http://www.drudgereport.com/dnc8.htm
While a swift-boat commander in Vietnam, Sen. John Kerry filmed re-enactments of combat which Democrats plan to use in the official video introducing their presidential nominee tomorrow night in Boston.A new book, "Unfit for Command," written by John O'Neill, who took over Kerry's swift boat, PCF-94, charges the Massachusetts senator carried a home movie camera to "record his exploits," according to the Drudge Report.

Tedd Peck, who piloted PCF-94 before being wounded and turning over command to Kerry, told WorldNetDaily the footage taken in Vietnam is "phony."

Kerry's 8-millimeter films shows him with grenades hanging from a flack jacket, but Peck says the members of the swift-boat crew were not ground troops -- being told never to leave the boat -- and never were issued grenades because of the chance of them ricocheting when lobbed from the deck.

"He found [the grenades] and wanted to make himself look like a gungho John Wayne," said Peck, who said he didn't like Kerry from the start. "That's what it is, Hollywood."

Peck said he and his colleagues thought it was odd that Kerry took the camera with him on patrol.

"He was carefully getting his heroics down," Peck said.

O'Neill's book says Kerry "would revisit ambush locations for re-enacting combat scenes where he would portray the hero, catching it all on film. Kerry would take movies of himself walking around in combat gear, sometimes dressed as an infantryman walking resolutely through the terrain. He even filmed mock interviews of himself narrating his exploits. A joke circulated among Swiftees was that Kerry left Vietnam early not because he received three Purple Hearts, but because he had recorded enough film of himself to take home for his planned political campaigns."
The Boston Globe reported in 1996, noted Drudge, that the Kerry home movies "reveal something indelible about the man who shot them -- the tall, thin, handsome Naval officer seen striding through the reeds in flak jacket and helmet, holding aloft the captured B-40 rocket. The young man so unconscious of risk in the heat of battle, yet so focused on his future ambitions that he would reenact the moment for film. It is as if he had cast himself in the sequel to the experience of his hero, John F. Kennedy, on the PT-109."

Thomas Vallely, a fellow veteran and one of Kerry's closest political advisers and friends, told the Globe, "John was thinking Camelot when he shot that film, absolutely."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=39683


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The senator from Massachusetts found his political footing among war protesters during this time and road the wave he felt would propel him to the political top and, according to Kerry's state's political insiders in front of the cameras, a place he would come to know and cherish.These insiders have told the Boston Globe they refer to him as "Live Shot," for his penchant for attracting coverage.
"Mr. Kerry has used his famous war record {he won a Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts ,the same medals he claimed to have thrown over the capitol gates but later admitted they were not his because his were still on his office wall} as the foundation of his political career, and since beginning his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination this year, has invoked his military credentials whenever possible."
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20...5623-9539r.htm

Byron York of the Hill, however, reports there is a movie about Kerry's Vietnam experience, produced and directed by John Kerry. York describes a 1996 report in the Boston Globe:
Kerry told reporter Charles Sennott the oft-repeated story of the February 1969 firefight in which Kerry attacked the Viet Cong who ambushed his Swift boat. . . .

The future senator was so "focused on his future ambitions," Sennott reported, that he bought a Super-8 movie camera, returned to the scene, and re-enacted the skirmish on film.

It was that film, transferred to videotape, that Kerry played for Sennott.

"I'll show you where they shot from. See? That's the hole covered up with reeds," Kerry said as he ran the tape in slow motion. . . .

Through hours of watching the films in the den of his newly renovated Beacon Hill mansion, it becomes apparent that these are memories and footage he returns to often," Sennott wrote.

York puts forth that Kerry is "stuck in a Vietnam-era time warp";roomer has it he even plays ancient Jimi Hendrix tunes at campaign rallies. Kerry "seems far older than, say, the 71-year-old Donald Rumsfeld--a man who is always moving ahead, not inclined to lecture about the way things were 30 or 40 years ago."

http://www.thehill.com/york/022604.aspx

Here we have a JFK wannabe (the guy Halsey wanted to court martial for carelessly losing his boat and getting a couple people killed by running across the bow of a Japanese destroyer) who is hardly in Vietnam long enough to get good tan, collects medals faster than Audie Murphy in a job where lots of medals weren't common, gets sent home eight months early and requests separation from active duty a few months after that so he can run for Congress. In that election, he finds out war heroes don't sell well in Massachsetts in 1970, so he reinvents himself as Jane Fonda, throws his ribbons in the dirt with the cameras running to jump start his political career, gets Stillborn Pell to invite him to address Congress and has Bobby Kennedy's speechwriter to do the heavy lifting. A few years later he winds up in the Senate himself, where he votes against every major defense bill and says the CIA is irrelevant after the Berlin Wall came down. He votes against the Gulf War (a big political mistake since that turned out well), then decides not to make the same mistake twice so votes for invading Iraq -- but that didn't fare as well with the Democrats, so he now says he really didn't mean for Bush to go to war when he voted to allow him to go to war.

Retired Marine Master Sergeant who was in S-2, 3rd Bn, 1st Marines, Korea in 1954.
A group of more than 220 veterans who served in Sen. John Kerry's swift-boat unit in Vietnam are calling on the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate to stop unauthorized use of their images in national campaign advertising.

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which has declared the Massachusetts senator "unfit to be commander in chief," says 11 of the 20 officers in one photo Kerry uses have signed a letter condemning him. The photo, which includes Kerry, was taken on the island of An Thoi Jan. 22, 1969.

"Of the remaining eight officers in the photo, two are deceased and four don't want any involvement," the veterans said in a statement. Only two of the 20 are believed to support Kerry.One veteran in the photo, William Shumadine, said, "His use of a photograph with his 19 comrades with knowledge that 11 of them condemn him and six who cannot or do not want to be involved is a complete misrepresentation to the public and a total fraud."
http://www.swiftvets.com/

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