Following recent Republican efforts to discredit Kerry's military service
medals, the ultra conservative group Judicial Watch, best known for nuisance
lawsuits against Democrats, asked the Navy to open an investigation into the
matter.

In response to that request, Navy Inspector General Vice Admiral Ronald A.
Route conducted a review of Kerry's Vietnam-era military service awards and
concluded Friday that procedures were properly followed in the approval of
Sen. John Kerry's Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Heart medals,
according to an internal memo written to Navy Secretary Gordon England.

"Our examination found that existing documentation regarding the Silver
Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart medals indicates the awards approval
process was properly followed," Route wrote in the memo. "In particular, the
senior officers who awarded the medals were properly delegated authority to
do so. In addition, we found that they correctly followed the procedures in
place at the time for approving these awards."

"Conducting any additional review regarding events that took place over 30
years ago would not be productive," Route continued. "The passage of time
would make reconstruction of the facts and circumstances unreliable, and
would not allow the information gathered to be considered in the context of
the time in which the events took place."

For more information on this story, see;

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/...0917_1894.html

Those of us who earlier defended Kerry's medals will now certainly watch
to see if those Republicans who were so quick to openly belittle Kerry's
medals in recent weeks will be as quick to openly admit their mistake, or
will they now choose to attack the Navy Inspector General's review instead.

Stewart

Dwight Stewart wrote:

Following recent Republican efforts to discredit Kerry's military service
medals, the ultra conservative group Judicial Watch, best known for nuisance
lawsuits against Democrats, asked the Navy to open an investigation into the
matter.

In response to that request, Navy Inspector General Vice Admiral Ronald A.
Route conducted a review of Kerry's Vietnam-era military service awards and
concluded Friday that procedures were properly followed in the approval of
Sen. John Kerry's Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Heart medals,
according to an internal memo written to Navy Secretary Gordon England.

"Our examination found that existing documentation regarding the Silver
Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart medals indicates the awards approval
process was properly followed," Route wrote in the memo. "In particular, the
senior officers who awarded the medals were properly delegated authority to
do so. In addition, we found that they correctly followed the procedures in
place at the time for approving these awards."

"Conducting any additional review regarding events that took place over 30
years ago would not be productive," Route continued. "The passage of time
would make reconstruction of the facts and circumstances unreliable, and
would not allow the information gathered to be considered in the context of
the time in which the events took place."

For more information on this story, see;

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/...0917_1894.html

Those of us who earlier defended Kerry's medals will now certainly watch
to see if those Republicans who were so quick to openly belittle Kerry's
medals in recent weeks will be as quick to openly admit their mistake, or
will they now choose to attack the Navy Inspector General's review instead.

Sure, procedures WERE followed, but still, they were awarded based upon Kerry's
bogus reports!

You folks are sure getting desperate!

dxAce

"dxAce" wrote:

Sure, procedures WERE followed, but
still, they were awarded based upon
Kerry's bogus reports!


Provide some evidence that they were awarded based on reports written by
Kerry, something beyond unsubstantiated personal anecdotes or outright
biased rhetoric. Until then, I'll ignore such bogus claims. By the way, if
you wanted to delete newsgroups, you should have deleted the shortwave
newsgroup, not the two political newsgroups. I post mainly from the
political newsgroups and only rarely visit the shortwave newsgroup.

Stewart

In article et,
"Dwight Stewart" wrote:

"dxAce" wrote:

Sure, procedures WERE followed, but
still, they were awarded based upon
Kerry's bogus reports!


Provide some evidence that they were awarded based on reports written by
Kerry, something beyond unsubstantiated personal anecdotes or outright
biased rhetoric. Until then, I'll ignore such bogus claims. By the way, if
you wanted to delete newsgroups, you should have deleted the shortwave
newsgroup, not the two political newsgroups. I post mainly from the
political newsgroups and only rarely visit the shortwave newsgroup.

Let me see if I have this right.

You cross post off topic material to this news group and when someone
edits the Newsgroup header you complain.

You are truly clueless.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

"Telamon" wrote:

Let me see if I have this right.

You cross post off topic material to
this news group and when someone
edits the Newsgroup header you
complain. (snip)


It wasn't a complaint, simply a passing comment. Regardless, since this
topic was discussed in this newsgroup for several weeks, my message was
relevant to that discussion in this newsgroup. But, if someone truly felt a
need to delete newsgroups, it obviously should have been this newsgroup, not
the political newsgroups (where topics like this truly belong).

Stewart

Dwight Stewart wrote:

"Telamon" wrote:

Let me see if I have this right.

You cross post off topic material to
this news group and when someone
edits the Newsgroup header you
complain. (snip)

It wasn't a complaint, simply a passing comment. Regardless, since this
topic was discussed in this newsgroup for several weeks, my message was
relevant to that discussion in this newsgroup. But, if someone truly felt a
need to delete newsgroups, it obviously should have been this newsgroup, not
the political newsgroups (where topics like this truly belong).

But I did delete rec.radio.shortwave on that post, not the others.

dxAce

"Dwight Stewart" wrote in message
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Following recent Republican efforts to discredit Kerry's military
service
medals, the ultra conservative group Judicial Watch, best known for
nuisance
lawsuits against Democrats, asked the Navy to open an investigation into
the
matter.

In response to that request, Navy Inspector General Vice Admiral Ronald
A.
Route conducted a review of Kerry's Vietnam-era military service awards
and
concluded Friday that procedures were properly followed in the approval of
Sen. John Kerry's Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Heart medals,
according to an internal memo written to Navy Secretary Gordon England.

"Our examination found that existing documentation regarding the Silver
Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart medals indicates the awards approval
process was properly followed," Route wrote in the memo. "In particular,
the
senior officers who awarded the medals were properly delegated authority
to
do so. In addition, we found that they correctly followed the procedures
in
place at the time for approving these awards."

"Conducting any additional review regarding events that took place over
30
years ago would not be productive," Route continued. "The passage of time
would make reconstruction of the facts and circumstances unreliable, and
would not allow the information gathered to be considered in the context
of
the time in which the events took place."

For more information on this story, see;

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/...0917_1894.html

Those of us who earlier defended Kerry's medals will now certainly watch
to see if those Republicans who were so quick to openly belittle Kerry's
medals in recent weeks will be as quick to openly admit their mistake, or
will they now choose to attack the Navy Inspector General's review
instead.

Stewart

That just means all the paperwork was accounted for.

Dwight Stewart wrote:

Those of us who earlier defended Kerry's medals will now certainly
watch to see if those Republicans who were so quick to openly
belittle Kerry's medals in recent weeks will be as quick to openly
admit their mistake

It would be a very cold day in hell, if that ever happened!!

or will they now choose to attack the Navy
Inspector General's review instead.

Very predictably, it's already happening.