The Facts about Bush and the National Guard - The Democratic charges fall apart.

National Review Online ^ | August 26, 2004 | Byron York

[Watery Tart]

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[BigSkyFreeper]

A great read. Thanks for the ping.

[ArmyBratproud]

He looks like a snot knosed, spoiled little punk in that picture.

[LifeTrek]

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[neverdem]

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[Travis McGee]

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[maica]

See my note at #65.

Also see terrific articles on OpinionJournal.com today.

One is by John O'Neill and the other by Daniel Henninger.

[maica]

Oops, I meant for you to look at my post #77.

[nmh]

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[Freee-dame]

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[Travis McGee]

The timeline of the paperwork for the first PH coming in 3rd, very late, is extremely suspicious. It all seemed to reach a crescendo, with his medals and last two PHs all coming in just a few weeks. Then the paperwork for PH 1 "somehow" is approved, and he's gone. There's a real story there, perhaps Kerry himself finally managed to shove it through. Remember, unlike 99% of SwiftBoat officers, he not only brought his own 8mm movie camera, he brought a TYPEWRITER, his own typewriter, that is.

In the 1960s, way pre-computer, the Navy ran on triplicated forms for typewriters. You found the appropriate form, typed the info in the appropriate boxes, and then had it signed and approved and sent up the line.

There are some mysterious forms signed by a mysterious officer who used only initials, "KJW" or some such. My hunch is that in the free-wheeling Swiftboat community, sometimes this mystery initial man (non-existant) was used to sign and forward exagerated or falsified after action reports. In those days, when the Navy was eager to tout Brown Water Navy heroics, the higher ups were not too picky about determining the source of certain paperwork. A sampan with one small family becomes 5 dead VC, etc. Nobody checks.....

I think Kerry forged his own PH citation, for wound #1, which was submitted much later, out of chronological order.

[Travis McGee]

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[Travis McGee]

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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

I agree with your comment.

How often we forget that their were no modern means of communication.

It strikes a ring of truth in my book.

[Grampa Dave]

Before this mess is over, we may find out that moi Kerry was very creative with the Navy forms and his typewriter.

[MarkL]

I've said this numerous time on FR...I think it's a big mistake for the Dems to bash Guard Service as something "lesser". Nothing like alienating another military group. I'm sure the National Guardsmen in Iraq or Afghanistan won't take to kindly to it.

The dems don't care... They're going to do everything within their power to see that the votes of active duty personel stationed overseas don't get counted... Again.

Mark

[risk]

You're asking good questions. None of Kerry's citations should be taken for granted.

[I_dmc]

Bush's superiors gave him consistently high ratings as a pilot...third rating, in 1970, said Bush "clearly stands out as a top notch fighter interceptor pilot" and was also "a natural leader whom his contemporaries look to for leadership."

That's the key.  "I'll match my fitness reports by superiors against anyone else's ratings, anytime.  You decide who the better leader is."

[pineledger]

You're absolutely right about the Kerry fist-salute. He's big on gestures. There's the fist, there's the thumb-up, there's the hands-in-praying-position (learned from THK, it appears), there's the fist-across-the-chest (a middle-eastern thing, I'm told). Since the WSJ ridiculed it, Kerry no longer does much of the pointing-thing.

[listenhillary]

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