Back on the Mekong Delta, John Kerry finds a man who once tried to kill him and exoneration

WaPo ^ | 01/14/2017 | Carol Morello

[SanchoP]

CA MAU, Vietnam — It could have been 1969 again as Secretary of State John F. Kerry stood on the bow of the small boat chugging up the Bay Hap River on Saturday, the wind billowing his sleeves and his eyes darting left and right toward banks shrouded in dark foliage.

As a young Navy lieutenant, Kerry commanded a Swift boat along this stretch of churning brown waters in the middle of a free-fire zone. Here, he earned a Silver Star for his heroics when he leapt ashore after an ambush to pursue a fleeing Viet Cong with a grenade launcher and shot him dead.

[publius911]

Who cares?

[SoFloFreeper]

Remember when he said Nixon sent him into Cambodia at Christmas in 1968? Big lie, as Nixon wasn’t sworn in until January of 1969.

John Kerry is a fraud.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Courage.

[Lexington Green]

Phony warrior with phony medals... medals he recommended for himself... oh. wait.. he did earn the Distinguished Service Medal from North Vietnam.

[Paladin2]

Hussein told the GOPee that he won and they should get on board.

[miss marmelstein]

Infuriating. My mother died last year and I inherited the purple heart of her first husband. He was killed by a sniper in Germany two weeks before the end of WWII. Infuriating.

[TigersEye]

American Patriots Against John Kerry

The 1970 meeting that John Kerry conducted with North Vietnamese communists violated U.S. law, according to an author and researcher who has studied the issue.

Kerry met with representatives from “both delegations” of the Vietnamese (North Vietnamese and Viet Cong) in Paris in 1970, according to Kerry’s own testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971. But Kerry’s meetings with the Vietnamese delegations were in direct violation of laws forbidding private citizens from negotiating with foreign powers, according to researcher and author Jerry Corsi, who began studying the anti-war movement in the early 1970s.

According to Corsi, Kerry violated U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953. “A U.S. citizen cannot go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power,” Corsi told CNSNews.com.

By Kerry’s own admission, he met in 1970 with delegations from the North Vietnamese communist government and discussed how the Vietnam Warshould be stopped.

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[lacrew]

#fakenews about
#fakewarhero

[Nailbiter]

He did frag himself so all is forgiven.

And managed to off up the fragging

[Fiddlstix]

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[mountainlion]

I did not see that anyone mentioned Kerry was busted form O-3 to E-1 by court martial and it took Jimmy carter to whitewash his records so he could get a job in the government.

The only way that kerry served in Viet Nam is that he served himself.

[Mr. K]

Ho-lee-crab- I think they’ve never read “Unfit for Command” - the book about Kerry’s REAL Vietnam experience. (all 3 months of it)

First of all - you NEVER LEAVE THE BOAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you leave the boat it becomes a target- they cannot leave because you are on shore, they cannot SHOOT because you are on shore, so they are a sitting target.

Then, he did not shoot someone with a grenade launcher- he shot an unarmed teenage boy who was running away.

He also ran so fast from a firefight he dumped one of his men overboard and did not go back for him. Another boat had to while still under fire from shore.

They finally threw him out of the country for being UNFIT FOR COMMAND.

I THINK I have these facts straight, I only read extracts from the book.

[immadashell]

The only word that comes to mind is...BULLSHIT.

[tx_eggman]

I take solace in this reality ....

For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. It is written:

“‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will acknowledge God.’”

So then, each of us will give an account of ourselves to God. ...Romans 14:10-12

Goood luck with that Johnny ...

[Fiddlstix]

Phony warrior with phony medals... medals he recommended for himself... oh. wait.. he did earn the Distinguished Service Medal from North Vietnam.

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[NonValueAdded]

Heroics??? Histrionics, maybe.

[Mark]

But, on which side?

[GoldenPup]

Here, he earned a Silver Star for his heroics when he leapt ashore after an ambush to pursue a fleeing Viet Cong with a grenade...

More than likely fabricated bullshiit just like so much of Kerry's stories.

[Strac6]

There is no such thing as a “V device” on a Silver Star.

Bronze Stars with a “V device” indicate it was awarded for bravery.

Bronze Stars without a “V device” are for “meritorious achievement” or “meritorious service” in a combat zone. They were the company-grade officers’ “I was there medal” in RVN.

All Silver Star awards are for “gallantry.” Therefore these is no need for a “V device” as all Silver Stars involve valor/bravery.

[ponygirl]

Anyone that I know who was actually in Vietnam doesn't talk about it. I suspect the same will be true for Iraq and Afghanistan. My uncle will not give more than a brief yes or no when asked about Vietnam. I literally had to corner him one time and say, "Look, I really need to put this info into my genealogy files. Can you just tell me what company you were in and where you went through basic? Maybe some dates?"

I have another uncle who died several years ago who served in the Pacific during WWII. I did not learn until I read his obituary that he was on the tarmac and witnessed the Enola Gay take off for Hiroshima.