Ex - Viet Cong Soldier Recalls Swift Boats [amazingly one-sided, even for MSM]

"They found a Viet Cong to help support Kerry??"

LOL. These are very desperate times for the Kerry campaign. Maybe Al Franken will host a "tell all" interview of a former vietcong named Wee Ly Tu.

101 posted on 08/31/2004 2:00:36 PM PDT by TheCrusader ("the frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" Pope Urban II (c 1097 a.d.))

"He's OUR pig, and damn it, we're gonna keep putting lipstick on him until you ALL think he's pretty, damn it!!!"

The Mainstream Media

102 posted on 08/31/2004 2:00:37 PM PDT by RightOnline

LOL. These are very desperate times for the Kerry campaign

Well .. I've been hearing on the news they are making changes in the Kerry Camp *L*

103 posted on 08/31/2004 2:09:41 PM PDT by Mo1 (FR NEWS ALERT .... John Kerry over dosed on Botox and thinks he's Bob KerrEy)

I'd hate to have to defend that fraudulent bastard!

104 posted on 08/31/2004 2:11:43 PM PDT by Chapita (There are none so blind as those who refuse to see! Santana)

I saw a report but I don't remember where or when that they had polled a Viet community in US. They said, all of them were voting Bush. Did anyone else see that?

105 posted on 08/31/2004 2:16:10 PM PDT by americanmother (Thessalonians chapter 2)

LordHaveMercy ! Thanks for the ping... I think. I'm speechless. It boggles the mind.

106 posted on 08/31/2004 2:28:40 PM PDT by Darlin' ("I will not forget this wound to my country." President George W Bush, 20 Sept 2001)

The next DNC assignment for its lackeys in the MSM: Wade through the mud and the muck and the leeches into Cambodia and find an old Khmer Rouge soldier to back up Kerry's claims there, preferrably one who didn't murder too many people in the slave labor camps.

KEEP DIGGIN', YOU RATS!

107 posted on 08/31/2004 2:33:15 PM PDT by LibWhacker

They didn't search long or far... he works down in the mail room

108 posted on 08/31/2004 2:45:44 PM PDT by klink

AP = Kerry/DemonCrap Shills

Nothing more.

109 posted on 08/31/2004 2:52:14 PM PDT by tomahawk

Sinh and John Kerry, the U.S. Democratic presidential nominee, were fighting along the Dong Cung canal around roughly the same time 35 years ago in early 1969, experiencing the intensity of war along these muddy waters, but from opposite sides.

Duong Hoang Sinh, 52, a former Viet Cong soldier, climbs off a boat on the Bay Hap River in Vietnam's southernmost province on Friday, Aug. 27, 2004. Sinh fired on U.S. Navy Swift boats during the Vietnam War roughly around the same time U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry served as a Navy Swift boat commander on the same waterways. Kerry's war record has been challenged by other veterans who allege he did not come under heavy enemy fire as his medal citations state. (AP Photos/Tran Quang Tuan)

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Give me a break. This isn't investigative journalism. It's rank Democrat Party propaganda.

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BTW, what time was it? How does Sinh know? What evidence exists? Did Sinh have a watch back then? Did anyone else fire? For how long? Could it be described as "intense automatic weapons and small arms fire" as Kerry's Silver Star citation? Though he "had never heard of Kerry," how did Sinh recognize John Kerry's boat to establish a point in time? Did Sinh recognize John Kerry? Mike Medeiros? Did Sinh know the teenager with the rocket launcher who was shot? Was it in the back? Behind a lean-to? Whose? Did the teenager have a wounded leg that prevented him from running away? Did Kerry or Medeiros do the killing? Did any of the other villagers see intense hostile fire toward Kerry's boat or Kerry's pursuit of the wounded teenager? What did the AP reporter say to Sinh before and after the interview? Who was the reporter? Was it the AP photographer, Tran Quang Tuan? Who else was present for the interview? Was a tape-recording made? Is a transcript in existence? What edits were made by AP staff? Which editors reviewed and approved the story? Was it Mike Silverstein in New York? When will this information be available? Could it be posted on the Internet tonight? [E-mail inquiry to be sent to AP.]

110 posted on 08/31/2004 3:06:00 PM PDT by OESY

To: NonValueAdded

Professional courtesy.

111 posted on 08/31/2004 3:10:47 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths")

This isn't investigative journalism. It's rank Democrat Party propaganda.

Oh I agree. What's funny is that it's very poorly done propaganda. Some lib thought it would reflect well on Kerry to get an endorsement from a communist veteran. In fact, this endorsement just plays into the very worst image that many people have of Kerry -- he's someone who's got no real problem with communism, or with U.S. defeat in wartime.

112 posted on 08/31/2004 3:23:32 PM PDT by 68skylark

Kerry will go around the world if he need be to find anyone that will say anything good about him.

The only difference between this Viet Cong (since they were both on the same side), was that the VC kept his medals and Kerry through his away.

Go to:
http://www.vhpamuseum.org/badguys/badguys.html

113 posted on 08/31/2004 3:23:55 PM PDT by KeyLargo

``I think it's American politics,'' said Nguyen Van Khoai, 61, a former Viet Cong soldier who attacked American troops along the water but never fought directly against the Swift boats. ``On any side, a soldier who made an outstanding feat is given a medal -- but maybe some people try to think otherwise.''

Oh so the communist party cadres among the Viet Cong never got medals they didn't deserve. In a pigs eye (A Vietnamese Pot Belly's preferably :) ).

114 posted on 08/31/2004 3:34:17 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)

How man man-hours do you suppose the Slimes put into finding this one guy?

Not much they just called up the Vietnamese Propaganda ministry, and they served up one VC. Supposed VC that is.

115 posted on 08/31/2004 3:37:12 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)

Exactly. That's why our press is so comfortable hobnobbing with tyrannical governments -- it makes their job easy.

116 posted on 08/31/2004 3:46:06 PM PDT by 68skylark

To: ALOHA RONNIE; Cincinatus' Wife; Fedora

This story wasn't done by just the AP/NYT today.... NPR had a nice little 5 or 6 minute segment on this story this morning, too. Looks like all the lefty news outlets are in collusion here.

The audio interviews were chock full of rousing praise for Kerry from ex-Viet Cong guerillas and the like.

Ya'all have to see this thread.

117 posted on 08/31/2004 3:50:30 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)

They found a Viet Cong to help support Kerry?? And this is suppose to help Kerry ... how???

Maybe it isn't supposed to "help" Kerry. Maybe this story has Hillary's stamp of approval.

118 posted on 08/31/2004 4:00:51 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)

The irony here is that this communist seems to think the the swift boat vets were all courageous, which flies in the face of kerry's depiction of himself as the only hero among a bunch of cowards.

Okay, that's not the only irony. How about the fact that this communist would vote for kerry over Bush?

I almost upchucked reading about the idyllic life they lived after we pulled out. No mention of those who were bludgeoned or otherwise tormented.

119 posted on 08/31/2004 4:00:57 PM PDT by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)

To: Onelifetogive

The twenty bucks the reporter gave the VC says Kerry deserved it.

Clearly.

120 posted on 08/31/2004 4:04:20 PM PDT by Hi Heels

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