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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 (9606)9/15/2004 1:40:58 AM
From: Captain Jack  Respond to of 27181
 
HERO MY ASS! Kerry is a COWARD that ran under PERCEIVED fire and left his shipmates. Kerry lied to qualify to leave Nam, ran again like a coward. Kerry received an early out of the Navy based on his lies. Kerry only enlisted as a seaman when his aunt would not help him get another deferment and he figured being on a boat was better than being a grunt. History has NOT proven the war was wrong but that LBJ & Kerrys lies were wrong. Those 2 killed nearly as many GIs as the VC.
Only an idiot would like a slogan of "Give Me Money AND Give Me Death".



To: American Spirit who wrote (9606)9/15/2004 1:59:59 AM
From: Captain Jack  Respond to of 27181
 
Am Spit-- here goes more for the coward-- his crimes specified much better than I did in an earler post to you. With luck the cowardly liar will be in jail before Nov 2!

Message 20525488

Hope the new Kerry records find answers questions re: delayed discharge....jj

Subject: Kerry Granted an Honorable Discharge 30 Years After His Service Term Ended

Unlike McCain, Bush, and Gore,,,,Kerry has adamantly refused to authorize the release of his military records. Most think it's because of his phony battle medals. I think the real reason is below. He was not granted an Honorable Discharge until March 2001, almost 30 years after his ostensible service term had ended! This is very much out of the ordinary, and highly suspect.

There are 5 classes of Discharge: Honorable, General, Other Than Honorable,

Bad Conduct, and Dishonorable. My guess is that he was Discharged in the '70s, but not Honorably. He appealed this sometime while Clinton was doing trouser-tricks in the Oval Office. Political pressure was applied, and the Honorable Discharge was then granted.

His file is probably rife with reports of this, submissions and hearings on the appeal, reports of his "giving aid and comfort" to the enemy, along with protests that were filed with respect to his alleged valor under fire.

This will blow up in his face before October 15th.

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On 18 Feb. 1966 John Kerry signed a 6 year enlistment contract with
the Navy (plus a 6-month extension during wartime).

On 18 Feb. 1966 John Kerry also signed an Officer Candidate contract
for 6 years -- 5 years of ACTIVE duty & ACTIVE Naval Reserves, and 1 year of
inactive standby reserves (See items #4 & $5).

Because John Kerry was discharged from TOTAL ACTIVE DUTY of only 3
years and 18 days on 3 Jan. 1970, he was then required to attend 48 drills
per year, and not more than 17 days active duty for training. Kerry was
also subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Additionally, Kerry,
as a commissioned officer, was prohibited from making adverse statements
against his chain of command or statements against his country, especially
during time of war. It is also interesting to note t! hat Kerry did not
obtain an honorable discharge until Mar. 12, 2001 even though his service
obligation should have ended July 1, 1972.

Lt. John Kerry's letter of 21 Nov. 1969 asking for an early release
from active US Navy duty falsely states "My current regular period of
obligated service would be completed in December of this year."

On Jan. 3, 1970 Lt. John Kerry was transferred to the Naval Reserve
Manpower Center in Bainridge, Maryland.

Where are Kerry's Performance Records for 2 years of obligated Ready
Reserve, the 48 drills per year required and his 17 days of active duty per
year training while Kerry was in the Ready Reserves? Have these records
been released?

Has anyone ever talked to Kerry's Commanding Officer at the Naval
Reserve Center where Kerry drilled?

On 1 July 1972 Lt. John Kerry was transferred to Standby Reserve -
Inactive.
On 16 February 1978 Lt. John Kerry was discharged from US Naval
Reserve.

Below are some of the crimes Lt. Kerry USNR committed as a Ready
Reservist, while he was acting as a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the
War:

1. Lt. Kerry attended many rallies where the Vietcong flag was
displayed while our flag was desecrated, defiled, and mocked, thereby giving
aid and comfort to the enemy.
2. Lt. Kerry was involved in a meeting that voted on assassinating
members of the US Senate.
3. Lt. Kerry lied under oath against fellow soldiers before the US
Senate about crimes committed in Vietnam.
4. Lt. Kerry professed to being a war criminal on national
television, and condemned the military and the USA.
5. Lt. Kerry met with NVA and Vietcong communist leaders in Paris,
in direct violation of the UCMJ and the U.S. Constitution.

Lt. Kerry by his own words & actions violated the UCMJ and the U.S.
Code while serving as a Navy officer. Lt. Kerry stands in violation of
Article 3, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution. Lt. Kerry's 1970 meeting
with NVA Communists in Paris is in direct violation of the UCMJ's Article
104 part 904, and U.S. Code 18 U.S.C. 953. That meeting, and Kerry's
subsequent support of the communists while leading mass protests against our
military in the year that followed, also place him in direct violation of
our Constitution! 's Article 3, Section 3, which defines treason as "giving
aid and comfort" to the enemy in time of warfare.

The Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment, Section 3, states, "No person
shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President
and Vice-President ... having previously taken an oath . to support the
Constitution of the United States, [who has] engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

A. L. "Steve" Nash, MAC Ret, UDT/SEAL SEAL Authentication
Team -Director AuthentiSEAL Phone 707 438 0120 "The only service where all
investigators are US Navy SEALs" www.authentiseal.org



To: American Spirit who wrote (9606)9/15/2004 8:08:09 AM
From: JakeStraw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 27181
 
John Kerry's Lost Vietnam Gamble

Posted Sep 14, 2004

by Morton C. Blackwell

Why did John Kerry surprise almost everyone by making his involvement in Vietnam the main focus of the Democratic National Convention this year?

