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Doctor Who Treated Kerry For First Purple Heart Wound Says Kerry Lying About Incident!!!!!
Just on Hannity and Combs | Anti-Kerry Ad

Posted on 08/04/2004 7:12:05 PM PDT by MindBender26

Preview of new Anti-Kerry ad on H&C tonight:

Starts with Edwards saying "To know more about John Kerry, just spend 3 minutes with men who served with him in Vietnam."

It then cuts to bites with actual vets, including one who says Kerry is lying about Bronze Star.

Another vet says he is the MD who treated Kerry for his first "combat wound." He says Kerry is lying about that!

This is stronger than Therezzzzahhhaa's breath!

Full ad tomorrow night - Hannity and Combs


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KEYWORDS: ads; foxnews; hannity; kerrylies; swiftboatveterans; vietnamvets
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To: hole_n_one

Watch it here.

http://www.swiftvets.com/


61 posted on 08/04/2004 7:34:11 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: finnman69

O'Donnell wasn't just spinning. He was lying . . . about the spot that had just been shown. ("Who ya gonna believe, me or your lyin' eyes?")


62 posted on 08/04/2004 7:34:26 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: MindBender26

this just in. . . .John F'n Kerry was in Vietnam and his campaign says that if he had stayed longer than 4 months he would have won that war with or without G.W. Bush


63 posted on 08/04/2004 7:35:32 PM PDT by SoggyBottomBoy
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Kerry's fatal flaw is that he has bet all his chips on his Vietnam experience. Everything in his speech that was not about this experience basically said this: Now you know I've gone to war, so trust me.

That's IT--trust me because I went to war.

Forget anti-war stuff, forget Dukakis Lt. Governorship--which helped him get where he is today, say what you will about Dukakis but Kerry's completely ignoring him in a national address from Boston is a disgrace--forget 20 years in Senate--forget everything but these medals.

And now the word will be out--no matter what the spin--"His fellow vets say he didn't earn them."

So many stories like this just float around, with people catching hints of them--Clinton had sex with an intern, Nixon covered up a crime, Reagan traded arms to Iran to fund contras. Forget the facts, these giant stories are boiled down to one sentence.

Kerry's a complete unknown, even now, and people will soon have one rock-solid impression of him: He's a liberal who lied about his war experience.


64 posted on 08/04/2004 7:35:42 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: gilliam

Ouch.


65 posted on 08/04/2004 7:36:39 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: jocon307

You ain't seen nothing yet ;) Read this chapter from their book:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1185240/posts


66 posted on 08/04/2004 7:36:42 PM PDT by gilliam
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To: MindBender26
Doctor Who Treated Kerry For First Purple Heart Wound Says Kerry Lying About Incident!!!!!

I swear when I read this headline, I thought "Doctor Who?"

67 posted on 08/04/2004 7:37:12 PM PDT by atomicpossum (If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.)
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To: Koblenz

Let the swifties attack his war/antiwar record and let Bush/Cheney/Repubs etc attack his voting record. Can't we hit him from all sides?


68 posted on 08/04/2004 7:37:31 PM PDT by hansel
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To: HitmanNY

Kerry sought a purple heart because of a bruise he suffered when Jon Pertwee got impatient with his pompous, bureaucratic demeanor and did a Venusian karate move on him.


69 posted on 08/04/2004 7:37:42 PM PDT by dr_who_2
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To: Koblenz
I don't think going after Kerry's Vietnam record is going to be a winning solution. I think it'll be much better to go after what Kerry's done in the past several years: how he's voted every time against defense department increases

You're right that his record should be the focus of the attacks. However, outsiders chipping away at his "war hero" status is also worthwhile, as it undercuts him in a crucial way with swing voters. But Kerry's war record shouldn't be a focus in any shape, manner, or form for the Bush campaign and RNC ads.

70 posted on 08/04/2004 7:37:49 PM PDT by Numbers Guy
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To: Mo1

I don't see a confidentiality issue here. Kerry openly attest to wounds and medals etc. and all military records are public records.


71 posted on 08/04/2004 7:37:54 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Koblenz

"I don't think going after Kerry's Vietnam record is going to be a winning solution."

First things first. There'll be time for looking into his voting record next.


72 posted on 08/04/2004 7:37:55 PM PDT by webstersII
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To: MindBender26

This will knock him out of the race. Hillary to the rescue ! ! !


73 posted on 08/04/2004 7:38:41 PM PDT by rushfreedom
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To: PeoplesRepublicOfWashington

"What's great is that sKerry is the one who has single-handedly made his service record THE relevant issue of this campaign."


Yes.

JFKerry is a mental case, maybe he will now get help, for his "Vietnam syndrome" he is still reenacting 30 + years later.


74 posted on 08/04/2004 7:39:07 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: MindBender26

The MD or the Medic? (Civilian reporters are so clueless about the military that I had to ask).


75 posted on 08/04/2004 7:39:09 PM PDT by cookcounty ("NIXON sent me to Vietnam!!!" --JfK, lying about his 1968 arrival in-country UNDER PRESIDENT LBJ.)
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

Kerry is such a dumb s**t, that he makes Lurch look like an intellectual.


