10 Questions MSM needs to ask Kerry

The mainstream media has done an extremely poor job of covering the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth story.

When the group first formed in April, the media largely ignored their explosive charges despite the fact that many of the people involved are vets and war heroes who knew John Kerry in Vietnam.

1) Isn't it true that you requested a year long deferment from your local draft board to study in France and only after you were turned down did you actually enlist in the military?

4) Back in 2003, you told Laura Blumenfield of the Washington Post that you had a "good luck hat" that you kept with you in a briefcase that was given to you by a "CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia". What was the CIA guy's name and can you give all the relevant details (dates, crewmen who were with you, etc) for that trip?

10) You claim that you've released your full military records already and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have said that you're lying. However, after investigating, the Washington Post found that there apparently are large amounts of material in your records that have not been released...

"A Freedom of Information Act request by The Post for Kerry's records produced six pages of information. A spokesman for the Navy Personnel Command, Mike McClellan, said he was not authorized to release the full file, which consists of at least a hundred pages."

Why are you refusing to sign Pentagon's Standard Form 180 which will allow the Pentagon release all of your records and can you explain why your campaign has said that all of your records have been released?

Those were all good questions, but the bonus question was my favorite.

(*** Bonus Question ***) Why do you think it is that your former doctor, one of the men who served on your boat, the majority of crew members whose picture you used in a campaign commercial, every commanding officer you ever had in Vietnam, and large numbers of men who fought beside you in combat on other boats are all coming out and not just saying that they don't support you, but that you're telling lies about your war record? Is it just a "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" or is there something else at work here?

No, I think it was 10. Or 3. Oh, they're all good.

I boiled it down to five and sent it to my local newspaper:

1. Did you request a one year deferment from your local draft board to study in France and enlisted only after your deferment request was turned down?

2. What days exactly were you in Cambodia, and with which ship or ships, and who were your crewmates? Where is documentation that proves that you were ever in Cambodia during the Vietnam War? When you were in Cambodia, were you running guns? Were you inserting SEALs? Were you inserting CIA agents? Or were you doing something else? Who ordered you into Cambodia during these times? Why does your C.O., Hoffman, publicly deny you were ever in Cambodia during these times?

3. Are the wounds from your first and third Purple Heart self-inflicted, in the sense that your own grenade or rocket went off too close to you, and shrapnel from your weapon caused your wounds?

4. Can you explain the discrepancies in your diary and public statements, in particular, your diary claim that you "got a small grenade in my ass" on the date of the third Purple Heart, and that you spent Christmas Eve five miles in Cambodia and that it was "seared" in your memory?

5. You claim that you released all your military records, but the Washington Post reports that a spokesperson for the Navy Personnel Command, Mike McClellan, said "he was not authorized to release the full file, which consists of at least a hundred pages." Why can't anyone get these pages, when your campaign publicly insists that you have already made all of your military records available? Why would your campaign make that statement if it was not true? Why do you refuse to sign a standard form 180 to permit the public to verify that you have released all your service records, if your campaign claims that all your service records are already released?

my question is

Sept. 18, 1972, Why were Cameron Kerry and Thomas Vallely, both part of your current campaign team arrested by Lowell police at 1:40 a.m. and charged with breaking and entering with the intent to commit larceny? The two were apprehended in the basement of a building whose door had been forced open, police said. It housed the headquarters of candidate DiFruscia.

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