[Per Gardner they searched the sanpan after and found a large cach of weapons, rice and other supplies
161 posted on 08/26/2004 1:17:10 PM CDT by tophat9000]
I have a generic question.
If an E-5 in the Army reserves or Airman, etc., had done what Kerry did meeting with North Vietnamese (assuming Kerry was still in the reserves and assuming that was true), what would have been the likely outcome?
HUME: The historian Douglas Brinkley's book about Kerry and his Vietnam service, published to considerable acclaim some months ago.
O'NEILL: Exactly. For example, there's the sanpan incident, outlined in Kerry's book "Tour of Duty," in which it's undisputable it was a tragedy. There was a husband and a wife and a child and a baby, on a sanpan. The husband was killed. The child was killed. We don't criticize that, although it could be criticized. But what we did is get the actual report out of the Navy Archives and all of a sudden, there is...
HUME: Now, which actual report is this? This is the after action report that was filed by whom?
O'NEILL: By John Kerry on January 20, 1969, but which he has omitted from his Web site. That report, which went to Commander Elliott, shows no longer the child being killed, the child that John Kerry said in "Tour of Duty," would be seared in his mind forever. All of a sudden, it shows an entire squad, five Viet Cong on the boat that were never there in the real world being killed. It shows the mother and child as Viet Cong captured in action.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129343,00.html <-- Link
partial transcript of "Special Report With Brit Hume," Aug. 17, 2004
I had to used the cached link on Google to access the webpage. I used 'Kerry "January 20, 1969"' as the search term.
Still looking for a citation that shows the January 20, 1969 incident included taking a cache of weapons, 5,000 pounds of rice, etc. And, if that is the official report, it makes sense, because Kerry wrote the official report.