Posted on 08/21/2004 2:08:47 PM PDT by nwrep
In this interview titled "An Angry War Veteran", John Kerry admitted to the NYT reporter that he enlisted in the Swift Boats to avoid the war in Vietnam, since the boats were only used for patrol duty:
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..That first trip to Vietnam piqued his curiosity, - "I wanted to go back and see for myself what was going on, but I didn't really want to get involved in the war." So late in 1968 he volunteered for an assignment on "swift boats" - the short, fast aluminum craft that were then used for patrol duty off the coast of Vietnam.
Two weeks before he arrived in Vietnam as a swift boat commander, he said, "they changed the policy on the used of the boats - decided to send them up the river to prove to the Vietcong that they didn't own the waters."
The river missions involved shooting at sampans and at huts along the banks and suddenly, Mr. Kerry recalls, "we said, 'hey, wait a minute - we don't know who these people are'. So we started to beach our boats to go to ashore and find out what we had been shooting at."
This is one sick puppy.
How does one easily "beach" a prop boat like a Swift without wrecking the screws? This is no PBR we are talking about here.
There is plenty of good information out there, but the MSM will never report it, and how many undecided voters read sites like NewsMax, WND, or Freerepublic ?
The MSM is too busy still looking for dirt on GWB and his guard duty.
It was my understanding that John Fing Kerry joined the navy
because it was not involved in any combat operations at the time, and never thought he would see any.
Thanks for the find.
Priceless. Bears repeating. I think if this played on tomorrow's Sunday shows, all FReepers everywhere would float up like that cartoon dog into ecstasy.
This freak must have been afraid that POW's would be found, come home, and state how kerry's cowardly acts against Vietnam Vets, his WORDS in front of congress, crushed their spirits and embolded their captors.
Stay Strong
Fuzzy
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Gee it's funny how lucky Kerry was that after not "want(ing) to get involved in the war" that when his mission changed and he was to be "involved in the war" for a years tour.... he just "lucked out" and got (un)involved in the war in four months... just like his luck to fall in love woman with alot of money....that Kerry is just one "lucky" guy
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