On Feb 13, 2:28 am, "Crosslands" <npeter...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> A previously unnoticed passage in JohnKerry'sapproved war
biography,
> citing his own journals, appears to contradict the senator's claim
he
> won
> his first Purple Heart as a result of an injury sustained under
enemy
> fire.
>
> JohnKerryreceving medal for Vietnam service.
> Kerry, who served as commander of a Navy swift boat, has insisted
he
> was
> wounded by enemy fire Dec. 2, 1968, when he and two other men took
a
> smaller vessel, a Boston Whaler, on a patrol north of his base at
Cam
> Ranh
> Bay.
> But Douglas Brinkley's "Tour of Duty," for whichKerrysupplied his
> journals and letters, indicates that asKerryset out on a
subsequent
> mission, he had not yet been under enemy fire.
A lie . . . .
> While the date of the four-day excursion on PCF-44 [Patrol Craft
Fast]
> is
> not specified, Brinkley notes it commenced whenKerry"had just
turned
> 25,
> on Dec. 11, 1968," which was nine days after the incident in which
he
> claimed he had been wounded by enemy fire.
> Brinkley recounts the outset of that mid-December journey, which
> included
> a crew of radarman James Wasser, engineman William Zaladonis,
gunner's
> mate Stephen Gardner and boatswain's mates Drew Whitlow and
Stephen
> Hatch:
>
> "They pulled away from the pier at Cat Lo with spirits high,
feeling
> satisfied with the way things were going for them. They had no
lust
> for
> battle, but they also were were not afraid.Kerrywrote in his
> notebook,
> 'A cocky feeling of invincibility accompanied us up the Long Tau
> ****pping channel because we hadn't been shot at yet, and
Americans
> at
> war who haven't been shot at are allowed to be cocky.'"
> The diary entry apparently confirms assertions made by Swift Boat
> Veterans
> for the Truth, a group of more than 250 vets opposing his
presidential
> candidacy who served in the Naval operation that patrolled the
rivers
> and
> canals of the Mekong Delta area controlled by North Vietnam.
Typical head-up-their-ass statement, by people who haven't a clue what
they are talking about.
1. Yes, there were 250 members of the Swift Boat Veterans for "truth"
-- but in no way did they all work the delta. They worked other areas
of Vietnam.
2. The rivers and canals were not controlled by North Vietnam -- they
were controlled (contested, whatever term one wishes to use) by the
Viet Cong.
3. Most of those 250 guys never saw Kerry in Vietnam.
> Kerryhas made his four months of service in Vietnam a central theme
> in
> his campaign, arguing his pur****ted war heroics help qualify him
to be
> commander in chief.
> In the swift-boat group's newly published book, "Unfit for
Command,"
> authors John O'Neill, who took over command ofKerry'sboat,
One of the 250 who never saw Kerry in Vietnam, was John O'Neill. He
took over Kerry's boat several months after Kerry left the country.
>and
> Jerome
> Corsi
Corsi, the bigot. So much so, that O'Neill tried to distance himself
from Corsi, saying he was not actually a co-author (even that's what
the book says), but a sort of "editor". . . yeah, right.
>assert the wound for whichKerryreceived his medal actually was
> caused by him firing an M-79 grenade launcher too close, "causing
a
> tiny
> piece of shrapnel (one to two centimeters) to barely stick in his
> arm."
Strangely enough, the two enlisted guys in the boat with Kerry say
there wasn't an M-79 onboard.
> Could the "we" to whichKerryreferred in his notebook entry have
> meant
> only that his crew, rather thanKerryin particular, had not
> encountered
> enemy fire?
> At least one other PCF-44 crew member was withKerryduring the
Boston
> Whaler incident, Zaldonis, according to the Boston Globe's account
of
> the
> story.
> Whatever the case, Corsi told WorldNetDaily he believes the
apparent
> contradiction inKerry'sjournal, as presented by Brinkley, deserves
a
> response.
> "We're not interested in charges that cannot be do***ented," he
added.
> TheKerrycampaign's press staff has not answered WND's request for
a
> response.
> Corsi contendsKerryhas a "pattern" of equivocation,
"distingui****ng
> and
> extending" his answers to charges, including responses to alleged
> participation in a 1971 Kansas City meeting of Vietnam Veterans
> Against
> the War where a plot to assassinate seven U.S. senators was
> considered.
> "Finally, he said he was there, but he doesn't remember it," Corsi
> said.
> Last week,Kerrywas forced to revise his decades-long contention he
> was
> on a secret mission in Cambodia on Christmas Eve 1968.
> "Tour of Duty" author Brinkley is re****ted to be writing a piece
for
> the
> New Yorker saying it actually was January 1969 whenKerrywas sent
> into
> Cambodia, not December 1968.
> As WorldNetDaily re****ted, the authors of "Unfit for Command"
claim
> that
> despite the senator's many public references to spending Christmas
Eve
> in
> Cambodia - including a1986 speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate
-
> the
> candidate was never in Vietnam's neighboring country. Rather, they
say
> he
> was more than 50 miles from the Cambodian border at Sa Dec.
A lie. . ..
> 'Dear diary moment'
> Conservative commentator and attorney Chris Horner, a defender of
the
> swift-boats group who alerted WND to the diary entry, called it a
> "stunning" revelation.
> On recent television and radio appearances, he said, claims made
by
> eyewitnesses to events surrounding the first Purple Heart
More lies . . . . . the two enlisted guys do not dispute what Kerry/
the Navy say happened. Someone else, who Kerry and the two enlisted
guys say was NOT present, disputes what Kerry/the Navy say about that
incident.
>have been
> countered by "surrogates ofKerry" who do not address the substance
of
> the
> charges.
> "So finally, you have an eyewitness in a dear diary moment,
saying,
> 'Dear
> diary, I still haven't been shot at,'
That is a BALD FACED LIE.
Kerry's diary did NOT say that.
Crosslands, once again = Liar
Doug Reese
>confirming what the Swiftees
> have
> been saying," observed Horner, who has defended the group's claims
in
> recent appearances on television news shows.
> "Admittedly the source is questionable - JohnKerry- but it at last
> provides a witness from his camp to address the charges that his
first
> Purple Heart resulted from a scratch borne of his own fire,"
Horner
> said.
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