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Senator Kerry Sat Frozen: Unable to Think for 40 Minutes on 9/11 - Vs. mode: Politics & Controversy

CNN.com - Transcripts

Here is how Kerry responded when he WAS in a position to address a crisis....

Kerry was serving in the United States Navy at the time, as lieutenant and Officer-in-Charge of Swift Boat PCF-94, which for that period primarily patrolled in the Mekong River delta. On 13 March 1969, they had completed operations, had debarked some passengers but retained others, and this squadron of five PCF boats was headed out of the river to the bay. They approached a weir (a series of poles across the river, like thousands along the shore and the shoreline of the bay, across which nets could be strung). Some of the boats hugged the shore to the left, some to the right, in order to get around. As they tried to go around, the lead boat to the left, PCF-3, was blown clear out of the water with a command detonated mine (someone was nearby to remotely detonate it). According to Sen. Kerry's account, Kerry was already injured himself, and his boat (already damaged from a second explosion) came under heavy fire, when Kerry heard "man overboard". He says that he ordered that the crew turn the boat around and return to pick up Rassmann, who had fallen off the port side or stern of PCF-94. Rassmann was for some reason unable to climb up over the cargo net near the bow of PCF-94, so Kerry pulled him on deck. The incident earned Kerry a Bronze Star with "V" Device for valor and his third Purple Heart.

James Rassman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Contrast with Scrub...

In a document dated May 2, 1973, Bush's immediate superiors gave him his annual performance review for the period from May 1, 1972, to April 30, 1973. The review stated that "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of the report."

You believe Kerry's account, and then you have the gonads to go around calling people stupid?

Are you laboring under the impression that Kerry could recommend HIMSELF for a Bronze Star? Did you notice that the event in question involved AT LEAST one other person?

How is the gofundme thing going?

What part of "According to Sen. Kerry's account" didn't you understand, eh dim bulb?

Because, Idiot, when he was recommended for the Bronze Star he would be interviewed about the event....

Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star. Based on such an officer's recommendation, lacking testimony to the contrary, as Kerry already had this award from a previous incident, he was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat V, instead.

You've put a bit of distance between you and the new buck....

Your quoting a Wikipedia article, nitwit. Those are about as credible as Hillary's testimony about her emails.

 

[ptbw forever]

Here is how Kerry responded when he WAS in a position to address a crisis....

Kerry was serving in the United States Navy at the time, as lieutenant and Officer-in-Charge of Swift Boat PCF-94, which for that period primarily patrolled in the Mekong River delta. On 13 March 1969, they had completed operations, had debarked some passengers but retained others, and this squadron of five PCF boats was headed out of the river to the bay. They approached a weir (a series of poles across the river, like thousands along the shore and the shoreline of the bay, across which nets could be strung). Some of the boats hugged the shore to the left, some to the right, in order to get around. As they tried to go around, the lead boat to the left, PCF-3, was blown clear out of the water with a command detonated mine (someone was nearby to remotely detonate it). According to Sen. Kerry's account, Kerry was already injured himself, and his boat (already damaged from a second explosion) came under heavy fire, when Kerry heard "man overboard". He says that he ordered that the crew turn the boat around and return to pick up Rassmann, who had fallen off the port side or stern of PCF-94. Rassmann was for some reason unable to climb up over the cargo net near the bow of PCF-94, so Kerry pulled him on deck. The incident earned Kerry a Bronze Star with "V" Device for valor and his third Purple Heart.

James Rassman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Contrast with Scrub...

In a document dated May 2, 1973, Bush's immediate superiors gave him his annual performance review for the period from May 1, 1972, to April 30, 1973. The review stated that "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of the report."

You believe Kerry's account, and then you have the gonads to go around calling people stupid?

Are you laboring under the impression that Kerry could recommend HIMSELF for a Bronze Star? Did you notice that the event in question involved AT LEAST one other person?

How is the gofundme thing going?

What part of "According to Sen. Kerry's account" didn't you understand, eh dim bulb?

Because, Idiot, when he was recommended for the Bronze Star he would be interviewed about the event....

Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star. Based on such an officer's recommendation, lacking testimony to the contrary, as Kerry already had this award from a previous incident, he was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat V, instead.

You've put a bit of distance between you and the new buck....

Your quoting a Wikipedia article, nitwit. Those are about as credible as Hillary's testimony about her emails.

I particularly love reading the editors notes.

So devoid of bias....

 

[bripat9643]

You believe Kerry's account, and then you have the gonads to go around calling people stupid?

Are you laboring under the impression that Kerry could recommend HIMSELF for a Bronze Star? Did you notice that the event in question involved AT LEAST one other person?

How is the gofundme thing going?

What part of "According to Sen. Kerry's account" didn't you understand, eh dim bulb?

Because, Idiot, when he was recommended for the Bronze Star he would be interviewed about the event....

Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star. Based on such an officer's recommendation, lacking testimony to the contrary, as Kerry already had this award from a previous incident, he was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat V, instead.

You've put a bit of distance between you and the new buck....

Your quoting a Wikipedia article, nitwit. Those are about as credible as Hillary's testimony about her emails.

I particularly love reading the editors notes.

So devoid of bias....

He's obviously sucking Kerry's dick. It's amazing that so many vets would hate a hero like Kerry.

 

[IcebergSlim]

Bri,

Did someone tell you to hustle over here because some young gun is aiming to snatch the Tiara from you? That PTBW is a "comer", I tell you...

You opinion of yourself is only exceeded by

Here is how Kerry responded when he WAS in a position to address a crisis....

