Posted on 08/23/2004 6:31:18 AM PDT by areafiftyone
I suppose most Navy vets would cut Kerry a little more slack for embellishing his sea stories if he'd just remembered to preface them with the disclaimer "This is no sh*t", as is the custom.
Wow, it sounds like Kerry was all over the map in just 4 months of services and adventures in Vietnam!
PS - The Rassmann 3rd Purple Heart incident, after which Kerry fled Vietnam after 3 months "in country", took place in March, 1969. That would mean that the 1968 Christmas in Cambodia story occurred during John Quixote's very first month on the job? Nay, his very first weeks? We are expected to believe that the CIA would use a brand new Swift Boat skipper to ferry their guys in?
More like Steve Martin's the jerk, if you stuck a uniform on him and gave him a typewriter.
Jus heard on Tony Snow radio show; Tony stated that Kerry had MRI after that bicycle fall. A nurse called in and said you cannot have MRI performed if you have any shrapnel in your body.
John Kerry is playing a real life Forrest Gump.
OMG! And he still had It? I want to see Kerry's medical record!!!
And a Vietnam Vet just called Tony and said if shrapnel piece small, body will reject it; it will eventually work it's way out of body. If it had been a larger piece of shrapnel, they would have operated and taken it out!
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If he was fired on, how did he determine the idenity of who was firing?
Kerry passed Walter Mitty territory three exits ago.
I think we should all listen to Bob Dole. He had a lot to say over the weekend about Kerry's so called "purple hearts". Kerry's stories change daily and he has not answered one question the Vietnam swiftboat vets have posed for him. Kerry keeps aiming his bombs at the White House, but President Bush wasn't there, his people were not there, and he has said nothing except that Kerry's service, from what has been written, was noble. Kerry's battle is with the million and half vets who served during those years who he (Kerry) trashed in everyway he could in front of Congress and the American people. Kerry is responsible for what happened to these brave men and women when they retured home and were spit upon and treated like garbage. The traitors who went to Canada were treated better than the vets coming home from war. Kerry's started the Blame America First movement. It sticks even today and in my book that spells TREASON.
He was on a whirlwind tour. Haven't you seen the movie?
No, but he's open to a campaign contribution if they're interested!
"We are expected to believe that the CIA would use a brand new Swift Boat skipper to ferry their guys in?"
Yeah....that's the ticket.
Doh!
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