Posted on 08/30/2004 5:39:36 PM PDT by Fedora
That seems to be the case. Turning into the threat was not a spur of the moment decision, according to some who were there.
I have to suspect some MSM people have put some pieces together, they're just not talking because they don't want to damage Kerry. Some of the articles I've seen seem calculated to cover up things which the authors must know better than.
Glad to hear it was readable, thanks! :)
Yes. My guess is they went into a low-hazard area looking for some isolated enemies. Unfortunately if that's the case, Kerry wasn't the only one involved--which might explain why some are supporting him. I fear there's an ugly story underlying some of this.
Check Yesterday's messages/threads: Unless you and are "double-referencing the same one.
The one I'm thinking of had Kerry reading into the Congressional Record a eulogy to a VN vet, but praising Kerry the whole message.
Nothing out of everyday human behavior. Some people cheat, sometimes good folks succumb to temptation.
The "ugly" story, to me, is that Kerry got so far with his con. The media IS, NOW, STILL facilitating perpetrating that fraud onto the public. That's ugly.
That Kerry got away with lying about war crimes, atrocities, and infected the public with disdain for Vietnam veterans. That's ugly.
But a "little bit of stolen valor?" Probably happens all the time. Doesn't make true valor any less heroic.
Building a life of "public service" out of 100% stolen valor? Causing national division, pissing on veterans, with lies about atrocities? Wow. I am incensed, amazed, angered beyond ability to express it. Kerry -IS- ugly.
OK - I see it above! Sorry.
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"Do you remember reading how the guy he was first on board with (I'm not bothering looking up his name...first boat/PH incident) was the one everyone credited with inventing the plan for smoking out the VC."
I don't remember that detail. I think for the first PH Kerry was under William Schachte's command, and the two guys actually with him on the operation were William Zaldonis and Patrick Runyon.
If you look up "ugly" in the dictionary, there's a picture of Kerry, and under the second entry it says "See TerAYzah".
Senator Kerry, “Thomas M. Belodeau”, Congressional Record—Senate, 105th Congress—2nd Session (1998), S186-S187, January 28, 1998, located through http://thomas.loc.gov/ (August 29, 2004)
BTTT
Great Stuff.
Getting to the meat, Mia!
Parallel path to power to that pursued by your lot's putrid Peking Duckie, shaggs.
BUMPping
Just one word: WOW!!!!
I'm gonna guess all that alliteration is alluding to an Arkansas alleycat :)
Thanks!!!
> ... unless there was a minimal threat and it was all
> a stunt to get medals from the get-go.
And his pal Rass clued him in on just how to finagle it
after the fact. The mine was real. Mining bronze from
the mine was art.
Sgt. Bilko would be amazed.
research bump
Two different incidents, but your sentiment is on the money.
Fedora and I were swapping comments about the Silver Star incident (beaching in the face of numerically superior enemy while under intense fire, dispatching a single VC), not the Bronze Star (mining/Rassmann) one. KErry could plan the beaching maneuver in advance, and there are credible allegations that he did. But nobody plans being mined.
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