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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 (5905)	9/1/2004 11:50:23 AM
From: HairBall	Respond to of 27181

AS: You posts read like you're stone right now. Are you..gg LG

To: American Spirit who wrote (5905)	9/1/2004 11:52:02 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 27181

But his medals are melting. Regarding his Bronze Star, Kerry claimed at the Demo-confab that he got the medal for actions on the night of 13 March 1969. It was then, he said, after a mine explosion and while under fire, that five swift boats in the patrol team fled the area while he kept his boat back to rescue Lt. James Rassmann. Kerry's campaign now admits that he fled while the other boats remained on station, and returned later to pull Rassmann out of the water--the same Rassmann who'd been dumped into the water when Kerry's boat sped off. Regarding his Silver Star (the nation's third-highest decoration after the Medal of Honor and Service Crosses), it was awarded for ''gallantry'' after Kerry's boat was fired on and his gunner fired back, wounding a young combatant on the shore. Kerry then beached his boat (a reckless dereliction of duty), chased the wounded VC around the corner of a hut, and shot him. Gallantry? Further, Kerry's DD 214 Record of Transfer or Separation (posted on his website), lists a Silver Star with a combat "V" (for valor)--but, according to the Navy Awards Manual, the "V" Combat Distinguishing Device is never awarded with the Silver Star. Stranger yet, Kerry's Silver Star has not one citation, but three--each one a revision of the previous, and the last revision made more than 20 years after the first. For an excellent analysis of these altered citations, visit kerry-04.org and read the report by Henry Mark Holzer, professor emeritus at Brooklyn Law School, and Erika Holzer, a lawyer and co-author, with Professor Holzer, of Fake Warriors: Identifying, Exposing and Punishing Those Who Falsify Their Military Service. (A second edition is forthcoming with a new preface entitled ''John Kerry: The Ultimate Fake Warrior.'') According to the Holzers, ''John Kerry may soon learn that three citations for a single Silver Star is two too many.'' One burning question yet to be answered is, who prepared the ''Personal Award Recommendations'' for these two decorations? In all probability, they were authored by Kerry himself--whose embellishment of the details has now been questioned by credible witnesses. As for those three Purple Hearts, this week, Kerry has backed off of his first medal claim that he was hit by hostile fire, because it was discovered that he wrote in his journal nine days after the incident in question, ''We hadn't been shot at yet, and Americans at war who haven't been shot at are allowed to be cocky.'' Indeed, the injury in question (a small abrasion on his arm which was treated with the equivalent of Neosporin and a Band-Aid) was most likely self-inflicted, and Kerry's request for a Purple Heart was flatly rejected by both his treating physician and command--until he re-applied through an alternate chain of command some weeks later. The circumstances around his second and third Purple Hearts are equally questionable