Where's my colleagues' interest in Kerry's war records?

Houston Chronicle ^ | August 17, 2004 | LEE CEARNAL

[MamaLucci]

Excellent! I am going to send this to my local paper to reprint on the editorial page.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Great!!!

[Republic Rocker]

Forward this to every local editor in your town or city. We must be relentless. We must be as loud as those who oppose us......Oue voices in unison can not be ignored...!

[martin_fierro]

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Let's examine the records — all the records, which, unlike Bush and contrary to popular perception, Kerry has not released — and have a debate. We would be if it were George W. Bush. The media would see to it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[Graymatter]

"He pointed his finger and raised his thumb, creating an imaginary gun...He smiled and aimed his finger: 'Pow.' "

WHAP!!

[goldstategop]

Still no hard news story about the Swift Boats Vets in the front pages of the Los Angeles Times. The media's attitude seems to be if they don't cover it, it doesn't exist.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Well, they're wrong.


You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but you can't fool all the people all of the time.

[Kozak]

From Senate hearings in 1992 on MIA's

By JOHN DIAMOND Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Navy Lt. John Kerry knew he had no business steering his Mekong River patrol boat across the border into Cambodia, but orders were orders.....

But for Kerry, who spent six violent months commanding a patrol boat on the Mekong River, there's always been a ring of truth to allegations of abandoned Americans. By Christmas 1968, part of Kerry's patrol extended across the border of South Vietnam into Cambodia. "We were told, `Just go up there and do your patrol. Everybody was over there (in Cambodia). Nobody thought twice about it," Kerry said. One of the missions, which Kerry, at the time, was ordered not to discuss, involved taking CIA operatives into Cambodia to search for enemy enclaves. "I can remember wondering, `If you're going to go, what happens to you,"' Kerry said.....

So Senator, just WHO ordered you across the border?

Again the "Christmas in Cambodia" lie.

By the way at this time US sailors from the USS PUEBLO were still being held by the North Koreans for an alledged violation of their territorial waters in Jan of 68.
We are supposed to believe with THAT international incident still ongoing, the US was going to go barging into Cambodia, with large noisy vessels that SCREAM "USA" all over them to insert CIA and Special OPs teams using an inexperienced Lt Jg.

When pigs fly......

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[meenie]

If it was illegal to be in Cambodia, why is Kerry so proud of being there? If he wasn't in Cambodia, why was he lying about it in Congressional hearings?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Why can't John Kerry release his records?

Is the fawning, LIBERAL media afraid of their candidate's record?

They're professionalism won't be seen as journalism, it will be accurately seen as whoring for LIBERALS.

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

If he wasn't in Cambodia, why was he lying about it in Congressional hearings?

Because the Fulbright Committee didn't want or ask for proof they just wanted a stage for an anti-war media event.

Unfit for Command [Excerpt] Kerry's testimony to the Fulbright Committee was a carefully orchestrated piece of political theater. Fulbright wanted a presentable, young Kennedy-esque face to put on the antiwar effort, and Kerry wanted a national forum from which to launch his climb to political celebrity. Ted Kennedy helped arrange Kerry's testimony with Senator Fulbright at a private fundraising event held at the home of Democratic senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan.

…………..Once Kerry learned that he would have the chance to give testimony before the committee, he recruited the assistance of Adam Walinsky, a speechwriter noted for his work with Robert Kennedy. Walinsky drafted the speech and coached Kerry on its delivery. The only image Kerry wanted us to see was a myth: a young man with a burning passion for the truth, the leader forced to sleep on the ground, the man answering his country's call to be where he was urgently needed, before a committee of the United States Senate where the senators and America were urgently waiting for his firsthand criticism of the war. He proceeded to level his charges: [End Excerpt] Page 99-100, 102-103

Ted Kennedy(R), seen here with his protege John Kerry (news - web sites) in January 2004, could pull off a last big political coup if his protege wins Kerry battle for the White House(AFP/File/Jeff Haynes)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Boston Globe: Speak for yourself, John Kerry........Kerry's statements about Cambodia do have traction for opponents. He has referred to spending Christmas or Christmas Eve 1968 in Cambodia and coming under fire. At the time Cambodia was neutral and supposedly off-limits to US troops. "I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia," Kerry said in 1986 at a Senate committee hearing on US policy toward Central America. "I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there, the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared -- seared -- in me."

The Kerry campaign now says Kerry's runs into Cambodia came in early 1969. "Swift boat crews regularly operated along the Cambodian border from Ha Tien on the Gulf of Thailand to the rivers of the Mekong south and west of Saigon," Michael Meehan, a Kerry adviser, said in a statement last week. "Many times he was on or near the Cambodian border and on one occasion crossed into Cambodia at the request of members of a special operations group."

Answers like that aren't good enough. Kerry put his Vietnam service before voters as the seminal character issue of his presidential campaign. He should answer every question voters have about it -- and he should answer them himself.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LA Times: Veterans Battle Over the Truth*** .........Since the anti-Kerry ad first surfaced, Kerry's crewmates have fanned out in his defense. Along with Rassmann, crewmates Del Sandusky, leading petty officer with Kerry on PCF-94, and Gene Thorson decried the allegations as politically inspired "garbage."

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a Vietnam veteran who has endorsed Bush, called the ad "dishonest and dishonorable." He said that "none of these individuals served on the boat [Kerry] commanded," adding that he believed "John Kerry served honorably in Vietnam."

In a lengthy interview between the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's first news conference in May and the controversy last week, Kerry called the group's allegations pure "politics."

"Some of them don't like the fact that I opposed the war, and 35 years later some people still want to argue about that," Kerry said in the June interview. "It's way beyond me, can I tell you? It's so far beyond and past now. I feel sad about it."

He said he respected the service all Swift boat crews gave to their country and lauded their courage.

"So I'm at peace with myself, and I'm sorry they feel the way they do," Kerry said, "because I respect them. I really do."***

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