Posted on 02/07/2005 8:39:39 AM PST by Kaslin
Sen. John Kerry reiterated his pledge on Monday to sign the form that would allow the government to release all his military records, but said he wanted to know exactly what was in his file before doing so.
"I have a stack of different material they sent me," Kerry told radio host Don Imus. "Every time they send me something I want to know what they sent me."
"I'll get it done," Kerry insisted in the next breath.
Last week the 2008 presidential hopeful suggested he wanted to review his full Navy file to make sure of "what is in the record and what isn't in the record" before signing Form 180.
"I'm going to sit down with them and make sure that they are clear and I am clear as to what is in the record and what isn't in the record and we'll put it out," he told "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert.
Kerry did not explain his reference to "what isn't in the record," though questions arose late in the campaign about why he received his honorable discharge six years after leaving the service.
Pressed earlier today on when he intended to sign Form 180, Kerry said only, "Shortly."
The full exchange went like this:
IMUS: You also told Tim that you would sign Form 180 releasing all of your military records. Have you done that?
KERRY: Yeah. We're gonna do that. Absolutely, I will. But listen, I also think . . .
IMUS: When are you going to do that?
KERRY: As soon as I get, as required by the military, precisely . . .
IMUS: Why don't you do it today?
KERRY; Because I have a stack of different material they sent me. Every time they send me something I want to know what they sent me. I'll get it done. . . .
IMUS: By noon today?
KERRY: No. But shortly. [END OF EXCERPT]
Credit to Immus for pursuing this diddler. This fake, phony, fraud.
No, Kerry, the 180 isn't so you can put out the material; the Form 1-8-0 is so that 3rd party observers can access the complete record and judge for themselves what is in there and what isn't.
Hey, hey, ho, ho; Kerry: sign the one-eight-oh!
"Sen. John Kerry reiterated his pledge on Monday to sign the form that would allow the government to release all his military records, but said he wanted to know exactly what was in his file before doing so."
rotfl.......he knows what should be in there and is trying to make sure every trace of it has been successfully purged before he releases it!
Dumbkoff thinks that we're all going to forget about it and the issue will go away. I think it should be mentioned every time he shows his ugly mug on TV.
And - ahem - as another poster above so rightly said -- Kerry is going to tell the NAVY what's in his record? Oh, this is gonna be good.
If he keeps getting asked about the Form 180, watch for Kerry to drop his ass off the radar for about six months.
Do you think he'd take that long signing a withdrawal slip from Terayza's bank account?
Publisher's Clearing House? Cheese of the Month Club? The Fidel Castro Fan Club? Who on God's Green Earth is sending John Kerry ANYTHING at this point?
One word comes to mind: "NEVER!"
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Geez, where's your compassion?
Shouldn't it be "NEEEEEVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVER"? ;-))
The real question is why they never asked him about this before the election. Now, all of a sudden, they realize it's important.
Has anyone (except at DU) really expected Hanoi John to release his records?
No, what he really meant was: "I'll get it done as I scrub all the incriminating evidence out of the official record."
Is the Senator going to TELL the Navy what "is" in the record?
Oh yeah, this is a SHOCKER!!
""I'm going to sit down with them and make sure that they are clear and I am clear as to what is in the record and what isn't in the record and we'll put it out,""
There is the out. He will jsut say he isn't signing because it is not complete.
Yes, but...
-PJ
I got out in 1976 after 8 years, haven't heard from
military records since.
Never.
Actually the "out" is that nobody on Earth gives a rat's rump about John Kerry, so long as he's nowhere near the presidency.
Does John Kerry know that it's February?
...of 2005?!?
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