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Quoth "T. Early" in news:41266755$0
: Reductio ad absurdum doesn't really work here. It's close enough. And James Rassman was a Green Beret. http://snopes.com/politics/kerry/swift.asp -- Where was AWOL George W. Bush? http://www.glcq.com/bush_at_arpc1.htm |
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dxAce wrote:
Damn, I hate repeating myself to obvious drop-outs. It's your limited vocabulary. EVERYONE has trouble understanding you, hence the required repetition. Better your education and stop being so frustrated with your lack of communication skills. It's YOUR life, so it would appear it's YOUR responsibility to meet a certain minimum standard of social interaction. ...or is it *society's* fault?.. mike |
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m II wrote: dxAce wrote: Damn, I hate repeating myself to obvious drop-outs. It's your limited vocabulary. EVERYONE has trouble understanding you, hence the required repetition. Better your education and stop being so frustrated with your lack of communication skills. I already have bettered my education. That's why it's so easy for me to spot a 'tard such as yourself. Now, run along. dxAce |
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In article , dxAce
wrote: MnMikew wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Do they have a problem with the truth... earlier it was threats of lawsuits against television stations who had the audacity to air Veterans For Truth ads, now it is a push to get booksellers not to sell the book... Free speech? Give me a break. The Kerry Kampaign is imploding, they do not want the truth to be read, much like they do not want the focus to be on his Senatorial record. http://www.drudgereport.com/ dxAce a Veteran for the truth The hypocrisy of the left is amazing. They can dish it out but can't take it. Lets see... 264+ Vets who served with Kerry who get less credibility in the press versus the 13 pro-Kerry Vets who get a lot of press... hmmmmmmm. Certainly makes one wonder. I already know how I'm voting, and it certainly is not for John Fraud Kerry. There is the matter of the Veterans that served with Kerry. Out of the group or squad that he was in, five boats with five aboard each, two people support Kerry, two or three are dead and the rest of the people in that group are against him. So out of the original 25 people that served with him 20 to 21 do not think he has good leadership abilities. I can understand why any Vietnam veteran would be against Kerry whether he severed with him or not after the broad brush, he painted them all with in a most negative way after coming back to the states. I can look back now and see what he did was to bolster the efforts of the antiwar crowd with lies to undermine the will of the people to fight that war. Kerry did nothing less than support the Vietcong. Those speeches Kerry gave before congress were broadcast at the time and I remember hearing them and shaking my head in disgust. I never understood why nothing ever became of Kerry's charges in those hearings. Now I know why. Kerry made the stuff up. Who could trust this guy now? -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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Tom Betz wrote: Quoth dxAce in : Lets see... 264+ Vets who served with Kerry who get less credibility in the press In the same way they "served" with Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler. At considerable remove. versus the 13 pro-Kerry Vets who get a lot of press... And who served with Kerry directly. There are only 2 people that served with Kerry that support him. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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Quoth Telamon in
ws.prodigy.com: There are only 2 people that served with Kerry that support him. What bodily orifice do you pull this crap out of? You Bush cultists slay me. Are you trying to convince me that there were only two people standing on stage with him at the Democratic convention? Who should I believe, you or my own eyes? Another Swift Boat commander just came out publicly for Kerry today, sick of seeing the Smear Vets' lies. Fellow officer steps up to defend Kerry BY WILLIAM B. ROOD CHICAGO TRIBUNE August 21, 2004, 8:21 PM EDT There were three swift boats on the river that day in Vietnam more than 35 years ago -- three officers and 15 crew members. Only two of those three officers remain to talk about what happened on Feb. 28, 1969. One is John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate who won a Silver Star for what happened on that date. I am the other. For years, no one asked about those events. But now they are the focus of skirmishing in a presidential election with a group of swift boat veterans and others contending that Kerry didn't deserve the Silver Star for what he did on that day, or the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts he was awarded for other actions. Many of us wanted to put it all behind us -- the rivers, the