Kerry was serving in the United States Navy at the time, as lieutenant and Officer-in-Charge of Swift Boat PCF-94, which for that period primarily patrolled in the Mekong River delta. On 13 March 1969, they had completed operations, had debarked some passengers but retained others, and this squadron of five PCF boats was headed out of the river to the bay. They approached a weir (a series of poles across the river, like thousands along the shore and the shoreline of the bay, across which nets could be strung). Some of the boats hugged the shore to the left, some to the right, in order to get around. As they tried to go around, the lead boat to the left, PCF-3, was blown clear out of the water with a command detonated mine (someone was nearby to remotely detonate it). According to Sen. Kerry's account, Kerry was already injured himself, and his boat (already damaged from a second explosion) came under heavy fire, when Kerry heard "man overboard". He says that he ordered that the crew turn the boat around and return to pick up Rassmann, who had fallen off the port side or stern of PCF-94. Rassmann was for some reason unable to climb up over the cargo net near the bow of PCF-94, so Kerry pulled him on deck. The incident earned Kerry a Bronze Star with "V" Device for valor and his third Purple Heart.

James Rassman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Contrast with Scrub...

In a document dated May 2, 1973, Bush's immediate superiors gave him his annual performance review for the period from May 1, 1972, to April 30, 1973. The review stated that "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of the report."

You believe Kerry's account, and then you have the gonads to go around calling people stupid?

Are you laboring under the impression that Kerry could recommend HIMSELF for a Bronze Star? Did you notice that the event in question involved AT LEAST one other person?

How is the gofundme thing going?

What part of "According to Sen. Kerry's account" didn't you understand, eh dim bulb?

Because, Idiot, when he was recommended for the Bronze Star he would be interviewed about the event....

Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star. Based on such an officer's recommendation, lacking testimony to the contrary, as Kerry already had this award from a previous incident, he was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat V, instead.

You've put a bit of distance between you and the new buck....

You are trying so hard, but getting suckered by cheap con artists like Kerry doesn't make you look smart.

SO-CALLED “WAR HERO” JOHN KERRY A FRAUD

In earlier articles on this web site we have revealed the specious Silver Star (with “V” device) that Kerry allegedly won. First of all, there is no such decoration in any of the five branches of the U.S. Military.

The Silver Star does not have a “V” device (for valor) like the Bronze Star does. Yet that award is listed on the DD214 that Kerry was supposed to review and sign for accuracy. That it was displayed on his campaign web site indicates he should have, if he didn’t already, know such a listing was false and inaccurate.

Yet, the curious Kerry documents contain even more signs of falsification and fraud.

Kerry credits himself with earning four battle stars attached to his Vietnam Service Medal. Every Nam vet knows those battle stars denote various “campaigns” the recipient had to have participated in to be able to legally wear them.

Since Kerry was in Vietnam only 120 days, it would be impossible for him to have accumulated so many of the stars due to lack of time, but, what the heck! Maybe the Massachusetts senator thought “four battle stars” sounds and looks better than two.

“Yeah, that’s the ticket,” Kerry perhaps said to himself. “I’ll award myself more ‘fruit salad’ than I’m authorized, in order to fool the voters into thinking I’m a cross between Audie Murphy and General George Patton. That’ll impress ‘em. They won’t know the difference.”

Well, the many thousands of honorable Vietnam veterans Kerry smeared and slandered in his self-serving and much discredited testimony before Congress “know the difference.” And as a result, we have exposed him for what he is – a fraud.

And speaking of FRAUD, the Kerry campaign has yet to explain how the signature of former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman turns up on Kerry’s award citation for the Silver Star.

That decoration was allegedly won in 1968, many years prior to Lehman taking office in the Reagan Administration!

It is a serious crime for anyone to falsify an official military record or document – such as the forms displayed as “proof” of Kerry’s heroics on his campaign web site.

Why hasn’t the mainstream media, led by Bush-basher Dan Blather of CBS, demanded an explanation? The answer is obvious. They want any Democrat to defeat any Republican – well, maybe not any “Republican,” they still worship at the feet of Sen. John McCain. Back in 1992, some 89% of the news media polled admitted they voted for Bill Clinton. Is there any reason to think that number has lessened in recent years?

John Kerry’s ‘self-inflicted’ Purple Heart, Bronze Star

Two injuries – a small bruise on his right arm and a minor injury to his buttocks – won Kerry his Third Purple Heart and a trip home. However, the vets say, the wound to his buttocks was self-inflicted and should never have received Purple Heart consideration.

While Kerry claims the injury came from shrapnel from an underwater mine, Larry Thurlow, an officer on shore with Kerry that day, insists the wound was the result of Kerry’s decision to throw a concussion grenade into a rice pile. The “shrapnel,” he says, was actually rice pellets.

As further evidence, the vets say, Kerry himself reflected in his own journal that his buttocks’ wound came, not from a mine but, rather, from a grenade tossed into a rice cache.

Sworn statements of those present say there was no hostile fire involved in this incident for which Kerry received his third Purple Heart and the coveted Bronze Star.

“The conclusion is inescapable: that Kerry lied by reporting to the Navy that he had been wounded by shrapnel in his backside from an enemy mine when in reality he negligently wounded himself and then lied about the wound in order to secure a third Purple Heart and a quick trip home,” reads the letter.

The letter continues: “Kerry’s operating report, Bronze Star story, and subsequent ‘no man left behind’ story are a total hoax on the Navy and the nation,” they say.

As to the daring rescue discussed in the documentary video shown to the nation at the Democratic convention, the vets say the rescue was well under way under the leadership of others when Kerry returned to the scene where Special Forces soldier Jim Rassman was plucked out of the water. Eyewitnesses have signed affidavits explaining when Kerry returned, there was no more hostile fire. He just merely leaned over the boat and assisted Rassman out of the water.

“Kerry’s account of this action, which was used to secure the Bronze Star and a third Purple Heart, is an extraordinary example of fraud,” they say.
​

I can appreciate that, knowing nothing, you will believe anything....

