Posted on 05/04/2006 1:13:03 PM PDT by Phil Harmonic
Two years ago, Charleston's Billy Schachte was caught in the undertow of presidential campaign debates over the circumstances of John Kerry's first Purple Heart. He had commanded Kerry's first Vietnam combat mission and his recollection of the experience was very much different than Kerry's published account.
Today, this tussle over truth and confusion simmers on just beneath the public's attention. That's likely to change soon. Television news veteran Marvin Kalb and his daughter are working through a Harvard-based grant to publish a book that will include commentary on the effectiveness and the credibility of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and Schachte's personal role in the 2004 campaign.
Billy Schachte was a hesitant player on America's biggest political stage. Next time, he says, he will not be so reluctant. He has a pointed response to Marvin Kalb's inquiries and to anyone else who wants to join the discussion: facts define truth and truth cures confusion; Senator Kerry should release all his military records and his personal chronicle. The disagreement can be settled accordingly.
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In early 2004, New Orleans-based historian Douglas Brinkley published "Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War." Kerry recalled he was in command of the skimmer, and his version includes engaging enemy sampans and then being wounded in an exchange of fire and that's how he said he qualified for his first Purple Heart.
"According to him, I was not even in the boat," the admiral says. "I was astonished. A rookie would never be put in command, and his account of how he was wounded in his first mission is just incredible."
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...the admiral and many others were nagged by the looming questions: How could Kerry be so confused, and how did he qualify for his first Purple Heart award?
(Excerpt) Read more at charleston.net ...
My theory is that Kerry forged the paperwork and took it to his new command. You are not supposed to receive a PH if there is no after action report, i.e., hostile fire. The paperwork has to be in Kerry's file. The paperwork for the other two PHs have been released, but not for the first one. All three PHs are bogus. The amusing thing is that Kerry had personalized license plates for one of his cars, PH3.
On any question of national economic or defense policy, the question that should be asked is......
what would China do?
If we don't get on the ball, China will get there before us!
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Great points.
However . . . in too many areas . . . e.g. Panama Canal etc. etc. etc. China HAS GOTTEN THERE before we realized there was a THERE to get to.
he was wounded in action.
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He was a WOUNDed soul and a WOUND in pseudo-action--acting very energetically, the part of Chief Fool.
Of his 3 purple hearts . . . I think 2.5 of them, at least, are a wash.
Yaaawn Kerry was in Vietnam?? You would think he would mention that once in a while? I just thought he was another Nam war protester.
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
Hold Kerry to his own standard, have some one leak the docs for the good of the country.
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INDEED! And while we're at it--DITTO for her unroyal lowness--her hideous heinous--bw*tch Shrillery Antoinette de Fosterizer de Marx de Machiavelli de Pol Pot de Stalin . . . de Sade's Commie Master's Thesis as well.
Perhaps The DC folks should stage an OUTTING PARTY and OUT A FAKE BUT ACCURATE RENDITION OF BOTH SKERRY's Naval discharge and other papers as well as Shrillery's Master's Thesis.
Perhaps opposite some public appearance of Shrillery?
John Kerry prove yourself!
I think he'd have to be something provABLE, first . . . i.e. besides a sugar mamma's Dilldo.
Well, it looks like Demos have all but discounted Kerry as viable for '08 (Eleanor Clift recently described him as a "windsurfing dilletante"). I'm thinking that in Hillary's calculus, Kerry isn't yet on her radar.
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INDEED. I have long pegged Eleanor Clift as tied in tight with the puppet masters and their agenda, values, perspective and truth mangling habits.
However, I think it's still worth making noise about SKERRY. Kind of reminds people what idiots the other side risked our nation's security with.
I agree with you entirely. And I think we really should--massively email Kalb and serve him notice that we will not allow a truth mangling book to even remotely try to rehabilitate SKerry without making plenty of loud noise about the idiocies in it.
Seems to me there ought to be a way to get SKerry into court and force him to release his Navy records regarding all the lying etc.
I thought the Form 180 was named after Kerry.
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Good one. Hadn't heard that one before. Thx.
Kalb was a prominent participant in the MSM's pack of barking dogs during the Nixon humiliation.
The hatred that spewed out of his mouth then was brewed up years before when Nixon exposed the State Dept. underling, Alger Hiss, as a communist spy.
The subversives in the MSM don't forget things like that.
I knew that Kerry served in Vietnam, but did you know that he has a plan?
GREAT LINKS.
THANKS BIG.
The poo poo is about to hit the rotary cooling device and Hanoi John is fixin' to get a face full! It's time that spineless, back-stabbing, lying scumbag gets exposed for pile of $hit he really is.
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I agree entirely. Though I thought you put it far, far, far toooooo mildly!
BTTT
In this case the VC does NOT stand for the Vic Cross...
Considering the context of where Jo Ke wuz, I presumed VC to represent a certain locality in the vicinity of where he spent that mentally seared Christmas.
Won't happen ... would reveal Kerry for the pretender (I have a stronger word, I'm restraining myself) he really is ...
Kerry has been giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States for many years, He needs to be in court all right, but for treason, not to get to his records.
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