[Mr. Jeeves]

Sources for the Kerry war record? It had better be 100% true, not just someone's interpretation of his actions, before anyone starts repeating charges like that. They sound too much like the Left accusing Bush of going AWOL from the National Guard.

[jmstein7]

I've verified, but if people reading this could help cross-check (that's why I test-posted here first), that would be great.

[Coop]

Perhaps you could read Mr. Kerry's book and draw your own conclusions:

[hunter112]

Kerry's war record may be in doubt, or debateable, but his actions as a US senator to screw the POW/MIA families is well documented. I still see black POW/MIA flags flying even here in WA (no, not anywhere near Seattle, of course), and when Kerry's sucking up to the Viet Cong gets played in the press, people will soften on him.

The more I think about it, the more I'd rather run against Kerry's documented record, than the chance that Howard the Coward will go ballistic in a debate with GWB. Let the Rat voters drink the Kool-Aid of a Kerry candidacy, thinking that a vote for him in a primary erases the guilt they feel towards the way they treated Vietnam veterans and their families thirty years ago. It'll blow up in their faces.

[Mo1]

Sources for the Kerry war record?

The Boston Globe did a series of articles on John Kerry, including his service before, during and after the Vietnam War

I won't say anything about his service during the war, though there are many question that are unanswered because Kerry himself will not release the documents of his service

But I will say he was and continues to be a complete disgrace to this country after the war.

[smith288]

His 3 wounds were minor and Kerry classified them himself as "Walking injuried". The most he was out was 2 days.

Bad things happened from and to both sides during the Vietnam war. Atrocious things. But for Kerry to claim his service as heroic is barf material especially after reading his own self proclaimed atrocities he performed.

[Eva]

I have read the same stories about Kerry's record, they were on a VVA site that someone linked to. I have read elsewhere about the fact that Kerry admitted to having recieved his medal for bravery for shooting a wounded man who was trying to escape, after someone in Kerry's unit had hit him and the hootch he was hiding in with multiple rounds of machine gun fire.

Kerry has also admitted that his first two wonds were only band-aid type injuries in which he lost no duty time and the third injury was a slight injury to his leg which necessitated two days in the hosp. Ordinarily it would have been back to duty after such a quick recovery, but not for Kerry. How did he do that? I've been wondering that myself.

[walden]

Mac Owens of NRO (teaches at Naval War College) said in a recent column that Kerry served honorably. Until new information surfaces, I'll go with that. Making up bogus charges is what the left does-- there's plenty of reasons not to like Kerry without making them up.