Rassman recommended Kerry for the Silver Star.........this would have included a CONTEMPORANEOUS account of the events.......

Bri,

Did someone tell you to hustle over here because some young gun is aiming to snatch the Tiara from you? That PTBW is a "comer", I tell you...

You opinion of yourself is only exceeded by

Here is how Kerry responded when he WAS in a position to address a crisis....

Kerry was serving in the United States Navy at the time, as lieutenant and Officer-in-Charge of Swift Boat PCF-94, which for that period primarily patrolled in the Mekong River delta. On 13 March 1969, they had completed operations, had debarked some passengers but retained others, and this squadron of five PCF boats was headed out of the river to the bay. They approached a weir (a series of poles across the river, like thousands along the shore and the shoreline of the bay, across which nets could be strung). Some of the boats hugged the shore to the left, some to the right, in order to get around. As they tried to go around, the lead boat to the left, PCF-3, was blown clear out of the water with a command detonated mine (someone was nearby to remotely detonate it). According to Sen. Kerry's account, Kerry was already injured himself, and his boat (already damaged from a second explosion) came under heavy fire, when Kerry heard "man overboard". He says that he ordered that the crew turn the boat around and return to pick up Rassmann, who had fallen off the port side or stern of PCF-94. Rassmann was for some reason unable to climb up over the cargo net near the bow of PCF-94, so Kerry pulled him on deck. The incident earned Kerry a Bronze Star with "V" Device for valor and his third Purple Heart.

James Rassman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Contrast with Scrub...

In a document dated May 2, 1973, Bush's immediate superiors gave him his annual performance review for the period from May 1, 1972, to April 30, 1973. The review stated that "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of the report."

You believe Kerry's account, and then you have the gonads to go around calling people stupid?

Are you laboring under the impression that Kerry could recommend HIMSELF for a Bronze Star? Did you notice that the event in question involved AT LEAST one other person?

How is the gofundme thing going?

What part of "According to Sen. Kerry's account" didn't you understand, eh dim bulb?

Because, Idiot, when he was recommended for the Bronze Star he would be interviewed about the event....

Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star. Based on such an officer's recommendation, lacking testimony to the contrary, as Kerry already had this award from a previous incident, he was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat V, instead.

You've put a bit of distance between you and the new buck....

You are trying so hard, but getting suckered by cheap con artists like Kerry doesn't make you look smart.

SO-CALLED “WAR HERO” JOHN KERRY A FRAUD

In earlier articles on this web site we have revealed the specious Silver Star (with “V” device) that Kerry allegedly won. First of all, there is no such decoration in any of the five branches of the U.S. Military.

The Silver Star does not have a “V” device (for valor) like the Bronze Star does. Yet that award is listed on the DD214 that Kerry was supposed to review and sign for accuracy. That it was displayed on his campaign web site indicates he should have, if he didn’t already, know such a listing was false and inaccurate.

Yet, the curious Kerry documents contain even more signs of falsification and fraud.

Kerry credits himself with earning four battle stars attached to his Vietnam Service Medal. Every Nam vet knows those battle stars denote various “campaigns” the recipient had to have participated in to be able to legally wear them.

Since Kerry was in Vietnam only 120 days, it would be impossible for him to have accumulated so many of the stars due to lack of time, but, what the heck! Maybe the Massachusetts senator thought “four battle stars” sounds and looks better than two.

“Yeah, that’s the ticket,” Kerry perhaps said to himself. “I’ll award myself more ‘fruit salad’ than I’m authorized, in order to fool the voters into thinking I’m a cross between Audie Murphy and General George Patton. That’ll impress ‘em. They won’t know the difference.”

Well, the many thousands of honorable Vietnam veterans Kerry smeared and slandered in his self-serving and much discredited testimony before Congress “know the difference.” And as a result, we have exposed him for what he is – a fraud.

And speaking of FRAUD, the Kerry campaign has yet to explain how the signature of former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman turns up on Kerry’s award citation for the Silver Star.

That decoration was allegedly won in 1968, many years prior to Lehman taking office in the Reagan Administration!

It is a serious crime for anyone to falsify an official military record or document – such as the forms displayed as “proof” of Kerry’s heroics on his campaign web site.

Why hasn’t the mainstream media, led by Bush-basher Dan Blather of CBS, demanded an explanation? The answer is obvious. They want any Democrat to defeat any Republican – well, maybe not any “Republican,” they still worship at the feet of Sen. John McCain. Back in 1992, some 89% of the news media polled admitted they voted for Bill Clinton. Is there any reason to think that number has lessened in recent years?

John Kerry’s ‘self-inflicted’ Purple Heart, Bronze Star

Two injuries – a small bruise on his right arm and a minor injury to his buttocks – won Kerry his Third Purple Heart and a trip home. However, the vets say, the wound to his buttocks was self-inflicted and should never have received Purple Heart consideration.

While Kerry claims the injury came from shrapnel from an underwater mine, Larry Thurlow, an officer on shore with Kerry that day, insists the wound was the result of Kerry’s decision to throw a concussion grenade into a rice pile. The “shrapnel,” he says, was actually rice pellets.

As further evidence, the vets say, Kerry himself reflected in his own journal that his buttocks’ wound came, not from a mine but, rather, from a grenade tossed into a rice cache.

Sworn statements of those present say there was no hostile fire involved in this incident for which Kerry received his third Purple Heart and the coveted Bronze Star.

“The conclusion is inescapable: that Kerry lied by reporting to the Navy that he had been wounded by shrapnel in his backside from an enemy mine when in reality he negligently wounded himself and then lied about the wound in order to secure a third Purple Heart and a quick trip home,” reads the letter.

The letter continues: “Kerry’s operating report, Bronze Star story, and subsequent ‘no man left behind’ story are a total hoax on the Navy and the nation,” they say.

