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To: LindyBill who wrote (58859)	8/9/2004 1:44:24 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793731

Christmas In Cambodia, Part III: Time Flies Captain Ed Tom Maguire at the excellent blog Just One Minute points out this AP story from twelve years ago explaining Kerry's Cambodia experience. See if you can point out the inconsistencies in Kerry's story back in 1992: Navy Lt. John Kerry knew he had no business steering his Mekong River patrol boat across the border into Cambodia, but orders were orders. A quarter-century later, Sen. John Kerry says newly declassified documents have convinced him fellow servicemen captured on such trips were left behind at war's end. ... But for Kerry, who spent six violent months commanding a patrol boat on the Mekong River, there's always been a ring of truth to allegations of abandoned Americans. By Christmas 1968, part of Kerry's patrol extended across the border of South Vietnam into Cambodia. "We were told, `Just go up there and do your patrol. Everybody was over there (in Cambodia). Nobody thought twice about it," Kerry said. One of the missions, which Kerry, at the time, was ordered not to discuss, involved taking CIA operatives into Cambodia to search for enemy enclaves. "I can remember wondering, `If you're going to go, what happens to you,"' Kerry said. Here are the inconsistencies I see: 1. Kerry served four months, not six, in country. 2. Christmas in Cambodia switched to Winter in Cambodia after eight years in the Senate. 3. "Everybody was over there," except for half of John Kerry's crew, who insist they never went into Cambodia. Perhaps only half of the boat ever crossed into Cambodian waters, or the trio waterskied behind on a really long tow rope. As Maguire says, "Kerry has no after-action reports, no witnesses, a story by Brinkley that puts him too far from the border, and a less-than-full crew supporting him - not good. Unless everyone is lying except John!" There's only one way to settle this factually -- John Kerry should do what he and his party chairman insisted of George Bush earlier this year, and release his complete military records. If he does that, we can review the records and find out exactly what kind of officer John Kerry was. As long as he threatens lawsuits and has his minions planning character assassinations on other decorated Viet Nam veterans, then we can safely assume that the 200+ men in the Swiftvets are telling the truth about Kerry. Posted by Captain Ed at August 8, 2004 11:19 PM Trackback Pings TrackBack URL for this entry: captainsquartersblog.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (58859)	8/9/2004 9:30:28 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793731

The Democrat National Committee has prepared a full-scale assault against the Vietnam Veterans for Truth to draw their character and veracity into question, according to one anonymous source inside the DNC. The campaign of character assassination is scheduled to coincide with the release of the book Unfit for Command which reveals inconvenient facts for the Kerry campaign. “We have prepared what we call ‘Brown Books’ that contain damaging military records, personal credit histories, medical histories, psychiatric histories, divorce records, you name it,” our source told us. "We've got the goods on the Veterans who oppose Kerry." ROTFL...I can't help it..This is funneee. What the hell do all these histories have to do with anything? And how can Kerry get and RELEASE all of these men's military, psychiatric and medical records and we can't get John Kerry's? Kerry has to be insane to release somebody else's personal medical records. And does the billionaire hope to get some traction with poor democrats by proving a couple of the Swiftvets paid a few bills late? Damaging military records? What is that? I would like to see Kerry's undamaged Medical Records, wouldn't you. Psychiatric records...Merely mentioning that somebody has one is supposed to prove a problem exists. I was interviewed by a shrink after I volunteered to go back to Nam from Zama Hospital, Japan. He told my boss that I have homicidal tendencies. My boss told the doc that he hoped all of his officers shared that trait. My boss then asked him if he knew how to become an SF Officer. He said no, and my boss explained, first you complete a 16 page psychiatric and personality questionnaire and test. If you flunk, we let you start training. I paid an officer's club bar bill late one month. I have 3' of scars from wounds and injuries received in line of duty and a paratrooper tattoo on my left arm. I have been divorced. So there, now you have all the dirt on me. Now let's check out Kerry. I want the details of what kind of battle scar a grain of rice left in his butt. And I want to find out if a military shrink can diagnose a chicken-heart with the yellow-streak complication. And how about Kerry's divorce...AND annulment after years of marriage and a coupla kids. I would really like to read that annulment paperwork. Did Kerry have somebody else consummate the marriage? The Swiftvet message is the key, and I see no attempts by Kerry to attack the Swiftvet message. That tells me all I need to know. uw