Posted on 08/05/2004 7:39:18 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Slaughters Animals, Burns Down Tiny Village
**Exclusive**
A veterans group seeking to deeply discredit Democrat John Kerry's military service will charge in the new bombshell book UNFIT FOR COMMAND: "Kerry earned his Silver Star by killing a lone, fleeing, teenage Viet Cong in a loincloth."
"And if Kerry's superiors had known the truth at the time, they would never have recommended him for the medal."
The book also claims to detail how Kerry personally ordered the slaughter of small animals at a small hamlet along the Song Bo De River.
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The book, set for release next week, hit #1 on the AMAZON hitparade after the DRUDGE REPORT revealed details of the book -- a book the Kerry camapign believes is the"the dirtiest of all dirty tricks ever played on a candidate for the presidency."
The Kerry campaign is planning to vigorously counter the charges and will accuse the veteran's groups of being well-financed by a top Bush donor from Texas.
The vets have launched a blistering new TV commercial questioning Kerry's honor and calling him a liar.
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George Bates, an officer in Coastal Division 11, participated in numerous operations with Kerry. In UNFIT FOR COMMAND, Bates recalls a particular patrol with Kerry on the Song Bo De River. He is still "haunted" by the incident:
With Kerry in the lead, the boats approached a small hamlet with three or four grass huts. Pigs and chickens were milling around peacefully. As the boats drew closer, the villagers fled. There were no political symbols or flags in evidence in the tiny village. It was obvious to Bates that existing policies, decency, and good sense required the boats to simply move on.
Instead, Kerry beached his boat directly in the small settlement. Upon his command, the numerous small animals were slaughtered by heavy-caliber machine guns. Acting more like a pirate than a naval officer, Kerry disembarked and ran around with a Zippo lighter, burning up the entire hamlet.
Bates has never forgotten Kerry's actions.
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UNFIT FOR COMMAND, DRUDGE has learned, claims Kerry "earned his Silver Star by killing a lone, fleeing, teenage Viet Cong in a loincloth."
ARE THE VETS TELLING THE TRUTH?
"They hired a goddamn private investigator to dig up trash!" charged a top Kerry adviser traveling with the senator late Tuesday. "This is pay for play... How low can they go?"
Kerry supporters are comparing the effort by the veterans to the Arkansas State troopers tell-all against Bill Clinton.
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John O'Neill, co-author of UNFIT FOR COMMAND, believes that "Kerry's Star would never have been awarded had his actions been reviewed through normal channels. In his case, he was awarded the medal two days after the incident with no review. The medal was arranged to boost the morale of Coastal Division 11, but it was based on false and incomplete information provided by Kerry himself."
According to Kerry's Silver Star citation, Kerry was in command of a three-boat mission on the Dong Cung River. As the boats approached the target area, they came under intense enemy fire. Kerry ordered his boat to attack and all boats opened fire.
He then beached directly in front of the enemy ambushers. In the battle that followed, the crews captured enemy weapons. His boat then moved further up the river to suppress more enemy fire. A rocket exploded near Kerry's boat, and he ordered to charge the enemy. Kerry beached his boat 10 feet from the rocket position and led a landing party ashore to pursue the enemy.
Kerry' citation reads: "The extraordinary daring and personal courage of Lt. Kerry in attacking a numerically superior force in the face of intense fire were responsible for the highly successful mission."
Here's what O'Neill and the Swiftees say: "According to Kerry's crewman Michael Madeiros, Kerry had an agreement with him to turn the boat in and onto the beach if fired upon. Each of the three boats involved in the operation was involved in the agreement." O'Neill writes that one crewman even recalls a discussion of probable medals.
Doug Reese, a pro Kerry Army veteran, recounted what happened that day to O'Neill, "Far from being alone, the boats were loaded with many soldiers commanded by Reese and two other advisors. When fired at, Reese's boat--not Kerry's--was the first to beach in the ambush zone. Then Reese and other troops and advisors (not Kerry) disembarked, killing a number of Viet Cong and capturing a number of weapons. None of the participants from Reese's boat received Silver Stars.
O'Neill continues: "Kerry's boat moved slightly downstream and was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade. . . .A young Viet Cong in a loincloth popped out of a hole, clutching a grenade launcher, which may or may not have been loaded. . . Tom Belodeau, a forward gunner, shot the Viet Cong with an M-60 machine gun in the leg as he fled. . . . Kerry and Medeiros (who had many troops in their boat) took off, perhaps with others, and followed the young Viet Cong and shot him in the back, behind a lean to."
