Kerry's new pitch to voters -- "Vote for me, I'm an America-hating
liar"

Let the buyer's remorse begin, lefties...

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Discarded Decorations
Videotape Contradicts John Kerry's Own Statements Over Vietnam Medals
By Brian Ross and Chris Vlasto
ABCNEWS.com

April 25— Contradicting his statements as a candidate for president,
Sen. John Kerry claimed in a 1971 television interview that he threw
away as many as nine of his combat medals to protest the war in
Vietnam.

"I gave back, I can't remember, 6, 7, 8, 9 medals," Kerry said in an
interview on a Washington, D.C. news program on WRC-TV's called
Viewpoints on November 6, 1971, according to a tape obtained by
ABCNEWS.
Throughout his presidential campaign, Kerry has denied that he threw
away any of his 11 medals during an anti-war protest in April, 1971.

His campaign Web site calls it a "right wing fiction" and a smear. And
in an interview with ABCNEWS' Peter Jennings last December, he said it
was a "myth."

But Kerry told a much different story on Viewpoints. Asked about the
anti-war veterans who threw their medals away, Kerry said "they
decided to give them back to their country."

Kerry was asked if he gave back the Bronze Star, Silver Star and three
Purple Hearts he was awarded for combat duty as a Navy lieutenant in
Vietnam. "Well, and above that, [i] gave back the others," he said.

The statement directly contradicts Kerry's most recent claims on the
disputed subject to the Los Angeles Times last Friday. "I never ever
implied that I did it, " Kerry told the newspaper, responding to the
question of whether he threw away his medals in protest.

"I'm proud of my medals. I always was proud of them," he told Jennings
in December, adding that he had only thrown away his "ribbons" and the
medals of two other veterans who could not attend the protest.

Flip Flop?

The disputed incident happened 33 years ago this past weekend, on
April 23, 1971, when Kerry led the group Vietnam Veterans Against the
War in a protest against the war they fought.

Many veterans were seen throwing their medals and ribbons over the
fence in front of the U.S. Capitol. At the time, The Boston Globe and
other newspapers reported that Kerry was among these veterans.

"In a real sense, this administration forced us to return our medals
because beyond the perversion of the war, these leaders themselves
denied us the integrity those symbols supposedly gave our lives,"
Kerry said the following day.

But in 1984, when he first ran for the U.S. Senate, Kerry revealed he
still had his medals. According to a Boston Globe report on April 15,
1984, union officials had expressed uneasiness with Kerry's candidacy
because he had thrown his medals away. Kerry acknowledged the medals
he threw away were, in fact, another soldier's medals. He reportedly
invited a union official home to personally inspect his Silver Star,
Bronze Star and three purple hearts, awarded for his combat duty as a
Navy lieutenant.

In the 1971 Viewpoints interview, he made no mention of the ribbons or
the medals belonging to another veteran.

And in 1988, Kerry again clarified his statement by saying he threw
out ribbons he had been awarded for three combat wounds, but not his
medals. "I was proud of my personal service and remain so," he told
the National Journal.

Eight years later in 1996, Kerry said while he did throw out his
ribbons, he didn't throw out his own medals because he "didn't have
time to go home [to New York] and get them," he told The Boston Globe.

Kerry's campaign Web site says he "is proud of the work he did to end
the war. The Nixon Administration made John Kerry one of its targets
and Republicans have been smearing him ever since. John Kerry threw
his ribbons and the medals of two veterans who could not attend the
event, and said, 'I am not doing this for any violent reasons, but for
peace and justice, and to try to make this country wake up once and
for all.'"

A spokesperson for Kerry's campaign said he didn't make a distinction
between medals and ribbons, but Kerry plans to respond on Good Morning
America.

"pyjamarama" wrote in message
om...
Kerry's new pitch to voters -- "Vote for me, I'm an America-hating
liar"

Where was the part about hating America? Was it the part about wanting
America to wake up to the idea that the Vietnam war was a bad idea, and
publicly demonstrating his views against it? We certainly didn't catch
George Bush throwing away any combat medals, or protesting the Vietnam war,
so that I guess proves he loves America way more than Kerry.

