Kerry has been dancing around this since April of 2004. He tries to give the impression that all the docs have been released, when actually only those he has requested have been released. Except that he has requested ALL because he has not yet filed Form 180.
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Meet the Press Transcript for
April 18, 2004Guest: Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, presidential candidate
NBC News
Updated: 11:47 a.m. ET April 18, 2004
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MR. RUSSERT: The Boston Globe reports that your commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Grant Hibberd has suggested that you perhaps didn't earn your first Purple Heart and question whether you should have left Vietnam after six months. In order to deal with those kinds of issues, when I asked President Bush about his service in the Texas Guard, he agreed to release all his military records, health records, everything.
Would you agree to release all your military records?
SEN. KERRY:
I have. I've shown them--they're available to you to come and look at. I think that's a very unfair characterization by that person. I mean, politics is politics. The medical records show that I had shrapnel removed from my arm. We were in combat. We were in a very, very--probably one of the most frightening--if you ask anybody who was with me, the two guys who were with me, was probably the most frightening night that they had that they were in Vietnam and we're...
MR. RUSSERT:
But you'll make all your records public.
SEN. KERRY:
They are. People can come and see them at headquarters and take a look at them. I'm not going to--but I'll tell you this. I'm proud of my service. I'm proud of what we did. I know what happened. And the Navy 35 years ago made a decision and it's the Navy's decision and I think it was the right decision.
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MSNBC transcript: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4772030/
The Agonist transcript: http://discuss.agonist.org/yabbse/index.php?board=21;action=display;threadid=18680
The Junior Senator from Massachusetts is still hedging and nuancing.
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SENATOR KERRY ASKED TO SIGN RECORDS RELEASE FORM
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On News/Activism 02/03/2005 10:34:44 AM CST · 75 replies · 2,319+ views
Judicial Watch ^ | 2/2/05 | Press Release
SENATOR KERRY ASKED TO SIGN RECORDS RELEASE FORM Watchdog Asks Kerry to Keep His Word Concerning Signing Standard Form 180 Kerry's Opportunity to Release Full Naval Service Record to the American People (Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today asked Senator John F. Kerry to keep his word to the American public and sign a Standard Form 180 (SF 180), "Request Pertaining to Military Records." On Sunday, January 30, 2005, during an appearance on the NBC News show "Meet the Press," moderator Tim Russert asked Senator Kerry (three times) if he would... |
