Posted on 07/28/2004 11:39:16 PM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING
ELECTION 2004 Controversy over Kerry's re-enacted war scenes DNC video uses home footage taken with future career in mind
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: July 28, 2004 2:45 p.m. Eastern
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com While a swift-boat commander in Vietnam, Sen. John Kerry filmed re-enactments of combat which Democrats plan to use in the official video introducing their presidential nominee tomorrow night in Boston.
During the Vietnam War, Sen. John Kerry filmed re-enactments of combat scenes with a home camera.
A new book, "Unfit for Command," written by John O'Neill, who took over Kerry's swift boat, PCF-94, charges the Massachusetts senator carried a home movie camera to "record his exploits," according to the Drudge Report.
The convention video is directed by James Smoll, who works with Steven Spielberg.
Tedd Peck, who piloted PCF-94 before being wounded and turning over command to Kerry, told WorldNetDaily the footage taken in Vietnam is "phony."
Kerry's 8-millimeter films show him with grenades hanging from a flack jacket, but Peck says the members of the swift-boat crew were not ground troops -- being told never to leave the boat -- and never were issued grenades because of the chance of them ricocheting when lobbed from the deck.
"He found [the grenades] and wanted to make himself look like a gungho John Wayne," said Peck, who said he didn't like Kerry from the start. "That's what it is, Hollywood."
Peck said he and his colleagues thought it was odd that Kerry took the camera with him on patrol.
"He was carefully getting his heroics down," Peck said.
O'Neill's book says Kerry "would revisit ambush locations for re-enacting combat scenes where he would portray the hero, catching it all on film. Kerry would take movies of himself walking around in combat gear, sometimes dressed as an infantryman walking resolutely through the terrain. He even filmed mock interviews of himself narrating his exploits. A joke circulated among Swiftees was that Kerry left Vietnam early not because he received three Purple Hearts, but because he had recorded enough film of himself to take home for his planned political campaigns."
The Boston Globe reported in 1996, noted Drudge, that the Kerry home movies "reveal something indelible about the man who shot them -- the tall, thin, handsome Naval officer seen striding through the reeds in flak jacket and helmet, holding aloft the captured B-40 rocket. The young man so unconscious of risk in the heat of battle, yet so focused on his future ambitions that he would reenact the moment for film. It is as if he had cast himself in the sequel to the experience of his hero, John F. Kennedy, on the PT-109."
Thomas Vallely, a fellow veteran and one of Kerry's closest political advisers and friends, told the Globe, "John was thinking Camelot when he shot that film, absolutely."
In his new book "Reckless Disregard," author Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson, details one of the claimed Kerry reenactments for film:
"On February 28, 1969, now in charge of PCF 94, Kerry came under fire from an enemy location on the shore. The crew's gunner returned fire, hitting and wounding the lone gunman. Kerry directed the boat to charge the enemy position. Beaching his boat, Kerry jumped off, chased the wounded insurgent behind a thatched hutch, and killed him. Kerry and his crew returned within days, armed with a Super 8 video camera he had purchased at the post exchange at Cam Ranh Bay, and reenacted the skirmish on film."
O'Neill, an attorney, is head of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, an organization opposing Kerry's candidacy for president. As WorldNetDaily reported, O'Neill's organization stated last month Kerry was a "loose cannon" in Vietnam and is unfit to be commander in chief.
After Kerry requested an early dismissal from Vietnam, O'Neill took over command of his boat.
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth includes the entire chain of command above Kerry during his tenure in Southeast Asia, as well as enlisted men.
the wounded VC was hit with twin .50cal machine guns. he wasn't going anywhere, except for hell, to begin with. kerry shot a wounded, dying man who, because when he fired the rocket he emptied his rocket launcher, was unarmed.
There is something seriously wrong with someone who would do something like this.This is not funny it is sick this should be a major issue in this campaign who in their right mind would do this???
I agree. This is psycopathic behavior. Totally bizarre. Both he and his wife.
