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| 08/19/2004
| Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
Posted on 08/19/2004 4:01:49 PM PDT by Interesting Times
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To: Mo1; Peach
Holy crap! Cleland now says Kerry was SHOT 3 times?? Oh FGS!! I read the description of one of Kerry's wounds in Unfit. It was a metal fragment (the military called it shrapnel) that measured about 1 centimeter long by 3 to 4 millimeters wide. It was in the skin no more than 3 or 4 millimeters. It was easily extracted by a forceps and required no anesthesia for the extraction. No suturing was required and a small dressing (probably a band-aid) was applied.
FGS!
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:13:12 PM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(John Kerry's new theme song: "Ohh-ho, yes! I'm the Great Pretender...ooh,ooh")
To: adam_az
"Rassman was eating a cookie on the back of the boat and fell off when Kerry fled the scene after #3 hit the mine."
That's been my theory of what happened. He fell off after Kerry sped away. It's tough to eat a cookie and hold on at the same time.
Had Rassman been on PCF #3, he more than likely would have been knocked unconscious or suffered a concussion from the mine explosion, like most of the crew of #3 did.
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:13:42 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(We are The Knights Who Say "Ni!" No! Not The Knights Who Say "Ni!" The same!)
To: lstanle
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:14:12 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
(http://www.conservativesforbush.com)
To: prairiebreeze
Holy crap! Cleland now says Kerry was SHOT 3 times?? Yep .. Max was REALLY slinging the BS tonight
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:14:59 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(FR NEWS ALERT .... John Kerry over dosed on Botox and thinks he's Bob KerrEy)
To: zarf
Thank god for the Internet. Hallelujah baby. Thank you, Al Gore, from the bottom of my heart, for inventing it. :=)
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:15:27 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: franklog
Democrats think these guys are going to fold and wither. They're wrong. These guys are actual warriors
And 35 years later, they're still standing strong facing enemy fire, defending our great nation.
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:16:50 PM PDT
by
yhwhsman
("Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small..." -Sir Winston Churchill)
To: Interesting Times
I just gave some money to the Swift Vets. I encourage everyone to do the same at swiftvets.com
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:19:02 PM PDT
by
Cableguy
To: Shermy
"I love this. Closest thing to pure citizen participation. Not like the faux populism of Soros outfits like MoveOn.Org."
Me too.
I've been driving around for awhile now with the question: 'Do you still believe the mainstream media news?' and the invitation: 'Check out: www.swiftvets.com' in the rear window of my truck cab. I also included a Kerry/Lurch morph picture warning readers not read about his 'Me Lie' cover-up.
Informal road poll results are good. Some smiles, honks a few scowls, but no shouted obscenites or fingers - yet. This entire media end run has got to be making alot of RATs feel pretty low. Oh well, as FReepers say...
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:21:03 PM PDT
by
WorkingClassFilth
(I love the smell of Kerry's bullsh*t in the morning. Smells like...victory.)
To: Interesting Times
"Swift vets respond to today's attempt by the Washington Post to patch up John Kerry's leaking credibility."Heck, that Compost ad, which I read, had at the bottom of it a "Sponsored Google" box that contained a link to the hedgefundgirl site. The other two in the ad were links to buy Kerry books. I wound up not sleeping all stinking night.
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:23:25 PM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions=Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: OneTimeLurker
Just out of curiosity, how can they remember if their were bullet holes in the boats? 1. would bullets have penetrated anyway and 2. why would somebody remember that (unless their was a record of such). If they had been in the sort of firefight that kerry described, there would have been a great many bullet holes in all of the boats. The Swift boats may have been tough but they weren't very heavily armored.
Any bullet holes would have appeared on a damage report filed after the action. If the brown-water Navy operates anything like the tin-can Navy does, there should have been a separate damage report submitted for each boat involved in the incident. (They may have been combined and included as part of the after-action report.) In all likelihood, there would have been additional repair paperwork written up as well.
The U.S. Navy may float on water but it thrives on paperwork. :=)
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:28:01 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: Dolphy
1) Kerry was terribly wounded and bleeding heavily (that can be verified and is not in the realm of he said-he said, let's call it a draw. It's no draw.
The medical report from the incident listed kerry's arm injury as "contusion (minor)". Contusions (aka bruises) don't bleed at all, let alone heavily. Had he been so terribly wounded, wouldn't some hospital time be expected? There was none.
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:35:41 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: sport
If you recall Steve was fired from his job within hours of outing kerry. Steve Gardner?? This is the first time that I've heard that. Do you have a link to the story?
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:37:51 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: steplock
In the Marine Corps, all units have what is called the "UNIT DIARY" which is the official daily record of all that occurs in that company...Col. Bill Cowen on Fox News Special Report tonight mentioned this to Brit Hume - each branch has its own format, but it is a daily log of incident by incident what happended to all units that day - Cowen was not sure exactly where they were all kept, but said this was another way to get a detailed look at what went on in questionable circumstances - let's hope someone from the Swiftvets side of the fight gets to them first, so they don't disappear down somebody's pants......
To: prairiebreeze
Yes, the information about no bullet holes on the SwiftBoats and nobody else getting shot is crucial...also the allegation in Kerry's report that the Swift Boats had to travel through almost three miles of shooting from both banks of the river before they escaped - it's beyond belief that they would have survived this without at least major injuries and damage to their craft..........
To: fhayek
I was listening to the local news radio station (in Buffalo) this morning. They have never mentioned the Swift Boat Vets in any story prior to today. But low and behold, they led off with the Wash Post story which (supposedly) challenged the credibility of Thurlow. Amazing...ditto in Philadelphia, and thoroughly despicable.......
To: Interesting Times
Tell me if I'm not understanding this correctly.
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:49:14 PM PDT
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: IPWGOP
Do they repeat Lehrer? Would love to see it.
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:51:02 PM PDT
by
Niks
(.)
To: Interesting Times
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:51:33 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(Married men live longer than single men, but married men are a lot more willing to go..)
To: zarf
I don't even watch the TV news anymore. And when I read an actual "news"paper now, I just laugh at the little tricks and distortions. I listen to NPR a bit on the way to work, but I think, "now that was a interesting story. I wonder if it's true? Maybe I should check a few blogs and find out."
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:51:46 PM PDT
by
oblomov
To: arasina
I think you just about nailed it.
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posted on
08/19/2004 5:54:07 PM PDT
by
fhayek
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