[i]

Discarded Decorations
Videotape Contradicts John Kerry's Own Statements Over Vietnam Medals
By Brian Ross and Chris Vlasto
ABCNEWS.com

April 25- Contradicting his statements as a candidate for president,
Sen. John Kerry claimed in a 1971 television interview that he threw
away as many as nine of his combat medals to protest the war in
Vietnam.

"I gave back, I can't remember, 6, 7, 8, 9 medals," Kerry said in an
interview on a Washington, D.C. news program on WRC-TV's called
Viewpoints on November 6, 1971, according to a tape obtained by
ABCNEWS.
Throughout his presidential campaign, Kerry has denied that he threw
away any of his 11 medals during an anti-war protest in April, 1971.

His campaign Web site calls it a "right wing fiction" and a smear. And
in an interview with ABCNEWS' Peter Jennings last December, he said it
was a "myth."

But Kerry told a much different story on Viewpoints. Asked about the
anti-war veterans who threw their medals away, Kerry said "they
decided to give them back to their country."

Kerry was asked if he gave back the Bronze Star, Silver Star and three
Purple Hearts he was awarded for combat duty as a Navy lieutenant in
Vietnam. "Well, and above that, gave back the others," he said.

The statement directly contradicts Kerry's most recent claims on the
disputed subject to the Los Angeles Times last Friday. "I never ever
implied that I did it, " Kerry told the newspaper, responding to the
question of whether he threw away his medals in protest.

"I'm proud of my medals. I always was proud of them," he told Jennings
in December, adding that he had only thrown away his "ribbons" and the
medals of two other veterans who could not attend the protest.

Flip Flop?

The disputed incident happened 33 years ago this past weekend, on
April 23, 1971, when Kerry led the group Vietnam Veterans Against the
War in a protest against the war they fought.

Many veterans were seen throwing their medals and ribbons over the
fence in front of the U.S. Capitol. At the time, The Boston Globe and
other newspapers reported that Kerry was among these veterans.

"In a real sense, this administration forced us to return our medals
because beyond the perversion of the war, these leaders themselves
denied us the integrity those symbols supposedly gave our lives,"
Kerry said the following day.

But in 1984, when he first ran for the U.S. Senate, Kerry revealed he
still had his medals. According to a Boston Globe report on April 15,
1984, union officials had expressed uneasiness with Kerry's candidacy
because he had thrown his medals away. Kerry acknowledged the medals
he threw away were, in fact, another soldier's medals. He reportedly
invited a union official home to personally inspect his Silver Star,
Bronze Star and three purple hearts, awarded for his combat duty as a
Navy lieutenant.

In the 1971 Viewpoints interview, he made no mention of the ribbons or
the medals belonging to another veteran.

And in 1988, Kerry again clarified his statement by saying he threw
out ribbons he had been awarded for three combat wounds, but not his
medals. "I was proud of my personal service and remain so," he told
the National Journal.

Eight years later in 1996, Kerry said while he did throw out his
ribbons, he didn't throw out his own medals because he "didn't have
time to go home [to New York] and get them," he told The Boston Globe.

Kerry's campaign Web site says he "is proud of the work he did to end
the war. The Nixon Administration made John Kerry one of its targets
and Republicans have been smearing him ever since. John Kerry threw
his ribbons and the medals of two veterans who could not attend the
event, and said, 'I am not doing this for any violent reasons, but for
peace and justice, and to try to make this country wake up once and
for all.'"

A spokesperson for Kerry's campaign said he didn't make a distinction
between medals and ribbons, but Kerry plans to respond on Good Morning
America.

"Wylie Williams" wrote in message

Where was the part about hating America? Was it the part about wanting
America to wake up to the idea that the Vietnam war was a bad idea, and
publicly demonstrating his views against it? We certainly didn't catch
George Bush throwing away any combat medals, or protesting the Vietnam
war,
so that I guess proves he loves America way more than Kerry.


Don't waste your breath. If this were Britain, PJ would be supporting Nick
Griffin of BNP fame, rather than the Tories.

