It's not a smear to point out the truth but the comPost just can't get away from that word.
I read that editorial earlier...the Kerry camp cannot be sleeping well these days.
Over the weekend I watched segments of the Kerry/O'Neill appearance on the Cavett show. One thing struck me: Kerry, referring to Vietnam atrocities, said they were against the Geneva and other conventions of war..."something I didn't know at the time and learned after coming back".
Didn't Kerry do officer training?? Wouldn't a major portion of that training include the rules...conventions...of war?? How could he "not know" the things he described were prohibited? As an officer wouldn't he have had it drilled into him that he was obligated not only to stop, but to report such behavior?
Another lie?
Assume I witness someone steal something. I call them a thief. By their logic, this is a "smear." What can you say to such twisted thinking.
From last week's interview of RASSMAN by the Washington Post, regarding the MORNING of March 13th:
As they were heading back to the boat, Kerry and Rassmann decided to blow up a five-ton rice bin to deny food to the Vietcong. In an interview last week, Rassmann recalled that they climbed on top of the huge pile and dug a hole in the rice. On the count of three, they tossed their grenades into the hole and ran.
Evidently, Kerry did not run fast enough. "He got some frags and pieces of rice in his rear end," Rassmann said with a laugh. "It was more embarrassing than painful." At the time, the incident did not seem significant, and Kerry did not mention it to anyone when he got back on the boat. An unsigned "personnel casualty report," however, erroneously implies that Kerry suffered "shrapnel wounds in his left buttocks" later in the day, following the mine explosion incident, when he also received "contusions to his right forearm." [ie, a BRUISE]
From the navy's Spot Report of the AFTERNOON of March 13th; after the river mine explosion under Lt. Pees' PCF 3 boat:
LTJG JOHN F. KERRY, USNR, HSHRAPNEL WOUND LEFT BUTTOCK AND CONTUSION RT. FOREARM (MINOR);
The WaPo has caught Kerry in ANOTHER NAVY FRAUD! ... and THAT one was his ticket home!
Exactly.
smear: n 1: slanderous defamation; 4: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someoneThe Swift Boat Vets are stating the truth; the smearing of one's reputation was done by Kerry's own hand.
That's not the way I read it bud. Outside of questioning the veracity of Skerry's Cambodia claims, everything else there is partisan BS, carrying Skerry's water, with lies and misrepresentation.... I don't know who's worse, NY Slimes, or Wash Compost.