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Kerry Medal Evaluation
IntellectualConservaitve.com ^ | August 24, 2004 | Grant K. Holcomb

Posted on 08/25/2004 8:43:12 PM PDT by mitchellgr

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1 posted on 08/25/2004 8:43:12 PM PDT by mitchellgr
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Thought you would want to read this in the AM.


2 posted on 08/25/2004 8:53:15 PM PDT by hoosiermama (prayers for all)
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To: mitchellgr

This is the first time I have noticed the mention of supressive fire from the other boats. Rassmann could well
have been hearing that. I wonder why no mention was made of this.


3 posted on 08/25/2004 8:53:39 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: mitchellgr

Very good find. This is perhaps the best summary of a confused situation I have seen.


4 posted on 08/25/2004 8:55:36 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: mitchellgr

I pray there will be a Board of Naval Inquiry


5 posted on 08/25/2004 8:57:28 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: Anti-Bubba182

This is the first time I have noticed the mention of supressive fire from the other boats"

Page 90 " Unfit For Command "

"The boats had begun firing after the mine exploded, but they ceased after a short time because of the lack of hostile fire."
Kerry was long gone by then.


6 posted on 08/25/2004 9:03:05 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue ( When the going gets tough-John Kerry gets going-far away)
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To: mitchellgr

Superb find. I'm of a mind to make numerous copies of this letter and distribute it wherever I go. The fact that Kerry is a U.S. Senator is disgraceful. How he can even look at himself in the mirror is a mystery to me.


7 posted on 08/25/2004 9:09:40 PM PDT by Godebert
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To: mitchellgr

Every member of Freerepublic should read this.


8 posted on 08/25/2004 9:11:22 PM PDT by Godebert
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To: Wild Irish Rogue
Thanks, there should be more made of this supressive fire.

If Kerry's boat went down the river a ways after the mine blew up the other boat, it would be easy to mistake the supressive fire for hostile fire, if you were a ways away. Also, Rassman said, on TV at one point, that he was diving to the bottom of the river to avoid the propellors of the boat and what he may have thought was ememy fire. It must have been disorienting to fall from the boat and that could cloud his perception.

9 posted on 08/25/2004 9:13:01 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
If you haven't read this yet.....

Please ping the list to this article. Thanks.

10 posted on 08/25/2004 9:14:42 PM PDT by Godebert
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To: Interesting Times

Grant Holcomb's excellent chronology of Kerry's last missiion in Vietnam highlights two events that have not been focused upon together and should be emphasized:

(1) Kerry abandoned the other boats and fled from what he thought was a battle, and

(2) he abandoned his own boat and rode home with the wounded.


11 posted on 08/25/2004 9:30:56 PM PDT by zot (GWB -- four more years!)
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To: mitchellgr
Ramsey Clark to Join Panel for Saddam’s Defense

arabnews press release 25 August 2004


NOTE :
Ramsey Clark is pictured below with Kerry and
Vietnam phony vet Al Hubbard
Who was head of the
Vietnam Veterans Against the War movement.




NEW:
FReeper smith288 has an online version of
Kerry's "The New Soldier"
You can read it without downloading pdf files!
CLICK HERE


From Kerry's "The New Soldier":
Al Hubbard Sgt., 22 Troop Carrier Squadron Aug. ’65-June ’66

Emotions: Walking down the flight line at Saigon past stacks of aluminum cases containing American bodies and past stacks of aluminum luggage containing American currency. Seeing the tight, sad face of an Airman loading the bodies aboard a dirty Air Force Transport and the wide smiling face of a stewardess greeting the passengers aboard a clean Pan American Clipper Jet. Hearing a Vietnamese beg you to leave his country and an American colonel tells you to bomb his country. Hearing a Vietnamese invite you to live in his home, after the war and an American explain why you can’t live in his block, after the war. Flying over barren, brown, safe American held terrain and over lush, green unsafe enemy terrain. Feeling happy to be leaving a country in which you do not belong and sad to be returning to a country in which you are not allowed to belong. Sacrificing a portion of your consciousness so you won’t have to deal with being there and building mental blocks so you won’t have to deal with having been there.

- Al Hubbard, proven fraud who never set foot in Viet Nam. The only Vietnamese he ever met was when he was collaborating with the North Vietnamese in Paris
on the American Communist Party's nickel.
John Kerry's explanation: "He (Hubbard) simply exaggarated his particular position.
But nobody knew it at the time. And those things happen."

The New Soldier, (46 pages)
By John Kerry
and Vietnam Veterans
Against the War

PART I (pdf file)
PART II (pdf file)
PART III (pdf file)

Kerry hopes everyone
in the USA gets this book!

NEW:
“Without question,
we were held captive longer because of the anti-war people,
the Kerrys, the Fondas and Haydens,
the names we knew over there -
they encouraged the enemy to hang on.”
Excerpt from “Stolen Honor” website
- Leo Thorsness
Former Vietnam POW
CLICK HERE




Send this url for the online version

http://ejsmithweb.com/fr/newsoldier/

Send this url for the Stolen Honor website

http://www.stolenhonor.com/


Print this out (46 pages) and disribute it,
especially to the liberals you know.

Copy and paste the links to everyone you know.

http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/New%20Soldier%20Inro.pdf

http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/New%20Soldier.pdf

http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/New%20Soldier%20Epilogue.pdf

12 posted on 08/25/2004 9:32:33 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Hanoi Jane and Hanoi Kerry sitting in a tree, sitting in a tree F-R-E-N-C-H-I-N-G)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

This suppression fire has been mentioned in several accounts.

This analysis, however, puts every single factor I think I've heard about this incident into a clear presentation.... ah... with the possible exception that there is more to the story about what happened to sKerry after this "third purple heart" incident.
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13 posted on 08/25/2004 9:56:43 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: mitchellgr

I read somewhere that Rassmann got a Purple Heart on the same day... so there needs to be hostile fire, otherwise his medal would also be a fraud.


14 posted on 08/25/2004 10:05:11 PM PDT by igoramus987
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To: mitchellgr

Del Sandusky was on Colmes radio show tonight and said that after the 3 boat hit the mine, all boats commenced firing for two minutes...


15 posted on 08/25/2004 10:27:27 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: mitchellgr

That's powerful and compelling. The author has a clear and lucid mind.


16 posted on 08/25/2004 10:33:29 PM PDT by maro
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Bump!


17 posted on 08/26/2004 3:45:56 AM PDT by Godebert
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To: BTT


18 posted on 08/26/2004 3:53:28 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Jet Jaguar

BTT!


19 posted on 08/26/2004 3:53:49 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: mitchellgr
Why James Rassman Is Honestly Mistaken About John Kerry Saving His Life And John Kerry Is Shame...
20 posted on 08/26/2004 4:01:44 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod
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