Posted on 06/29/2006 5:53:22 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
WASHINGTON -- The comic career of Senator Jean-Francois Kerry is picking up steam, or gas, as the case may be. This inveterate windbag is, according to the New York Times, reopening the Swift Boat controversy of 2004 that did such damage to his presidential prospects when hundreds of the Vietnam War veterans who served with him deflated his reckless boasts of military gloire. He has undertaken this quixotic mission claiming that he can repristinate his military record despite the Swifties' evidence against it. Then the delusory senator from Massachusetts seems to think he will be a shoo-in for the presidency in 2008.
Well, I for one shall delight in reviewing the Swifties' corpus delicti once again. There are his Purple Hearts that his officers deny authorizing. There are the missing medical records needed to substantiate his decorations. There are the questions the Swifties raised about his honorable discharge, a mysterious discharge not issued until several years after he was out of the Navy and then only issued by President Jimmy Carter in the midst of his amnesty program for draft dodgers. And there is all the controversy about young Kerry's dealings with the North Vietnamese in Paris while the war was going on and he was still in the service. Doubtless there are more indelicacies to be examined. Frankly I doubt the American electorate will gain any higher opinion of a presidential candidate who in 1971 appeared before Congress to claim that American soldiers "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads" and otherwise mistreated the Vietnamese.
Kerry's statement is long and lurid, and the Swifties gladly reproduced a tape of it during the 2004 election. Now these veterans are being harassed by the senator's supporters with crank calls in the night and venomous postings on the liberal website HuffingtonPost.com. On that celebrity-ridden site the names and personal information of more than a dozen Swift Boat veterans were posted by such "trusted" Huffington Post celebrities as "SatanLivesinUSA." Could this be Barbra Streisand's username? At any rate, this eminence wrote on June 24: "SwiftBoatVets who need some Black Ops done on them. I have some very good ideas I gleaned from 'CIA BOOK of DIRTY TRICKS' Don't get mad, get EVEN." Minutes later another "trusted" celebrity poster repeatedly pasted these threatening words on the page and on another Huffington Post post.
The American Spectator's indefatigable reporter, Dave Holman, found all this and reports that "Aside from one or two complaints, fellow commenters did not object to the posting of the information or the threats." Within hours the veterans were receiving threatening calls. In the early hours of June 25 one Swiftie, Van Odell, got three in four minutes, the last from a man who inquired, "I want to know why you lied about John Kerry … Traitors must die. We will get you." Holman notes that the Swifties have reported these calls to law enforcement but that they had no luck in getting HuffingtonPost to address the harassment. The comments remained posted until Holman reached Katharine Zaleski, the site's news editor, on Tuesday afternoon at her unlisted telephone number. As I say, Holman is indefatigable.
This sort of harassment is not new to the veterans, and it will probably continue. At least one other site still posts their telephone numbers. Yet, as one Swiftie told me, "These men will not be intimidated. The SwiftVets are three hundred strong. They include Kerry's entire chain of command while in Vietnam, the vast majority of officers who served with him, the attending physician to his alleged wounds, and his longest serving crew member. They have raised legitimate questions." This Swiftie concludes that the questions can be answered if Sen. Kerry allows "a release of his military record by the execution of the Form 180, permitting the media to look closely at the truth behind Kerry's fiction." The fact that Kerry has not allowed these records to be opened to the general media is suspicious, no? The fact that he continues to make his military record an issue is still more evidence that a delusional man can be a funny man.
hey.he's got a hat !
are you joking or did you really get a pop-up warning...?
I wonder if it wasn't two or three guys with incredibly great senses of humor that convinced him that he was on a secret mission, that he was really in Cambodia, and that he actually had some purpose to crow about there... all so they could mock him mercilessly whenever he would (predictably) strut around about it. You just know that there were more than a few good guys in-country who really did not like that twit.
not joking. Probably coincidence, though.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560750/posts
Stolen Valor Act of 2005
Well guys, I'm willing to wager that I've got you both beat in the "despise" Kerry category.
If not, I'm definitely a close second.
Its an elite--albeit not a small--club, of which I am a proud member and like y'all, with very good reasons--35 years' worth of them.
BULLY, I say!!
That link is very sick....
and very true,
and VERY FUNNY!!
Thanks!!
Gret tagline! Welcome to Free Republic!
"Well guys, I'm willing to wager that I've got you both beat in the "despise" Kerry category.
