Posted on 09/01/2004 7:26:51 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Kerrey's badly misinformed. Kerry himself said he volunteered for swift boats when they were patroling away from the action because he wanted to avoid the action, but that after he'd been assigned the role of the swift boat was changed to river patrol.
I didn't know that.
I will go to the NavySEAL site and ask about that.
Based on my Nebraska relatives reports, and some personal knowlege, I would disagree with that. He was much more moderate in those days. Not nearly so far left as John Kerry for example. Something about drinking the water in DC I think, after he became a Senator. He really went down hill (or to left, same thing) after a little "talk" he had with Clinton, prior to changing his vote on Clinton's first budget. He cast the deciding vote in favor, IIRC. I often wonder what Clinton said to him in that meeting, and if it involved Hillary's collection of FBI files? In any event after that he was pretty much Clinton's lap dog.
Actually it was their Navy, their PT boats in fact, that led to the vastly increased US involvement in the Vietnam war. NV PT Boats attacked the USS Maddox with torpedos and shellfire. One dud shell was lodged in the Maddox, so we know that attack was quite real. USS Turner Joy joined Maddox and both ships then showed radar blips that they thought were attacking NV boats. They probably weren't. However the two incidents together are known as the "Gulf of Tonkin Incident", which lead Congress to authorize "whatever means necessary" in Southeast Asia. The rest is History, and a still festering wound in America.
Exactly right.
John Kerry: I didn't really want to get involved in the war . . . When I signed up for the swift boats, they had very little to do with the war. They were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing"
Butcher Bob Kerry is wrong.
He certainly sounded more moderate when he was first running for Governor, however, once he got into office, (to give one example), he did not wait for gun-control laws to come to his desk so he could sign them. He got the anti-gunners to come here and offered them his support. Before him, there was no anti-gunowner movement in Nebraska. Afterward, it was well established. There are other examples of this difference between his words and actions. To my way of thinking, he was always very liberal, based on his actions.
However, you are correct that he has never been as far left as John Kerry. No one is further left than Kerry.
The more and louder they protest, the better it looks for the Swift Boat Vets for the TRUTH.
Bob Kerry knows first hand about atrocities. That's why he quit the senate: he knew the story was about to break.
The Gulf of Tonkin is a LONG way from the Mekong Delta and coastal South Viet Nam. There was no offshore communist threat to the Swifts, none.
I just listened to this reported on Humes' show...and he didn't stop there. According to Kerrey, because Rove has repeated the SBVTs claim that JFK dishonored US soldiers in his 1971 testimony, he needs to resign.
He (and a few other Democrats) now say that since Rove is using phrases from the SBVTs ad, it is proof of collusion between the Bush campaign and the Swifties.
Wow...it just keeps getting more delusional and desperate from the Democrats...especially since Kerry has continually made the same claims that MoveOn has been making for over a year.
You know you are losing the debate when you have to use these tactics.
Wow, if it was that dangerous, maybe an ambitious political type who got into Swift boats thinking it was mere coastal patrol-- not brown water-- might scheme to get out as soon as possible. Like maybe fabricating "wounds" with which to obtain the three Purple Hearts that requisite for an early exit.
Bob Kerrey and Max Cleland Call for Karl Rove's Resignation
9/1/2004 4:59:00 PM
The older Mr Kerrey gets the more vituperative and leftist he goes. ......
He looks like a bitter old queen.
bttt
Right> Kerry volunteered for the Swift Boats when their assignment was not very dangerous. The mission became brown water and dangerous after Kerry signed up.
What really get's my goat is this Democrat a "Medal of Honor" winner is so pissed off about losing a leg fighting in Vietnam and he was one of the Veterans Kerry labled as a baby killer. Yet he still supports the Dems/Leftist agenda.
This plus his attitude during the 9/11 hearings toward Condeleza Rice. This is the face of Democrat's.
Their quest for returning to power know's no bound's!
This is not the first time this war criminal has lost his cool with someone. He lost it when on camera during a freep with two of our great Freepers.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1176487/posts
Kerrey: 'So Am I, (Expletive)' (New video of freep of Sen. Bob Kerrey.)
Posted on 07/22/2004 11:25:49 AM PDT by McGruff
Former Sen. Bob Kerrey confronts two protesters who were heckling him over his work on the Sept. 11 commission.
This is a differnet video. Higher quality.
I just put myself in Kerrys place and wonder how he thought he was going to get away with his speech at the Winter Soldier hearings. The MSM is propping up a lot of politicians I think this is just the beginning of the end of a lot of political careers.
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