Posted on 08/22/2004 2:26:24 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 08/22/2004 7:02:58 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON -- When John F. Kerry rescued James Rassmann from the Bay Hap River in the jungles of Vietnam in March 1969, neither man could possibly have imagined that the episode would become a much-disputed focus of an American presidential campaign 35 years later.
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Author: Michael Dobbs
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His distortions of events are the key. That is hard to explain to the average voter.
"The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Rassmann said, "are not just questioning Kerry's account, they are questioning my account. I take that very personally. No one can tell me that we were not under fire. I saw it, I heard the splashes, and I was scared to death. For them to come back 35 years after the fact to tarnish not only Kerry's record, but my veracity, is unconscionable." "
Rassmann sure has no problem promoting the lies of JFKerry.
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***In "Tour of Duty," these thoughts are attributed to a "diary" kept by Kerry. But the endnotes to Brinkley's book say that Kerry "did not keep diaries in these weeks in February and March 1969 when the fighting was most intense." In the acknowledgments to his book, Brinkley suggests that he took at least some of the passages from an unfinished book proposal Kerry prepared some time after November 1971, more than two years after he had returned home from Vietnam.
In his book, Brinkley writes that a skipper who remains friendly to Kerry, Skip Barker, took part in the March 13 raid. But there is no documentary evidence of Barker's participation. Barker could not be reached for comment.
Brinkley, who is director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies at the University of New Orleans, did not reply to messages left with his office, publisher and cell phone. The Kerry campaign has refused to make available Kerry's journals and other writings to The Washington Post, saying the senator remains bound by an exclusivity agreement with Brinkley. A Kerry spokesman, Michael Meehan, said he did not know when Kerry wrote down his reminiscences.***
LOL!!!
After he smoked a few joints????
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Running away....See the LINK in POST #3 to understand the significance of that.
Bump!
Hmmm
Walking around on the boat with a ruck on his back, on the way home. And the weight of the ruck did not drag him down, he had to dive. I wonder if somebody doesn't know a ruck from a butt pack.
Dumped his weapons. Plural. M-16 and .45 most likely. SF 0-3 on a boat with no dummy cord.
Easier to write lost weapons off as combat losses if somebody was shooting at you.
"Kerry is a fraud and the LIBERAL media is fighting an uphill battle "gallantly" trying to carry him off this Swift Boat Veterans for Truth battlefield."
WE do have two "WARS" going on. Hard some days to tell the difference in the two enemies.
This is the war hero?
Kerry knows that he absolutely must do everything in his power to keep the public focused on the original Swifty ad. That is what I see going on here. Don't blame you for trying, Kerry, but it will not work.
The new Swifty ad is the one that will do Kerry in, and he knows it.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving man.
They're both devastating.
Bump!
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