Kerry records released---should shut up the freepers

[greenbriar]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040421/ap_on_el_pr/kerry_purple_hearts&cid=694&ncid=716

Kerry Campaign Provides Military Records
35 minutes ago

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Amid questions about his military records, John Kerry (news - web sites)'s campaign on Tuesday provided documentation of Vietnam War injuries that included shrapnel wounds to his arms, legs and buttocks that earned him three Purple Hearts.





Kerry spokesman Michael Meehan said the campaign was in the process of compiling the rest of Kerry's naval record and began posting it on Kerry's Web site by evening. Kerry said all his military records are available to the public during an appearance Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."


Meehan said the Massachusetts senator and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee requested a copy of his record from the Navy last month and received roughly 150 pages last week.


Conservatives, talk radio and some newspapers editorials have questioned whether Kerry was deserving of the three Purple Hearts, fueling questions about his Navy service from 1966 to 1970 and the seriousness of his injuries.


He served two tours of duty, four months on the USS Gridley frigate off Vietnam's shore and nearly five months as a swiftboat commander in the Mekong Delta. He volunteered for the second tour and earned all his medals during the second stint.


sorry....The rest is on the link...good read!!!!!!!!!!!

[Vickers]

1. Huh? Shut up the freepers? Well, perhaps you didn't notice it mentions

SHRAPNEL IN HIS ASS?

I'm sure there will be some Bronze Star jokes about THAT little nugget (sorry!).

:P

[rockymountaindem]

3. Yeah, I mean getting hit in the ass is no big deal.

You've got all that cushioning back there...

I know if I were in the military I'd get my pals to shoot me in the ass just so I could get a Purple Heart...

"Kerry the coward"... my ass!

[JI7]

2. shut up the freepers ?

max cleland's "wounds" are not enough to get them to shup up about whether he served or not.

these pieces of shits who attack kerry and question him while having no proof the chimp served in the guard unit his dad pulled strings to get him into to avoid service in vietnam make me puke. i hate these pricks more every day.

[makhno]

7. Their attitude toward Cleland is appalling

I sometimes engage in the guilty masochistic pleasure of reading FR, and a recent thread there was so disrespectful to Cleland. I couldn't believe it - some of these bastards were making fun of the fact that the guy picked up a grenade that maimed him for life! Calling him an idiot that deserved what he got! Sick fuckers, the whole lot.

[Senjutsu]

4. Yeah right.

Facts shut a freeper up?

That's a pretty charitable view of those folks.

[Wapsie B]

5. I don't think

there's anything that would quiet the freepers. If every last one on the Left was gone, freepers would begin to devour each other.

[Ksec]

6. Kerry should sue the whackos who regurgitate the lies

ruin them. Make them go begging on the street, that would send a strong message that lying about a mans character is way off limits.

[themann1086]

9. but then

the Freepers and dittoheads would whine about the liberal "Thought Police" cracking down on them.

[riverwalker]

8. Max Cleland lost arm and legs

and that wasn't good enough, they didn't like "how" he lost them. Now Kerry wasn't "wounded enough". Parent's of kids risking their lives in Iraq won't be too happy if someone like Bull Dyke Ann Coulter ridicules Kerry injuries. It will blow up in their faces, especially with all the draft talk.

[bearfartinthewoods]

15. i think you could have made your point without the homophobic

slur.

[JI7]

10. has rush said anything about this yet ?

has limpballs gone after kerry on this ? i don't listen to the asshole but if someone does please let me know.

[RebelOne]

13. Sean Insanity was raving about Kerry's records yesterday.

Hope this will shut him up. Though, I doubt it.

[justsam]

11. I've heard that Kerry asked or

put in for his medals rather than his CO and that is the embarrassing thing about the medals

[Bridget Burke]

12. Got a link?

"I heard" isn't enough.

[JI7]

14. that's not it, kerry has said he did that himself

his biographer doug brinkley was told of that and has reported it.

[truthspeaker]

16. so, where are Bush's records?

He still hasn't accounted for the 8 months he was allegedly AWOL.

[Richardo]

18. Right. The RW radio punks alledge that Bush released *all* his records...

...when it was just 400 pages of dental appointments.

The one Bush record we did not see? His DD-214 (discharge papers) which summarize your entire service career: citations, disciplinary actions, etc etc.

[Drifter]

17. Amazing ...

Questioning 3 Purple Hearts.

When chimpy released his records the only thing you could confirm is that he went to the dentist once, and got paid for duty during a time when NO ONE could ever remember him being there.

I hope AWOL trys to push this. It should be pretty funny.

Cheers
Drifter