
This article comes from Canada. Yes, Canada!
Kerry's charade
By Paul Jackson -- Calgary Sun
It was hard not to chuckle at the piece of pantomime as John Kerry appeared on stage at the Democratic National Convention, gave a mock salute, and said, "My name is John Kerry, and I am reporting for duty."
This, I thought, is the start of the man's undoing.
It was all just too theatrical. Something of a charade.
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Yet O'Neill and Corsi claim not only were the three wounds superficial, but alleges one was self-inflicted. The authors say an accompanying crewman told the examining doctor who was treating Kerry for his first "wartime injury" that Kerry even then was planning to run for president.
Quickly, set the stage!
They claim Kerry spent much of his time in Vietnam filming himself in scenarios carefully designed to look dangerous, and it is certainly true Kerry did take a movie camera with him to Vietnam. Again, setting the stage?
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O'Neill -- again Kerry's successor as commander of the Swift PCF 94 -- says the presidential nominee was so self-centred and such a self-promoter that fed-up crew members asked him to go home after he had served just four months in Vietnam.
They quote the gunner's mate who sat behind Kerry for most of his stay in Vietnam saying he came to regard him as incompetent and dishonest.
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