As to the daring rescue discussed in the documentary video shown to the nation at the Democratic convention, the vets say the rescue was well under way under the leadership of others when Kerry returned to the scene where Special Forces soldier Jim Rassman was plucked out of the water. Eyewitnesses have signed affidavits explaining when Kerry returned, there was no more hostile fire. He just merely leaned over the boat and assisted Rassman out of the water.

“Kerry’s account of this action, which was used to secure the Bronze Star and a third Purple Heart, is an extraordinary example of fraud,” they say.
​

The veterans group, led by Mr. O'Neill, a former Swift boat commander who was recruited by the Nixon administration to debate Mr. Kerry on "The Dick Cavett Show" in 1971, began its campaign in early 2004 by criticizing Mr. Kerry's protests against the Vietnam War. But backed by Republican donors and consultants, they soon shifted to attack his greatest strength — his record as a military hero in a campaign against a president who never went to war.

Naval records and accounts from other sailors contradicted almost every claim they made, and some members of the group who had earlier praised Mr. Kerry's heroism contradicted themselves.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/w...74bb79bdf3f1d35&ei=5094&partner=homepage&_r=0



Last Thursday, the Washington Post reported that the military records of Larry Thurlow, one of John Kerry's major accusers among the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, contradicted Thurlow's version of events and confirmed Kerry's. At the very least, this cast severe doubt on the charge that Kerry fabricated the events that earned him one of his Vietnam War medals....

Thurlow's current story casts doubt on his own Bronze Star as much as Kerry's. Thurlow's explanation is that his citation's record of the events must have been based on Kerry's and that the information must have been provided by Kerry himself. There is an "after-action report" that Thurlow and John E. O'Neill, coauthor of the anti-Kerry book "Unfit for Command," refer to as "Kerry's report" despite the fact that it bears the initials KJW. (Later news stories have pointed out that Thurlow's Bronze Star citation refers to a witness to the enemy fire -- Thurlow's crewmate, Robert Lambert -- and that the KJW initials are also on reports about events Kerry was not involved in.)

You Can Report, but We Will Decide

 

[IcebergSlim]

Seems like you're the one who doesn't want to post it.

Nope.

LOL

Senator Kerry Sat Frozen: Unable to Think for 40 Minutes on 9/11 - Vs. mode: Politics & Controversy

CNN.com - Transcripts

What do you believe this demonstrates?

Kerry was not CinC at that time.......he had no power to effect anything....

So a sitting senator with presidential ambitions can just do nothing but gawk at the tv screen while the worst terror attack in our nation's history happens and later join in on the Democrats' relentless attack on Bush for "inaction" on the matter?

What makes you think Kerry wouldn't be frozen for over an hour with 100 times more responsibility on his shoulders at that moment?

That's right.....he can't order up anything, except lunch........the CinC is an entirely different matter.........

and I just showed you what Kerry did when in command....

Fighting for your life and the life of your comrades in battle is admirable, but it is also kind of necessary for your survival.

Being president and having to make split-second decisions most people could never even dream of making in even the most calm and serene surroundings is totally different.

And btw, national emergencies kind of involve ALL of the federal government. The legislative branch is equal in power and responsibility to the executive branch as well. Kerry and the Democrats should not have been able to gawk at the tv screen for 40 minutes.

I'll refrain from describing the above in favor of asking you to list what Kerry, as Senator, could have done in response to the news of the attack on the WTC.....

 

[IcebergSlim]

Are you laboring under the impression that Kerry could recommend HIMSELF for a Bronze Star? Did you notice that the event in question involved AT LEAST one other person?

How is the gofundme thing going?

What part of "According to Sen. Kerry's account" didn't you understand, eh dim bulb?

Because, Idiot, when he was recommended for the Bronze Star he would be interviewed about the event....

Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star. Based on such an officer's recommendation, lacking testimony to the contrary, as Kerry already had this award from a previous incident, he was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat V, instead.

You've put a bit of distance between you and the new buck....

Your quoting a Wikipedia article, nitwit. Those are about as credible as Hillary's testimony about her emails.

I particularly love reading the editors notes.

So devoid of bias....

He's obviously sucking Kerry's dick. It's amazing that so many vets would hate a hero like Kerry.

Dude,


I've seen your photo.......if anyone sucks dick, it's the fat headed fuck who appears in it...

 

[AnCap'n_Murica]

View attachment 82460

Alright, a Hoppe fan. I rarely meet anyone who even knows who he is.

May I sign you up for membership in the physical removal squad?

 

[IcebergSlim]

Here is how Kerry responded when he WAS in a position to address a crisis....

Kerry was serving in the United States Navy at the time, as lieutenant and Officer-in-Charge of Swift Boat PCF-94, which for that period primarily patrolled in the Mekong River delta. On 13 March 1969, they had completed operations, had debarked some passengers but retained others, and this squadron of five PCF boats was headed out of the river to the bay. They approached a weir (a series of poles across the river, like thousands along the shore and the shoreline of the bay, across which nets could be strung). Some of the boats hugged the shore to the left, some to the right, in order to get around. As they tried to go around, the lead boat to the left, PCF-3, was blown clear out of the water with a command detonated mine (someone was nearby to remotely detonate it). According to Sen. Kerry's account, Kerry was already injured himself, and his boat (already damaged from a second explosion) came under heavy fire, when Kerry heard "man overboard". He says that he ordered that the crew turn the boat around and return to pick up Rassmann, who had fallen off the port side or stern of PCF-94. Rassmann was for some reason unable to climb up over the cargo net near the bow of PCF-94, so Kerry pulled him on deck. The incident earned Kerry a Bronze Star with "V" Device for valor and his third Purple Heart.

James Rassman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Contrast with Scrub...

