Mind you, during his four months in Vietnam Kerry also walked off the Swift boats with other officers to go Saigon complain to the man in charge, Admiral Zumwalt.
And when that didn't get him out of harm's way, he went to the media to complain:
Senator SYMINGTON. There has been considerable criticism of the war's reporting by the press and news media. What are your thoughts on that?
Mr. KERRY. On that I could definitely comment. I think the press has been extremely negligent in reporting. At one point and at the same time they have not been able to report because the Government of this country has not allowed them to. I went to Saigon to try to report. We were running missions in the Mekong Delta. We were running raids through these rivers on an operation called Sealord and we thought it was absurd.
We didn't have helicopter cover often. We seldom had jet aircraft cover. We were out of artillery range. We would go in with two quarter-inch aluminium hull boats and get shot at and never secure territory or anything except to quote Admiral Zumwalt to show the American flag and prove to the Vietcong they don't own the rivers. We found they did own them with 60 percent casualties and we thought this was absurd.
I went to Saigon, and told this to a member of the news bureau there and I said, "Look, you have got to tell the American people this story." The response was, "Well, I can't write that kind of thing. I can't criticize that much because if I do I would lose my accreditation, and we have to be very careful about just how much we say and when."
Good lord, if I knew about that, I'd forgotten it over the years among the tons of Kerry's other deeds. Just how much time did Kerry actually spend aboard that swift boat during that 4 month period?? Was it only the 10 minutes he needed to run the boat onshore, wait for his boys to incapacitate the enemy and then run ashore, off the guy and grab the gun and the glory??
This stuff is amazing! What's even MORE amazing is that nobody, NOBODY in the mainstream media is bothering to report it - while leftist rags like the Villiage Voice and the Boston Globe are....a fact that makes the Twilight Zone theme run through my head. Someone at the Villiage Voice must be either a Vietnam veteran or a close relative of one. The Boston Globe...well, he's obviously stepped on a lot of toes up there in Mass.