Posted on 08/03/2004 6:27:18 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
Font size=5> ANTI-KERRY VETS GATHER FOR ASSAULT; BOOK CLAIMS KERRY WAR 'FABRICATIONS'
| Seeing through Kerry WorldNetDaily, OR - 4 hours ago It is obvious from John Kerry's acceptance speech last week at the Democratic National Convention that he considers his "service" in Vietnam to be a major ... |
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self-inflicted? WorldNetDaily, OR - 5 hours ago WASHINGTON – Two of John Kerry's Purple Hearts were for self-inflicted wounds, charges a new book by two of the presidential candidate's Vietnam comrades. ... |
| Angered by 'lies' Democratic candidate spread after war WorldNetDaily, OR - Aug 2, 2004 A Vietnam veterans group opposing Sen. John Kerry's bid for the White House is gearing up for a Washington, DC, rally with a fund-raising dinner this month. ... |
Will Do.
That sounds good. What were they saying? Did they know how to spell?
LOL, We're both wrong.
As much as I hate making a mistake, I Googled the way you spelled it (Fletchette) and came up with a couple of results. I looked down and saw the question : "Did you mean Flechette?" There were 197 results for that spelling.
Thanks for the ping
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What bothered me about this article saying Kerry "only served" four months on a tour is that he had a cushy job on the big ship and opted to volunteer for his second tour of duty on a swift boat. In other words he took himself off the easy duty and into the harder combat seeing duty. That has to count for something.
That is what Kerry and the Democrats want us to believe and that is the version they are putting out. However, that version is pure Bravo Sierra and is not supported by the facts or by Kerry's own statements.
It would indeed be extremely admirable if Kerry had knowingly taken "himself off the easy duty and into the harder combat seeing duty".
However, Kerry never volunteered for combat or any duty he dreamed would get him into combat.
Kerry was the First Division Officer when he served on the USS Gridley.
What is "First Division"?
First Division is one of the "Deck Divisions" on a ship. In Navy slang, the "Deck Apes". They swab the decks. They chip paint. They paint the areas they finished chipping. After that, they swab, they chip and they paint some more. The bottom of the class at Navy Boot Camp ends up in a Deck Division.
In the Ward Room, the First Division Officer is the lowest guy in the ship's officers pecking order. When the XO or the CO need an S.L.J.O. (Shitty Little Jobs Officer), the First Division Officer is the guy that gets the job.
Kerry was in charge of the least skilled sailors in the lowest prestige division on his ship and, apparently, his C.O., Captain Slifer, was not making life very pleasant for our Boston Blue Blood who was more used to sailing on John F. Kennedy's yacht.
What to do?
Swift boats!
At the time, swift boats merely patrolled the coastline or ferried sailors between ships.
Most importantly, a lowly Lt.(j.g.) was the Officer in Charge (OIC).
Instead of being the SLJO on the USS Gridley, in charge of Deck Ape Division, with Captain Slifer making his life miserable, Kerry pictured himself as the OIC of his own boat, roaring up and down the South China Sea out of the war and with no Captain Slifer anywhere in sight.
But, don't take my word for it.
Let's hear it from John F. Kerry himself:
Two weeks after Kerry assumed command of his swift boat, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt put into effect his idea of getting those swift boats out of glorified water skiing duty........
.......into the shooting war in the rivers of the Mekong Delta.
Oooooops.
As Robert Burns once wrote, "The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry."
Kerry signed up for being OIC of his own water skiing boat and here he was in the middle of a friggin war!!
What does Kerry do now after he has gone from glorified water skier straight into deep kim-chee?
Well, Kerry then proceeds to rack up three Purple Hearts for "injuries" that kept him off duty for a grand total of.....drum roll, please..... two days of duty by his own admission and zero days according to his swift boat squadron C.O.
Kerry then sea-lawyered himself out of combat after only four months and requested a transfer as an "Admiral's aide", preferably in "Boston, New York or Washington".
When the Boston Globe asked Kerry to give permission for the release of his Navy medical records so that the Boston Globe could document what sort of injuries earned Kerry three Purple Hearts and a ticket out of combat after 4 months.........Kerry refused.
