THE PING!Posted on 08/21/2004 10:15:26 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis
Read this March 13th, 1969 spot report on Kerry's site spot report very carefully. I did, and my jaw dropped at what Kerry & Rassman are now telling.
Rassman now states publicly Washington Post Kerry got rice/shrapnel in his ass when he & Kerry fragged a rice bin with some grenades and Kerry did not get out of the way in time when they went bang.
As Rassman said in the article, "Evidently, Kerry did not run fast enough. "He got some frags and pieces of rice in his rear end," Rassmann said with a laugh. "It was more embarrassing than painful."
The spot report on Kerry's site says it was a village of women, children & old men. (note: no mention of enemy combatants) spot report for village makes no reference to Kerry's rice/shrapnel in the butt as now per Rassman.
But later on that same day of the mine incident under PCF-3, in the spot report, Kerry seems to have gotten shrapnel in his left buttock due to enemy action. (see the WIA report in first link)
Spot WIA report said: Kerry had shrapnel (RICE?) in his left buttock & a minor contusion on his right forearm. Note Rassman has already said publicly in the WAPO article, that earlier in the day Kerry had self inflicted the rice/shrapnel in his bottom, but later he & Kerry turns all this into a purple heart heroic action at some point in the future.
Rassman's public account now of saying Kerry was all bloody and severely wounded while pulling him out of the water is also now starting to smell foul.
Now Here is the Mar. 13th, 1969 casualty report for one of Kerry's purple hearts.
Kerry's March 13th 1969 purple heart
(see page 2 of pdf) This is where it reads that Kerry received shrapnel wounds in his left buttock from hostile fire on that day, when Rassman has now said the wounds were self inflicted.
Of course they are. That's what Kerry does. He lies his ass off. All the time. Every day.
You will also find that at the end of each casualty report, it bears Kerry's initials. He wrote all casualty reports for that day and used identical language for each, "heavy small arms fire and rocket attacks".
also look at his bronze star citation bleeding arm wounded from mine......
If a dummy like me can connect the dots, why has this not been laid out concisely and irrefutably by the (Vast) right wing (conspiracy) media?
John Kerry is dangerous, because he's gotten away with these lies for so long, he now must feel desperate to keep the truth from being exposed. I will be praying for the brave Swifties.
Ebry damn thisng in that file has Kerry's initials at the bottom. He wrote his own story.
Snap, crackle and pop.
Rice in the ass Ping!
Those PDF files will be gone from Kerry's site by tommorow. They are damning.
The Washington Post has thrown an enormous amount of effort at truthing one of Kerry's citations, and comes away with conflicting stories. No surprise there. But has the paper begun a similar investigation into Kerry's extravagent claims about his cross-border derring-do in Cambodia?
To remind you: Kerry often and emphatically claimed to have been five miles into Cambodian waters on Christmas Eve, 1968, --most recently in a detailed account used in June 13, 2003 Boston Globe-- a claim his campaign recently recanted, but is now recycling as a "he was close to the border that night" story. One of Kerry's crew, Stephen Gardner, stated emphatically to me in an on air interview on August 10 (transcript in the archives of this blog) they were nowhere near Cambodia that night, and never went into Cambodia in all the time hew was on Kerry's boat, which was into January.
*Kerry told U.S.News and World Report --May 8, 2000 edition-- that he had run weapons to anticommunist forces in Cambodia. I verified that this is "exactly" what Kerry told the reporter.
*Kerry told the Washington Post in June of 2003 and the Los Angeles Times in June of 2004 that he took a CIA man into Cambodia on a secret mission, and kept his hat.
*Kerry's campaign has said he took commandos into Cambodia.
Against this backdrop of outlandish claims for which there is not one bit of public evidence in support, but for which there are many accounts and analyses
Kerry titles his book "Tour of Duty" for his service in Vietnam. He also claims that he had TWO tours of duty in Vietnam (because of his time on the USS Gridley)
Kerry twists the truth so much, you have to watch EVERY WORD HE SAYS. He will lie to you and weave a story (lie) so subtly that you are unaware that he is taking you down the prim-rosed path.
Here is the truth as compared to Kerry's lies. KERRY NEVER EVEN SERVED ONE TOUR IN VIETNAM. HE IS A LIER.
Yes he was in Vietnam (for 4 months) and yes he was on the deep water coast of Vietnam on the USS Gridley (for 5 weeks)but he did not serve a tour in Vietnam.
A Tour in the Nam was 12 months, one year, 365 days, one circle around the sun. Guys would count down the days until their time was up. It was a big deal. When you only had a few weeks to go until your year was up, you were "SHORT", going home soon.
This issue is important for this reason. John Kerry knows that he didn't serve a Tour, let alone TWO Tours, yet he brazenly reports that he did, he lies. Kerry lies about almost everything. That's my point. He can not be trusted.
One might argue 'Well, the time that Kerry spent in Nam was HIS tour, so what is the big deal". If that is your argument then Kerry should have named his book "My Time in Nam" or something. Not lie and give the impression that he spent a tour in Nam. AND, there is NO excuse for his claim for TWO TOURS in Nam, my God. What a lier.
Kerry's lies smack of Michael Mooreism.
As far as Unfit for Command is concerned, I have read it. The Swifties could give a crap less if John Kerry got medals, their issue is the same as what I explained above (and the fact that Kerry smeared their good name with lies) and that is that Kerry can not be trusted. He is unfit for command.
The Purple Heart document specifically claims the buttock shrapnel was from a mine.
So which account is accurate?
John 'rice ass' sKerry
another self inflicted wound!
Every friggin time he opens his mouth.........
redrock
That's why I'm saving local copies. >: )
THE PING! Thank you for so cogently explaining that Kerry didn't even serve ONE tour, let alone two.
....and let me be clear...........4 months of service in Vietnam is honorable service to our country. It's the lies and embellishments of his service that dishonor Kerry.
I noticed that the men listed were either medivaced or their wounds were described as minor. Kerry has "minor" listed after his name.
Nuff' said!
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