Rice boats a'comin' Mr. Kerry .. Look out! ;-)
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., waves as he departs his campaign train in Lamar, Colo. on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2004. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)
Let's see if we can come up with the media's response. Total silence. Or guestRATs spinning like mad so viewers can't hear anything. Or the line: Who cares anyway. That was then. This is now, and besides, it's all Bush's fault.
Perfectly normal thing for Buddhists to do.
There are (or were) Christians in the country, but this sounds really odd, particularly considering the source.
His life endeavors are based on Vietnam.
His politics are based on Vietnam.
His children understand Vietnam.
He acquired many friends because of Vietnam.
He acquired many enemies because of Vietnam.
He is decorated because of Vietnam.
His medical records are in demand because of Vietnam.
A former prisoner of Hanoi Hilton, now a Senator now brings up Vietnam because of Kerry.
Kerry protested our endeavors in Vietnam and discarded his medals because of our Vietnam endeavors.
I, because of Kerry, have heard more about Vietnam than I heard about Vietnam back in '69.
Do you 'spose he is diverting attention from a present day war that is going well just for political reasons?
Kerry lied, again!
I'm shocked....
Kerry lied, while real men died.
Kerry gave aid and comfort to the communists killing Americans in Vietnam, and gave the enemy hope to carry on until Kerry and his communist allies in the world wore down the American public via a media controlled by the "Most Trusted Man in America" ... that lying leftist bastard Cronkite..
I REMEMBER, I KNOW what happened, and I vote..
Semper Fi
Rice boats a'comin' Mr. Kerry .. Look out! ;-)
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., waves as he departs his campaign train in Lamar, Colo. on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2004. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)
VAN SUSTEREN: Michael, did he cooperate at all with this or participate or sit down for interviews?
MICHAEL KRANISH, KERRY BIOGRAPHER: Well, sure. We did a series last year. It was a seven part series that ran 14 pages in the newspaper and he sat down for about ten hours of interviews for this series.
The book was written during the time when he was still running for the nomination right at the height of the Super Tuesday primaries and so forth, so our material for interviews was from the series.
To go back to your question you asked Nina, you know, he's also a skeptic of government. So, you ask why does he go, some people say flip- flop, other people would say why does he question things the way that he does?
A very short anecdote, he was in Vietnam and he was in Cambodia as part of a mission. I don't know if he intended to go but that's where he was but the government that was running the war knew that troops were in Cambodia but Nixon, President Nixon at the time was telling the American public, "We're not in Cambodia."
So, from a very early time, John Kerry is skeptical of government and he came back to protest the war that he participated in, so this is where some of this inner belief comes from. He does -- he did serve but he also questioned.
O'Neill's book shoots this out the water. Besides the fact that Nixon wasn't President at the time (Dec 1968), which is an obvious misstatement, O'Neill points out that:
"During Christmas 1968, Kerry was stationed at Coastal Division 13 in Cat Lo. Coastal Division 13’s patrol areas extended to Sa Dec, about fifty-five miles from the Cambodian border. Areas closer than fifty-five miles to the Cambodian border in the area of the Mekong River were patrolled by PBRs, a small river patrol craft, and not by Swift Boats. Preventing border crossings was considered so important at the time that an LCU (a large, mechanized landing craft) and several PBRs were stationed to ensure that no one could cross the border. A large sign at the border prohibited entry. Tom Anderson, Commander of River Division 531, who was in charge of the PBRs, confirmed that there were no Swifts anywhere in the area and that they would have been stopped had they appeared.
Wright's first claim was that as his former commanding offcier, Wright frequently had to confront Kerry over willful disobedience to orders aboard Swift Boat patrols.
On frequent occasions Wright stated that Kerry would randomly fire at "things he thought were moving" along the shoreline. Wright stated that the protocol was only to fire when the unit was receiving hostile fire. Wright explained that part of the Swift Boat patrol's goal was to develop contacts with non-combatants living along the rivers being patrolled.
Wright's boldest claim was that after Kerry had in fact received his third purple heart, Wright along with two other ranking officers basically flat out asked Kerry to leave Vietnam. The reason being his behavior continually put the group in greater vulnerability and danger.
According to Wright, Kerry claimed he would not leave, "but was out of there by morning."
http://www.crosswalk.com/news/weblogs/kmc/
The Christmas Eve truce of 1968 was three minutes old when mortar fire exploded around John Forbes Kerry and his five-man crew on a 50-foot aluminum boat near Cambodia. ''Where is the enemy?'' a crewmate shouted.
In the distance, an elderly man was tending his water buffalo -- and serving as human cover for a dozen Viet Cong manning a machine-gun nest.
"Open fire; let's take 'em," Kerry ordered, according to his second-in-command, James Wasser of Illinois. Wasser blasted away with his M-60, hitting the old man, who slumped into the water, presumably dead. With a clear path to the enemy, the fusillade from Kerry's Navy boat, backed by a pair of other small vessels, silenced the machine-gun nest.
When it was over, the Viet Cong were dead, wounded, or on the run. A civilian apparently was killed, and two South Vietnamese allies who had alerted Kerry's crew to the enemy were either wounded or killed.
On the same night, Kerry and his crew had come within a half-inch of being killed by "friendly fire," when some South Vietnamese allies launched several rounds into the river to celebrate the holiday.
To top it off, Kerry said, he had gone several miles inside Cambodia, which theoretically was off limits, prompting Kerry to send a sarcastic message to his superiors that he was writing from the Navy's "most inland" unit.
Back at his base, a weary, disconsolate Kerry sat at his typewriter, as he often did, and poured out his grief. "You hope that they'll courtmartial you or something because that would make sense," Kerry typed that night. He would later recall using court-martial as "a joke," because nothing made sense to him -- the war policy, the deaths, and his presence in the middle of it all.
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How was Christmas '68 in Cambodia?
Maybe people will start asking what it means.
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JOHN KERRY = Enemy of Vietnam Vets
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My father was 10x the war hero John Fraud Kerry is. His job in WWII was to sit in the steaming cannibal, headhunter and disease infested jungles of New Guinea in a radio truck and send out the radio signal for our planes to use to home into base. Unfortunately for him the Japanese planes could too and he had to stay until all our pilots were home.
Japanese bombs hit so close that his back was messed up for the rest of his life.
He didn't get any fancy medal like the Silver Star but instead a life cut short by the malaria, hepatitis, and jungle rot he brought back from three years in that hell hole.