Attacks on John Kerry Discredited

Military.com ^ | June 19, 2006 | Wade Sanders

[Phil Harmonic]

There are those who are already so entrenched in their hatred of Kerry, that no official Navy records, no verified eye-witness testimony, no facts will every cause them to re-evaluate their point of view. However, I am assured that there are many who, regardless of their political background, are interested the facts and see knowledge as an evolutionary process, and who take the time to research their opinions and speak from a foundation of fact. It clearly is not necessary to like John Kerry, or agree with his record as a Senator, but it seems to me that a vicious attack on any man's integrity and honor deserves to be based on something other than lies and distortions. Well, here are some facts based on the official Navy record, Navy messages, the Navy archives, and the statements of witnesses who were really there.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Beckwith]

I would like Wade to explain just one thing for me.

How does anyone receive 3 Purple Hearts without missing any duty or having no scars?

Besides falling of a bar stool at the Officer's Club.

[R. Scott]

I find any attack on any veteran who has honorably served distasteful . . ."

As do I – but Hanoi John did not serve honorably and his actions on his return were anything but honorable.

[bmwcyle]

Attacks on John Kerry Discredited by Dishonest Liberals

[halfright]

Our boy "Teddy the Murderer" looks like that! When he's on Blue Goose and can't find a pretty young thing he can prey on.

[bitt]

'Wade R. Sanders,

deputy assistant secretary of the Navy in the Clinton administration,

who like Kerry skippered a patrol boat in Vietnam. He directs California Veterans for Kerry. "He's someone who you know your back is safe with...

[bitt]

LT ping...

hey, he's okay, we made a mistake, Wade Sanders said he was a good guy....

[Panzerlied]

"Well I heard he SIGNED his form 180. He just hasn't sent it in."

He sent it in, but he forgot to put a stamp on it!

[johnny7]

LOL! I bet when he takes a dump... the thing floating reminds him of Christmas in Cambodia.

[Panzerlied]

"...Kerry recalled resigning from VVAW in a St. Louis VVAW meeting in July, 1971."

The wiggle word here is "recalled". He could always claim Alzheimer's for the inaccurate recall!

[MACVSOG68]

So, this distraction - combined with the flagrant lies about his first band-aid scratch on a local (non0hostile fire) mission in a open boat in December (before he qualified for Swift boats) - adds the the "proof" of his self-serving exaggerations of EVERY part of his 4 months in Vietnam.

Agree. Thanks.

[CholeraJoe]

Sanders is real Kerry butt-boy isn't he?

[Wristpin]

How does anyone receive 3 Purple Hearts without missing any duty or having no scars?

Murtha has two without any noticeable scarring...Five P/Hs' between them and nary a limp!

[Doc Savage]

I assume this demented piece of dreck is mentally ill???

[OldFriend]

Once again the dems considering what's good for their backyard rather than what is good for the country.

[sweetiepiezer]

"Wonder what Kerry offered him for this."

Ketchup for life.

[areafiftyone]

Well everyone you can guess from this article that Kerry will be running in 2008 and wants to make sure he can counter the Swift Boaters. He has been planning this since he lost in 2004 - BE PREPARED FOR MORE OF THIS ABOUT HIS MILITARY RECORD! We are going to need the Swifties again to counter this or Kerry will try to make himself out to be a hero and not a traitor to the American people.

[chesley]

Fair enough. What I'm saying is that even if his purple hearts had been Medals of Honor, and that he had actually deserved them. and that his military record had been without blemish, even so what he has done since his "honorable" discharge is enough to damn him, IMO.

[smoothsailing]

BTTT

[badgerlandjim]

"...I find any attack on any veteran who has honorably served distasteful..."

"...but of course, that would never hamper me at all from blasting away at Lt. Commander Richard M. Nixon..."