". As the SBVT get more effective ads like their second one, that is the only defense that the MSM has left.
The answer to that is obvious. But look at how clearly the absence of mention illustrates media bias.
The media questioned baseless allegation of AWOL Bush, but has not investigated allegations that Kerry lied to get medals. The media never mentions that Kerry's "Brothers" are unavailable for interviews, nor does it express the glaring difference in availability between the contending sides. The media never asks a question about the substance of the allegations, when it comes to Kerry. It's all smoke and mirrors.
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