I just purchased and am almost through with the book "UNFIT FOR COMMAND". I thank God those swift boat vets came forward and fought so hard to inform the American people what a lying, arrogant, traitous bastard John Kerry is. Having this SOB as Commander In Chief after 9/11 would have been disastrous.
I never read that book. I read the biography "Tour of Duty" by Brinkley -- and that was a devastating account of Kerry's war record, even though Brinkley did his best to put a best light on it.
In that book, Kerry is quoted as saying he only want to Vietnam because he wanted to get revenge on the vietnamese for the death of a friend. He was looking to kill people, and he admitted it in his own biography. It wasn't some noble gesture.
The book also detailed how when he first got there, he wanted to go on a swift boat right away, but when a month passed and he had seen exactly what was happening, he wanted to quit. He was volunteered for a command, and tried to back out of it. That's in his own biography.
There were other very damning things in the biography, including stuff that corraborated the Swift Boat Veterans claims, and conflicted with Kerry's rebuttals.
The book was based on Kerry's own writings, which still have not been released to the public. Kerry said he had promised Brinkley exclusive use of them and therefore couldn't release them, but Brinkley said he was done with them and Kerry wouldn't let HIM release them.
If we had ever gotten to see Kerry's OWN NOTES on the subject, it would have been more devastating than the "Unfit for Command" book.
I just cant believe that he got as close as he did.half this country is unfit to vote.And yes thank God for the swiftys.