Kerry Discharge Story May Have Legs

WLS Radio, Am890 Chicago | 10/16/04 | self

[shibumi]

Driving home from work tonight, I heard a spot on WLS in Chicago for the Terry O'Brien Sunday talk show. It seems her lead topic will be the less than honorable discharge many suspect Kerry received from the Navy. This is the first mention, to my knowledge, on the public airwaves regarding this subject. With persistent FREEPing, perhaps other media outlets will pick up the story.

[getitright]

ever been to Rockford?

[Paladin2]

Plenty of times.

[PowerPro]

Steve Malzberg mentioned it the other night (I also got the chance to call in and talk to him, which was cool) and he will be talking to the article's writer, THOMAS LIPSCOMB on Sunday morning around 10:30 EST.

Go to http://www.wabcradio.com/listenlive.asp to listen.

If you don't have RealPlayer (or hate it like I do), download RealAlternative so you can listen:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm

[shibumi]

Only during a bad dream 25 years ago.

[stylin19a]

Circumstances surrounding Kerry's discharge probably explains this story

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/03/27/kerry.documents/index.html

[shibumi]

Thanks!

[DuhYup]

The whole discharge story shines like a dead mackerel in the moonlight. Kerry's military history has had more revisionism than even the old Soviet Union was wont to engage in. The three citations for his silver star are classic. In the first version he displays dubious gallantry but the story gets better in the last two versions. The third citation has been disavowed by the Secretary of the Navy who was supposed to have written and signed it. Fortunately for Kerry the first two citations are vouched for by dead men probably turning in their graves at the thought.

[ladyinred]

Oh you betcha. Good catch.

[Anti-Bubba182]

There have been many reports about this, but it has not exploded in the media, nor is it likely to with Kerry not allowing access to his military records. The Kerry campaign can duck this until the election.

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[maryz]

Howie Carr has mentioned it and put a link to the Sun story on his website.

[EaglesUpForever]

Maybe, or maybe it was evident that he was an FBI informant at the time, which might be even more of a negative for his campaign. Certainly everyone who respects service to this country is already going to vote for Bush.

But his constituents, who are "anti-war" might find it troubling if he was an FBI informant.

From looking at the FBI files that weren't stolen, the 3000 pages or so on the web, it is apparent that the VVAW was an extremely well-infiltrated organization: chapter leaders were sometimes informants, at a single meeting they would have as many as 7 informants: it seems the FBI knew their plans better than they did. As two-faced as Kerry can be, he may have been playing both sides.

[pepsionice]

If the press would simply look at the year of the discharge...and grasp that it was the Carter period...and all of those funny understandings came up (draft dodgers pardoned by Jimmy, and every Vietnam vet with a dishonorable or less than honorable discharge was given a chance to upgrade one notch...free of charge. Then Kerry's story starts to beg some more questions...why during this Carter era? And there is a big reason for his need to upgrade his less-than-honorable discharge...especially if you are going for public office in Mass...and you need a clean record to present the public.

[shibumi]

Interesting...he avoided any type of demonstration that could be confrontational, and the FBI concluded that he had never engaged in any violent behavior. Were they looking at his VVAW activities, or his war record???

[GeronL]

HEADLINES:

Kerry discharge
Saddam MET Ossama
Kerry fires Elizabeth Edwards

[GeronL]

Don't forget the Silver Star with the combat V

Pentagon: No one has ever gotten one of those

[backhoe]

To read the latest on the Franchurian Candidate's bizzare exploits, click the picture, goto "last," and work backwards:

If you would like to help the Swift Boat Vets ( as I have, and I urge all to do-- even a few dollars will help ) kindly click on this logo:

Take a look at these short video clips, especially the last one. You will walk away with a heavy heart.

POW'S TELL ABOUT TORTURE

[DuhYup]

I wonder if the same person(s) who came up with the Air National Guard forgeries also forged the third Silver Star citation. There was supposed to be an investigation but one hears the deafening silence. Perhaps forging the Secretary of the Navy is acceptable in the new Democratic and MSM order.

The latest oxymoron (journalistic ethics) is probably in effect.

[80skid]

[shibumi]

I guess the New Soldier will have to learn the goose step by practicing with soccer balls, sort of a sensitive Franco-Teutonic Warrior.