ambushes, the killing. Ever since that time, I have refused all requests for interviews about Kerry's service -- even those from reporters at the Chicago Tribune, where I work. But Kerry's critics, armed with stories I know to be untrue, have charged that the accounts of what happened were overblown. The critics have taken pains to say they're not trying to cast doubts on the merit of what others did, but their version of events has splashed doubt on all of us. It's gotten harder and harder for those of us who were there to listen to accounts we know to be untrue, especially when they come from people who were not there. Calls for backup Even though Kerry's own crew members have backed him, the attacks have continued, and in recent days Kerry has called me and others who were with him in those days, asking that we go public with our accounts. I can't pretend those calls had no effect on me, but that is not why I am writing this. What matters most to me is that this is hurting crewmen who are not public figures and who deserved to be honored for what they did. My intent is to tell the story here and to never again talk publicly about it. I was part of the operation that led to Kerry's Silver Star. I have no firsthand knowledge of the events that resulted in his winning the Purple Hearts or the Bronze Star. But on Feb. 28, 1969, I was officer in charge of PCF-23, one of three swift boats -- including Kerry's PCF-94 and Lt. j.g. Donald Droz's PCF-43 -- that carried Vietnamese regional and Popular Force troops and a Navy demolition team up the Dong Cung, a narrow tributary of the Bay Hap River, to conduct a sweep in the area. The approach of the noisy 50-foot aluminum boats, each driven by two huge 12-cylinder diesels and loaded down with six crew members, troops and gear, was no secret. Ambushes were a virtual certainty, and that day was no exception. The difference was that Kerry, who had tactical command of that particular operation, had talked to Droz and me beforehand about not responding the way the boats usually did to an ambush. We agreed that if we were not crippled by the initial volley and had a clear fix on the location of the ambush, we would turn directly into it, focusing the boats' twin .50-caliber machine guns on the attackers and beaching the boats. The Viet Cong in the area had come to expect that the heavily loaded boats would lumber on past an ambush, firing at the entrenched attackers, beaching upstream and putting troops ashore to sweep back down on the ambush site. Often, they were long gone by the time the troops got there. Under fire The first time we took fire -- the usual rockets and automatic weapons -- Kerry ordered a "turn 90" and the three boats roared in on the ambush. It worked. We routed the ambush, killing three of the attackers. The troops, led by an Army adviser, jumped off the boats and began a sweep, which killed another half-dozen VC, wounded or captured others and found weapons, blast masks and other supplies used to stage ambushes. Meanwhile, Kerry ordered our boat to head upstream with his, leaving Droz's boat at the first site. It happened again, another ambush. And again, Kerry ordered the turn maneuver, and again it worked. As we headed for the riverbank, I remember seeing a loaded B-40 launcher pointed at the boats. It wasn't fired as two men jumped up from their spider holes. We called Droz's boat up to assist us, and Kerry, followed by one member of his crew, jumped ashore and chased a VC behind a hooch -- a thatched hut -- maybe 15 yards inland from the ambush site. Some who were there that day recall the man being wounded as he ran. Neither I nor Jerry Leeds, our boat's leading petty officer with whom I've checked my recollection of all these events, recalls that, which is no surprise. Recollections of those who go through experiences like that frequently differ. With our troops involved in the sweep of the first ambush site, Richard Lamberson, a member of my crew, and I also went ashore to search the area. I was checking the inside of the hooch when I heard gunfire nearby. Questionable encounter Not long after that, Kerry returned, reporting that he had killed the man he chased behind the hooch. He also had picked up a loaded B-40 rocket launcher, which we took back to our base in An Thoi after the operation. John O'Neill, author of a highly critical account of Kerry's Vietnam service, describes the man Kerry chased as a "teenager" in a "loincloth." I have no idea how old the gunner Kerry chased that day was, but both Leeds and I recall that he was a grown man, dressed in the kind of garb the VC usually wore. The man Kerry chased was not the "lone" attacker at that site, as O'Neill suggests. There were others who fled. There was also firing from the tree line well behind the spider holes and at one point, from the opposite riverbank as well. It was not the work of just one attacker. Our initial reports of the day's action caused an immediate response from our task force headquarters in Cam Ranh Bay. Known over radio circuits by the call sign "Latch," then-Captain and now retired Rear Adm. Roy Hoffmann, the task force commander, fired off a message congratulating the three swift boats, saying at one point that charging the ambushes was a "shining example of completely overwhelming the enemy" and that it "may be the most efficacious method of dealing with small numbers of ambushers." Hoffmann has become a leading critic of Kerry's and now says that what the boats did on that day demonstrated Kerry's inclination to be impulsive to a fault. Our decision to use that tactic under the right circumstances was not impulsive, but was the result of discussions well beforehand and a mutual agreement of all three boat officers. It was also well within the aggressive tradition that was embraced by the late Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, then commander of U.S. Naval Forces, Vietnam. Months before that day in February, a fellow boat officer, Michael Bernique, was summoned to Saigon to explain to top Navy commanders why he had made an unauthorized run up the Giang Thanh River, which runs along the Vietnam-Cambodia border. Bernique, who speaks French fluently, had been told by a source in Ha Tien at the mouth of the river that a VC tax collector was operating upstream. Ignoring the prohibition against it, Bernique and his crew went upstream and routed the VC, pursuing and killing several. Instead of facing disciplinary action as he had expected, Bernique was given the Silver Star, and Zumwalt ordered other swifts, which had largely patrolled coastal waters, into the rivers. The decision sent a clear message, underscored repeatedly by Hoffmann's congratulatory messages, that aggressive patrolling was expected and that well-timed, if unconventional, tactics like Bernique's were encouraged. In line with command What we did on Feb. 28, 1969, was well in line with the tone set by our top commanders. Zumwalt made that clear when he flew down to our base at An Thoi off the southern tip of Vietnam to pin the Silver Star on Kerry and assorted Bronze Stars and commendation medals on the rest of us. My Bronze Star citation, signed by Zumwalt, praised the charge tactic we used that day, saying the VC were "caught completely off guard." There's at least one mistake in that citation. It incorrectly identifies the river where the main action occurred, a reminder that such documents were often done in haste and sometimes written for their signers by staffers. It's a cautionary note for those trying to piece it all together. There's no final authority on something that happened so long ago -- not the documents and not even the strained recollections of those of us who were there. But I know that what some people are saying now is wrong. While they mean to hurt Kerry, what they're saying impugns others who are not in the public eye. Men like Larry Lee, who was on our bow with an M-60 machine gun as we charged the riverbank, Kenneth Martin, who was in the .50-caliber gun tub atop our boat, and Benjamin Cueva, our engineman, who was at our aft gun mount suppressing the fire from the opposite bank. Wayne Langhoffer and the other crewmen on Droz's boat went through even worse on April 12, 1969, when they saw Droz killed in a brutal ambush that left PCF-43 an abandoned pile of wreckage on the banks of the Duong Keo River. That was just a few months after the birth of his only child, Tracy. The survivors of all these events are scattered across the country now. Jerry Leeds lives in a tiny Kansas town where he built and sold a successful printing business. He owns a beautiful home with a lawn that sweeps to the edge of a small lake, which he also owns. Cueva, recently retired, has raised three daughters and is beloved by his neighbors for all the years he spent keeping their cars running. Lee is a senior computer programmer in Kentucky, and Lamberson finished a second military career in the Army. With the debate over that long-ago day in February, they're all living that war another time. -- Where was AWOL George W. Bush? http://www.glcq.com/bush_at_arpc1.htm |
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 21:13:23 GMT, Telamon
wrote: In article , dxAce wrote: MnMikew wrote: "dxAce" wrote in message ... Do they have a problem with the truth... earlier it was threats of lawsuits against television stations who had the audacity to air Veterans For Truth ads, now it is a push to get booksellers not to sell the book... Free speech? Give me a break. The Kerry Kampaign is imploding, they do not want the truth to be read, much like they do not want the focus to be on his Senatorial record. http://www.drudgereport.com/ dxAce a Veteran for the truth The hypocrisy of the left is amazing. They can dish it out but can't take it. Lets see... 264+ Vets who served with Kerry who get less credibility in the press versus the 13 pro-Kerry Vets who get a lot of press... hmmmmmmm. Certainly makes one wonder. I already know how I'm voting, and it certainly is not for John Fraud Kerry. There is the matter of the Veterans that served with Kerry. Out of