Book reopens Kerry's war wounds ( New Book questions Kerry's Nam injuries, etc)

sunday times via theaustralian.news.com.au ^ | 02/23/04 | sunday times vis theaustralian.news.com.au

[Just mythoughts]

A big fat rat bit him!

[GRANGER]

You are a TROLL, and so blatant that you are not even worth another read.

[arasina]

Bush took the bait and spent a week babbling about pay stubs...

President Bush did not spend a week nor did he babble. The media were the ones spending a week on his ANG records and insisting they weren't enough. One soundbite had Kerry saying he told "his surrogates" to leave it alone but then he continues to bring it up. This week he gave it more attention by whining that he is a victim of a Republican smear job. He even denies his own words before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971.

If anyone has been babbling, it has been Kerry...and you.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>So how was Kerry wounded on his second day in Vietnam?

Wouldn't it be nice if the nedia hounded the hound to release his military records in the same way they hounded Bush? < /fantasy land>

[Destro]

Moby, the techno music artist?

[Destro]

Thanks to corckscrew:

you can't be so naive to think that Kerry didn't expect his military record to be an issue...this is more Kerry strategery...

Here's what he's hiding...NOTHING

He wants the Right to toot thier horn for a few weeks and then make fools out of themselves when he releases what is likley a rather booring document.

And with every challenge, you give him another oppourtunity to trumpet his VietNam service and 3 Purple hearts...which all sounds pretty good to your average American

Meanwhile you wasted a day not attacking is voting record.

[xone]

Correct.

[Destro]

Moby is running for President?? (honest question)

[TigersEye]

As I mentioned, we had a CNO, Mike Boorda, commit suicide because he wore decorations that he had not earned.

My understanding of that story was that Boorda had earned his medals. That Col. David Hackworth pressed a campaign of falsely accusing him of not earning them and that the embarrassment of that accusation was too much, for someone who valued honor so much, driving him to suicide.

I've had that story verified before by other FReepers.

[Hon]

"Meanwhile you wasted a day not attacking is voting record."

Why don't YOU attack his voting record?

Again, you have NEVER attacked his voting record--not once. You never even mentioned it until TODAY.

When others have posted about his voting record, you joked about it--and said that his anti-defense positions sounded like a conservative Republican.

You and corkscrew are not fooling anyone.

[xone]

No, Moby is running a troll school for FR.

[Polybius]

Swift boats! At the time, swift boats merely patrolled the coastline or ferried sailors between ships.

Sounds like a tough job to me - especially in a foreign land... Ya know, there are tons of guys in Iraq right now doing these less than glorious jobs...That's why we are winning the war. Your target may have been Kerry - but you have dealt a slap in the face to every soldier.

In that case, I have slapped my own face because I have served in the armed forces in non-combat jobs (by pure luck that the balloon happened to go up in some other geographical region at the time) in foreign lands including a one year tour of duty, that I volunteered for, in Guantanamo at the height of the Cold War at the time period of the Grenada invasion.

Unlike John F. Kerry, however, I do not go out of my way to taunt other servicemembers to say, "Hey, I was across the Fenceline from the Cuban Army and you were in the National Guard. I'm a hero and your are the moral equivalent of a draft dodger!"

Kerry is playing that game.

Why are you making excuses for him?

What I did at Guantanamo for a year, being OIC of Fleet Sick Call, was not a "tough job". Volunteering to be OIC of a swift boat racing up and down water skiing in the South China Sea was not a "tough job".

Those sailors and Marines that came to my Sick Call at Guantanamo with ulcers from stress because their job was minefield maintenance, that Marine that died before my eyes in my E.R. at Guantanamo after having both his legs blown off by a Bouncing Betty in a minefield maintenance accident..........those guys were the ones with "tough jobs".

I didn't have a "tough job" at Guantanamo, although a civilian might believe so. They did.

[The Shrew]

Great post!

TS

[lainde]

bttt

[backhoe]

I found the photos of him with the SDS radicals from NY and northern New Jersey that will destroy him.

OK, let's see them.

[KQQL]

I found the photos of him with the SDS radicals from NY and northern New Jersey that will destroy him. ----------------------

OK, let's see them.

375 posted on 02/23/2004 1:25:26 AM PST by backhoe

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BobS,
We all are waiting................

[11th Earl of Mar]

Do you think this would qualify for "breaking news", so it would stay up longer -- I think it contains some important info.

Don't get your hopes up.

The mods will probably move it to Chat.

[Milligan]

Keep plugging away, Mike. I was convinced by my Senior Chief to change my mind and voted for Reagan 1980. He was very understanding SC and very patient with me. I did see all the improvements while I was in and the morale was better. The young troopers think they have it bad now, it will only get worst if Kerry gets in. Remeber the UN troops being chained to the flag post during Bosina/Kosovo conflict? The US troops would be like that and be supervised and commanded by another country...like France.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Give it up Destro. Look in the mirror. Everyone sees you for what you are.... "An enemy of Islam and all who defend Islam"

Kerry defends Islam

[kabar]

My understanding of that story was that Boorda had earned his medals.

The controversy concerned Boorda's affixing a combat "V" on two of his medals indicating that it was earned in combat. Having received such an award myself, the citation for the medal indicates explicitly that the "V" is authorized. Boorda was not authorized to wear it. When a reporter from Newsweek discovered that, it led to a series of events that led to Boorda's suicide.