There is something seriously wrong with someone who would do something like this.This is not funny it is sick this should be a major issue in this campaign who in their right mind would do this???
A Professor of Psychology once taught that Sociopaths fall into two catagories: the poor go into crime, better off go into politics. He was serious. I'm seeing alot of truth in what he said. Remember that a Sociopath has little or no conscience. They lie with abandon.
Peck said he and his colleagues thought it was odd that Kerry took the camera with him on patrol.
Therefore..........JF'n should have some good footage of all the atrocities that he said he witnessed.
Good gosh. Did this man ever NOT have an agenda?!
Oh come on, it's a little funny. His behavior reminds me of my brother when we were kids. He and his friends would run around and play war but the difference between my brother and John Kerry is my brother grew up.
Bump for later..
kerry, testimony before Congress, 22 April, 1971, kerry says, "I have been to Paris. I have talked with both delegations at the peace talks, that is to say the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government,...."*(not on any authorised mission by the U.S. Government or by the U.S. military, kerry and his VVAW group meets and negotiates with the then enemy).
*excerpted from the Official U.S. Congressional Record dated 22 April, 1971.
"revamp the U.S. military", read as kerry's plan to PURGE the U.S. Military of Pro U.S. Military Veterans and Republicans, make it totally dependant on U.N. forces support for any significant achievement capable military(similar to france,germany, etc.), Turn home based U.S. Armed Forces, Intelligence agencies and Law Enforcement agencies into the democratic party's{including CPUSA and DSA} Praetorian Guard!!!!
kerry stabbed U.S. in the back continually since his return from Viet Nam. How much more backstabbing from this 22 April, 1971 testimony(self confessed traitor) before Congress that he(kerry) met with the then enemy in Paris, are we supposed to stand????
Some More Interesting historical news about kerry:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091943/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160580/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1165078/posts
Some of kerry's friends listed below:
http://www.cpusa.org/
http://www.dsausa.org/
DSA's "Progressive Caucus" Links below:
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp
They are the Enemy Within!!!!
I have at least one or two interesting posts about said such subject matter, below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1165983/posts
And see:
http://tonkin.spymac.net/hanoikerry1.html
More: Communist Party Backs the RATS!!!! below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1171176/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1172055/posts
More!!!! Socialists(DSA) backs kerry!!!! Below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179854/posts
More of the Enemy within!!!!
Even More!!!! Red China Backs kerry!!!! See Below:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1180437/posts
Avoid the Socialists/Communists backed johns(not capitolised on purpose) like the Plague!!!!
BUSH/CHENEY 2004!!!!:-)
May God Continue to Bless America!!!!
>sometimes dressed as an infantryman<
Servicemen are allowed to wear any clothes
they want to???
Those were the days, using baseball bats as rifles and pine cones as grenades.
I can't even give my 4 year old boys water guns now with out my wife bringing up that she doesn't like the fact they are "guns". She's got an eye opener coming when they are old enough to be enrolled in an NRA safety class :)
Sociopaths are usually manipulative charmers who are chameleons, shaping themselves to be anything required by the individual/crowd they have set their sights on. They hotly pursue someone or something and as soon as success comes in that pursuit, they begin to denigrate, enslave and consume everything in that situation for self-aggrandizement. As I watch and think about current events, I frequently think of Tocqueville's quote.."American is great because she is good..If American ever ceases to be good, then she will cease to be great." How true in our world today where it is too obvious that our biggest problems come more from immorality than from anything material.
It appears that John Kerry's entire life is nothing but a lie told by an idiot. He's in serious contention for the presidency of the United States of America. There's definitely nothing funny at all about that.
Great piece. Wouldn't it be nice to to have an eyewitness account or two of kerry's follies who could sign an affidavit for publication?
It reminds me of how a young Klintoon elbowed his way through a bunch of kids to have his picture taken with President Kennedy. These guys have since their youths needed to maintain their "political viability."
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