O'Neill concludes "Whether Kerry's dispatching of a fleeing, wounded, armed or unarmed teenage enemy was in accordance with the customs of war, it is very clear that many Vietnam veterans and most Swiftees do not consider this action to be the stuff of which medals of any kind are awarded; nor would it even be a good story if told in the cold details of reality. There is no indication that Kerry ever reported that the Viet Cong was wounded and fleeing when dispatched. Likewise, the citation simply ignores the presence of the soldiers and advisors who actually 'captured the enemy weapons' and routed the Viet Cong. . . . [and] that Kerry attacked a 'numerically superior force in the face of intense fire' is simply false. There was little or no fire after Kerry followed the plan. . . . The lone, wounded, fleeing young Viet Cong in a loincloth was hardly a force superior to the heavily armed Swift Boat and its crew and the soldiers carried aboard."
DRUDGE learns from UNFIT FOR COMMAND that if Kerry's superior officers knew the truth, they would never have recommended the award:
"Admiral Roy Hoffmann, who sent a Bravo Zulu (meaning "good work"), to Kerry upon learning of the incident, was very surprised to discover in 2004 what had actually occurred. Hoffmann had been told that Kerry had spontaneously beached next to the bunker and almost single-handedly routed a bunkered force in Viet Cong. He was shocked to find out that Kerry had beached his boat second in a preplanned operation, and that he had killed a single, wounded teenage foe as he fled."
"Commander Geoge Elliott, who wrote up the initial draft of Kerry's Silver Star citation, confirms that neither he, nor anyone else in the Silver Star process that he knows, realized before 1996 that Kerry was facing a single, wounded young Viet Cong fleeing in a loincloth. While Commander Elliott and many other Swiftees believe that Kerry committed no crime in killing the fleeing, wounded enemy (with a loaded or empty launcher), others feel differently. Commander Elliott indicates that a Silver Star recommendation would not have been made by him had he been aware of the actual facts."
Developing....
I believe that Ted Kennedy had a personal visit with Kerry on Kennedy's visit to Nam.
Then, there are photos of Kerry and Kennedy talking and walking with Kerry in his GI protest costume.
I'm sure that any FBI files that Jack or Robert had on members of congress and key repubies were inherited by Ted Kennedy.
Kerry is not that smart now or then. I now wonder if Kerry was not tutored by Kennedy in Nam and after he got back of what to do re setting himself up politically and to stop the war in Nam.
It appears that Kerry was set up to be the perfect Manchurian, er, Franchurian candidate about 30 years ago by the Kennedy's.
"The man is afraid to cross a picket line, how's he going to fight TERRORISM"!!!!!! BUMPER STICKER LINE!!!!
Scenario #1: Jean Francois loses, leaving the field open (except for the Breck girl) for her in '08.
Scenario #2: They pull a Torricelli, i.e., a return of his prostate cancer, or something like that, and She The Unspeakable One waltzes in to save the party.
The Clintons are playing this like a fiddle: the first choice of the party rank-and-file was Dr. HoHo, and they managed to nuke him.
Kerry was nowhere before "The Scream", and one reason could be that everybody in the Dem party knows him and his abominable record, and knew he was a loser.
Very interesting. Kerry sounds like a first-class jerk and even a bit on the unstable side. They probably sent him for his own good (as well as theirs!).
The next book should be "Tarnished Medals: a Guide on how to be a "War Hero" without being one --or shedding blood.""
I'm sorry, while I detested the Clintons since the infamous 1992 Sixty Minutes interview, I don't subscribe to the "All Knowing, All Powerful Clinton's" theme.
There are no circumstances under which Hillary Clinton will ever receive the DNC nomination for President in 2008 or beyond, let alone this year.
And I remain baffled by anyone that thinks otherwise. She's got the highest negative ratings ever recorded, she's terrible as a public speaker, and she has a political tin ear. Throw in the fact the "smartest woman in the world" is the most famously cuckcolded spouse....and sorry, she irritates me politically, but doesn't come close to frightening me.
The constant pressure will cause him to publicly confess, and in an emotional closure that is "spirituallly gratifying" for liberals, they will support him even stronger.
