[LibertyBelt]

Read the whole review before commenting. Does this review make a good case? This is a charged issue for us here at FR. Maybe we are just as blind to some things as the left is blind to others because our own passions get in the way?

[highflight]

That "up river" film footage - was that one of Kerry's 8mm. RE-ENACTMENTS? Does anyone know?

[rose]

You've got to be kidding? Right!

[OpusatFR]

Any good is completely overshadowed by his behavior when he returned.

He met with the enemy in Paris and as far as I am concerned he should have been tried for treason at that point.

[alloysteel]

Ah, the pervasive power of visual images. How could John Kerry have gotten into Cambodia on Christmas Eve of 1968?

And who is "Jenjhis Kahn"?

How does connecting TELEPHONE wires to genitals deliver much of a shock? Unless this is some new way of having "phone sex".

[TexasCajun]

Does it show FnKerry Running Scared UpRiver, leaving Rassman bobbing in the water cork?

Does it show FnKerry Running Scared UpRiver while other swift boats and crews were helping the damanged boat and it's crew?

Kerry ran like the COWARD he is!

[missnry]

instead of seeking a deferment...

How many deferments did John Kerry SEEK???

Do any FReepers know the answer to this MSM hidden fact?

He was granted 4 deferments and sought after a FIFTH...

[Henchman]

..."I shall not seek, and will not accept your nomination, for another term as president."... Johnson refused to serve as President because, 1.) He mirco-managed the war and helped destroy our biys. 2.) He was scared as XXXX because Kennedy was assassinated. He thought he was next and looked under the bed each night.

It doesn't explain Kerry's treason, based on the "glowing" (misleading narrative)

How coult this "Yale" graduate go from "patriotism" to TRAITOR and LIE? How was he able to gain entry into Congressional hearings? (Yes, the was the Kennedy connection, McGovern, etc., but WHO, specifically? Anyone know?) How did the TRAITOR, a relatively low ranking officer gain entré to the VC delegate to the Paris Treaty Peace Talks? How do they explain General Giap ( www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1165078/posts ) indicating Kerry prolonged the war, the killing and the torture of POWs?

[Bahbah]

"... why would a bright, talented Yale student volunteer to serve in Vietnam?"

It's hard to get past this piece of propaganda, for one thing. Kerry attempted to obtain, and was denied, a student deferment to study in France. He then joined the Naval Reserves. I am unaware that he, at any time, volunteered for duty in Viet Nam. At the time he was assigned to PCF's, they were doing postal patrol, not going up river. When he started getting shot at, he was out of there as fast as some scratches would allow. He came back and trashed the reputations of every fighting man in the military. He saw military service not as "service", but as an "opportunity" to advance his political ambitions. Had the war been popular, I believe we would have seen quite a different JFK. Where am I wrong?

[cripplecreek]

Kim Jung Il has produced dozens of "documentaries" of his "heroics". Apparently we've been blinded by the whining of people who were forced to eat their children under his rule.

A lot of good things came out of nazi Germany too and it only cost the death and suffering of untold millions. Again we must have been blinded.


What a load of crap.

[bert]

I saw the producer of this film on the Sinclair broadcast. This man should be drug with a pickup till skinned.

He is the great American enemy.

[joesnuffy]

Kerry is a complete anti American scum bag...his Marxist father's son

That SOB went to the North Vietnamese communists...and made a deal for his cousin Forbes
who was in charge of Colliers Int'l...the commies gave Kerry's cousin a multi million dollar contract to rebuilt roads bridges and ports after the war..

All they asked in return was that Kerry return and tell the U.S. govt. that there were NO POWs or MIAs being held by the Vietnamese communists

The reason John F Kerry was selected to go to the commies was that he convinced the POW's and MIA's widows and orphans..friends and relatives that HE was their 'go to guy'...the guy that could best represent Vietnam Vets and their families...

He was the 'anti war' war hero... and a guy who would take no crap from a 'corrupt' govt....

Kerry was a very convincing salesman...but he was a con man....he duped everyone...and then sold the widows and orphans and their husbands, sons, brothers, fathers out to the commies

JOHN KERRY SOLD our POWs, MIA's, their widows and orphans DOWN THE RIVER

The ONLY reason Kerry is a considered by many poor fools a war hero..is because he cleverly put himself in the position of being in charge of writing up his own unit's reports...

He was then able to creatively 'take license with the truth'... John Kerry the fake...John Kerry the Liar...John Kerry the man with no honor.... created John F Kerry the War Hero...and he did it by cheating...all Americans..including his shipmates and all who served in Vietnam..but he also did it with the collusion of a few other dishonest officers and men..those who would support his lies of heroism...there weren't many...but the liberal press doesn't ask for much proof when it has one of their own to promote and sell..

Madison Ave was created by those who package trash and sell it as treasure...John F Kerry is a fitting example of such packaging

There is nothing more dangerous than a corrupt person in charge of anything..they do the most damage...

John Kerry is not a war hero...and in spite of what the Wizard of Oz said to the Scarecrow, The Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion...

You need more than a diploma to have a brain....You need more than a testimonial to have a heart...and you need more than a medal to have courage

You actually have to have 'DONE THE WORK'

In John F Kerry's world having done the work is not relevent...all you need is the paperwork and if you are in charge of the paperwork you can literaly 'write your own ticket'

It is not surprising that Karl Marx wrote that history is written by those in charge..and that truth is relative...a lesson the Kerry's have taken to heart...

John F Kerry found a way to write his own history...and the media to sell it to the rubes...

John F Kerry is not 'fit for command' but he has a reputation of being bought and paid for

IMO

[T'wit]

>> Kerry was inspired by the clarion call of President John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

One thing JFK did for us was get us into the Vietnam war. Another thing he did was plot the overthrow of the South Vietnamese government, which left the country under chaotic military rule. Ngo Dinh Diem, the prior ruler (who was no prize, to be sure) was murdered the day after the coup. JFK was himself murdered three weeks later.

Yet one other Kennedy legacy -- he gave us Robert Strange McNamara as secretary of Defense: the man most responsible for mismanaging the way and ultimately handing the Communists the victory. There was a bloodbath in Southeast Asia afterwards, and that blood is on McNamara's hands, even as it stains the hands of Tom Hayden, Jane Fonda, John Kerry and other pimps peddling the Soviet line.

[Boazo]

[mass55th]

"instead of seeking a deferment"

I guess the writer doesn't realize that the honorable Senator Kerry did indeed ask for a deferment so he could go to school in France.

[trebb]

It raises important questions such as, why would a bright, talented Yale student volunteer to serve in Vietnam, instead of seeking a deferment or having his diplomat father pull a few strings to land him a less risky assignment (as others of his generation did, including more than a few members of the Bush administration).

How about an answer like: "Even Kerry couldn't tell you this, because he did seek deferrments and when the well ran dry, he opted for the least dangerous thing he could find, but fate put him in Nam and then he pulled strings to lie and get medals he didn't deserve and beat feet as quick as he could. He abandoned his "brothers" in what he thought was enemy fire and returned to "save the day" when the smoke had cleared.

[BenLurkin]

It seems to make a good case but unfortunately it accepts as true many things we now know are not. For instance, Kerrry was on record as a student as being opposed to the war BEFORE his deferments ran out.

The author is clearly sympathetic to Kerrry's support of the Viet Cong and subsequent pro-Communist efforts. He glosses over the fact that Kerrry's group gave aid and comfort to the enemy during a time of war.

No one who loves America could ever forgive the creep, let alone vote for him.