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Posted on 08/24/2004 8:07:05 AM PDT by Callahan
Edited on 08/24/2004 8:36:11 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE AUG 24, 2004 11:09:31 ET XXXXX
KERRY PHONES SWIFT BOAT FOES
**Exclsuive**
Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry personally phoned anti-Kerry swift boat vets, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
Kerry reached out to Robert "Friar Tuck" Brant Cdr., USN (RET) Sunday night, just hours after former Sen. Bob Dole publicly challenged Kerry to apologize to veterans.
Brant was skipper of the #96 and # 36 boat and spent time with Kerry in Anm Thoi. Kerry and Brant slept in the same quarters, and Brant used to put Kerry back to be at night when Kerry was sleepwalking.
Brant received a call from Kerry at his home in Virginia while he was watching the Olympics on TV.
The call lasted 10 minutes, sources tell DRUDGE.
KERRY: "Why are all these swift boat guys opposed to me?"
BRANT: "You should know what you said when you came back, the impact it had on the young sailors and how it was disrespectful of our guys that were killed over there.
[Brant had two men killed in battle.]
KERRY: "When we dedicated swift boat one in '92, I said to all the swift guys that I wasn't talking about the swifties, I was talking about all the rest of the veterans."
Kerry then asked if he could meet Brant -- man to man -- face to face.
Brant declined the invite, explaining that Kerry was obviously not prepared to correct the record on exactly what happened during Vietnam and what happened when Kerry came back.
Developing...
One of the posts at DU actually said Laura Bush was arrested for prostitution. However, even at DU, a poster attacked this-said Laura was a nice lady and leave her alone. DU uses Freeper posts all the time-interesting. I enjoy reading their posts...it sort of like turning over a rock and see what crawls out.
How could the sonuvabitch know what we were doing 400 miles North of his freaking position......if men in boats only 30 yards are not "qualified to judge his performance or recollection of events"???
The bastard is a lying traitor that can NOT erase his past actions or his current lunatic beliefs...
Semper Fi
Except when Kerry said it was him and members of his unit: (via Instapundit)
"I committed the same kinds of atrocities as thousands of others in that I shot in free fire zones, used harassment and interdiction fire, joined in search and destroy missions, and burned villages. All of these acts were established policies from the top down, and the men who ordered this are war criminals."--John Forbes Kerry, 4/18/71, on national television ("Meet the Press")While John Kerry never claimed to have personally raped, murdered, tortured, or cut off ears... he took credit for the other crimes.
'Liberal right-wing loonies?' That's kind of weird. :-)
As far as I know, there won't be a candidate for that party. If he waits a little longer, his name will be on all the ballots anyway, and we can have a new, improved 2000 fiasco, because votes for him will be thrown out.
Interesting. I found myself out of college in December 1966, and rather than worry about when, I volunteered for the draft. I also wanted to avoid dying, but I figured my 20/400 vision would keep me out of close combat. Not a good Idea. When I reported for my physical, they said my vision was fine and not to worry because they'd give me two pairs of glasses.
Then, first days in Basic Training were devoted to aptitude tests. They were multiple choice, something I can ace in my sleep. The tests were graded and we lined up to get preliminary MOS assignments. All the guys ahead of me came out with infantry assignments, except one, who had a Master's degreein History. MPs.
I got in to my interview and the guy hands me a two inch thick book and says pick something, anything. I had aced the multiple choice tests.
I thought about my first love, photography, but decided that might involve some risk, so I asked for Intelligence. I had visions of examining aerial photographs in some safe headquarters. Bad idea.
I went through Basic thinking I had it made. Then I was assigned to crypto equipment repair. That was even better. I figured no one would ever risk that stuff being lost in combat. Bad thought. About six months the Pueblo was captured.
So I aced school, hoping to become an instructor, or at least get to Germany or D.C. But Of course I was assigned to Nam. Quy Nhon. Rumor had it that this was at least adjacent to the boonies. But it was not to be.
I get to Vietnam, three days before TET, as it turned out. TET in a replacement company was rather weird. I could tell that something unusual was up, because guys like me, fresh out of electronics school, were told to man M-50s and such, but it was pretty quiet where I was. I didn't really know it was a big deal until I read about in Time Magazine.
Instead of Quy Nhon I stayed at Cam Ranh, where the major risks were being run over by Korean trucks, dying in tragic water skiing accidents, and fragging oneself from Boston Whalers. (Actually, my unit did take some casualties several years later, in 1972.)
What's my point? Simply that planning to be safe or be in the thick of things didn't always work out. Things happen, and in war you are not in control of anything other than yourself. You do not get to decide whether an assignment is safe. And if you find yourself in combat, you do not get to decide whether you survive or not. All you can do is do your best and do it honorably. Or not.
Even better, he's asking why they don't LIKE him...he's admitting he knows they're NOT shills for Bush like he says they are.
WoW, All the Other Veterans.... Murderers, Butcherers... He has'nt backed off a bit. What a slug!
KERRY: "Why are all these swift boat guys opposed to me?"
You hit the nail on the head NavySEAL F-16.
When I read that in the DrudgeReport, it literally took my breath away.
How can this man who wants to be Commander in Chief possibly be so clueless?
It is absolutely astounding.
Darnit...most sleepwalkers DO NOT suffer from it! MAKES MORE SENSE! Somnambulism is fairly common in children, less common in adolescents and rare in adults...and sometimes caused by a serious condition resulting in extremely vivid dreaming.
Hannity trying to get hold of one of the Sift Boat Vets, to talk about Kerry's "why don't you LIKE me?" call.
Thank You for your service to our country.
Welcome Home Brother
Agreed. I've been predicting since he won the primaries that the only way he could resurrect the Vietnam era, pro-Commie Revolution era was to reconstitute the pop-culture "wisdom" of the 70's and early 80's that ALL Vietnam veterans are victims of a corrupt gubmit and thus not entirely to blame for the atrocities that corrupt gubmint made them commit.
In other words, his only chance of success is to compound his own crimes.
But a good observation nonetheless. Thanks for the info.
Isn't that like saying "All [insert race or religion here] are idiots/scum/bastards." And then, seeing one of said race in that room, saying, "Present company excepted, of course."
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