"I had a dog we called VC." (John "F" Kerry)

The Federalist Newsletter | 3-19-04 | The Federalist Staff

[FlyLow]

A recent candidate survey of the Humane Society queried of John Kerry, "Do you have any pets that have made an impact on you personally?" The haughty and highfalutin husband of the Heinz heiress replied: "When I was serving on a swiftboat in Vietnam, my crewmates and I had a dog we called VC. We all took care of him, and he stayed with us and loved riding on the swiftboat deck." Well, isn't that special!

If you want a more accurate picture of Kerry's "service" in Vietnam, pets and all, C-SPAN will broadcast Kerry's dishonorable 1971 testimony to the Fulbright Committee this Sunday night at 6:30pm and 9:30pm, Eastern. Perhaps C-SPAN can find some old footage of John and Hanoi Jane rallying their ilk of spoiled malcontents. Maybe they will even show the cover of Kerry's infamous book, "The New Soldier," with his oily VVAW friends under an inverted American flag....

[So Cal Rocket]

VC = Viet Cong.

[Just mythoughts]

"If you want a more accurate picture of Kerry's "service" in Vietnam, pets and all, C-SPAN will broadcast Kerry's dishonorable 1971 testimony to the Fulbright Committee this Sunday night at 6:30pm and 9:30pm, Eastern. Perhaps C-SPAN can find some old footage of John and Hanoi Jane rallying their ilk of spoiled malcontents. Maybe they will even show the cover of Kerry's infamous book, "The New Soldier," with his oily VVAW friends under an inverted American flag...."

[correctthought]

I'm sure that water slide in Hue was fun too, JFK. I wonder how much pot he smoked there?

[Future Useless Eater]

# 6:30pm ET Sunday 3/21 CSPAN "Road to the White House"
(reportedly Kerry's 1971 Senate testimony)
# 9:30pm ET Sunday 3/21 CSPAN "Road to the White House"(repeat)
# 6:30pm ET Sunday 3/28 CSPAN "Road to the White House"
(reportedly Kerry's anti-war debate on Dick Cavett)
# 9:30pm ET Sunday 3/28 CSPAN "Road to the White House"(repeat)

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# 6:45pm ET Sat 3/20 CSPAN "President Bush's Weekly Radio Address"
# 6:45pm ET Sat 3/27 CSPAN "President Bush's Weekly Radio Address"

[FourtySeven]

Never misses an opportunity to squeeze in that Vietnam service does he?

"Hey John, what do you think of the ozone hole over Antartica?"

"Reminds me of when I was in Vietnam. You know, we didn't even have ozone then? The soldiers were so ill-equipped"

"Hey John, what's your stance on gay marriage?"

"Reminds me of when I was back in Vietnam. You know, over there, things got mighty friendly in the trenches some nights."

"Hey John, do you TIVO?"

"Reminds me of when I was in Vietnam. I had a Vietnam buddy called Tivo. Yeah, he was fun, especially in the trenches. Hey, this kind of ties back to gay marriage doesn't it?"

"Hey John, what do you think of this pen I got?"

"Reminds me of when I was back in Vietnam. We never had good pens in those days, you know?

[holdmuhbeer]

I don't like John Kerry, but who cares whether they named their dog VC? yeah i know it stands for Viet Cong but who cares? Probably a WWII unit somewhere that had a dog named Hitler too.

[NonValueAdded]

So Kerry exposed a poor defenseless animal, a non-combatant, to imminent threat of death? Is there a statute of limitations on animal cruelty? Is PETA aware of this serious charge? Will we see a "no animals harmed" disclaimer on Kerry ads?

[Betaille]

Did anyone catch Kerry being snotty at that Secret Service Agent who was protecting him? He said "I don't fall, that ((expletive deleted)) knocked me over". He said this about a SECRET SERVICE AGENT, a man who is assigned to take a bullet for him!
It's on Drudge... just posted in the last few hours.

