Posted on 09/15/2004 7:16:37 AM PDT by hope
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. 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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Reprinted from NewsMax.com
Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2004 10:05 a.m. EDT
Kerry won the Silver Star after claiming he single-handedly shot a Vietcong guerilla with a loaded rocket launcher while patrolling the Mekong Delta.
John Kerry On the Record
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This should be in breaking news.
HMMMMM, it must be a forgery right? From now on the Dims will say that about everything.
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??!!
Morons indigenous to the state of Tax-a-Chusettes.
Excellent. I hope it focuses on Kerry being a war hero...
...for North Vietnam.
How convenient, right?
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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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.
You're asking that question to the electorate of the same state that puts Ted Kennedy in office for life?
These forged document stories are hotter'n a Laredo parking lot, Dan.
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!
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.
Are there any transcripts available for the Imus interview? I'm curious as to exactly how the question about his records was worded.
This must be a very old story, it is printed in a non-proportional font. ;O)
Mmmmmmmmmm .... kim-chee.....
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