Posted on 10/03/2004 7:19:43 PM PDT by Tacis
Why won't Kerry reveal his military records as President Bush has done?
Because he is hiding something! What can he be hiding? It has to be something terrible, so terrible and dishonest that it would immediately turn even his supporters against him. His record contains such a stain that it would prove Kerry guilty of every nasty (and untrue) thing he's said about Bush.
What could it be? And, to the "liberals" on this list, Kerry's refusal to tell the truth, to continue to hide what he knows would influence voters, DOES allow us to describe what it must be.
First, we know the Swifties confirm the basics of Kerry's record while in Nam. It is a record of which Kerry is rightly proud even if it does involve puffery. An official negative in his Nam combat record cwetainly wouldn't do him damage.
No, Kerry's crime must have occured before or after his time on the boats. Before the boats, he was in Cam Ranh Bay where he learned to speak Viet Namese. He could have been court martialed by the Navy in mid-1970 for actions while at Cam Ranh Bay. Charges could have involved homosexual activity, drugs or marrying/dating a local French Viet Namese female (later found to be Charlie).
My documentary will show, however, the Kerry was court martialed and thrown out of the Navy with a discharge for other than honorable conditions for a charge less than treason (he was an officer, decorated, a friend of the Kennedys and claimed to be a candidate for Congress) for his VVAW and Paris activities. This terrible stain was on his record when he applied for law school and is the reason he was rejected by Harvard or simply didn't apply because he knew he'd be rejected.
Carter was elected in 1976 and the day after he took office, 1/21/77, pardoned all the draft dodgers. Carter also pardoned Kerry, probably by mid-1977. It took Kerry several months to petition the DoD to change his records and issue an honorable discharge, which it did in 1978.
These documents associated with Kerry's disgrace and the subsequent rebuilding of his record (which does NOT contain the Lehman Citations; they are forgeries and involve an explanation Kerry can't afford to provide) are in Kerry's official record.
Again, Kerry's refusal to be honest about his record, forces us to hypothesize about the reasons for his continuing mendacity. And, every thesis is valid and must stand as factual if he refuses to disprove it. We are talking about a man who claims he is fit to be a US Senator (even from MA) and hallucinates that he is fit to be President.
Just visit that office and check the proof. Note also, that neither Kerry nor any one at the DNC has issued a notice claiming that there are no such records at DoJ!!
Benedict Arnold was an American hero until he turned traitor and was thrown out of the country. Kerry once may have been a hero but became a traitor and was thrown out of the Navy. If he hadn't been such a well born and well connected favored son, maybe he would have been put in prison.
Kerry is lying about his record. It proves he isn't fit to be President. He knows that and that is why he can't afford to let any one see the truth.
He's hiding either a dishonorable, or at worse, a court martial.
Dishonorable discharge. And somehwere, someone knows about it and isn't talking. Yet.
Stay on this. There should be a continual, public drum beat that Kerry sign a PF 180.
The Associated Press, among all the others, is AWOL when it comes to requesting that Kerry, rather than Bush, provide all military/military-medical records - in fact, AWOL in even acknowledging that Kerry has not done this.
Perhaps a bomb shell will happen in a few weeks. As is noted, someone must have the goods, and is just waiting to wxpose him. Perhaps the person has approached some of the MSM's and they flatly refused to become involved...for the obviouse reasons.......
Sad if he was to somehow squeek in then the news broke!
What a mess that could lead toward. Then again, Americans are mostly stupid and just don't care about honor and commitement in the military sense. Who knows...........
I for one sent Matt Drudge a email about three weeks ago asking if there was anything he could do to get some reporter types to examine the public records in DC. to do a complete search my names,titles, etc., to see if they could find any mention of a pardon, or change of military discharge relating to Kerry. Obviouse I got no response.
As long as you play on his turf, the only question can be, "How much of a hero was Benedict Kerry?" The real issue are the other things in his file. Why was he court martialed and expelled from the Navy? How do those factors effect his fitness to be CinC?
I cite as absolute proof that Kerry was cashiered his failure to attend Harvard Law School. A Boston brahmin of Kerry's elitist, arrogant and wealthy station in life would view Harvard as a birth right. He would certainly have had "mentors" who would have helped with admission.
Another proof is, of course, his Navy lapsed time. The mysteries involve the period between 3/1/70 and the letter of honorable discharge in 1978. Has any one EVER heard about Kerry bragging that he did two tours in the Navy or bragging about doing 12 years? With Kerry's shifty use of language and endless mouthiness, he certainly would have taken credit for his combat experience AND his peacetime experience in the Reserves for total service of 12 years. YOU HAVEN'T HEARD HIM BRAG ABOUT IT!!! That's because he knows that the years between his court martial and expulsion and Carter's pardon can't be counted as "good service" and while he's never shy about mendacity, even for him, bragging about pre-pardon time, may be too much!
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