He claimed to have been in Cambodia in 1967 when Nixon was president. His boat logs show otherwise and LBJ was president when Kerry was in southeast Asia. He later said it was all jungle and very confusing. let me tell you something - you don't get 50 miles lost in a river boat. And you certainly don't do it in a Navy river boat with a navigator, a log book, and a radio.

He claimed he threw his medals over the fence on Capital Hill, then reasserted that he did on Dick Cavett. Later he said he threw someone else's medals?

His much acclaimed testimony about Viet Nam atrocities turned out to be a bunch of crap. Many of the soldiers he cited as witnesses turned out to be the original "phony soldiers".

As too his medals - gotta say I don't know if he earned them or not. But I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.

I met him when he was Viet Nam Vets against the war. I asked him if he didn't think he was betraying his fellow soldiers. No, absolutely not - he replied. Oh well, I guess some disagreed with him.

Has he released his FULL record yet?

He claims to have put together a dossier to answer any attacks.
How about just releasing his FULL Navy record???

This guy is such a phoney. Its too bad there will be virtually no opposition to his re-election to the Senate from the People's Republic of Mass.

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He's been claiming his honor was besmirched for years now. So, if he really has anything, why wait? Bring it out now and reclaim his honor.

Oh wait, he has no idea what honor really is, does he?

Silly boy, all he ever needed to do to prove the guys wrong was make his complete record available to the public. Bush did, why hasn't Kerry?

Releasing it to 3 super friendly reporters only isn't what I consider as forthcoming.

In the end, I expect this moment of bravado to go the same way all his lawsuits did, ignored so he nd his minions wouldn't have to be deposed under oath.

Bring it on, Kerry, Don't wait, let's see what you got.

BTW, if, for some reason, he really were able to get one leg up on the Swifties, did he forget thousands more of us who served and recall his treasonous conduct in 1971? Does he think he can stop the rest of us?

Bwahahahahaha!!! This kook will never run again, will he? I mean, he's about a hundred now, and he's yesterday's news.

Sign the SF180, Senator Spitball...

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Off topic...as are most of his posts

Actually, he intends to ride the 'Swiftboat' during his Senate re-election campaign. He can't show that he has actually done anything of substance during his years in office, so he'll take a page out of the Hillary book and claim that he is being 'victimized'.

Of course, the mindless voters of Massachusetts will re-elect him, unless another Kennedy wants the seat.

He claimed to have been in Cambodia in 1967 when Nixon was president.

I think that was 1968, but the point is still valid. (We all make typos.) If I remember the story correctly, Senator Kerry claimed that Richard Nixon ordered him and other troops into Cambodia during Christmas of that year, and then lied by denying it. Too bad that Nixon was not yet president (his term beginning on 1/20/1969) and that Kerry's journals and letters to his parents put him in Vietnam during 12/1968. Yet, his foray into Cambodia was "seared, SEARED" into his memory.

The reason he brought up this alleged episode is to accuse Ronald Reagan of lying during the Iran/Contra affair, to recall an alleged presidential lie. This means that Kerry either lied in the very act of accusing someone else of lying, or his memory was seared to the point of being unable to correctly recall earlier events.

He claimed he threw his medals over the fence on Capital Hill, then reasserted that he did on Dick Cavett.

And yet, those medals have been present in his own Senate office. Does the military give out duplicates for lost medals?

wish when I was in gulf 1, I coulda written my own purple heart citation 4 falling off a ladder in a combat zone...

...or tossing a grenade too close so I wounded myself (remember the lieutenant throwing the first pitch like a wimp? bounced in the grass).

course none of that comes close to knowingly providing perjured testimony before congress based on fabricated stories about (made-up)solider cruelity...then not retracting nor apologising.

lieutenant, I knew Jack Kennedy, & u aint no Jack Kennedy!

Bigfoot, Perhaps Biden and Schumer can appoint Fitzgerald to conduct an investigation. Maybe 10 years prision for each memory lapse?

Bigfoot, Perhaps Biden and Schumer can appoint Fitzgerald to conduct an special prosecution investigation. Maybe 10 years prison time for each memory lapse?

Bigfoot,

Yes, he could request duplicate medals, or he could go to any military surplus or supply store and buy them. The key is having the original certificate and orders. Anyone can buy medals (with the exception of the Medal of Honor) from a military supply store.

The issues isn't whether it was actually his original set of medals or ribbons that he threw, it is the symbolism. He was showing extreme distain and disrespect for the military and those he served with to symbolically throw his medals/ribbons over the fence. Its ironic that its those same medals that he thought would carry him to the Oval Office.