In a document dated May 2, 1973, Bush's immediate superiors gave him his annual performance review for the period from May 1, 1972, to April 30, 1973. The review stated that "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of the report."

You believe Kerry's account, and then you have the gonads to go around calling people stupid?

Are you laboring under the impression that Kerry could recommend HIMSELF for a Bronze Star? Did you notice that the event in question involved AT LEAST one other person?

How is the gofundme thing going?

What part of "According to Sen. Kerry's account" didn't you understand, eh dim bulb?

Because, Idiot, when he was recommended for the Bronze Star he would be interviewed about the event....

Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star. Based on such an officer's recommendation, lacking testimony to the contrary, as Kerry already had this award from a previous incident, he was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat V, instead.

You've put a bit of distance between you and the new buck....

Your quoting a Wikipedia article, nitwit. Those are about as credible as Hillary's testimony about her emails.

Uh......versus what YOU were quoting?

You never told me if you actually graduated from an accredited college....

 

[IcebergSlim]

You believe Kerry's account, and then you have the gonads to go around calling people stupid?

Are you laboring under the impression that Kerry could recommend HIMSELF for a Bronze Star? Did you notice that the event in question involved AT LEAST one other person?

How is the gofundme thing going?

What part of "According to Sen. Kerry's account" didn't you understand, eh dim bulb?

Because, Idiot, when he was recommended for the Bronze Star he would be interviewed about the event....

Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star. Based on such an officer's recommendation, lacking testimony to the contrary, as Kerry already had this award from a previous incident, he was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat V, instead.

You've put a bit of distance between you and the new buck....

Your quoting a Wikipedia article, nitwit. Those are about as credible as Hillary's testimony about her emails.

I particularly love reading the editors notes.

So devoid of bias....

I suggest you challenge the objectivity of that entry.......should you choose to do so, the editors you so glibly malign will note that it is under challenge.....

Then try to do the same with Bripat's sources.....

 

[IcebergSlim]

He was a fucking disaster of unprecedented magnitude......

Don't ever make reference to another poster's intelligence again....

I am sure Gore's obsessive faux environmentalism and Kerry's "plan" would have served us well....

You were 14, remember.........

My uncle is a political strategist and commentator....

I got extremely interested in politics after the 2008 election, but I knew more about politics than most 14 year olds when I was 5.

Sure.....are you reading the same stuff now as you did when you were 5?

What I read now didn't exist when I was 5.

How would we know?

You never told me what you read then or what you read now.....

 

[ptbw forever]

Nope.

LOL

Senator Kerry Sat Frozen: Unable to Think for 40 Minutes on 9/11 - Vs. mode: Politics & Controversy

CNN.com - Transcripts

What do you believe this demonstrates?

Kerry was not CinC at that time.......he had no power to effect anything....

So a sitting senator with presidential ambitions can just do nothing but gawk at the tv screen while the worst terror attack in our nation's history happens and later join in on the Democrats' relentless attack on Bush for "inaction" on the matter?

What makes you think Kerry wouldn't be frozen for over an hour with 100 times more responsibility on his shoulders at that moment?

That's right.....he can't order up anything, except lunch........the CinC is an entirely different matter.........

and I just showed you what Kerry did when in command....

Fighting for your life and the life of your comrades in battle is admirable, but it is also kind of necessary for your survival.

Being president and having to make split-second decisions most people could never even dream of making in even the most calm and serene surroundings is totally different.

And btw, national emergencies kind of involve ALL of the federal government. The legislative branch is equal in power and responsibility to the executive branch as well. Kerry and the Democrats should not have been able to gawk at the tv screen for 40 minutes.

I'll refrain from describing the above in favor of asking you to list what Kerry, as Senator, could have done in response to the news of the attack on the WTC.....

You mean the live coverage?

Kerry could have immediately called his governor in the nearby(neighboring) state of Mass. to make sure he was sending aid to New York and taking appropriate precautions to make sure terrorists didn't also attack Boston at that time or something.

 

[ptbw forever]

I am sure Gore's obsessive faux environmentalism and Kerry's "plan" would have served us well....

You were 14, remember.........

My uncle is a political strategist and commentator....

I got extremely interested in politics after the 2008 election, but I knew more about politics than most 14 year olds when I was 5.

Sure.....are you reading the same stuff now as you did when you were 5?

What I read now didn't exist when I was 5.

How would we know?

You never told me what you read then or what you read now.....

I read everything that doesn't make me want to strangle the author(I don't read physical copies of newspapers anymore though), just like watching news channels that aren't named MSNBC.

 

[IcebergSlim]

What do you believe this demonstrates?

Kerry was not CinC at that time.......he had no power to effect anything....

So a sitting senator with presidential ambitions can just do nothing but gawk at the tv screen while the worst terror attack in our nation's history happens and later join in on the Democrats' relentless attack on Bush for "inaction" on the matter?

What makes you think Kerry wouldn't be frozen for over an hour with 100 times more responsibility on his shoulders at that moment?

That's right.....he can't order up anything, except lunch........the CinC is an entirely different matter.........

and I just showed you what Kerry did when in command....

Fighting for your life and the life of your comrades in battle is admirable, but it is also kind of necessary for your survival.

Being president and having to make split-second decisions most people could never even dream of making in even the most calm and serene surroundings is totally different.

And btw, national emergencies kind of involve ALL of the federal government. The legislative branch is equal in power and responsibility to the executive branch as well. Kerry and the Democrats should not have been able to gawk at the tv screen for 40 minutes.

I'll refrain from describing the above in favor of asking you to list what Kerry, as Senator, could have done in response to the news of the attack on the WTC.....

You mean the live coverage?

Kerry could have immediately called his governor in the nearby(neighboring) state of Mass. to make sure he was sending aid to New York and taking appropriate precautions to make sure terrorists didn't also attack Boston at that time or something.

