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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (601366)	8/7/2004 11:35:05 PM
From: jim-thompson	Respond to of 769670

Gone by morning A most ear-opening interview this week with John Kerry's former commanding officer in Vietnam, who told the Kevin McCullough Show in New York that he had asked Mr. Kerry to leave his unit in Vietnam after the issuance of his third Purple Heart. Former Navy Lt. Thomas Wright said he frequently was forced to confront Mr. Kerry over willful disobedience to orders while aboard Swift Boat patrols. He told radio host Kevin McCullough that on frequent occasions Mr. Kerry would randomly fire at "things he thought were moving" along the shoreline. The lieutenant stated that protocol was to fire only when the unit was receiving hostile fire. He explained that part of the patrol's goal was to develop contacts with noncombatants living along the rivers. He said when confronted about his defiance, Mr. Kerry would either claim he didn't hear the orders or insist that he thought "he saw something" moving. The former commanding officer's boldest claim was that after Mr. Kerry received his third Purple Heart, he and two other ranking officers flat-out asked the now Democratic presidential candidate to leave his unit because his behavior put the group in greater vulnerability and danger. Mr. Kerry, he said, replied that he would not leave, "but was out of there by morning."