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.
I do it for the Brothers and Sisters who never came back.
It's the least I could do.
Unfortunately for me, I grew up in a suburb of Boston, and I have followed Kerry's career through the Boston Globe out of curiosity. He originally ran for city council in Lowell.....a blue collar suburb of Boston, as a decorated Viet Nam vet, and faced a resounding loss. Next year, he ran as a war protester, and won. He learned to be a whore while still in his twenties, and nothing has changed since the late 60's, early 70's.
And I admire you much for doing so.
God Bless.
Well said. I'm sure uncle teddy was his pimp.
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It sure wouldn't surprise me, and don't forget about that communist, Father Drinan. (congressman Drinan)
Thanks, Tonk!
That man must be dumber than a box of rocks.
I saw him on BOR...nothing new there.
Did you see that he...GASP...lied? LOL
I think these folks are gonna eat their own. ;o)
Saluting your efforts, Tonk.
seasoned traditionalist brought forward the 3 Purple Heart graphic and it reminded me of a HM3 (that's a Navy Corpsman for you non-Navy types) that transferred aboard our ship in 66 or 67.
He was a thrice wounded medic while serving with Fleet Marine Force. Shot once, received a shrapnal wound, and stepped on a punji stick.
Protocol at the time, dictated that anyone wounded 3 times would be transferred to a ship or base away from hostile action. HanoiJohn found out about that protocol and managed to wrangle his 3 unearned Purple Hearts and a transfer out of the Swifties.
Our corpsman received a hero's welcome aboard our ship and served with distinction. Stars and Stripes featured him in an article during our 67 WESTPAC tour. He was a quiet sort of guy and really didn't wish to talk about his previous duty.
Quite a contrast between a real hero and traitor wouldn't ya say?
Great story Brother
Our Brother, redrock, was an army medic.
They were, in my opinion, the real heroes.
What counts now a days is that so may vets are united in their effort in exposing the threats to those seving now like hanoi kerry, cut and run murtha, Code Pink, etc
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I doubt F'n Kerry would have too many friends in the Vietnamese community.
I wouldn't imagine so!
"the delusory senator from Massachusetts seems to think he will be a shoo-in for the presidency in 2008"
It captures the arrogant Kerry's motivation for everything he does and says.
BTTT
Huffington Post is where lefties go when they become too crazy for Democrat Underground.
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Choosing between running or sleeping with Teresa "Shove it" Heinz Kerry...
Talk about being caught between Iraq and a hard place...
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