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Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Kerry's Vietnam record confirmed by the Navy!
The AP is reporting right now that they have found an official Navy document from 1969 that confirms the fact that John Kerry deserved both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for saving Jim Rassmann's life.
WASHINGTON - The Navy task force overseeing John Kerry (news - web sites)'s swift boat squadron in Vietnam reported that his group of boats came under enemy fire during a March 13, 1969, incident that three decades later is being challenged by the Democratic presidential nominee's critics.
The March 18, 1969, weekly report from Task Force 115, which was located by The Associated Press during a search of Navy archives, is the latest document to surface that supports Kerry's description of an event for which he won a Bronze Star and a third Purple Heart.
The Task Force report twice mentions the incident five days earlier and both times calls it "an enemy initiated firefight" that included automatic weapons fire and underwater mines used against a group of five boats that included Kerry's.
What makes this story even better is the fact that Task Force 115 has a connection to the Swiftvets 527 that's running ads against Senator Kerry.
Task Force 115 was commanded at the time by retired Rear Adm. Roy Hoffmann, the founder of the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which has been running ads challenging Kerry's account of the episode.
WOW!
Though I think this story is highly meritorious, it is not the least bit surprising to those of us who have actually been following this story on media other than Fox News and CNN (the handful of Americans watching MSNBC know that only that network is doing a halfway decent job with this story).
I think all of us in the blogosphere are developing carpal tunnel syndrome from typing out all of the repudiations of these highly dubious and slanderous charges against Kerry (which is sadly ironic because the Bush Administration has doubtless nixed any attempts to create workplace safety regulations that could prevent the syndrome).
I only hope that the media starts doing a better job is exposing the lies of these anti-Kerry veterans rather than pretending to be objective by merely repeating their claims half of the time (thank you Rob Corddry).
WASHINGTON - The Navy task force overseeing John Kerry (news - web sites)'s swift boat squadron in Vietnam reported that his group of boats came under enemy fire during a March 13, 1969, incident that three decades later is being challenged by the Democratic presidential nominee's critics.
The March 18, 1969, weekly report from Task Force 115, which was located by The Associated Press during a search of Navy archives, is the latest document to surface that supports Kerry's description of an event for which he won a Bronze Star and a third Purple Heart.
The Task Force report twice mentions the incident five days earlier and both times calls it "an enemy initiated firefight" that included automatic weapons fire and underwater mines used against a group of five boats that included Kerry's.
What makes this story even better is the fact that Task Force 115 has a connection to the Swiftvets 527 that's running ads against Senator Kerry.
Task Force 115 was commanded at the time by retired Rear Adm. Roy Hoffmann, the founder of the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which has been running ads challenging Kerry's account of the episode.
WOW!
Though I think this story is highly meritorious, it is not the least bit surprising to those of us who have actually been following this story on media other than Fox News and CNN (the handful of Americans watching MSNBC know that only that network is doing a halfway decent job with this story).
I think all of us in the blogosphere are developing carpal tunnel syndrome from typing out all of the repudiations of these highly dubious and slanderous charges against Kerry (which is sadly ironic because the Bush Administration has doubtless nixed any attempts to create workplace safety regulations that could prevent the syndrome).
I only hope that the media starts doing a better job is exposing the lies of these anti-Kerry veterans rather than pretending to be objective by merely repeating their claims half of the time (thank you Rob Corddry).
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