Saying that he's a credible polemicist, is like saying that
nutritionist-turned-conservative Michael Savage has something worthwhile to
say.

Regarding the latter, I find it ironic that he can call Britney Spears a
'slut' on his radio show, and then come and give an interview on Fox chiding
Howard Stern for his 'lewd' content.

"Wylie Williams" wrote in message thlink.net...
"pyjamarama" wrote in message
om...
Kerry's new pitch to voters -- "Vote for me, I'm an America-hating
liar"

Where was the part about hating America? Was it the part about wanting
America to wake up to the idea that the Vietnam war was a bad idea, and
publicly demonstrating his views against it? We certainly didn't catch
George Bush throwing away any combat medals, or protesting the Vietnam war,
so that I guess proves he loves America way more than Kerry.

John Kerry's Radical Left-Wing Past


Joel Mowbray

After the media tore into President Bush's 30-year-old National Guard
record like a voracious pit bull into a bacon-scented postman,
DemocRATs have been licking their chops in anticipation of
highlighting John Kerry's decorated service during the same time
period.

A new web site launching this week, however, should give DemocRATs
more than a moment's pause-and it's likely just the opening salvo in
exposing the truth about the outlandish actions of Kerry and his
comrades as part of an anti-war group known as Vietnam Veterans
Against the War (VVAW).

The new site, WinterSoldier.com , is named after the event that helped
raise Kerry to prominence in 1971. The Winter Soldier Investigation,
as it was called, was held in Detroit from January 31 to February
2-with financial backing from Jane Fonda, according to an historian
cited on the web site-where over 100 veterans testified about the most
horrendous war crimes imaginable happening every day.

John Kerry was an instant celebrity, and the group behind the
three-day conference, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW),
certainly served his political ambitions well. But if the wealth of
information found at WinterSoldier.com gains any traction, Kerry's
past could come back to haunt him.

VVAW was a media favorite: war veterans who were anti-war. Quite a
sales pitch. But the more realistic characterization would have been
Americans who were anti-American. (Literally, too: One of the
documents at WinterSoldier.com is the minutes of a VVAW executive
meeting where members decided to take down American flags from all
VVAW offices.)

Their goal was not just to sour Americans on the Vietnam war, but to
make them hate America and American soldiers.

Hence the Winter Soldier Investigation.

The three-day circus featured tales of the most sadistic forms of
torture, including genital mutilation and gang rape, and wanton mass
murder of innocent civilians. Kerry and the others claimed that almost
unprecedented war crimes were not simply rampant, but committed as a
matter of U.S. policy.

One of the most shocking quotes comes from Kerry himself, claiming
that he had committed war crimes in Vietnam, then suggested he was
merely following orders. Following orders, however, does not absolve
someone of guilt for committing war crimes. Which begs the question:
will Kerry be willing to discuss the details of the war crimes he
claims to have committed?

Some will excuse VVAW's actions and hyperbolic rhetoric as the work of
people understandably disillusioned by an embittering war experience.
But there is evidence suggesting that many of the atrocities routinely
touted by VVAW were, well, made up.

An excerpt of historian Guenter Lewy's book According to America
posted on WinterSoldier.com discusses the results of a government
investigation that attempted to corroborate the claims made at the
VVAW event in Detroit. The investigators couldn't.

According to Lewy, the VVAW had told its members not to cooperate with
the government inquiry-a probe that was initiated by Sen. Mark
Hatfield of Oregon in order to verify gruesome claims made at the
VVAW-sponsored event. The historian also notes that government
inspectors found veterans whose names had been used by people
testifying in Detroit that were not actually there.

In other words, some of the "witnesses" in Detroit were impostors,
tarnishing the names of real soldiers.

It appears that Kerry was also something of an impostor. During a
massive rally in front of the U.S. Capitol, a number of veterans threw
their medals over a high-wire fence. One was Kerry. Or at least so it
appeared.

The section "Busted by the historians" contains an excerpt from Stolen
Valor by B. G. Burkett, Glenna Whitley. The key quote: "But years
later, after his election to the Senate, Kerry's medals turned up on
the wall of his Capitol Hill office. When a reporter noticed them,
Kerry admitted that the medals he had thrown that day were not his."