That's good stuff.......

Bripat, are you getting this?

You better not look back........this kid is gunning for you....

 

[IcebergSlim]

You were 14, remember.........

My uncle is a political strategist and commentator....

I got extremely interested in politics after the 2008 election, but I knew more about politics than most 14 year olds when I was 5.

Sure.....are you reading the same stuff now as you did when you were 5?

What I read now didn't exist when I was 5.

How would we know?

You never told me what you read then or what you read now.....

I read everything that doesn't make me want to strangle the author(I don't read physical copies of newspapers anymore though), just like watching news channels that aren't named MSNBC.

And you STILL haven't told me WHAT you read......

How bad can it be?

 

[ptbw forever]

Are you laboring under the impression that Kerry could recommend HIMSELF for a Bronze Star? Did you notice that the event in question involved AT LEAST one other person?

How is the gofundme thing going?

What part of "According to Sen. Kerry's account" didn't you understand, eh dim bulb?

Because, Idiot, when he was recommended for the Bronze Star he would be interviewed about the event....

Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star. Based on such an officer's recommendation, lacking testimony to the contrary, as Kerry already had this award from a previous incident, he was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat V, instead.

You've put a bit of distance between you and the new buck....

Your quoting a Wikipedia article, nitwit. Those are about as credible as Hillary's testimony about her emails.

I particularly love reading the editors notes.

So devoid of bias....

I suggest you challenge the objectivity of that entry.......should you choose to do so, the editors you so glibly malign will note that it is under challenge.....

Then try to do the same with Bripat's sources.....

You mean the editors I am challenging will publicly show they are being challenged? LOL

Yeah right.

Oftentimes I have less of a qualm with the actual initial content than the editors remarks themselves.

 

[ptbw forever]

So a sitting senator with presidential ambitions can just do nothing but gawk at the tv screen while the worst terror attack in our nation's history happens and later join in on the Democrats' relentless attack on Bush for "inaction" on the matter?

What makes you think Kerry wouldn't be frozen for over an hour with 100 times more responsibility on his shoulders at that moment?

That's right.....he can't order up anything, except lunch........the CinC is an entirely different matter.........

and I just showed you what Kerry did when in command....

Fighting for your life and the life of your comrades in battle is admirable, but it is also kind of necessary for your survival.

Being president and having to make split-second decisions most people could never even dream of making in even the most calm and serene surroundings is totally different.

And btw, national emergencies kind of involve ALL of the federal government. The legislative branch is equal in power and responsibility to the executive branch as well. Kerry and the Democrats should not have been able to gawk at the tv screen for 40 minutes.

I'll refrain from describing the above in favor of asking you to list what Kerry, as Senator, could have done in response to the news of the attack on the WTC.....

You mean the live coverage?

Kerry could have immediately called his governor in the nearby(neighboring) state of Mass. to make sure he was sending aid to New York and taking appropriate precautions to make sure terrorists didn't also attack Boston at that time or something.

That's good stuff.......

Bripat, are you getting this?

You better not look back........this kid is gunning for you....

I am 27. I am hardly a kid anymore.

 

[ptbw forever]

So a sitting senator with presidential ambitions can just do nothing but gawk at the tv screen while the worst terror attack in our nation's history happens and later join in on the Democrats' relentless attack on Bush for "inaction" on the matter?

What makes you think Kerry wouldn't be frozen for over an hour with 100 times more responsibility on his shoulders at that moment?

That's right.....he can't order up anything, except lunch........the CinC is an entirely different matter.........

and I just showed you what Kerry did when in command....

Fighting for your life and the life of your comrades in battle is admirable, but it is also kind of necessary for your survival.

Being president and having to make split-second decisions most people could never even dream of making in even the most calm and serene surroundings is totally different.

And btw, national emergencies kind of involve ALL of the federal government. The legislative branch is equal in power and responsibility to the executive branch as well. Kerry and the Democrats should not have been able to gawk at the tv screen for 40 minutes.

I'll refrain from describing the above in favor of asking you to list what Kerry, as Senator, could have done in response to the news of the attack on the WTC.....

You mean the live coverage?

Kerry could have immediately called his governor in the nearby(neighboring) state of Mass. to make sure he was sending aid to New York and taking appropriate precautions to make sure terrorists didn't also attack Boston at that time or something.

That's good stuff.......

Bripat, are you getting this?

You better not look back........this kid is gunning for you....

You act like you didn't say Kerry couldn't do anything as the most powerful man in a neighboring state.

The fact is that he wasted 40 minutes doing absolutely nothing with his colleagues of dozens of other important states.

 

[bripat9643]

Bri,

Did someone tell you to hustle over here because some young gun is aiming to snatch the Tiara from you? That PTBW is a "comer", I tell you...

You opinion of yourself is only exceeded by

You believe Kerry's account, and then you have the gonads to go around calling people stupid?

Are you laboring under the impression that Kerry could recommend HIMSELF for a Bronze Star? Did you notice that the event in question involved AT LEAST one other person?

How is the gofundme thing going?

What part of "According to Sen. Kerry's account" didn't you understand, eh dim bulb?

Because, Idiot, when he was recommended for the Bronze Star he would be interviewed about the event....

Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star. Based on such an officer's recommendation, lacking testimony to the contrary, as Kerry already had this award from a previous incident, he was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat V, instead.

You've put a bit of distance between you and the new buck....

You are trying so hard, but getting suckered by cheap con artists like Kerry doesn't make you look smart.

SO-CALLED “WAR HERO” JOHN KERRY A FRAUD

In earlier articles on this web site we have revealed the specious Silver Star (with “V” device) that Kerry allegedly won. First of all, there is no such decoration in any of the five branches of the U.S. Military.

