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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If it's meaningless to you, I'm not going to waste my time looking up something that I already know. Kerry has declared assets of $2.1 million. I never made a judgement about that, you did; I just stated a fact.
<<Why do you refer to her as "Mamas T" ? Sounds disrespectful.>>
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/27/earlyshow/main632056.shtml
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Yes, haven't you been paying attention to Iraq and bin laden all through the nineties? Didn't you go and read the DoD report and Powell's report to the UN, which were titled "Denial and Deception"; not "Where the WMD Are". Didn't you read the report by US nuclear engineers? Didn't you ready the IAEA reports and UNSCOM reports from the last several years? Didn't you read the testimony to Congress?
"so are you also saying that Hans Blix LIED??" No, I am not saying Hans Blix lied. I'm saying I listened to him when he said there were no WMD at any site he inspected. I listened to him when he said there was no evidence of any nuclear programs or reconstructed bio/chem programs in Iraq. I listened to him when he said the yellowcake documents were forgeries. The NYTimes and WAPost are both saying they failed in presenting all the information against the Administration's WMD claims. It's true. When Rumsfeld said he knew where the WMD were, he lied, he didn't know. When Bush said Iraq had biological and chemical weapons, he lied, there were no concrete facts to support that claim.
"Yield to finally comply with 15+ UN/SC-resolutions" The UN authorized action on the WMD resolutions, a disarmament process. I fully support that. The IWR authorized military action if all peaceful means were exhausted, they weren't. Wouldn't it have been great if we'd given the inspections time to work, discovered there were no WMD, and simply put peacekeepers into Iraq to enforce the humanitarian resolutions? Pushed Saddam out like we have so many other dictators in the last 20 years? But no, Bush had to have his war. And nearly 1,000 troops are dead as a result. Totally unnecessary. Based on lies.
A shell with sarin RESIDUE, meaning the sarin had been removed from the shell, which is exactly what the inspections team was doing in Iraq for 12 years.
Yeah, tons of WMD were shipped to Syria right under our noses. Not one satellite image of any of it. What a bunch of rubes.
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Wrong. Serin & Mustard Gas shells have been turning up all over Iraq in the last few months. The last I heard the number was over 30.
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<<isn't it rediculous that a billionare gets more tax breaks than a person working for minimum wage? >>
Mininum wage workers are not paying any income tax, so they are not going to get any tax breaks. The top few percent of income earners pay the bulk of taxes, so they are.
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