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New Navy Document Challenges Kerry's Combat Valor
News Max.Com ^ | 9-15-04

Posted on 09/15/2004 7:16:37 AM PDT by hope

Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2004 10:05 a.m. EDT

New Navy Document Challenges Kerry's Combat Valor

In the midst of a formal Navy investigation into whether Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam war decorations had been falsified, a new document has surfaced that casts doubt on his claim that he acted with valor in the action that earned him a Silver Star with Combat V.

Kerry won the Silver Star after claiming he single-handedly shot a Vietcong guerilla with a loaded rocket launcher while patrolling the Mekong Delta.

But the Navy after action report, obtained Tuesday by syndicated TV commentator Mark Hyman of "The Point," states that he merely chased down a lone, wounded enemy who was running away and shot him. In 1996, Kerry Swiftboat mate Thomas Bellodeau challenged the top Democrat's account, revealing that he fired the first shot that hit the VC. Only then did Kerry hunt the wounded enemy down and finish him off behind a hut.

You know, I shot that guy," Bellodeau told the Boston Globe. "He jumped up, he looked right at me, I looked at him. You could tell he was trying to decide whether to shoot or not. I expected the guy on Kerry's boat with the twin 50s to blast him, but he couldn't depress the guns far enough. We were up on the bank."

Bellodeau died in 1997 and Kerry spoke at his funeral - but the presidential candidate has never corrected the record that gives him credit for Bellodeau's act of bravery.

John O'Neill, a leader of the Swiftvets running anti-Kerry TV ads, told the New York Post that the document uncovered by Hyman shows Kerry "was pursuing a wounded man and not charging alone into superior numbers and intense fire," as his Silver Star citation claims.

The Silver Star with Combat V citation that appears on Kerry's campaign web site bears the signature of former Navy Secretary John Lehman. But Lehman said two weeks ago that he never signed the Kerry award, raising questions about whether his signature had been forged.

Reacting to Lehman's comments, a Navy spokesman told the Chicago Sun-Times that the service has never issued a Silver Star with Combat V to anyone.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: combatv; kerry; kerrylies; militaryrecord; navy; silverstar
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1 posted on 09/15/2004 7:16:40 AM PDT by hope
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To: hope; Admin Moderator

This should be in breaking news.


2 posted on 09/15/2004 7:19:33 AM PDT by jveritas
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To: hope

HMMMMM, it must be a forgery right? From now on the Dims will say that about everything.


3 posted on 09/15/2004 7:19:34 AM PDT by Mister Baredog ((Part of the Reagan legacy is to re-elect G.W. Bush))
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To: hope
John O'Neill said there will be a new ad coming out Thursday or Friday this week. Stay tuned.
4 posted on 09/15/2004 7:20:17 AM PDT by Use It Or Lose It ("John Kerry found a way to legalize desertion." B.G. Burkett 9/12/04)
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To: hope
Kerry in deeeeeeeeeep KIM-CHEE.


5 posted on 09/15/2004 7:21:48 AM PDT by gunnygail (Founding member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. (I operate the minigun, more fun):.)
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To: hope

Heard Kerry on Imus this morning.

Imus asked him why he has not released all of his military record. And, he actually said, paraphrasing here:

I have released all of the records that have been released.

Imus asked again, Kerry mumbled something and Imus gave up and moved on.

Kerry is an amazingly bad politician!
How did this BOZO every get elected to anything??!!


6 posted on 09/15/2004 7:21:49 AM PDT by Chewbacco (I actually did have a tagline, before I erased it.)
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To: Chewbacco

Morons indigenous to the state of Tax-a-Chusettes.


7 posted on 09/15/2004 7:22:32 AM PDT by gunnygail (Founding member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy. (I operate the minigun, more fun):.)
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To: Use It Or Lose It
John O'Neill said there will be a new ad coming out Thursday or Friday this week. Stay tuned.

Excellent. I hope it focuses on Kerry being a war hero...

...for North Vietnam.

8 posted on 09/15/2004 7:23:17 AM PDT by Coop (In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
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To: Mister Baredog
HMMMMM, it must be a forgery right? From now on the Dims will say that about everything.

How convenient, right?

9 posted on 09/15/2004 7:24:03 AM PDT by eyespysomething ("...you're not fit to be a prison guard at Abu Ghraib, much less commander in chief.")
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To: hope


10 posted on 09/15/2004 7:25:15 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: Chewbacco

Kerry is an amazingly bad politician!
How did this BOZO every get elected to anything??!!



6 posted on 09/15/2004 7:21:49 AM PDT by Chewbacco (I actually did have a tagline, before I erased it.)
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Uncle Teddy needed a man-bitch!


11 posted on 09/15/2004 7:26:27 AM PDT by Area51 (Diapers and Politicians need to be changed-For the same reason)
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To: hope
The Silver Star with Combat V citation that appears on Kerry's campaign web site bears the signature of former Navy Secretary John Lehman. But Lehman said two weeks ago that he never signed the Kerry award, raising questions about whether his signature had been forged.

Reacting to Lehman's comments, a Navy spokesman told the Chicago Sun-Times that the service has never issued a Silver Star with Combat V to anyone.

12 posted on 09/15/2004 7:27:07 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
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To: Chewbacco

You're asking that question to the electorate of the same state that puts Ted Kennedy in office for life?


13 posted on 09/15/2004 7:29:01 AM PDT by Melinda
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To: hope

These forged document stories are hotter'n a Laredo parking lot, Dan.


14 posted on 09/15/2004 7:30:39 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch (A 4 month swift boat commander or a 4 year Commander in Chief, you decide.)
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To: hope

How many times do we have to say it?

THERE IS NO "V" ON THE SILVER STAR!
It's a bogus commendation!

NEVER WAS, NEVER WILL BE!!!

DAMN!


15 posted on 09/15/2004 7:30:51 AM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1/5 1st Mar Div. Nam 69&70 Semper Fi http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry.com)
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To: Area51

Yes, that is the reason Georgy Porgy is putting millions into the Kerry campaign, he want a marionette who has no opinions and stands for nothing that he can control in the White House.

Georgy is probably sending Kennedy cartons of cigarettes(read contributions) to buy his bitch from him.


16 posted on 09/15/2004 7:31:07 AM PDT by Chewbacco (I actually did have a tagline, before I erased it.)
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To: hope

Are there any transcripts available for the Imus interview? I'm curious as to exactly how the question about his records was worded.


17 posted on 09/15/2004 7:32:27 AM PDT by dvldog03
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To: hope

This must be a very old story, it is printed in a non-proportional font. ;O)


18 posted on 09/15/2004 7:33:03 AM PDT by Petronski (With what? Spitballs!?!)
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To: gunnygail

Mmmmmmmmmm .... kim-chee.....


19 posted on 09/15/2004 7:33:05 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: dvldog03

bump


20 posted on 09/15/2004 7:33:22 AM PDT by Vinomori
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