The Silver Star does not have a “V” device (for valor) like the Bronze Star does. Yet that award is listed on the DD214 that Kerry was supposed to review and sign for accuracy. That it was displayed on his campaign web site indicates he should have, if he didn’t already, know such a listing was false and inaccurate.

Yet, the curious Kerry documents contain even more signs of falsification and fraud.

Kerry credits himself with earning four battle stars attached to his Vietnam Service Medal. Every Nam vet knows those battle stars denote various “campaigns” the recipient had to have participated in to be able to legally wear them.

Since Kerry was in Vietnam only 120 days, it would be impossible for him to have accumulated so many of the stars due to lack of time, but, what the heck! Maybe the Massachusetts senator thought “four battle stars” sounds and looks better than two.

“Yeah, that’s the ticket,” Kerry perhaps said to himself. “I’ll award myself more ‘fruit salad’ than I’m authorized, in order to fool the voters into thinking I’m a cross between Audie Murphy and General George Patton. That’ll impress ‘em. They won’t know the difference.”

Well, the many thousands of honorable Vietnam veterans Kerry smeared and slandered in his self-serving and much discredited testimony before Congress “know the difference.” And as a result, we have exposed him for what he is – a fraud.

And speaking of FRAUD, the Kerry campaign has yet to explain how the signature of former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman turns up on Kerry’s award citation for the Silver Star.

That decoration was allegedly won in 1968, many years prior to Lehman taking office in the Reagan Administration!

It is a serious crime for anyone to falsify an official military record or document – such as the forms displayed as “proof” of Kerry’s heroics on his campaign web site.

Why hasn’t the mainstream media, led by Bush-basher Dan Blather of CBS, demanded an explanation? The answer is obvious. They want any Democrat to defeat any Republican – well, maybe not any “Republican,” they still worship at the feet of Sen. John McCain. Back in 1992, some 89% of the news media polled admitted they voted for Bill Clinton. Is there any reason to think that number has lessened in recent years?

John Kerry’s ‘self-inflicted’ Purple Heart, Bronze Star

Two injuries – a small bruise on his right arm and a minor injury to his buttocks – won Kerry his Third Purple Heart and a trip home. However, the vets say, the wound to his buttocks was self-inflicted and should never have received Purple Heart consideration.

While Kerry claims the injury came from shrapnel from an underwater mine, Larry Thurlow, an officer on shore with Kerry that day, insists the wound was the result of Kerry’s decision to throw a concussion grenade into a rice pile. The “shrapnel,” he says, was actually rice pellets.

As further evidence, the vets say, Kerry himself reflected in his own journal that his buttocks’ wound came, not from a mine but, rather, from a grenade tossed into a rice cache.

Sworn statements of those present say there was no hostile fire involved in this incident for which Kerry received his third Purple Heart and the coveted Bronze Star.

“The conclusion is inescapable: that Kerry lied by reporting to the Navy that he had been wounded by shrapnel in his backside from an enemy mine when in reality he negligently wounded himself and then lied about the wound in order to secure a third Purple Heart and a quick trip home,” reads the letter.

The letter continues: “Kerry’s operating report, Bronze Star story, and subsequent ‘no man left behind’ story are a total hoax on the Navy and the nation,” they say.

As to the daring rescue discussed in the documentary video shown to the nation at the Democratic convention, the vets say the rescue was well under way under the leadership of others when Kerry returned to the scene where Special Forces soldier Jim Rassman was plucked out of the water. Eyewitnesses have signed affidavits explaining when Kerry returned, there was no more hostile fire. He just merely leaned over the boat and assisted Rassman out of the water.

“Kerry’s account of this action, which was used to secure the Bronze Star and a third Purple Heart, is an extraordinary example of fraud,” they say.
​

I can appreciate that, knowing nothing, you will believe anything....

Rassman recommended Kerry for the Silver Star.........this would have included a CONTEMPORANEOUS account of the events.......

Bri,

Did someone tell you to hustle over here because some young gun is aiming to snatch the Tiara from you? That PTBW is a "comer", I tell you...

You opinion of yourself is only exceeded by

You believe Kerry's account, and then you have the gonads to go around calling people stupid?

Are you laboring under the impression that Kerry could recommend HIMSELF for a Bronze Star? Did you notice that the event in question involved AT LEAST one other person?

How is the gofundme thing going?

What part of "According to Sen. Kerry's account" didn't you understand, eh dim bulb?

Because, Idiot, when he was recommended for the Bronze Star he would be interviewed about the event....

Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star. Based on such an officer's recommendation, lacking testimony to the contrary, as Kerry already had this award from a previous incident, he was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat V, instead.

You've put a bit of distance between you and the new buck....

You are trying so hard, but getting suckered by cheap con artists like Kerry doesn't make you look smart.

SO-CALLED “WAR HERO” JOHN KERRY A FRAUD

In earlier articles on this web site we have revealed the specious Silver Star (with “V” device) that Kerry allegedly won. First of all, there is no such decoration in any of the five branches of the U.S. Military.

The Silver Star does not have a “V” device (for valor) like the Bronze Star does. Yet that award is listed on the DD214 that Kerry was supposed to review and sign for accuracy. That it was displayed on his campaign web site indicates he should have, if he didn’t already, know such a listing was false and inaccurate.

Yet, the curious Kerry documents contain even more signs of falsification and fraud.

Kerry credits himself with earning four battle stars attached to his Vietnam Service Medal. Every Nam vet knows those battle stars denote various “campaigns” the recipient had to have participated in to be able to legally wear them.

Since Kerry was in Vietnam only 120 days, it would be impossible for him to have accumulated so many of the stars due to lack of time, but, what the heck! Maybe the Massachusetts senator thought “four battle stars” sounds and looks better than two.

