Posted on 09/01/2004 3:16:09 PM PDT by swilhelm73
Listening to the Jay Severin Show.
Hannity is on, and just said that they have found film of Kerry burning down huts in Vietnam. They haven't got permission from the Cavett show yet, but he sounded as if they believed they would have it by next week for the Hannity and Colmes show.
Speaking of McAullife....did anyone hear him on Medved's show today? He was commenting on how "negative" the first two days of the convention have been and that McCain and Gulliani had made vicious attacks on Kerry. When Medved asked him to name just one, he couldn’t. Medved rocks!
No. When the accusations are against republicans, the seriousness of the charge is still the standard, without a shred of evidence to support the charge. The timing of the charge is the defense democrats use with 100% effectiveness in the face of a MOUNTAIN of evidence.
The film exists- many have seen it- as guests of Kerry in his home.
Kerry shot the video and showed it to Charles Sennott of the Boston Globe, who reported on it in 1996.
Sennott spent 5 hours watching Kerry's home movies.
Jim Robinson posted the original article last Friday night.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201491/posts
I hope the whole article is still available ( I did print it out on Friday night )because it's a must read.
Kerry described how he multitasked-When asked how he filmed in the heat of battle, Kerry said :
" I'd steer or direct or fire my gun and hold onto it, whenever I could."
"Sometimes, the other guys would pick it up."
Kerry " explained how he returned later with a Super 8 mm hand held movie camera to record highlights of the mission."
" That's me right there, one of my crew was filming this."
" Watching the film and listening to Kerry's narration is to take a strange journey into the war."
"This was America's effort to win the war right here,"
he says as the film showed soldiers dousing gasoline on huts in a small village before setting them on fire."
" There was always a kind of sick, sweet smell of burning wood."
Page 62 of " Unfit For Command "
quotes George Bates an officer in Coastal Divison 11 describing how Kerry ordered the torching of a small hamlet that was obviously nothing more than a peaceful fishing village.
Kerry ordered the farm animals slaughtered and then Kerry ran around with his Zippo,
" burning up the entire hamlet."
Bates said the village was apolitical, no symbols or flags in evidence.
Bates said that " existing policies, decency and good sense required the boats to simply move on."
Bates believes that Kerry acted " in an almost criminal manner."
Another scene from Kerry's home movie :
" There is Kerry in cutoff shorts working on his suntan next to a Viet Cong prisoner bound and blindfolded."
Didn't Kerry just call for Rumsfeld to resign because of Abu Grhaib ??
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No. Kerry performed reenactments of events and "battles" he personally was involved in. So, as I said above, and this bears repeating, if this film exists and it is a reencactment that means that John Kerry burned down a village, didn't get it on tape, then found ANOTHER village to burn down to film!
The question I have is there anything in the PBS documentary that connects Kerry to any of the village burnings?
Whatever the truth, he was certainly a strange combination of theatrics and incompetence.
They nominated a guy who ADMITTED he committed war crimes. Now maybe there is video to prove it.
For once the guy delivers.
I guess we will see this next week.
Spooky, I remember the same episode of Mission Impossible.
The original film zoomed in on a uniform and was black for a millisecond. That's where the IMF spliced in the incriminating film...
Sorry, I'm still confused about all this. Let me ask it this way. You have a PBS film with a clip showing a village being burnt down. Either on the clip or in the credits the film is credited to Kerry. Is that correct? Does he appear in the film or in the narration?
And for all we know, Kerry may even be lying about that.
Bob Kerrey is a Medal Of Honor Recipient. Unlike ALL other MOH awardees Kerrey direspects the MOH and all that it stands for. He is disgusting.
Yes Kerry is in the documentary
in this one part it explains how many in the heartland supported the troops and the war
Then it says how not everyone did and it mentions how Lt. Kerry had a change of mind when he came back from the war.
It goes on to show film clips of Vietnam and tells how they are from an 8mm camera that Kerry owned and had with him on the mekong delta (sp?)
It shows the part that Kerry showed at the DNC Convention of the boats in the river and Kerry walking around in his vest and helmet
Then it shows an empty boat in the river being shot at
Then shows a scene of a swift boat beaching on the bank of the river
Then it shows some guy lighting a hut .. then a clip of a family in a boat, with a smaller boat next to it .. then shows a big gun shooting at a building and blowing it up (I thought at first it just knocked the wall down, I just checked it) .. then it jumps to a hut in flames .. then it shows Kerry and 2 other men walking through some place .. only a guess on my part, but it looks like the hut after it burned down .. BUT, I'm not real sure, just a guess
Throughout this part of the documentary .. Kerry is explaining why vets coming back were against the war and how no one was listening to them
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