Excuse me Bobert, but when HERO John Kerry turned his boat to shore and engaged the enrmy in a firefight, the said enemy had already taken a .50 cal. burst to the body and disapeared behind a hut.

HERO Kerry ran his boat ashore -abandonding his command- and went behind the hut. There was a shot after which he re-appeared and announced that he had finished the enemy.

Not anyone who knows one damn thing about a .50 cal. machine gun knows that a burst to the body means that the recipient is very, very, dead.
HERO Kerry was grandstanding and putting the lives of all under his command at risk. Had there been an attack at that moment, his boat would have had to wait until he re-boarded before it could move out of harms way.

I would not have wanted to serve under a commander who took those kinds of risks with MY life.

The fact that he rescued a man in the water is commendable, but it should be remembered that his was not the only boat involved in the rescue.

You may not want to believe that the stories that the Swift Boat Veterans have told are true, but, based on what I know of HERO John Kerry during and after his few months of combat service, I can believe that they are, for the most part, factual.

One has only to look at his testimony before the Congressional committee and check out his involvment with the Winter Soldier thing (where men who were not even in the military testified about atrocities that "they" has commited)to realize that John Kerry could not and cannot be believed with regard to his breif military service.

BTW, does anyone know if he ever finished his service. As a reservist, he was obligated to two years active duty and then four years in the reserve with meetings one weekend per month plus two weeks active duty per year. I've never seen anything that indicates that he did that. Maybe the answer lies in those pages of his personnel file that he has never allowed to be released.

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