76 posted on 08/04/2004 7:39:55 PM PDT by proudofthesouth
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To: MindBender26
risky. sometimes this sort of this backfires. of course, if it turns out to be the truth, then it's the end of the line for a candidate that foolishly, in my opinion, made his controversial role in a controversial war in a controversial period in american history the focus of his presidential campaign.
77 posted on 08/04/2004 7:39:57 PM PDT by smonk
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To: hole_n_one

He may be responding to CNN and MSNBC beating them last week in the head-to-head ratings with Larry King and Hardball and is trying to bring his numbers back up. Sometimes Hannity is such a lightweight.


78 posted on 08/04/2004 7:40:21 PM PDT by Deb (Hey, Sen. Kerry...why the long face?)
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To: Mr. Mojo

This lady that sits next to me is a member of the Earth Liberation Front, she was really depressed all day. She was bringing me down, she heard the news before me.

Now that I know what happened, nothing can bring me down.


79 posted on 08/04/2004 7:41:11 PM PDT by dila813
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To: Gooze Frabah

"Grant Hibbard, a U.S. Navy lieutenant commander and Kerry's direct supervisor for three months in 1968 and 1969 when Kerry commanded a five-man, 50-foot swift boat, said he never approved of the Purple Heart award for the wound Kerry received Dec. 6, 1968."

So this means Kerry is AWOL!
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Huh? No offense or anything, but how do you figure AWOL?

I don't understand what you mean.

Info from your link states:

" By LANCE GAY
Scripps Howard News Service
04-AUG-04

WASHINGTON -- Some of John Kerry's Vietnam War compatriots are questioning the circumstances of how Kerry was awarded one of the three Purple Hearts he received in 1968.

The Kerry campaign responded it has been 35 years since the medals were awarded and no one raised the issue before Kerry got involved in the race for the White House.

Grant Hibbard, a U.S. Navy lieutenant commander and Kerry's direct supervisor for three months in 1968 and 1969 when Kerry commanded a five-man, 50-foot swift boat, said he never approved of the Purple Heart award for the wound Kerry received Dec. 6, 1968.

"He informed me of a wound," Hibbard said. But Hibbard said the wound he saw on Kerry's arm was so minor, "I basically said forget it, or words like that."

Hibbard said that although as Kerry's superior he was the person who would initiate such an award, he only learned Kerry received the award sometime after he left Vietnam. The award for the December action was stamped approved Feb. 28, 1969, under the signature of Donald Still, chief staff officer for the U.S. Naval Support Systems in Saigon, who has since died.

Hibbard, who now lives in Gulf Breeze, Fla., is a member of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group this week launched advertising campaigns in battleground states, questioning the circumstances under which Kerry, then a Navy lieutenant, earned three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star during the five months he served in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969.

The organization also is publishing a book, "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry" by John O'Neill, who followed Kerry as commander of the Vietnam swift boat. O'Neill questions details of another Purple Heart and the Bronze Star Kerry was awarded.

Kerry's campaign contends Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is an organization created for this year's election to destroy Kerry's record as a war hero.

"It's really a sign of desperation about the support veterans are giving Kerry that a group of Republicans are doing this," said Michael Meehan, spokesman for the Kerry campaign. "Putting a lie on TV doesn't make it true.

Meehan said Hibbard had an opportunity 35 years ago to question Kerry's leadership abilities, and yet drafted a glowing fitness report. "To say this 35 years later makes some difference when it comes to the truth," Meehan said.

In a fitness report dated Jan. 8, 1969, Hibbard said Kerry "has had a most demanding job" and said he found him as someone who would be "most valuable" to the Navy officer corps. The Kerry campaign has posted all of the documentation for his medals and the fitness reports on its Web site, www.johnkerry.com.

Hibbard said he hasn't raised the issue before because Kerry's political career was in Massachusetts and Hibbard lived in Florida. "It didn't affect us," he said.

But since Kerry began his run for the White House, "deep in my heart I felt a call to come out now and refute these falsehoods. As commander in chief, he would be over our sons and daughters, and that scares the hell out of me."

Retired Rear Adm. Roy Hoffman, of Richmond, Va., said he began organizing the anti-Kerry group in March, when it became clear Kerry would be the Democratic presidential nominee. He said the organization now has 254 officers and enlisted men from Vietnam opposing Kerry's presidential bid.

Hoffman was a captain in Vietnam and Kerry was one of the officers under his command during the Operation Sea Lords campaign. Hoffman said he was embittered that Kerry returned to the United States as leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to charge that American officers were involved in atrocities in Vietnam.

"I knew him well enough to know him," Hoffman said. "He's the most vain individual I've ever met _ aloof and arrogant."

Kerry's campaign points out that 11 of the 12 enlisted men who served on the swift boats under Kerry's command are supporting his presidential campaign. Several appeared with Kerry during last week's Democratic National Convention.

The 12th, Steve Gardner of Clovis, S.C., who served as gunners mate under Kerry, said he doesn't think Kerry is fit to be president. "I watched John Kerry's movements. He was very erratic, very indecisive," Gardner said. "I'm totally against him."

Jack Chenoweth of Montgomery, Texas, who was a lieutenant in charge of one of the swift boats that fought with Kerry in the Mekong Delta, charged that Kerry set out in Vietnam to create a myth that he was a war hero.

"There was an agenda there from the beginning," he said.
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Nothing about AWOL that I see.


80 posted on 08/04/2004 7:41:21 PM PDT by JLO
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