[neverdem]

PING

[Izzy Dunne]

If he believes his 1971 indictment of his country and his fellow veterans was true, then he couldn't possibly be proud of his Vietnam service. [ ...] But if he is proud of his service today, perhaps it is because he always knew that his indictment in 1971 was a piece of political theater that he, an aspiring politician, exploited merely as a "good issue." If the latter is true, he should apologize to all the men who served in that war, for slandering them to advance his political fortunes.

Kerry will neither admit that he wasn't proud of his service, nor admit that his opposition was manufactured. Not even in his memoirs, called "Boston to Saigon: a round trip", on sale June 2006, at Barnes and Noble, $3.95

[Smartass]

[js1138]

bump.

[nopardons]

bttt

[atomicpossum]

He was proud of his service and grateful to be alive, "but due to his firsthand experience in Vietnam, his head told him that the Nixon administration's foreign policy was dangerously wrongheaded. Everyday good sailors . . . were being sacrificed for Nixon's ego trip that he would not be the first president to lose a war."

So, President Kerry would, by extension, be willing to lose a war? Gad, what a frightening concept.

[secretagent]

When the Naval Investigative Service (NIS) attempted to interview those who allegedly had witnessed atrocities, most refused to cooperate, even after assurances that they would not be questioned about atrocities they committed personally. Those who did cooperate never provided details of actual crimes to investigators. The NIS also discovered that some of the most grisly testimony was given by fake witnesses who had appropriated the names of real Vietnam veterans.

Don't rely on the NIS report. It has gone missing:

Lewy said he does not recall if he saw a copy of the naval investigative report or was briefed on its contents. "I'm quite confident the information is authentic," he said. Paul O'Donnell, a spokesman for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, said officials were searching for a copy of the report.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1078025/posts

Better to demand that the WSI witnesses release their full military records, not just their discharge papers (easily faked).

The NIS report effectively never happened, at least until it turns up. Depending on the NIS report could result in an embarrassing setback for those sceptical of the "Winter Soldier Investigation".

[doug from upland]

Bumping. John, the truth is coming to pay you a visit. You cannot hide it forever.

[savedbygrace]

Self-ping, for reading later.