Great find!
Powerful stuff. I'm going to copy this and pass it to people who are not on the internet.
Go Don and all the other honorable vets...You do us proud and we are grateful!
Wow.....this goes for the jugular! And succeeds.
Thanks for info
I would like to see his record of votes on defense and votes on gun control added to all the posts on his
treason and lying bragging on his military record.
I was doing service work at a man's home yesterday, and saw numerous US Navy references from Viet Nam on his walls. I asked him for his opinion on the Kerry/Swift boat vets controversy. I hit pay dirt!
This man was a swift boat captain for 3 years in Viet Nam, further up the river (and closer to Cambodia) than Kerry's squadron. (He actually had been in Cambodia and scoffed at Kerry's claim) He is working with the VFW vets against Kerry. Some of his points should be mentioned.
1. Swift boats are only armored in the rear. When a swift boat comes under fire the boat is to turn it's back (I don't remember stem from stern) toward the incoming fire and the major guns are mounded at the rear.
2.If Kerry really ran the bow of his boat onto the beach so he could run off and chase down a wounded sniper, he would should disciplined, not decorated. He was the captain, responsible for his crew members. Members from his crew were better trained at jungle combat, not a captain running off like some ban-chi
3. If the sniper was wounded, unarmed and running, he should have been captured and treated (per Geneva Convention), not gunned down.
4. It is customary for a superior to request Purple Hearts for wounded under their command...but Kerry submitted requests for himself..
The man went on and on and is convinced that if Kerry had been out earlier, he would have been with Hanoi Jane in North Viet Nam. Need I add...he is voting for BUSH!
Amen to all that. I had not heard of Don Bendell before this but feel like I have found a long lost friend.
BTTT
Thanks for the post!
FanFReepingtastic.
Give us their names. I may have missed it.
As you well know, only 2 of those men were even in the military, and they were never in combat, and the other 5 all claimed to be Navy SEALS in the Top Secret Phoenix Program, but they were never even in the military.
Again, name the names, and document the debunking.
It did not matter to you. In fact, Congress investigated and discovered that most of the so-called highly-decorated veterans at the Detroit Rally were also not even in the military.
Widely repeated amongst anti-Kerry folks, but the alleged investigation, by the Naval Investigative Service, has disappeared or never happened.
Only one witness so far has claimed to have seen it (or heard a summary of its conclusions - he can't remember): historian Guenter Lewy.
But the Navy can't find it or even say for certain it ever happened:
"Government officials today cannot verify that Naval Investigative Service report's existence.
'We have not been able to confirm the existence of this report, but it's also possible that such records could have been destroyed or misplaced,' said Naval Criminal Investigative Service public affairs specialist Paul O'Donnell."
Source:http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/chi-0402220494feb22,0,3045658.story
Use caution in attacking Kerry and the Winter Soldier Investigation. I believe I read a credible beginning of a debunking of Joe Bangert's WSI testimony in a letter to FR's wintersoldier.com.
I believe that further investigation will find many other flaws. And "wintersoldier.com" will have played a major role in that. But most of the hard work remains for the future.
Premature claims of victory will backfire.
BUMP
great info, thanks
BTTT!