Since Kerry's comrades seem so eager to judge President Bush's
character by whether or not he fulfilled a handful of National Guard
obligations, the door may already have been opened to attacks on the
DemocRATic front runner' s own conduct from those days.

Voters could have plenty of versions of Kerry from which to choose:
the communist sympathizer who gleefully defamed America and millions
of American soldiers, the war hero too cowardly to throw away his own
medals, or the anti-war activist who was so eager to claim he had
committed war crimes.
[i]



Discarded Decorations
Videotape Contradicts John Kerry's Own Statements Over Vietnam Medals
By Brian Ross and Chris Vlasto
ABCNEWS.com

April 25- Contradicting his statements as a candidate for president,
Sen. John Kerry claimed in a 1971 television interview that he threw
away as many as nine of his combat medals to protest the war in
Vietnam.

"I gave back, I can't remember, 6, 7, 8, 9 medals," Kerry said in an
interview on a Washington, D.C. news program on WRC-TV's called
Viewpoints on November 6, 1971, according to a tape obtained by
ABCNEWS.
Throughout his presidential campaign, Kerry has denied that he threw
away any of his 11 medals during an anti-war protest in April, 1971.

His campaign Web site calls it a "right wing fiction" and a smear. And
in an interview with ABCNEWS' Peter Jennings last December, he said it
was a "myth."

But Kerry told a much different story on Viewpoints. Asked about the
anti-war veterans who threw their medals away, Kerry said "they
decided to give them back to their country."

Kerry was asked if he gave back the Bronze Star, Silver Star and three
Purple Hearts he was awarded for combat duty as a Navy lieutenant in
Vietnam. "Well, and above that, gave back the others," he said.

The statement directly contradicts Kerry's most recent claims on the
disputed subject to the Los Angeles Times last Friday. "I never ever
implied that I did it, " Kerry told the newspaper, responding to the
question of whether he threw away his medals in protest.

"I'm proud of my medals. I always was proud of them," he told Jennings
in December, adding that he had only thrown away his "ribbons" and the
medals of two other veterans who could not attend the protest.

Flip Flop?

The disputed incident happened 33 years ago this past weekend, on
April 23, 1971, when Kerry led the group Vietnam Veterans Against the
War in a protest against the war they fought.

Many veterans were seen throwing their medals and ribbons over the
fence in front of the U.S. Capitol. At the time, The Boston Globe and
other newspapers reported that Kerry was among these veterans.

"In a real sense, this administration forced us to return our medals
because beyond the perversion of the war, these leaders themselves
denied us the integrity those symbols supposedly gave our lives,"
Kerry said the following day.

But in 1984, when he first ran for the U.S. Senate, Kerry revealed he
still had his medals. According to a Boston Globe report on April 15,
1984, union officials had expressed uneasiness with Kerry's candidacy
because he had thrown his medals away. Kerry acknowledged the medals
he threw away were, in fact, another soldier's medals. He reportedly
invited a union official home to personally inspect his Silver Star,
Bronze Star and three purple hearts, awarded for his combat duty as a
Navy lieutenant.

In the 1971 Viewpoints interview, he made no mention of the ribbons or
the medals belonging to another veteran.

And in 1988, Kerry again clarified his statement by saying he threw
out ribbons he had been awarded for three combat wounds, but not his
medals. "I was proud of my personal service and remain so," he told
the National Journal.

Eight years later in 1996, Kerry said while he did throw out his
ribbons, he didn't throw out his own medals because he "didn't have
time to go home [to New York] and get them," he told The Boston Globe.

Kerry's campaign Web site says he "is proud of the work he did to end
the war. The Nixon Administration made John Kerry one of its targets
and Republicans have been smearing him ever since. John Kerry threw
his ribbons and the medals of two veterans who could not attend the
event, and said, 'I am not doing this for any violent reasons, but for
peace and justice, and to try to make this country wake up once and
for all.'"

A spokesperson for Kerry's campaign said he didn't make a distinction
between medals and ribbons, but Kerry plans to respond on Good Morning
America.