[Jim_Curtis]

I don't like John Kerry, but who cares whether they named their dog VC? yeah i know it stands for Viet Cong but who cares? Probably a WWII unit somewhere that had a dog named Hitler too.
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Not saying the story is true but as a rule, normally you wouldn't choose the name of your enemy for a pet that gives you affection. Kerry was affectionate towards the VC even before going to Vietnam...I can't imagine that Kerry would ever name a pet he liked "Nixon".

[CasearianDaoist]

Almost all the Verture Capitalists I know are rats, not dogs. Come to think of it, a lot of them are Democrats too.

[martin_fierro]

[John Thornton]

This was a survey by the "Humane Society of the United States"---an animal rights organization refered to by many of us as "PETA-light." (HSUS has no connection with any local "Humane Society").

Kerry signed off on all of the Animal Rights agenda espoused by this group. Yet one more reason to work to defeat him.

[Rivothead]

John "Kerry's my maiden name" Thorne-Heinz just doesn't come across as a dog lover to me.

[John Thornton]

From the WSJ Best of the Web:

"Meanwhile, blogger Steve Sturm doesn't believe Kerry's story, which we noted yesterday, about his pet dog in Vietnam. "One day as our swiftboat was heading up a river, a mine exploded hard under our boat," Kerry claimed. The crewmen discovered the mutt was "MIA," but it turned out to have been "catapulted from the deck of our boat and landed confused, but unhurt, on the deck of another boat in our patrol." Here's Sturm:

Kerry's boat was "heading up a river," which means the boat was moving. I assume Naval doctrine in those days called for ships to maintain a minimum distance from one another in order to minimize damage and casualties in the event one ship draws hostile fire, hits a mine, etc. How far away from Kerry's boat was this other boat--20 yards, 50 yards, 100 yards? Even if they weren't strictly adhering to doctrine, there ought to have been some separation; there's no reason I can think why one boat would be running upriver with another boat tied to its stern.

So, we have Kerry claiming that his ship hit a mine that generated enough explosive energy to propel this dog . . . some 40 yards or so through the air, without hurting the dog? Unlikely.

Now, what are the odds of the dog being catapulted from Kerry's moving boat and landing on another moving boat? It must have been the perfect combination of launch angle, distance, explosive force, trajectory and the like for that to have happened. I know for a fact that this is no easy thing to do: think how hard it is to win that silly carnival frog game--and that's from a stationary platform. Maybe this happens in the movies, but not in real life. Wait a minute, in the remake of Starsky & Hutch, they tried launching a car into the air trying to land it on a moving boat. They failed miserably. So, I take it back, it doesn't even happen in the movies.

And, Kerry's account refers only to "picking ourselves up" after the explosion. There's an explosion so forceful that it launches the dog into near earth orbit and all Kerry and his crew have to do is "pick themselves up"? Again, I'm no physics major, but wouldn't it reasonable to think that an explosion with that much force wouldn't have seriously damaged the boat? What about his crew--granted they're all likely to have been bigger than the dog, and perhaps better able to absorb the shock, but none of them were hurt, knocked out, knocked overboard?

[agrace]

Never misses an opportunity to squeeze in that Vietnam service does he?

He certainly doesn't seem to.

Mark Levin did a piece on this very thing the other night on his show. Hilarious!

[NCC-1701]

The VC had a dog named John Fing Kerry.

[MD_Willington_1976]

VC..big deal, my college buddy had a cat named $h!thead...

[U S Army EOD]

I wonder if this is the VC that Kerry raped and cut the ears off one night when he was high on pot?

[Kakaze]

" Never misses an opportunity to squeeze in that Vietnam service does he? "

Why anyone would want a leader who's hasn't been able to get over a war 30 years ago, to lead them during a current war is beyond me.

His fixation with vietnam shows he either hasn't done anything else with his life or he feels guilt over his actions during and after. The man is not stable.