Plot Thickens After Checking Records (Kerry Silver Star V Device Questioned by Chi. Sun-Times)

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | Friday, August 27, 2004 | Thomas Lipscomb

[Cboldt]

* bump *

[Howlin]

All this, and we haven't even gotten to the part about the VVAW yet. :-)

[The G Man]

Is this guy a staff writer? Or a columnist?

[Pikachu_Dad]

What could the rest of the documents contain? The Kerry 'rope a dope strategy'?

[EllaMinnow]

I love the smell of TRUTH in the morning! it smells like French toast.

[Straight Vermonter]

Woohoo!!! The best part of this story is that it is published in the MSM. Liberals in Chicago will be getting nauseous over breakfast reading this one.

[Centaur]

OOOOPS!

[pt17]

Kerry's Record: The gift that keeps on giving.

[babaloo]

It doesn't look like he is a staff writer from the end of the article. This was in the paper's news section-not the columnists' section.

[isrul]

Didn't some Navy officer, Admiral, I think, commit suicide over something like this a few years ago? Not to worry, though; no need to put Kerry on suicide watch. He has no shame.

[prairiebreeze]

All this, and we haven't even gotten to the part about the VVAW yet. :-)

All this and we haven't gotten to the Paris meetings yet. All this and we haven't gotten to the denial of any American POW's still in VietNam and the shredding of records in order to hurry normalization of relations with Hanoi yet. :^)

Prairie

[ClearCase_guy]

The media will quickly decide not to shield Kerry anymore. He is a lost cause.

The Clinton Administration was crippled by his lies.
Gore lost in 2000, in part because people saw him as unprincipled.
Kerry is both a liar and unprincipled.

And Hillary wants to run in 2008? Can the Dems take another scoundrel as their Presidential Nominee? I think her hopes are actually sinking now too.

[dennisw]

The truth is poison to John Kerry.

[hflynn]

Kerry is being caught in lie after lie after but still insists on making Vietnam the centerpiece if not the sole basis for his candidacy.

Kerry is a fraud who has no record of accomplishment in the Senate that he willing to even discuss with the American people and apparently his war record is, at the very least, questionable. He continues to run on a record of 4 months as a junior grade officer on a Swift boat in Vietnam and insists these 4 months have made him more qualified to lead the nation than a President who has lead us through 3 years of a worldwide war on terror.

I think Maureen Dowd wrote the wrong book. Kerryworld: Enter at Your Own Risk would have been a super seller.

[igoramus987]

Kerry's Web site also carries a DD215 form revising his DD214, issued March 12, 2001, which adds four bronze campaign stars to his Vietnam service medal. The campaign stars are issued for participation in any of the 17 Department of Defense named campaigns that extended from 1962 to the cease-fire in 1973.

However, according to the Navy spokesman, Kerry should only have two campaign stars: one for "Counteroffensive, Phase VI," and one for "Tet69, Counteroffensive."

... and the lie gets bigger and bigger.

[Cboldt]

Didn't some Navy officer, Admiral, I think, commit suicide over something like this a few years ago? Not to worry, though; no need to put Kerry on suicide watch. He has no shame.

Yes, Admiral Boorda. For -wearing- a medal with a combat "V" that others had said was unearned. I suspect Admiral Boorda had more going on his life, but the impending press scrutiny "pushed him over the edge."

[blue_nova]

just pure spec on my part, but given the very late discharge
date i would suspect that his military record details his anti war activities with dates, times, places, and names. IMHO it would be very ironic if Nixon's preoccupation with with DNC dirty tricks turned out to be justified based on activities that JF'nK was part of.

[martin_fierro]

Admiral Jeremy Boorda

[Nick Danger]

Drip... drip.... drip...