the group or squad that he was in, five boats with five aboard each, two people support Kerry, two or three are dead and the rest of the people in that group are against him. So out of the original 25 people that served with him 20 to 21 do not think he has good leadership abilities. I can understand why any Vietnam veteran would be against Kerry whether he severed with him or not after the broad brush, he painted them all with in a most negative way after coming back to the states. I can look back now and see what he did was to bolster the efforts of the antiwar crowd with lies to undermine the will of the people to fight that war. Kerry did nothing less than support the Vietcong. Those speeches Kerry gave before congress were broadcast at the time and I remember hearing them and shaking my head in disgust. I never understood why nothing ever became of Kerry's charges in those hearings. Now I know why. Kerry made the stuff up. Who could trust this guy now? Telamon, Curious if you could answer a hypothetical question for me. If Bush had Kerry's war record and Kerry had Bush's would that be enough for you to swing your vote to Kerry? |
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Tom Betz wrote: Quoth Telamon in ws.prodigy.com: There are only 2 people that served with Kerry that support him. What bodily orifice do you pull this crap out of? You Bush cultists slay me. Are you trying to convince me that there were only two people standing on stage with him at the Democratic convention? Who should I believe, you or my own eyes? Snip I talk out of my mouth. What do you use? Your reading comprehension is off. The sniped story is one 1 mission where 3 boats were involved. The group Kerry belonged to is a squad of 5 boats of 5 people each. I used numerals instead of spelling the numbers to help your comprehension jerk. Typical misdirection of a ideological jerk. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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William H. Everhart III wrote:
Telamon, Curious if you could answer a hypothetical question for me. If Bush had Kerry's war record and Kerry had Bush's would that be enough for you to swing your vote to Kerry? Trying to give him a stroke? He'll get a meltdown over THAT question before telling your that his convictions are so deeply carved in stone that Bush could be a rapist and he would STILL vote for him. In fact, Bush *was* reported the police as a rapist. The woman was later found dead with a gunshot wound to the head. Women DON'T shoot themselves in the head. http://www.thoughtcrimenews.com/Detail5.jpg http://www.thoughtcrimenews.com/bushrape.htm http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie...Search&met a= http://snipurl.com/8ksm The court documents are he http://www.geocities.com/theawakenin...sh_Rapist.html If this guy isn't possessed by EVIL, I don't know who is. mike |
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In article CTWVc.34871$jZ5.6651@clgrps13,
m II wrote: William H. Everhart III wrote: Telamon, Curious if you could answer a hypothetical question for me. If Bush had Kerry's war record and Kerry had Bush's would that be enough for you to swing your vote to Kerry? Trying to give him a stroke? He'll get a meltdown over THAT question before telling your that his convictions are so deeply carved in stone that Bush could be a rapist and he would STILL vote for him. In fact, Bush *was* reported the police as a rapist. The woman was later found dead with a gunshot wound to the head. Women DON'T shoot themselves in the head. http://www.thoughtcrimenews.com/Detail5.jpg http://www.thoughtcrimenews.com/bushrape.htm http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie...an&btnG=Google +Search&meta= http://snipurl.com/8ksm The court documents are he http://www.geocities.com/theawakenin...sh_Rapist.html If this guy isn't possessed by EVIL, I don't know who is. See its crap like this post that cause people like me to not take you seriously. Since you spread this content around YOU are evil. Due to the level of nonsense exhibited by William H. Everhart III, he is in the kill file but I will answer the question. The answer is no. Why? I have six issues with Kerry. 1. He has apparently embellished his war record. 2. He lied to a congressional committee about the Vietnam War when he returned smearing other veterans of the war. 3. If he did not lie about the war in testimony before congress then he is a war criminal. 4. I am conservative. Kerry is the most, according to his Senate voting record, liberal Senator. 5. His Senatorial record indicates an inability to get his own bills passed. This is not a good indicator of leadership. 6. He has missed many critical Senatorial votes and closed meetings where he was to be informed on national security. He then hypocritically raises these same issues in his campaign. There is no debate on 2 through 6 because they are on record. 1 is still a question. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
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