Kerry's Other War Record (a real Hon of a story)

The Wall Street Journal (Opinion Journal) ^ | March 29, 2004 | John Fund

[Piranha]

John Kerry mentions his service in Vietnam so frequently that it has become a running joke on the campaign press plane. He seldom if ever mentions his postwar activities as a national coordinator and principal spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, a group he says he quit in 1971 because he was concerned about its radical agenda. One reason may be that a credibility gap has started to widen over his antiwar history, and he clearly doesn't want to discuss it at length. His campaign is issuing misleading and evasive statements on his antiwar service in a way that would do the Pentagon spinners of the Johnson and Nixon administrations proud.

[Piranha]

I'm pretty surprised, but I did a search and apparently this article hasn't yet been posted.

[Piranha]

ping

[martin_fierro]

It was actually posted late last night under "John Pfund story" [sic], but I don't see it now.

[martin_fierro]

Ah, here it is. Typo corrected.

[Eva]

Who was the earlier poster? Was the misspelling intentional?

[ravingnutter]

But did he resign from the group itself at the November 1971 meeting in Kansas City, or just from its national leadership? Two months after Kansas City he represented VVAW at a speech at Dartmouth College. On Jan. 26, 1972, he was at a Washington protest meeting where the New York Times described him as "a leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War."

A picture is worth a thousand words...

John Kerry Watching Nixon on Television

John Kerry, a Vietnam vet and head of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, watches as President Nixon announces an agreement on a cease fire in Vietnam. Kerry, who lost to Republican Paul Cronin (D-Mass) in the November general elections said, "my initial reaction is thank God that the prisoners are coming home and that we at least have stopped American participation in the war."

© Bettmann/CORBIS

Date Photographed: January 24, 1973

Location Information: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

[martin_fierro]

See #4.

[Eva]

C-Span ran a very enlightening old Dick Cavett show yesterday, with John Kerry and another former Naval officer, debating Kerry's claims of war atrocities committed by Vietnam veterans. It was very enlightning. John Kerry has not changed at all. He has continued to use the same MO of smearing people to advance his own political career, first with the Vietnam Veterans against the War, then with the Kerry Contra Committee and now with the Clarke book and the 9/11 commisssion.

[BSunday]

Republican Paul Cronin (D-Mass)

??? Now there's journalistic accuracy for ya.

[K1avg]

I wonder how much of the '60s counterculture drug boom Kerry took part in?

[doug from upland]

I'm glad they finally did it. I don't know if it had anything to do with it, but I have been feeding info to a major reporter from the WSJ. I hope the rest of you are doing the same. Flood the newsrooms and demand reporting.

[Ingtar]

"I did not have meet with those traitors, VVAW."

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

Last week Gerald Nicosia, the historian who first uncovered evidence the FBI tailed Mr. Kerry back in 1971, reported to police that three of the 14 boxes of the FBI files he obtained under the Freedom of Information Act were stolen from his California home ....

These would only be copies of the original documents, right??

The FBI shold still have the originals, wouldn't they??

[Dante3]

Incredible that the Democrats would pick a weirdo such as Kerry. Lieberman would have had a far better chance of beating Bush.

[mattdono]

It won't really matter. I'm sure it is all George W. Bush's fault: the stealing of the files, the errant record-keeping policies of the FBI, the weather, etc.

I mean, for Pete's sakes, it's happening "on his watch", so it must be his fault, right?

</sarcasm>

[ravingnutter]

??? Now there's journalistic accuracy for ya.

I just posted it from the same source as another Freeper did. I tried to go out and see if that was the original text, but cannot access the full original article without paying for it. Anyone have a Boston Globe subscription?

[BSunday]

Anyone have a Boston Globe subscription?

Yuck! But considering there are people here who will vote for Kerry, I wouldn't be surprised.

[onyx]

A "Hon" of a story.
I love it. :)

[Barset]

Thanks for posting this. b

[yoe]

”....Mr. Bush chose to serve stateside during the war, was lax in attending guard duty during his last year, and had to feverishly make it up before he was honorably discharged. It's clear President Bush doesn't want to talk about his service, but reporters pressed for answers anyway.

Not so fast Mr. Fund, you are usually more clear than that statement.......... The Real Military Record of George W. Bush: Not Heroic, but Not AWOL, Either
(real truth)

and then..."Last week Gerald Nicosia, the historian who first uncovered evidence the FBI tailed Mr. Kerry back in 1971, reported to police that three of the 14 boxes of the FBI files he obtained under the Freedom of Information Act were stolen from his California home and that other individual files from the remaining 11 boxes were also swiped, including documents about Mr. Kerry that Mr. Nicosia hadn't yet reviewed. "Those revelations are lost now, at least to me," Mr. Nicosia told the Associated Press.”......How very convenient...........