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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (5898)	9/1/2004 11:42:17 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Portrait of a Hero: Remember those heroic images of John Kerry in Vietnam in the introductory preceding his big entry at the Demo-confab? Well, Kerry reenacted those scenes, which his subordinates filmed with his Super-8 hand-held movie camera. The book ''Unfit For Command'' notes, Kerry would revisit ambush locations for reenacting combat scenes where he would portray the hero, catching it all on film. Kerry would take movies of himself walking around in combat gear, sometimes dressed as an infantryman walking resolutely through the terrain. He even filmed mock interviews of himself narrating his exploits. A joke circulated among Swiftees was that Kerry left Vietnam early not because he received three Purple Hearts, but because he'd recorded enough film of himself to take home for his planned political campaigns. Indeed, a few years back, Kerry's hometown paper, The Boston Globe (far left of The New York Times) noted that his Vietnam self-portraits ''reveal something indelible about the man who shot them--the...young man...so focused on his future ambitions that he would reenact the moment for film. It is as if he had cast himself in the sequel to the experience of his hero, John F. Kennedy, on the PT-109.'' Indeed he had. Thomas Vallely, one of Kerry's closest political advisers, said in an interview last year, ''John was thinking Camelot when he shot that film, absolutely.''