Posted on 08/19/2004 5:26:39 AM PDT by crushkerry
If this is the best their "Brown Book" has then it might not be so devasting to the Swiftvets. I believe they would play their "best card" first in order to stop this movement in its tracks.
Also, remember that Boston Globe story which said one of the swiftvets had recanted his story. I bit this line and thought it was probably over for the vets. But not so. Maybe this glitch will have the same effect.
Typical - attack the messenger but do nothing to validate or discredit the message itself.
Could this be the reason for the Swiftvets book's delays at places like Barnes and Noble?? Buying time for the brown book innoculation to be distributed to the party faithful?
Who will really read the Post? I hardly ever click on the page anymore. Too hard to access any articles, and I can read the summaries here. Circulation dwindles, and influence along with it.
Larry Thurlow is not running for president. Kerry is.
BTTT
"Who will really read the Post? I hardly ever click on the page anymore. Too hard to access any articles, and I can read the summaries here. Circulation dwindles, and influence along with it."
This story was published first in the Post but now it is all over the media. One does not have to read the post to hear this story.
I don't know what that first post was talking about v the after action reports. None have been made public. Because we could then see if Kerry was responsible for the claims of small arms fire. They in no way discredited him because he's saying the same thing.
Let's see the after action reports filed by Kerry v the others.
The Wash Post has ignored the SwiftVets until today...... The WP makes me sick
Hey Washington Posties....RELEASE KERRY's MILITARY RECORDS!!!!!!
"And where does the Washington Post place this article on Thurlow??? FRONT PAGE, Column One...... that's where!
The Wash Post has ignored the SwiftVets until today...... The WP makes me sick"
First look I agree, however, does this not open the door to require the "military records" of the one and only one running for president. "IF" the campaign and media goes after one persons "records" then somebody should go after what is so "secret" in JFKerry's official records.
How is it that JFKerry gets his "official" documents signed by Lehman as Secretary of Navy when JFKerry did not serve while Lehman was Secretary of Navy?
Why was his Silver Star citation signed by Secy of the Navy John Lehman when he wasn't Secy of the e Navy until 12 years LATER???
Someone ask Lehman this question please.
Well buried in the Wash post story is this little item, when they claim Thurlow must have wriiten the cation report
For much of the episode, Kerry was not in a position to know firsthand what was happening on Thurlow's boat, as Kerry's boat had sped down the river after the mine exploded under another boat. He later returned to provide assistance to the stricken boat.
Now does that agree with the Pravda on Johnkerry.com or with the Swift Vets account that the departed kerry returned when it became evident there was no hostile fire?
Most media reports omitted that little item.
Nobody knows propaganda like the left. Their goal is for America to sleepily slide into a socialist democracy without even realizing it.
Through control of the major media outlets, the public schools/universities, the unions and the courts, the socialist left has far more power than their actual numbers.
John Forbes Kerry wouldn't have been the leader in this presidential election 20 years ago. We are the enemy to the socialists and their dupes... plain and simple. And they have been conducting a war against us more covertly than Al Qaeda could ever dream of doing!
Wait a minute. I must have missed the part about the after action reports. I thought the references about the enemy fire in Thurlow's records were from the citation (which he wouldn't have written), and not from his reports. I'll have to read the article again.
1. Remember Commando Kerrys first night out in Vietnam, in the Boston Whaler? He said he, and I believe, others were scared shitless? And they "saw" enemy fire. The "believed" they were being fired upon, or at least he did.
Normal, but not true. You see what you are afraid of. But that doesn't make it so.
Now this incident. A Swiftboat hits, or a mine is detonated. Perfect start for an ambush. Here we have what 4 boats, with about say 6 crew, for a total of 24 men. All of whom are geared up for what would be a perfect ambush. Only it doesn't happen. Only a few "see" the flashes and water hits from small arms.
No one shot.
No Rocket Propelled Grenades seen nor hits.
No wounded by small arms.
No holes in boats.
No shrapnel.
All but a couple of sailors and officers say no fire.
Because there wasn't any.
No, you are right. We meant to say "tipped off about the citation regarding the incident". We changed it in the original article on our site. Thanks.
Actually, I did see where you addressed that issue, but I just missed it before I posted it. In any event, it does show how misleading the WaPo article, and the accompanying reporting of it, is.
Coming from the Washington Post, I'm not surprised about the dirty tricks. What I remember most about the dirty trickster pro-demoncRAT Post goes back to the Nixon era when the Post day after day, front page after front page told how Nixon ordered bugging the DNC HQ. People were inundated with the Post's misleading, titillating stories of Nixon wrong doing. It was clear the Post had an agenda to bring Nixon down. Yet, one day, on page 23, buried in small print, about 10 lines long, there was a story about how the DNC bugged Goldwater's campaign headquarters. I never bought a Post newspaper after that.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.