Every decision and/or request John F. Kerry ever made; from First Division Officer to swift boat OIC; from swift boat OIC to early termination of his combat tour; from early termination of his combat tour to Admiral's aide; from Admiral's aide to early discharge from active duty; from early discharge from active duty to politically-popular-in-Massachusets American-G.I.'s-are-war-criminals anti-war protestor.....
Every decision and/or request John F. Kerry ever made in his Navy career was made to further the comfort, safety and political ambitions of John F. Kerry.
EXCELLENT !!!!DRUDGE:ANTI-KERRY VETS GATHER FOR ASSAULT;
BOOK CLAIMS KERRY WAR 'FABRICATIONS'
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE AUG 03, 2004 21:35:02 ET XXXXX
BOOK CLAIMS KERRY WAR 'FABRICATIONS'
**Exclusive**
A veterans group seeking to deeply discredit Democrat John Kerry's military service will charge in the new bombshell book UNFIT FOR COMMAND:
- Two of John Kerry's three Purple Heart decorations resulted from self-inflicted wounds, not suffered under enemy fire.
- All three of Kerry's Purple Hearts were for minor injuries, not requiring a single hour of hospitalization.
- A "fanny wound" was the highlight of Kerry's much touted "no man left behind" Bronze Star.
- Kerry turned the tragic death of a father and small child in a Vietnamese fishing boat into an act of "heroism" by filing a false report on the incident.
- Kerry entered an abandoned Vietnamese village and slaughtered the domestic animals owned by the civilians and burned down their homes with his Zippo lighter.
- Kerry's reckless behavior convinced his colleagues that he had to go -- becoming the only Swift Boat veteran to serve only four months.
The Kerry campaign is planning to vigorously counter the charges and will accuse the veteran's groups of being well-financed by a top Bush donor from Texas, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
"They hired a goddamn private investigator to dig up trash!" charged a top Kerry adviser traveling with the senator late Tuesday. "This is pay for play, and the dirtiest of all dirty tricks ever played on a candidate for the presidency. How low can they go?"
Kerry supporters are comparing the effort by the veterans to the Arkansas State troopers tell-all against Bill Clinton.
UNFIT FOR COMMAND will not be released until August 15.
The names. The details. All on the record.
Beginning tomorrow, the DRUDGE REPORT will break the embargo.
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest or Texas ping list!. . .don't be shy.
I'm a Veteran, and I vote!
Maybe Hanoi John Effing Kerry's lies about Vietnam and those of us who served in that very winnable war in his feebble, futile effort to win the Presidency will, for once and all, end the ad nauseum discussion about Vietnam.
Most of us have moved on with our lives. Kerry and his band of LIEberal syncophants seem to be stuck in some sort of '70s time warp and by continually revisiting (and revising!) that bitter period of US History, seek to divide us FRom each other for skanky political purposes.
Hanoi John Effing Kerry's defeat in November will come as a huge repudiation of his life and will cause me no end of personal glee and satisfaction. That sonofabitch deserves to go down in history as the second biggest loser (after der Sleichmeister und GroppenFrueher) to ever strut and fret upon the US political stage!
That sounds good. What were they saying? Did they know how to spell?
Not only these two questions:
"What were they saying? Did they know how to spell?"
But also, how many four letter words were on the replies?
What is the DU site.........I want to see them squeal.
I think it is DemocratUnderground.com. The server here blocks access to that site.
"They hired a goddamn private investigator to dig up trash!" charged a top Kerry adviser traveling with the senator late Tuesday. "This is pay for play, and the dirtiest of all dirty tricks ever played on a candidate for the presidency. How low can they go?"
Hey, Kerry messed up by using this argument too soon, now you have two weeks to counter this before the book is released and the other media get hold of it.
Nothing like a Christmas Present in August - BUMP!
"will accuse the veteran's groups of being well-financed by a top Bush donor from Texas"
And MoveOn is financed by a foreign socialist billionaire currency trader who pledged to spend his entire fortune if it meant defeating Bush.
Ho hum.
"Kerry turned out swift boat crewmen, his Navy superiors, and even retired admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt Jr. at Charlestown Navy Yard to sing his praises. Ted Kennedy, too, stepped in. "
Why did Zumwalt praise him in the past?
Thank you, it let me in, will check it out.
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