[StrangerInParadise]

Tin hat time. The records have been released and people need to move on.

[EagleUSA]

Regardless, Kerry has been branded and marked as to what and who he is. We should move on -- and let Kerry just keep proving what he is. Just another classic representative of the corrupt, vile, evil far-left that has infested America.

[dead]

I can't believe they let his chainsaw killer picture slip through.

[yoe]

John Kerry is an arrogant man who must yell about his perceived accomplishments, especially when there are questions about the very war records he so loudly proclaims are a record of heroic adventures.

Kerry lied to congress;
Kerry lied about his medals;
Kerry consorted with the enemy while still in uniform with no orders to do so;
Jimmy Carter most likely has something to do with the cover up of Kerry’s missing records – that, or Sandy Berger has them…………………and NO, Iam not moving on as long as this man is in the Senate and saying the mendacious things about President Bush he does...none should move on, Kerry is the poster boy of what is wrong with the Senate. He is trying to effect the same out come for Iraq as he did for Viet Nam. Don't let him do it!

YOU MOVE ON! I AM STAYING RIGHT ON KERRY'S TAIL!

[Cicero]

This isn't going to fly. The same people who were on kerry's case before are going to be on it again. The MSM will gladly cover for him, but the blogosphere won't.

The man is a jackass. Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam. He's the jerk who kept bringing that up, who kept posing as a war hero, who kept saying that he had released all his records, who kept bitching about President Bush's National Guard Service (which Bush has never boasted about). If kerry hadn't done that, they could have said it was old history.

Sorry, kerry, it won't fly. Where's your discharge record?

[ConorMacNessa]

"I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for Duty!" (Hand salute)

Move on, my royal Irish derriere.

[hermgem]

Kerry chose Vietnam as his vehicle to the White House.
There were medals galore, then medals oh no ribbons were flipped, saga's of revealing this 180, all without follow through.
What did Kerry really have to run on with a Senate absentee record of 75%, never introducing legislature nor proposing anything worthwhile while doing his other 25%.
Give him credit for his bluster of having made it that far.
Then again whom did the Party have?
Oh yes it was the current democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean endorsed by Al Gore and this Iowa Senator Harkin, plus attested by his Vice President the hairy...forgot his name already.
What a shell game this country had been presented and saw right through it.

[pabianice]

Bullshit. Kerry has released carefully edited and redacted files. His 1972 discharge (under other than honorable conditions) is still being hidden. His "records" contain an "Honorable" 1978 discharge -- six years after he was really discharged -- given to him via Jimmy Carter.

Kerry remains the lying, opportunistic Marxist he always has been.

[OESY]

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Our item yesterday on John Kerry*, his military records and his Yale transcript prompted this criticism from a reader:

Your failure to acknowledge that John Kerry's Navy records contained praise from (future) members of the Swift Boats outfit demonstrates your lack of integrity and your fundamental dishonesty. You are a shill. Congratulations.

"The Swift Boats outfit," of course, is the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and sure enough, yesterday's Boston Globe did say this:

The records, which the Navy Personnel Command provided to the Globe, are mostly a duplication of what Kerry released during his 2004 campaign for president, including numerous commendations from commanding officers who later criticized Kerry's Vietnam service. . . . An earlier release of the full record might have helped his campaign because it contains a number of reports lauding his service.

OK, so we goofed. We should have noted this yesterday. The reason we didn't is that we remembered reading in the paper that the Swift Boat guys were a bunch of liars, so we assumed their praise was not to be trusted.

Now that their credibility has been re-established, let's check in on what they're saying about the release of Kerry's records. Blogger Matt Margolis has the following comment (scroll down to "Update III") from Swift Boat honcho John O'Neill:

We called for Kerry to execute a form which would permit anyone to examine his full and unexpulgated [sic] military records at the Navy Department and the National Personnel Records Center. Instead he executed a form permitting his hometown paper to obtain the records currently at the Navy Department. The Navy Department previously indicated its records did not include various materials. This is hardly what we called for.

If he did execute a complete release of all records we could then answer questions such as (1) Did he ever receive orders to Cambodia or file any report of such a mission (whether at Christmas or otherwise); (2) What was his discharge status between 1970 and 1978 (when he received a discharge) and was it affected by his meetings in 1970 and 1971 with the North Vietnamese? (3) why did he receive much later citations for medals purportedly signed by Secretary Lehman who said he did not know of them; (4) Are there Hostile Fire and Personnel Injured by Hostile Fire Reports for Kerry's Dec. 1968 Purple Heart (when the officer in charge of the boat Admiral Schacte, the treating Surgeon Louis Letson, and Kerry's Division Commander deny there was hostile fire causing a scratch) awarded three months later under unknown circumstances.

Remember, O'Neill heads a group whose members praised Kerry, so he can hardly be dismissed as an anti-Kerry partisan.

* No, actually the asterisk isn't part of his name.

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