Kahn,

The way I understand it (which would be cleared up if the good Senator would sign the SF 180) is that one Purple Heart was awarded after he tossed a grenade in a pile of rice to destroy it and didn't run away fast enough, resulting in some shrapnel in the derriere. No enemy contact as required by regulation.

Another Purple Heart was as a result of him firing a M203 at the shoreline at too close a range, resulting in a single piece of shrapnel in the arm. He waited until he got back to base and went to an aid station to have it removed. (Everyone else would have just reached down and pulled it out, but apparently he wanted the "proof" of injury) The Medic removed the protruding sliver with tweezers and put a band-aid on it. He tried to get a Purple Heart for the incident, but his CO refused. After the CO left command, he put in for the PH with the new CO who did not know of the circumstances. He got the PH (his 3rd) and a ticket home. Again, no enemy contact, as required by regulation.

I won't comment on the Silver Star or the Bronze Star, even though there has been some who question the validity of those medals. Suffice it to say they may have been awarded under questionable circumstances (LT Kerry did the write-up for the actions, so there may have been some embellishment), but medals given to others were probably questionable as well.

The issue was him gaming the system to get the three Purple Hearts and a ticket home. There were many who received far more serious wounds or more wounds and refused the award of a PH so they would be shipped home. Speaks volumes about the Senator's character, or lack thereof.

Wow!

It took him four years to respond to the Swift Boat Veterans.

How long will it take for the poodle respond to other truthful accusations of his highly questionable character?

Does this REALLY surprise anyone? Not me, he lost his credibility a long time ago. I get real sick of listening to excuses and the blame game from ALL politicians, though it comes more frequently from the dems.

Tired, don't you be dissin' poodles---I have a couple of Standards that would eat your lunch. OK, after they ate your lunch, they might eat your leg, too. Bred for hunting bears, doncha know. (No foofy poodle cuts, though..)

Kerry was never even close to poodlehood in either intelligence or bravery.

I'd like to see a time line. It seems to me that he was still a Navy officer when he slipped away for his illegal trips to North Viet Nam to conspire with the enemy. And I've always been curious about why his honorable discharge was dated (going on my memory here...) in 2002.

BTW, he did not release his entire military record to those three pet reporters, but only two or three pages, again if memory serves. It's not important enough to look up, though I have an extensive Kerry archive.

He must be a little nervous about the upcoming election. Prior to this, he knew he could be elected no matter what, as he so often proved. I wonder what is different this time? A strong contender in the wings?

Alimantra,

by "poodle", I did not mean to insult the canine variety.

As it applies to Kerry:

1) High maintenance - constantly "grooming" himself.
2) He's "french".
3) He's kept by rich women.

His post theater service is cloudy. It has been alledged that he did not complete is required hitch - he did not report to his assignments (but when Carter became president and immediately pardoned all "deserters" that "ding" on his record was removed by another questionable action). It has also been alledged that he was active when he made his Fonda like trips to Vietnam and France.

Bush's records have been more open than Kerry's by a long shot. He must be taking his cues from the Clinton's as to how to release records.

John Kerry is a Traitor and I am sad to say that this guy was ever an officer in the military I love so well.

http://www.nysun.com/article/4040

The above link is a story about his so called "Honorable Discharge," or lack thereof. This guy just needs to slink off and hide in a corner in shame and ask for forgiveness from all the real soldiers he crucified in his testimony.(not that he should get it)

I hope one day when he stands before God he is asked to explain all this and tries to hide his record there. I will tell you this if I were him and I had nothing to hide I would let all my records show and let the people decide. Call it what you will but he is a Traitor and needs to be treated as one.

"I hope one day when he stands before God he is asked to explain all this and tries to hide his record there. I will tell you this if I were him and I had nothing to hide I would let all my records show and let the people decide. Call it what you will but he is a Traitor and needs to be treated as one."

He's never admitted it openly, Michael, but look at that index finger in the photo. With his body language, do you think Kerry might have been saying, unconsciously, "Poke my eyes out, God, so I won't have to watch myself betray my fellow soldiers"?

He's never admitted it openly, Michael, but look at that index finger in the photo. With his body language, do you think Kerry might have been saying, unconsciously, "Poke my eyes out, God, so I won't have to watch myself betray my fellow soldiers"?

I don't think he has any conscience at all to make any subconscious thought as that. I see him as a very cold and calculating traitor.

When I met him he came across as extremely arrogant. And it was about the time of the photograph.

Kahn, that's remarkable, I met him around that time too -- 2 years after the photo -- and was repulsed. Something very reptilian about him.