Kerry lied to get purple heart?
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| Tue, 08-10-2004 - 5:33pm |
The records should be able to shed some light on this if Kerry chooses to open them to the public.
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/28856.htm
'Larry Thurlow, the skipper of a boat trailing Kerry's, says in the book that he saw Kerry suffer a buttocks wound earlier that day in 1969 when he was hit by fragments from his own grenade while trying to destroy a Viet Cong rice cache.
"He dishonestly transferred the time and cause of the injury to coincide with the action later in the day and claimed that the cause of the injury was the mine exploding during the action," the book claims.
In Kerry's version of the incident, he says a mine struck his swift boat - wounding him in the buttocks and arm.
Kerry maintains he braved enemy fire from both shores to race to the bow of the boat and pluck Rassman, who had fallen overboard, out of the water.
But, the book says, "Many participants in the incident state that neither weapons fire nor a mine explosion occurred near Kerry during the incident.
"Unless one believes in the amazing coincidence that Kerry got two wounds in the same place on the same day, he lied to get the Purple Heart," the authors say.
Rassman is backing Kerry's presidential candidacy and he supports Kerry's version of the rescue.
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"No, you said "we". "We" this and "we" that and "we" would fight again if George Bush asked us to." And yes I said WE because I am refering to those that I have spoken with - once again I am not trying to speak for everyone - just those that I have come in contact with.
<<That's just not true...let me tell you that I was watching that event, live on CSpan, when it happened. Jim Rassmann clearly said he was blown overboard. And John Kerry said, "man, we didn't know we'd lost you". They hadn't spoken about that event in 35 years.>>
I wasn't speaking of
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I will always believe in my heart of hearts that partisanship caused 9/11. If we had been focused on bin laden, instead of Clinton's body parts, we could have accomplished alot. The Republican smear machine against Clinton is exactly the same as the one against Kerry today. It is harming our country and it needs to stop. We ought to be able to talk about the different choices we have in everything from education to global trade to environment to security, without having these disgusting smear campaigns overshadow the issues. And, by the way, a smear campaign based on not one shred of documented evidence is different than actual military paperwork that DOES show gaps in Bush's service record. His service record, NOT his "makeup work" record. Which doesn't really matter because John Kerry dropped it months ago.
<< I also know that the spouses that I have spoken with also plan to vote Bush, now I am sure that there are plenty of Kerry supporters and when I meet one in the military I will let you know. >>
I understand that the military lacks diversity when it comes to cultural/social/politcal views. Perhaps an
Renee ~~~
How is it even possible that Bush supporters can gloss over the Starting Of A War under false pretenses - (I do not believe any other president would have bombed Iraq under the same circumstances - only GWB could have been so stupid) and yet 30 years after John Kerry receives a purple heart they're tearing him to shreds, insisting he didn't deserve it.
Is it just me or do the Bush supporters have a very odd sense of proportion?
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