All candidates have to cope with negative information about themselves. If the negative information is bad enough, they must handle it somehow.

Kerry and his team knew most of his fellow Swift boat veterans and millions of others were still furious about his long, savage smear of the U.S. military during his anti-war activities after his return from Vietnam. He saw political danger there.

So he took the biggest political gamble of his life. Sometimes, by framing negative information in advance, a candidate can make a political asset out of it. He bet that he could make one of his worst weaknesses into a strength.

That didn't work for Kerry this time. The Swift boat vets' book, Unfit for Command, and their TV ads were too powerful. And his convention's concentration on Vietnam made what the Swift boats vets wrote and said on TV more newsworthy.

Delegates frequently take with them to conventions various buttons, stickers, and pins to distribute to other delegates. Knowing that Kerry had make a big mistake, I decided to make and distribute at the convention a visual joke I knew the other delegates would like.

While I served on the convention Rules committee in New York the week before the convention, I bought 300 band-aids and some little heart decals to put on them. To each band-aid I attached a slip of paper with my name on it and the sentence I always used to describe it.

When the convention began on Monday, I put one of the band-aids on my forehead and walked through the aisles.

This was my eleventh Republican National Convention. I was Barry Goldwater's youngest elected delegate in 1964. I've served as the Virginia Republican national committeeman since 1988. So I personally knew hundreds of people there from many states.

As I expected, many friends stopped me Monday on the convention floor and in the Madison Square Garden halls. When a friend pointed to the band-aid and asked what had happened, I always replied with a broad smile, "It was just a self-inflicted scratch, but you see I got a Purple Heart for it."

Invariably, the friend would get the joke and burst into laughter.

Everyone knows that John Kerry's companions in Vietnam have publicly and very persuasively charged that at least Kerry's first Purple Heart was a self-inflicted wound. Every veteran and most Americans now know that self-inflicted wounds don't qualify for a Purple Heart.

I offered band-aids to friends who would wear them. A couple of hundred did.

Then things got very interesting.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe saw on television a lady wearing one of my band-aids. He knew that having people laugh contemptuously at your candidate is one of the worst things that can happen to your campaign.

Because the main strategy of the Democratic convention had already, obviously failed, McAuliffe must not have been thinking clearly.

He must have remembered that a sometimes- successful way to handle negative information is to refuse to discuss it and to change the subject dramatically. He tried that.

McAuliffe rushed to the TV networks in high dudgeon and raged, falsely, that my specifically anti-Kerry band-aids were an organized, despicable attack by the Bush campaign on all veterans and all who win military decorations.

McAuliffe made what had been an anti-Kerry joke to a few hundred Republicans in New York a hot national topic for a couple of days. Millions of people heard about the band-aids and got the joke, further undermining the failed Democratic national convention strategy.

Dozens of TV network, newspaper, and wire service reporters sought me out immediately. The interviews ran much the same:

"Are the band-aids an organized Bush campaign effort?"

"No. I bought and assembled the band-aids myself and handed them out personally to friends without any prior knowledge by the campaign or the Republican National Committee."

"Do you agree with the President that John Kerry served honorably in Vietnam?"

"Of course, I agree with that. After all, John Kerry rescued one of his companions from the water and saved his life. It was the right thing to do, which is more than Sen. Kennedy did for Mary Jo Kopechne. On the other hand, Sen. Kennedy did not go back to Chappaquiddick with a home movie camera to re-enact the event."

"Isn't this an attack on all veterans who won military decorations?"

"No, of course not. Who is the U.S. politician who most famously showed his contempt for military decorations when, for national publicity, he threw his over a fence in an anti-war protest? Who disrespected all military medals for a political purpose? John Kerry, that's who."

For the first three years of the Reagan Administration, I was on the White House Staff. I know a lot of veterans very well because I was President Reagan's liaison to all veterans groups.

Like me, most Americans have a lot of sympathy with Vietnam veterans still outraged at Kerry's years of attacks on them--and even more for our POWs in Hanoi who were tortured because they wouldn't say for the communists the same things Kerry said on American television.

If Sen. Kerry wants to answer the charges in the Swift vets book, by the vet who said the scratch he treated for Kerry was self-inflicted and the officer who refused Kerry's request for that Purple Heart, he should permit independent access to his original Navy records. Kerry still refuses to permit this. Why?

Another aspect of Kerry's big mistake is that his convention's focus on Vietnam highlighted an early example of his lifelong habit of taking both sides of major issues. He tried to be both a war hero and an anti-war hero. Ultimately, he can't have it both ways.

McAuliffe made this a big story and reminds me of a U.S. senator from Virginia about 30 years ago. When an obscure magazine described him as "the dumbest U.S. senator," he held a big news conference to deny the charge. Only then did the charge become widely known.

Having lost their big gamble, the Kerry campaign now is like a snake with a broken back: very angry, still dangerous, but probably mortally wounded.

With so much of the media frantically trying to save John Kerry now, I expect the election to tighten up again. The race probably will be decided at the grassroots by voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts. But certainly the Kerry strategy plus $63 million in anti-Bush television ads by the "527" committees have failed to date.

Their gamble was trumped by a brilliantly structured and presented GOP convention plus half a million dollars of TV ads from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

The day after the convention, the new Republican National Committee had its organizational meeting in New York. To my total surprise, the national committeeman from Louisiana nominated me to fill a vacancy on the RNC executive committee from the Southern Region. I was unanimously elected.

Thank you, Terry McAuliffe.