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VETS CHARGE: KERRY KILLED FLEEING TEEN; LIED FOR MEDAL
Slaughters
Animals, Burns Down Tiny Village
Women stampeded - Cattle raped
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A veterans group seeking to deeply discredit Kerry's
military service will charge
in the new bombshell book UNFIT FOR COMMAND:
"Kerry earned his Silver Star by killing a lone,
fleeing, teenage Viet Cong in a loincloth."
"And if Kerry's superiors had known the truth
at the time, they would never have recommended him for the medal."
The book also claims to detail how Kerry personally ordered the slaughter of small animals at a small hamlet along the Song Bo De River.
The book, set for release next week, hit #1 on
the AMAZON hitparade after the DRUDGE RETARD revealed details of the book
-- a book the Kerry camapign believes is the"the
dirtiest of all dirty tricks ever played on a candidate for the presidency."
The Kerry campaign is planning to vigorously counter
the charges and will accuse the veteran's groups of being well-financed
by a
top Bush donor from Texas. The vets have launched
a blistering new TV commercial questioning Kerry's honor and calling him
a liar.
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George Bates, an officer in Coastal Division 11,
participated in numerous operations with Kerry. In UNFIT FOR COMMAND,
Bates recalls a particular patrol with Kerry
on the Song Bo De River. He is still "haunted" by the incident:
With Kerry in the lead, the boats approached a
small hamlet with three or four grass huts. Pigs and chickens were milling
around peacefully.
As the boats drew closer, the villagers fled.
There were no political symbols or flags in evidence in the tiny village.
It was obvious to Bates
that existing policies, decency, and good sense
required the boats to simply move on.
Instead, Kerry beached his boat directly in the
small settlement. Upon his command, the numerous small animals were slaughtered
by
heavy-caliber machine guns. Acting more like
a pirate than a naval officer, Kerry disembarked and ran around with a
Zippo lighter,
burning up the entire hamlet. Bates
has never forgotten Kerry's actions.
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UNFIT FOR COMMAND, DRUDGE has learned, claims Kerry "earned his Silver Star by killing a lone, fleeing, teenage Viet Cong in a loincloth."
ARE THE VETS TELLING THE TRUTH?
"They hired a goddamn private investigator to
dig up trash!" charged a top Kerry adviser traveling with the senator late
Tuesday.
"This is pay for play... How low can they go?"
Kerry supporters are comparing the effort by the veterans to the Arkansas State troopers tell-all against Bill Clinton.
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John O'Neill, co-author of UNFIT FOR COMMAND,
believes that "Kerry's Star would never have been awarded had his actions
been reviewed through normal channels. In his
case, he was awarded the medal two days after the incident with no review.
The medal
was arranged to boost the morale of Coastal Division
11, but it was based on false and incomplete information provided by Kerry
himself."
According to Kerry's Silver Star citation, Kerry
was in command of a three-boat mission on the Dong Cung River. As the boats
approached the target area, they came under intense
enemy fire. Kerry ordered his boat to attack and all boats opened fire.
He then
beached directly in front of the enemy ambushers.
In the battle that followed, the crews captured enemy weapons. His boat
then
moved further up the river to suppress more enemy
fire. A rocket exploded near Kerry's boat, and he ordered to charge the
enemy.
Kerry beached his boat 10 feet from the rocket
position and led a landing party ashore to pursue the enemy.
Kerry' citation reads: "The extraordinary daring
and personal courage of Lt. Kerry in attacking a numerically superior force
in the
face of intense fire were responsible for the
highly successful mission."
Here's what O'Neill and the Swiftees say: "According
to Kerry's crewman Michael Madeiros, Kerry had an agreement with him
to turn the boat in and onto the beach if fired
upon. Each of the three boats involved in the operation was involved in
the agreement."
O'Neill writes that one crewman even recalls
a discussion of probable medals.
Doug Reese, a pro Kerry Army veteran, recounted
what happened that day to O'Neill, "Far from being alone, the boats were
loaded
with many soldiers commanded by Reese and two
other advisors. When fired at, Reese's boat--not Kerry's--was the first
to beach in
the ambush zone. Then Reese and other troops
and advisors (not Kerry) disembarked, killing a number of Viet Cong and
capturing a
number of weapons. None of the participants from
Reese's boat received Silver Stars.
O'Neill continues: "Kerry's boat moved slightly
downstream and was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade. . . .A young Viet
Cong in
a loincloth popped out of a hole, clutching a
grenade launcher, which may or may not have been loaded. . . Tom Belodeau,
a forward
gunner, shot the Viet Cong with an M-60 machine
gun in the leg as he fled. . . . Kerry and Medeiros (who had many troops
in their boat)
took off, perhaps with others, and followed the
young Viet Cong and shot him in the back, behind a lean to."
O'Neill concludes "Whether Kerry's dispatching
of a fleeing, wounded, armed or unarmed teenage enemy was in accordance
with the
customs of war, it is very clear that many Vietnam
veterans and most Swiftees do not consider this action to be the stuff
of which medals
of any kind are awarded; nor would it even be
a good story if told in the cold details of reality. There is no indication
that Kerry ever
reported that the Viet Cong was wounded and fleeing
when dispatched. Likewise, the citation simply ignores the presence of
the soldiers
and advisors who actually 'captured the enemy
weapons' and routed the Viet Cong. . . . [and] that Kerry attacked a 'numerically
superior
force in the face of intense fire' is simply
false. There was little or no fire after Kerry followed the plan. . . .
The lone, wounded, fleeing
young Viet Cong in a loincloth was hardly a force
superior to the heavily armed Swift Boat and its crew and the soldiers
carried aboard."
DRUDGE learns from UNFIT FOR COMMAND that if Kerry's superior officers knew the truth, they would never have recommended the award:
"Admiral Roy Hoffmann, who sent a Bravo Zulu (meaning
"good work"), to Kerry upon learning of the incident, was very surprised
to
discover in 2004 what had actually occurred.
Hoffmann had been told that Kerry had spontaneously beached next to the
bunker and
almost single-handedly routed a bunkered force
in Viet Cong. He was shocked to find out that Kerry had beached his boat
second in
a preplanned operation, and that he had killed
a single, wounded teenage foe as he fled."
"Commander Geoge Elliott, who wrote up the initial
draft of Kerry's Silver Star citation, confirms that neither he, nor anyone
else in
the Silver Star process that he knows, realized
before 1996 that Kerry was facing a single, wounded young Viet Cong fleeing
in a loincloth.
While Commander Elliott and many other Swiftees
believe that Kerry committed no crime in killing the fleeing, wounded enemy
(with a
loaded or empty launcher), others feel differently.
Commander Elliott indicates that a Silver Star recommendation would not
have been
made by him had he been aware of the actual facts."
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