So the guys tell me you are the sole heir to Lassie's estate. What are you doing later?
Posted on 05/17/2004 8:21:00 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta
Kerry: I can't believe they were going to eat you!
Dog: Bow-wow love you long time!
The dog is sitting on its heinz legs.
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?
So the guys tell me you are the sole heir to Lassie's estate. What are you doing later?
Bite me so I can get another purple heart.
Dog: No wonder he didn't make the Marines.
Look at the rolls on this military man's gut.
She's SOOO HOT! - Don't leave me now, baby....
"Arf! Arf! Please don't strangle me!"
I may see heavy combat tomorrow... I may not make it back... this could be our last night together...
Where are all his scars from all his purple hearts?
Relax, John, I still can't find it!
Cute dog, but it should do something about that ugly growth on its butt.
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