Another little John Kerry Vietnam story. See if you can detect why it's another Kerry lie.

humaneusa.org ^ | 9/13/2004 | Jim Curtis

[Hilltop]

Damnation this is getting mighty confusing. Chocolate chips, dogs, Christmas in Cambodia...oops January in Cambodia....et al, ibid inum.....snooze.

[afnamvet]

No mine explosion under the boat. "VC" was, in reality , a Khmer Rouge hamster operative smuggled aboard upon secret orders from Nixon. This was to be a feint into Cambodia to retrieve another member of the 13 boat..Carville the snake. Apackoliesnow redux opens soon in a hootch near you.

[spycatcher]

I was thinking the dog actually fell off when Kerry fled the scene and poor soggy ol' VC was fished out of the water by the other boats who were waiting for Kerry to muster up the nerve to return.

But then they didn't get a bronze star for heroism so...

[tobyhill]

Well maybe the VC was shooting at Kerry because he kept stealing their dinner?

[irishtenor]

I hate it when they do that...

[Sir Gawain]

No, see, the dog swam way down to the bottom of the water to avoid getting hit by any boats, er and to avoid gunfire. When the boat came back around, the dog climbed onto the boat and the crew thought the dog had flown through the air. By this time the boat was far from Kerry's boat. Got it? ;-)

[JoeSixPack1]

Kerry felt so bad those first frantic minutes, he branded his brain with the picture of a dog! He seared....SEARED it right into the gray matter!

He must have been devistated.

I'm gonna cry.

[Hilltop]

Bwaaaaaaaahaaaaaa....and a long haired mutt at that.

Thanks for the needed laugh.

Cough.....doubt Mr. Wannabe has eaten said dog, if ya know what I mean.

[Edit35]

Did the dog get a Purple Heart, too??

[Sir Gawain]

He named his dog after the Viet Cong! VC! Kerry's a bigot!

[Smartass]

Hmmmm. The little dog would have been killed if it were catapulted from the deck of one boat, to another boat. Also, if Kerry's boat was hit that hard by a mine, it would have sunk and of course, he would have gotten another medal.

[Hilltop]

Investigative types might research what he named his beloved pets. Let's start with Licorice and work down to words that begin with a D.

[Edit35]

Why didn't Kerry get another medal for this?

The dog got the medal, after telling his K9 superior about the rice wound on his back paw.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

There are no catapults on a Swift Boat?

[DuncanWaring]

I'm voting for 28/53/71.

[syriacus]

What creative responses you've gotten. This thread is great.

[Jim_Curtis]

How about; A blast that knocked the dog off the ship would have knocked the sailors off to? Being closer to the deck a dog would be harder to knock off a ship then a person...

There are several things that make the story a laugher but the boat that just added the new canine crew member would have just heard a loud explosion and one of their own is in distress after just being mined hard. What action would the adjacent boat take immediately every time in such a situation?

[Jank]

Your to quick for me! Thats, what I was thinking!!!
Wet puppy, mouth to mouth...

[Not now, Not ever!]

Ours was "Short Shaft" (a part of a helicopter)