“Yeah, that’s the ticket,” Kerry perhaps said to himself. “I’ll award myself more ‘fruit salad’ than I’m authorized, in order to fool the voters into thinking I’m a cross between Audie Murphy and General George Patton. That’ll impress ‘em. They won’t know the difference.”

Well, the many thousands of honorable Vietnam veterans Kerry smeared and slandered in his self-serving and much discredited testimony before Congress “know the difference.” And as a result, we have exposed him for what he is – a fraud.

And speaking of FRAUD, the Kerry campaign has yet to explain how the signature of former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman turns up on Kerry’s award citation for the Silver Star.

That decoration was allegedly won in 1968, many years prior to Lehman taking office in the Reagan Administration!

It is a serious crime for anyone to falsify an official military record or document – such as the forms displayed as “proof” of Kerry’s heroics on his campaign web site.

Why hasn’t the mainstream media, led by Bush-basher Dan Blather of CBS, demanded an explanation? The answer is obvious. They want any Democrat to defeat any Republican – well, maybe not any “Republican,” they still worship at the feet of Sen. John McCain. Back in 1992, some 89% of the news media polled admitted they voted for Bill Clinton. Is there any reason to think that number has lessened in recent years?

John Kerry’s ‘self-inflicted’ Purple Heart, Bronze Star

Two injuries – a small bruise on his right arm and a minor injury to his buttocks – won Kerry his Third Purple Heart and a trip home. However, the vets say, the wound to his buttocks was self-inflicted and should never have received Purple Heart consideration.

While Kerry claims the injury came from shrapnel from an underwater mine, Larry Thurlow, an officer on shore with Kerry that day, insists the wound was the result of Kerry’s decision to throw a concussion grenade into a rice pile. The “shrapnel,” he says, was actually rice pellets.

As further evidence, the vets say, Kerry himself reflected in his own journal that his buttocks’ wound came, not from a mine but, rather, from a grenade tossed into a rice cache.

Sworn statements of those present say there was no hostile fire involved in this incident for which Kerry received his third Purple Heart and the coveted Bronze Star.

“The conclusion is inescapable: that Kerry lied by reporting to the Navy that he had been wounded by shrapnel in his backside from an enemy mine when in reality he negligently wounded himself and then lied about the wound in order to secure a third Purple Heart and a quick trip home,” reads the letter.

The letter continues: “Kerry’s operating report, Bronze Star story, and subsequent ‘no man left behind’ story are a total hoax on the Navy and the nation,” they say.

As to the daring rescue discussed in the documentary video shown to the nation at the Democratic convention, the vets say the rescue was well under way under the leadership of others when Kerry returned to the scene where Special Forces soldier Jim Rassman was plucked out of the water. Eyewitnesses have signed affidavits explaining when Kerry returned, there was no more hostile fire. He just merely leaned over the boat and assisted Rassman out of the water.

“Kerry’s account of this action, which was used to secure the Bronze Star and a third Purple Heart, is an extraordinary example of fraud,” they say.
​

The veterans group, led by Mr. O'Neill, a former Swift boat commander who was recruited by the Nixon administration to debate Mr. Kerry on "The Dick Cavett Show" in 1971, began its campaign in early 2004 by criticizing Mr. Kerry's protests against the Vietnam War. But backed by Republican donors and consultants, they soon shifted to attack his greatest strength — his record as a military hero in a campaign against a president who never went to war.

Naval records and accounts from other sailors contradicted almost every claim they made, and some members of the group who had earlier praised Mr. Kerry's heroism contradicted themselves.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/w...74bb79bdf3f1d35&ei=5094&partner=homepage&_r=0



Last Thursday, the Washington Post reported that the military records of Larry Thurlow, one of John Kerry's major accusers among the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, contradicted Thurlow's version of events and confirmed Kerry's. At the very least, this cast severe doubt on the charge that Kerry fabricated the events that earned him one of his Vietnam War medals....

Thurlow's current story casts doubt on his own Bronze Star as much as Kerry's. Thurlow's explanation is that his citation's record of the events must have been based on Kerry's and that the information must have been provided by Kerry himself. There is an "after-action report" that Thurlow and John E. O'Neill, coauthor of the anti-Kerry book "Unfit for Command," refer to as "Kerry's report" despite the fact that it bears the initials KJW. (Later news stories have pointed out that Thurlow's Bronze Star citation refers to a witness to the enemy fire -- Thurlow's crewmate, Robert Lambert -- and that the KJW initials are also on reports about events Kerry was not involved in.)

You Can Report, but We Will Decide

The LA Times? You may as well quote Pravda. There is a long list of people who served alongside Kerry who dispute his account of events. Then there are also all the flaws in his story. For instance, there's the signature of former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman on Kerry’s award citation for the Silver Star. That decoration was allegedly won in 1968, many years prior to Lehman taking office in the Reagan Administration.

Kerry is a fraud and a cheap con artist.

 

[bripat9643]

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Alright, a Hoppe fan. I rarely meet anyone who even knows who he is.

May I sign you up for membership in the physical removal squad?

What is the physical removal squad?

 

[bripat9643]

What part of "According to Sen. Kerry's account" didn't you understand, eh dim bulb?

Because, Idiot, when he was recommended for the Bronze Star he would be interviewed about the event....

Rassman recommended Kerry for a Silver Star. Based on such an officer's recommendation, lacking testimony to the contrary, as Kerry already had this award from a previous incident, he was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat V, instead.

You've put a bit of distance between you and the new buck....

Your quoting a Wikipedia article, nitwit. Those are about as credible as Hillary's testimony about her emails.

I particularly love reading the editors notes.

So devoid of bias....

He's obviously sucking Kerry's dick. It's amazing that so many vets would hate a hero like Kerry.

Dude,


I've seen your photo.......if anyone sucks dick, it's the fat headed fuck who appears in it...

The lowest kind of personal attack on my appearance.

Aren't you charming.