Kerry Faces Questions Over Purple Heart (Boston Globe)

Boston Globe ^ | 04/14/2004 | Michael Kranish

[bitt]

"But as the presidential campaign heats up, some Vietnam veterans are using the Internet and talk radio to question the Democratic candidate's military record. They complain that Kerry's three Purple Hearts were for minor wounds and that he left Vietnam more than six months ahead of schedule under regulations permitting thrice-wounded soldiers to depart early...."

[bitt]

Kerry "Faces"...that alone caught my eye...

[Paleo Conservative]

[mewzilla]

J is for Janus-faced.

[Diogenesis]

"Ze wound waz NOT made by mee own finger nail like ze Globe says. Non. Non."

[NotchJohnson]

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1104082/posts

I posted a story about a man who fought with Kerry. He was on the radio here and I believe him. Viet Nam was a tool for Kerry to get ahead in politics. I am glad the Boston Globe is picking up on this. This guy is not the war hero everyone says he is.

[nuconvert]

"Under Navy regulations, an enlistee or officer wounded three times was permitted to leave Vietnam early, as Kerry did. "

Coincidence?
Premeditated

[dalebert]

I still want to see Kerry's military medical records.

[battlegearboat]

I'd love to read ONI's dossier on Kerry.

[SiliconValleyGuy]

Kerry faces a bigger question over a black heart. When I heard his comment the other day after the Marines shut down an Iraqi newspaper that was calling for the "killing of the American pigs" I was sick. He said that "they" (meaning our own Marines) had no right to shut down a "legitimate media source".

This anti-American piece of slime is running for President?

[tdadams]

This guy is not the war hero everyone he says he is.

Of all the people who might be painting him as a hero, no one is doing it more than Kerry himself. And if anyone should know it's a bogus boast, it's Kerry. There's a book that comes to mind when thinking about Kerry.

[guitfiddlist]

"He had a little scratch on his forearm, and he was holding a piece of shrapnel," recalled Kerry's commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Grant Hibbard. "People in the office were saying, `I don't think we got any fire,' and there is a guy holding a little piece of shrapnel in his palm."

This little episode reveals in a very explicit way, the slimeball duplicity of this man. To push in such a pathetic way for such an undeserved medal - shows how much he valued them for future political currency. And within months he was hooking facsimiles of them over the White House fence, while demonstrating against the supposedly evil US military presence in Vietnam.

Now, dusting them off, he wears them on his sleeves as some kind of patriotic war hero. The man obviously is a complete political weasel, believing in nothing, shifting on complete opposites of widely split philosophies, to finnagle his way to power. The success of this POS is an indictment of our democracy.

[jamaksin]

And if the "establishment media" had done their job re: klintoon - e.g., highlighting that he was pardoned by Carter for his draft-dodging - perhaps Bubba (and Tubba as part of the package) would never have had the chance to show the US Senate's true colors at his impeachment trial.

Using Henry Hyde's metaphor ... the flag is dropping. Who will catch the flag ... ?

It will not be the media on KetchUp-Kerry ... That is a sure bet! He was in country so little time - so few "wake ups" - and garnered so many ribbons ...

[SiliconValleyGuy]

Well said. BTTT!

[angkor]

He asked for small boat duty after spotting a SWIFT while on shore leave in Nha Trang (this is sometimes called his "service" in Nha Trang by Kerry supporters). When he saw the SWIFT, he had a PT-109 moment, visions of JFK dancing in his head.

So he gets his SWIFT but is sorely disappointed when after only 1 or 2 months in VN, is reassigned to the Delta. Oops, real combat there.

And clearly he takes every possible opportunity to expose his "war wounds" (scratches) and apply for Purples.

One week after his third Purple (and 6 total months in VN), our hero requests reassignment back to the States, pleading to be an admiral's asst. in either NY, Boston, or DC.

But not before reenacting and filming his other dubious achievement which garnered him a bronze star.

It's almost unbelievable that anyone could be so calculating in buffing-up a false record, but here we have the Senator who (mistakenly) sent two letters to constituents about Iraq: one damning the war, one praising it (whoops).

[OldSmaj]

Kerry is a POS.

I'll tell him that to his stinking face.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Front-page article in today's newspaper, though below the fold, and careful to tag Kerry's former commanding officer as a "registered Republican who's undecided about the 2004 election."

[JoeSixPack1]

I'll tell him that to his stinking face.

That'll be a long talk! :-)

[soozla]

"Kerry is a POS. I'll tell him that to his stinking face."

MEGA-DITTO that!!