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Kerry Makes His Military, Medical File Available (O'Neil says it is Incomplete! GO O'Neil GO!!)
LA Times ^
| 6/8/05
Posted on 06/08/2005 7:32:28 AM PDT by areafiftyone
WASHINGTON All through last year's presidential race, Vietnam-era critics of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) charged that he was trying to hide something by refusing to authorize the public release of his entire military and medical file.
On Tuesday, Kerry provided access to his complete records. The long-awaited documents contained no bombshells, and his enemies still were not satisfied.
The 180-page sheaf of medal commendations, officer's fitness reports and medical entries released under federal guidelines by Kerry's Senate office provided a few new nuggets of information about his 1968 to 1969 stint as a Swift boat commander during the Vietnam War.
There was one page from a January 1969 officer evaluation that appeared to back Kerry's claims that he had been well-rated by his superiors. During the heat of the 2004 campaign, some members of a group of anti-Kerry Navy veterans suggested that the then-missing document might provide a damning assessment of his wartime role.
Kerry said in a statement Tuesday that he had provided "unprecedented access" to his military and medical records during the campaign "and now months after it ended." In releasing the file, he said, "the facts speak for themselves and as these records prove, once again the right wing is wrong."
But Kerry's reluctance to provide easy access to records that buttressed his war resume remains one of the more puzzling aspects of his campaign strategy.
Pollsters and political scientists who have studied the race said that Kerry might have left himself vulnerable by reacting too slowly to criticism by pro-Bush veterans and their insistent calls for public access to all of his records. Kerry's move to release the file now, observers said, could inoculate him from similar pressure if he decided to run again in 2008.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: form180; kerryrecord; militaryrecord
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To: areafiftyone
Did anyone think for a second that Kerry would release his full file?
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:32:58 AM PDT
by
RushCrush
(Never give in! Never, never, never, never! Never yield in any way great or small.)
To: areafiftyone
"If he made a true universal release of his records and not through selective journalists, maybe we could get to the records that would answer some of these questions," O'Neill saidJohn Fraud Kerry once again being supported by the MSM...
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:35:49 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
To: areafiftyone
Youve got to admire a fellow who sees a room full of wealthy widows as a target-rich environment. ---Annie Coulter
******
Remember this???
Swift Geese Veterans for Truth ----- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255054/posts
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:36:00 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my open ears exciting and inviting me)
To: areafiftyone
![](http://www.scifi.com/tripping/characters/chode/images/chode.gif)
last year the Navy said that there were about 100 pages of his records that were still sealed... how many pages were released this time...??? hhhmmmmm....
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:38:06 AM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: areafiftyone
If BS were concrete, John Kerry would be an Interstate Highway .......... with potholes.
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:38:12 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my open ears exciting and inviting me)
To: beyond the sea
Annie is priceless. Thank you!
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:40:13 AM PDT
by
hershey
To: RushCrush
Apparently the LA Times thinks so.
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:41:09 AM PDT
by
alnick
(Rice 2005: We've only just begun to see what Freedom can achieve.)
To: areafiftyone
Kerry's Dept of Sanitization hsd been working at full capacity!!
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:41:41 AM PDT
by
26lemoncharlie
('Cuntas haereses tu sola interemisti in universo mundo!')
To: areafiftyone
The long-awaited documents contained no bombshells, and his enemies still were not satisfied.
So now the fact Bush's academic records proves he is smarter than Kerry the long awaited documents contain no bombshells? ROTFL!! Kerry is a dunce and we, his enemies, are very, very, very satisfied because we knew Kerry was a dummy before they didn't know.
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:42:06 AM PDT
by
hflynn
To: areafiftyone
![](http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Third_Party_Photo/2005/06/07/1118128925_2198.jpg)
Reporting for doody!"
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:43:12 AM PDT
by
EdHallick
("KAAAAAAAAAAHN!" - Capt. James T. Kirk)
To: areafiftyone
Pollsters and political scientists who have studied the race said that Kerry might have left himself vulnerable by reacting too slowly to criticism by pro-Bush veterans and their insistent calls for public access to all of his records. Not all of the Swifties were pro-Bush. In fact I believe Paul O'Neil said he was a Democrat. The Swifties said all along this was not about supporting President Bush but to bring Kerry's true military service history out in the open.
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:44:59 AM PDT
by
sydbas
To: hershey
I just wish she'd gain some weight........ either that or come over for dinner more often!
;-)
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:45:13 AM PDT
by
beyond the sea
(Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my open ears exciting and inviting me)
To: sydbas
O'Neill said he would have voted for John Edwards [shudder].
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:47:19 AM PDT
by
Coop
(In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
To: RushCrush
"But David Wade, a Kerry spokesman, said that the request to Navy Personnel Command to release documents extended to all government record repositories." This does nothing to address whether the information was either received by Kerry or if he in fact released what was sent him. This is typical left wing parsing.
To: All
Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia Explained
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:48:23 AM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
To: EdHallick
EWWWWWWWWWWWWW! That is one Ugly guy!
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:49:06 AM PDT
by
areafiftyone
(Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
To: RushCrush
....Did anyone think for a second that Kerry would release his full file?
.....
"Sandy Burgler, can we take a look in your undershorts???"
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:49:59 AM PDT
by
aShepard
To: aShepard
Is the DD214 available for review? That's really the most critical document.
To: Nick Danger; Chieftain
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posted on
06/08/2005 7:51:44 AM PDT
by
Coop
(In memory of a true hero - Pat Tillman)
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