We on FreeRepublic have known about for quite some time.
Republican strategists need to spend more time on here.
Also, Kerry admitted in the Crimson interview that it was not his intention to get into combat in Vietnam. That's why he signed up for swift boat duty after his stint on the USS Gridley. At the time, the swift boats were on coastal patrol--a veritable "China Beach" type of assignment--very little risk of combat.
In the interim, by the time he arrived in Vietnam, the swift boat mission was changed to river patrol, an inherently more dangerous mission prone to being shot at. Not what John Fraud had intended.
"Send me--after I spend a year in gay Paris!" Rich.
What happened to Clinton's sappy line "John Kerry said 'Send Me'" at the DNC?
Could it be that our "New Soldier" loathes the military just as much as Slick Willie?
Kerry was a fake from the get go. Is/was he REALLY so stupid as to think that he could make his pitiful four months, three bandaid Purple Hearts, and two questionably earned medals the centerpiece of his campaign and then expect people to NOT examine it carefully or was his strategy to put it here and send the attack dogs after anyone who looked too closely at it?
Is this almost a feeding frenzy? About time someone started reporting this stuff. Thanks for the post.
Now will the major media in the US pick up on this part of Kerry's "volunteering" for military service? Kicking and screaming maybe...
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WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? WOOF----WOOF----WOOF-WOOF.
He wasn't alone.
The Navy probably seemed quite safe at the time!
Some of us actually enlisted in the Marines or the Infantry and got sent elsewhere anyway.
Sometimes things just happen don't they?
Let me say one positive thing about Kerry ~ he didn't go to Canada.
"W" didn't go to Canada either.
Can't say what either one of them did (enlist in a "safe" service) was all that admirable, but they didn't go to Canada!
Check the date. This was in the telegraph last March.
After a cup of coffee and a cigarette in Nam he returned home and used his war experience to lambast the guys still over there fighting for their lives, and to arm his anti-war organization "Veterans Against The Vietnam War" with a propaganda tool.
John Kerry's entire life plays out as a manipulator, con man and gigolo. He lives and thrives off the blood, sweat and money of others.
John Kerry was against the war before he went to war, before was against the war... before he was for the war.
Anyone else dizzy yet?
John Kerry tried to stay out of combat (okay - I don't really have a problem with that. He served, didn't go to Canada, etc.), and ended up getting stuck in a combat situation.
George W. Bush, I believe, seems to have wanted to follow his father as a pilot. The competition was really high in the Air Force, so I'm thinking he took an option to enter the Air National Guard, and got to fly. His hard luck seems to have been wanting a combt assignment, but being rated on the wrong type of plane for Vietnam service.
We might have won the war if they had let him opt out and go to Paris....PERMANENTLY! He did as much harm as anyone in Congree at the time with his "Band of Brothers
War Protestors.
Otherwise, it carries little or no weight in the current attack on Kerry's character. Many were granted these education deferments, and many opted to stay out of the war.
I joined up willingly in '69 to kick some butt for the friends who did not come home in '68. I was certainly not alone in that regard.
Bush did it his way, and wanted to fly combat. Kerry just look for the safest and easiest way to earn some ribbons. He got more than he bargained for and sought refuge in purple hearts and embellished reports to get them.
He then stabbed us all in the back to get name recognition so he could never work another day on the public payroll and court rich women.
Nice guy huh? His deferment attempts are just the beginning of the deception.
Information from another Marine about Kerry:
"Investigations on John F. Kerry
On 18 Feb. 1966 John Kerry signed a 6-year enlistment contract with the Navy (plus a 6-month extension during wartime).
On 18 Feb. 1966 John Kerry also signed an Officer Candidate contract for 6 years -- 5 years of ACTIVE duty & ACTIVE Naval Reserves, and 1 year of inactive standby reserves (See items #4 & #5).
Because John Kerry was discharged with total active duty of only 3 years and 18 days on 3 Jan. 1970, he was then required to attend 48 drills per year, and not more than 17 days per year of active duty for training.
Kerry was also subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Additionally, Kerry, as a commissioned officer, was prohibited from making adverse statements against his chain of command or statements against his country, especially during time of war.
It is also interesting to note that Kerry did not obtain an honorable discharge until Mar. 12, 2001 even though his service obligation should have ended July 1, 1972. What about his service record caused a 29 year delay in his Honorable Discharge being granted?
Lt. John Kerry's letter of 21 Nov. 1969 asking for an early release from active US Navy duty falsely states, "My current regular period of obligated service would be completed in December of this year."
On Jan. 3, 1970 Lt. John Kerry was transferred to the Naval Reserve Manpower Center in Bainridge, Maryland.
Where are Kerry's Performance Records for 2 years of obligated Ready Reserve, the 48 drills per year required and his 17 days of active duty per year training while Kerry was in the Ready Reserves? Have these records been released?
Has anyone ever talked to Kerry's Commanding Officer at the Naval Reserve Center where Kerry drilled?
On 1 July 1972 Lt. John Kerry was transferred to Standby Reserve - Inactive. On 16 February 1978 Lt. John Kerry was discharged from the US Naval Reserve.
Below are some of the crimes Lt. Kerry USNR committed as a Ready Reservist, while he was acting as a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War:
1. Lt. Kerry attended many rallies where the Vietcong flag was displayed while our flag was desecrated, defiled, and mocked, thereby giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
2. Lt. Kerry was involved in a meeting that voted on assassinating members of the US Senate.
3. Lt. Kerry lied under oath against fellow soldiers before the US Senate about crimes committed in Vietnam.
4. Lt. Kerry professed to being a war criminal on national television, and condemned the military and the USA.
5. Lt. Kerry met with NVA and Vietcong communist leaders in Paris, in direct violation of the UCMJ and the U.S. Constitution.
Lt. Kerry by his own words & actions violated the UCMJ and the U.S. Code while serving as a Navy officer. Lt.
Kerry stands in violation of Article 3, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution. Lt. Kerry's 1970 meeting with NVA Communists in Paris is in direct violation of the UCMJ's Article 104 part 904, and U.S. Code 18 U.S.C. 953. That meeting, and Kerry's subsequent support of the communists while leading mass protests against our military in the year that followed, also place him in direct violation of our Constitution's Article 3, Section 3, which defines treason as "giving aid and comfort" to the enemy in time of warfare.
The Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, states, "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President
and Vice-President ... having previously taken an oath, to support the Constitution of the United States, [who has] engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."
A. L. "Steve" Nash, MAC Ret, UDT/SEAL SEAL
Authentication Team -Director AuthentiSEAL Phone 707 438 0120
"The only service where all investigators are US Navy SEALs"
I added the bold. I guess the author of this article Mr. Laurence is a member of the FR tinfoil hat group thinking Hillary is still going to ultimately be the nominee? :-)