The above story includes information indicating that Lt. Kerry committed a serious crime under the U.C.M.J. by reporting several false statements to his superiors.
Now, when they actually discovered that, has much to do with whether or not the events have any bearing at present.
For serious war crimes, the Navy may prosecute. On the other hand, given that the Navy has not brought up any of the charges being publicly bandied about, then the case was considered closed long ago.
The only case left is the prosecution brought forth now in the public eye, and John Kerry's admissions on the stand, are likely to really make a hero out of him, for having the courage to 'fess up.
Unless, a substantial body of evidence is gathered, proving that, beyond a reasonable doubt, he committed a violation of serious, chargeable offenses under the U.C.M.J.
If the evidence is not there, for charging him, then Lt. Kerry's detractors are only building him up for a cleansing of the soul, about Vietnam, that many will embrace ... just to make it all go away.
Rush is addressing this ad right now.
After the break is over, he will play it on his show.
Dirtier than making Haliburton a dirty word and lying about "no bid contracts" when they actually won a competitive contract in 2001.... and CLINTON is the guy who gave them no-bid contracts when Cheney was CEO?
Dirtier than what they did to Linda Tripp, Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, and the other one whose name I can't remember?
Dirtier than trashing the men you served with?
Dirtier than the rumors the Clintonites put out about Bush Sr having an affair?
It's becoming more apparent that Kerry's blanket condemnations were also a product of his desire to cover his own ass.
War atrocities? Everybody does it.
Looking at Kerry's story, it's also another perfect illustration of how dangerous, psychlogical freaks not only can, but tend to rise to the highest levels of the Democratic party.
Sent to my email list with the following preface [I know--was too hasty to get grammar and spelling right! LOL]:
THE TRUTH USUALLY DOES RATTLE THE LEFT SO ADDICTED TO DISTORTION, DECEPTION, MACHIAVELLIAN MANIPULATION AND WHOLESALE FABRICATIONS.
Everything is considered fair game and OK since there really is NO real right or wrong except as they define it. And they have defined it as a world government at all costs along with the wholesale demotion of USA sovereignty and way of life.
It was true with Billdo and Shrillery and still is. It was true with Scuba Teddy and Chappaquidick and still is. And it's true with SKERRY. The evidence is now overwhelming.
It's interesting that the SKERRY camp--so outraged at Bush's purported lies are squeeling like stuck pigs at the final, long overdue presentation of abundantly testified-to truth about SKERRY'S wholesale VERY CHARACTERLOGICAL evidences of his Machiavellian character and of his chronic lying about the very things he has most built his campaign on:
Hillary lives in TX now?
The book doesn't say that Kerry planned the medals for an early out because they claim that the early out was not Kerry's idea, that he was asked to leave by his command.
You are probably correct. McCain either has a hidden agenda with Kerry or he misspoke about the swift boat vets ad. The white House & RNC can concentrate on Kerry's "missing" senate record. We vets will expose Kerry for what he is and for what he was....a fraud, liar and opportunist with his "war record". Kerry should be charged with treason. May he rot in Hell.
Here is another of the many reasons to vote Bush. Kerry is not presidential material, nor is he fit for any other position in government. He does not stand for anything moral. Persons who would vote for Kerry just to get Bush out of office has a serious competency problem. I am pro Bush all the way. For the people who want Bush out of office, a vote for Kerry will only worsen what ever you think is wrong now.
That was a reference to a comment earlier in this thread.
Sadr has nothing to do with this thread and is not a significant issue to those unaffected by Pissantaphobia. His death will not be long delayed and I offered to wager you $50 that is will come at the hands of the Iraqis before a year passes.
Saddam Osamma Bin F'n Kerry!!?!?!?!?!?! LOL
"Looking at Kerry's story, it's also another perfect illustration of how dangerous, psychlogical freaks not only can, but tend to rise to the highest levels of the Democratic party"
I used to think Clinton was the disease, but he's not. It's the Democrat party that's sick: Clinton and Kerry, and others, are just symptoms. In days past, they would just have been considered the mad dogs on the fringe of the party, but today, they're mainstream players.
She did it through bribes, threats (FBI files), and let's not forget the brain-dead NOW types, who were also instrumental in getting her a speaking assignment at last week's Dem flop-sweat extravaganza.
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