Posted on 08/04/2004 6:45:30 PM PDT by Remember_Salamis
"Kerry entered and abandoned Vietnamese village and slaughtered domestic animals
owned by the civilians and burned down their homes with his Zippo lighter."
It only takes one idiot to raze a village!
(My original response!)
Some info here:
1. If most of Kerry's fellow Swift veterans don't support him, then who were all those guys with him at the Democratic Convention? They made it appear that Kerry has the complete support of his "Band of Brothers" from Vietnam.
John Kerry has been able to convince about 13 men who served on Swift boats in the Mekong Delta to support him, 7 or 8 of whom were at various times crew members on his own 6-man boat. Those are the men the Kerry campaign so prominently featured at the Democratic Convention. The photograph we have posted at SwiftVets.com shows Kerry with 19 of his fellow Swift boat OICs (Officers In Charge) in Coastal Division 11. Four OICs were not present for the photograph. Only one of his 23 fellow OICs from Coastal Division 11 supports John Kerry.
Overall, more than 250 Swift boat veterans are on the record questioning Kerry's fitness to serve as Commander-in-Chief. That list includes his entire chain of command -- every single officer Kerry served under in Vietnam. The Kerry game plan is to ignore all this and pretend that the 13 veterans his campaign jets around the country and puts up in 5-star hotels really represent the truth about his short, controversial combat tour.
The Swift boats fought in groups, so the other OICs who fought alongside Kerry know him well and can accurately describe what he did and did not do. In many cases Kerry's fellow OICs had a better perspective than his own crew members, since the latter had no way to determine whether he was following orders and how well he worked with his peers.
http://www.swiftvets.com/index.php?topic=FAQ
More of the Republican Party's "Goons," eh, Lurch? This will blow Kerry out of the water, so to speak.
And I wonder how much did Kerry pay the Vets to support him?
Thank you for the post.
Very illuminating. The west coast of Vietnam (CoastDiv 11) was a very dangerous place. The U Minh Forest (which is much like the everglades) was charlies home. That is where Adm. Zumwalts son served on PBRs. Slightly north of that is the Song Ong Doc river, where I served. This was also a major area of SEAL work.
I was under the impression that Kerry served all his time in CD11. For him to only spend a week there, barf. While no place in Vietnam was safe, Vung Tau was actually a liberty port.
Great ad. I hope it sinks the bastards boat.
Schedule of Swift Veteran Appearances
Thursday, August 5, 2004
9:00 am: Charley Plumley will be on the Jimmy Ray Show (talk radio,Dr. Louis Letson will be on the Neil Boortz Show (talk radio, WGH, Virginia).
9:30 am: Admiral Hoffmann will be on the Tony Snow Show (talk radio, Fox News, national).
10:20 am: Bob Elder will be on KSFO (talk radio, national, out of San Francisco).
10:20 am: Former Kerry crew member Steve Gardner will be on the Dave Elswick Show (talk radio, KARN, Arkansas).
10:30 am: Dr. Louis Letson will be on the Neil Boortz Show (talk radio, national).
11:00 am: Bob Elder will be on Battleline with Allen Nathan (talk radio, national).
11:05 am: Joe Ponder will be on the Eric Hogue Show (talk radio, Sacramento).
12:30 pm: Wey Symmes will be interviewed by Mark Furman (talk radio, KGA, Spokane).
2:00 pm: Bob Elder will be on the Bill Handel Show (talk radio, Clear Channel Radio Network).
3:00 pm: Van Odell will be on the Michael Medved Show (talk radio, national, out of Seattle).
Perhaps doesn't out do him, but certainly proves that the dems are morally and principally bankrupt.
If any one of the several 'accusations' are proven with DOCUMENTION (military records) and backed up by his superiors in the COC, he is TOAST. However the Democrat spin machine and their cohorts in the MSM will make this a virtual impossibility.
" I was told later that Kerry had fired an M-79 grenade and that he had misjudged it.
He fired it too close to the shore, and it exploded on a rock or something.
He got hit by a piece of shrapnel from a grenade that he had fired himself.
The injury was self-inflicted, thats what made sense to me. I told Kerry to forget it.
There was no hostile fire, the injury was self-inflicted for all I knew, besides it was nothing really more than a scratch."
Rush, Sean, Hugh Hewiit, Tony Snow, Laura's guest hosts, et al should be running with this tomorrow.
Kerry has so much pathology in his background, that this would be typical behavior from someone as disturbed as Kerry.
The genesis for his emotional and psychological disturbances was in his childhood,where he felt abandoned and unloved by his parents, especially his father.
His parents moved back to Europe when Kerry was a young boy and he was sent to boarding schools in Switzerland, where he had little contact with his family.
Later, his folks sent him back to American boarding schools while they remained in Europe.
Kerry must have had identity problems-his mother spoke with a French accent, her whole side lived in France , but, his family " stuck " him in America-far away from everyone.
Kerry probably spent his whole trying to get his family's attention.
After Kerry's first election loss, while running for Congress from Mass.,his former brother in law, David Thorne said that Kerry lost the ability to speak and communicate.
He went into a funk and crawled into the fetal postion for a period of time.
Teresa broadly hints at psychological treatment and has given interviews where she talks freely about his bizarre behavior.
Teresa and the daughters have told many interviewers that Kerry wakes up screaming in the middle of the night and flies around the bedroom, banging on the walls.
Kerry refuses to release his full military or medical records-for obvious reasons.
Kerry "getting " 3-count em, folks-3 Purple Hearts would finally be a way for Kerry to get his Daddy's attention.
Wow.
I think the nature of their relationship explains the motivation of the "Brothers".
Even his parents couldn't stand the POS!
This just may shame John effin' Kerry into releasing his full military records. CHECKMATE!
Jan 20, 1969. The day I was inducted into the US Army.
Christmas Eve 1968 I received my draft notice.
Where is 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Larry King, Meet The Press, etc? The bias of the media is sickening.
I've already preordered my copy. Can hardly wait to get it.
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