If not, I'm definitely a close second.
Its an elite--albeit not a small--club, of which I am a proud member and like y'all, with very good reasons--35 years' worth of them."
I was there the same time hanoi kerry was.
http://stophanoikerry.150m.com/
I VOW to the 58,000 + Brothers and Sisters on
The Viet Nam Wall who never came home
and to those who died at home from injuries and
from broken hearts.
"I will do everything I LEGALLY can
to expose Hanoi Kerry once and for all.
I will not tire, I will not falter,
and I will not fail.
I solemnly vow to do all I can to restore your honor
until I give my last breath on earth."
I spent 3yrs on a destroyer in the Navy from
'66-'69 as a Gunners Mate, GMG3.
USS CORRY DD 817 '68-'69 Gulf of Tonkin Yacht Club Member.
USS CORRY DD 817
Home port was Norfolk Virginia
and sailed with her in the North Atlantic,
Caribbean,(dealt with Cuban gunboats off of Havana in Jan '68)
thru the Panama Canal, across the Pacific to Viet Nam and back.
I was there the same time Kerry was.
I was there Oct'68-Apr'69 on the destroyer USS Corry DD-817
which sometime supplied PCF's and PBR's
and provided gunfire and gunfire support
in North AND South Viet Nam.
My ship may have even supplied
Kerry's boat in the Mekong Delta
USS Corry served in all areas of the Viet Nam conflict from patrol in North Vietnam & China waters,
providing gunfire support in the south, replenishing patrol craft in the Delta.
The USS Corry earned various ribbons, awards & the E efficiency award.
She sailed from Norfolk in Aug'68 & returned Apr'69.
The USS Corry was alongside the USS New Jersey
when she made her debut in the South Vietnam war theater.
Both ships were participants of Operation Bold Mariner in Jan'69.
It was the largest amphibious landing since the Korean conflict began.
Although there are many similarities between naval gunfire support
and Operation Sea Dragon (which ended Nov '68), they differ in two important areas:
naval gunfire support is normally fired at the request of troops ashore,
while Sea Dragon's mission is the interdiction of supplies and destruction
of military targets; and naval gunfire support is always conducted in South Vietnam,
while Sea Dragon missions are fired only above the demilitarized zone.
29 US Navy ships received gunfire from Viet Cong shore batteries.
My ship DID NOT get hit by the VC.
Has senator Kerry signed the SF 180?
5.56mm
"Has senator Kerry signed the SF 180?"
Nope
Kerry Hangs Back From Disclosure to All
The NY Sun June 9, 2005 Josh Gerstein
http://www.nysun.com/article/15135
Did Kerry really release Navy records?
Chicagao Sun Times June 9, 2005 THOMAS H. LIPSCOMB
http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-lip09.html
Distribute these url's!
Links to Anti Kerry sites
212 LINKS
News reports,
Viper's Vietnam Veterans Page
http://members.aol.com/ga1449ga/links/links.html
EXPOSE HANOI KERRY!
http://stophanoikerry.150m.com
Did you see this...?
(The 'Kerry's Promise Counter')
http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=6628
Polipundit even tells you how to install it on your own page!
Thank you for keeping these links before us.
Thank you for the ping Tonk. Can not believe he doesn't just crawl under his desk and shut up.
sounds like you are in The Gay State - and your tag line is the favorite saying of Jay Severin...too bad he is off the afternoon show on 96.9 FM; if he is actually ON at 10 p.m., who is listening ?
John Kerry is a steaming pile of misery and ridiculous sham. Doesn't make sense but he just renders me incoherent!
Welcome to FR.
Thank you very much for your most descriptive explanation
about your mission, and how you have a strong knowledge about Kerry's disposition during the war. I knew you have had an undaunted passion for exposing him, but until now I had no true appreciation for what you went through, or why you have been so passionate about it. I admire what you are doing, and wish you Godspeed.
""Can not believe he doesn't just crawl under his desk and shut up.""
When one is a megalomaniac, and a giggolo, one doesn't just go away : )
"And we have meet-ed the enemy for-re-ces, and we have kill-ed them all!" (as US warfighters stream across the screen behind him)
Moron Murtha in Baghdad Bob's clothing
i love it.
I'll grant you that. Until 2 years ago, did you know who he was? Did you know his name? Did you see him on the SINate floor or TV?
BTW, I like your poem!
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