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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (49406)	6/9/2005 10:41:20 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Kerry's records While it was widely reported this week that Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, had finally released all his military records to the Boston Globe, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth leader John O'Neill is not so sure. James Taranto, writing in his Best of the Web Today column at www.OpinionJournal.com, cited a statement by Mr. O'Neill published by blogger Matt Margolis at www.blogsforbush.com: "We called for Kerry to execute a form which would permit anyone to examine his full and [unexpurgated] [sic] military records at the Navy Department and the National Personnel Records Center. Instead he executed a form permitting his hometown paper to obtain the records currently at the Navy Department. The Navy Department previously indicated its records did not include various materials. This is hardly what we called for. "If he did execute a complete release of all records, we could then answer questions such as (1) Did he ever receive orders to Cambodia or file any report of such a mission (whether at Christmas or otherwise); (2) What was his discharge status between 1970 and 1978 (when he received a discharge) and was it affected by his meetings in 1970 and 1971 with the North Vietnamese? (3) Why did he receive much later citations for medals purportedly signed by [then-Navy Secretary John F.] Lehman who said he did not know of them; (4) Are there Hostile Fire and Personnel Injured by Hostile Fire Reports for Kerry's Dec. 1968 Purple Heart (when the officer in charge of the boat Admiral [William] Schacte, the treating Surgeon Louis Letson, and Kerry's Division Commander deny there was hostile fire causing a scratch) awarded three months later under unknown circumstances."