Editorial: Kerry takes up the Swift Boat charges (Major Barf Alert)

The Minneapolis Star-Tribune ^ | June 3, 2006 | Minneapolis Star-Tribune Editorial

[agincourt1415]

I look at it this way, it will be found out, and at the worst possible time for Kerry.

Kerry or Al Gore, either one will be just too much fun for Freerepublicans to take apart if they are nominees.

Hey I like a Kerry/Gore Ticket.

[A CA Guy]

Gore makes too much money out of office and has too many business things going on like some cable channel that he would have to let die on the vine.

It's too lucrative appeasing the nut base of the left to actually consider running.

Kerry has the ego to run and is desperate enough to beg for the VP spot from Hillary.

[Liberty Valance]

Kerry never signed the form to release all his military records though, did he?

No. But he told Imus he would. Guess he lied.

[fish hawk]

Actually he is Native American and related to that great Chief, Ward Churchill of the Fukarwi Tribe.

[demlosers]

Something big is in the past for him for sure.

Yes, for sure.

We know Kerry while having a reserve Navy commission:

- publicly protested against the US government in time of war.

- went to Paris, France and sought an audience with the North Vietnamese delegation.

- a member of a group that once voted to assassinate US Senators who supported the Vietnam war....

[A CA Guy]

Guess he did NOT. All he did was release some information to a couple of friendly reporters who want him to be the next President.

That isn't enough IMO.

[DakotaRed]

Military records for personell are not kept at the Pentagon. All are sent to the National Records Center in St. Louis where they are kept. His signed 180s were to the Department of the Navy, which would have very little records. They also only authorized the recrods to be seen by 3 friendly reporters, no one else.

He never signed any to the National Records Center!

During the campaign, some records were obtained but the center said there were some 100 pages they could not release without sKerry's specific authorization.

We are all still waiting for that authorization. Bush released all of his, why won't sKerry? My guess, an embarrassing discharge.

[BenLurkin]

[D1X1E]

"Although they had little bearing on Kerry's qualifications to be president"...

"Kerry's most significant strength: his war record".....

"irrelevant to the campaign"....

Well which is it? irrelevant? relevant? irrelevant? Seems the writer cant even make up his mind. In my view, Kerry made his war record relevant, and thus open to question, by presenting it as basically his only qualification to be president.

[BJungNan]

[knyteflyte3]

[BJungNan]

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[BJungNan]

Good One of Kerry as Lurch. I had not see that one before.

Here's something along the same theme

[6SJ7]

White House political strategist Karl Rove went straight at Kerry's most significant strength: his war record.

The real question is how did Rove trick Kerry into wearing that ridiculous clean-room 'bunny' costume? :-)

[greasepaint]

simple,look at section III.2 of form 180

http://www.archives.gov/research/order/standard-form-180.pdf

the recipient then claims that Kerry's complete records
were released, others writer report something similiar

[Godebert]

"I hope Kerry digs all this up again. I'd love to see him go another round with the Swift Vets. "

Kerry is a fool. He'd get knocked out in a second round. No doubt that slime McCain would act as his corner man again.

[highlander_UW]

He deserves this opportunity to set the public record straight.

ROFLMOL...I guess that whole presidential campaign time wasn't much of an opportunity to address his confession of being a war criminal and a liar.

[gakrak]

He was a traitor then and he has not changed one bit. Amen.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"of having political plans even at that young age that fueled a cynical plot">

Well, he did shoot more videos of himself, than Viet Congs!

He's Got A Plan

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[R. Scott]

… Kerry's most significant strength: his war record.

If his war record was his most significant strength, Hanoi John must be pretty weak.