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October 8, 2007
Kerry Ought to Know What "Phony Soldier" Means
As Sweetness & Light points out, it's ironic that John Kerry would pretend not to understand what Rush Limbaugh meant by "phony soldiers." After all, Hanoi John has known a few himself. Here he is with Al Hubbard, denouncing American efforts to defend democracy from totalitarianism:
As National Review reported back in the day, Al Hubbard was executive director of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He claimed to have been an Air Force captain who had been injured during a two-year stint in Vietnam.
But it came to light he wasn't really a captain. Then we learned that there was no record of his having served in Vietnam. It seems the only injuries on record were sustained playing basketball and soccer. But it can be confirmed that Hubbard was arrested for throwing cow manure on the steps of the Pentagon.
Kerry was well aware of Hubbard's phoniness. Spinning as only a moonbat can do, Botched Joke congratulated Hubbard for getting caught in the captain lie:
Al owned up to the rank question. He thought it was time to tell the truth, and he did it because he thought it would be best for the organization.
Nonetheless, Hubbard's anti-American fibs are included in Kerry's subsequently written The New Soldier:
Al Hubbard Sgt., 22 Troop Carrier Squadron Aug. '65-June '66
Emotions: Walking down the flight line at Saigon past stacks of aluminum cases containing American bodies and past stacks of aluminum luggage containing American currency. Seeing the tight, sad face of an Airman loading the bodies aboard a dirty Air Force Transport and the wide smiling face of a stewardess greeting the passengers aboard a clean Pan American Clipper Jet.
Hearing a Vietnamese beg you to leave his country and an American colonel tells you to bomb his country. Hearing a Vietnamese invite you to live in his home, after the war and an American explain why you can't live in his block, after the war.
Flying over barren, brown, safe American held terrain and over lush, green unsafe enemy terrain. Feeling happy to be leaving a country in which you do not belong and sad to be returning to a country in which you are not allowed to belong.
Sacrificing a portion of your consciousness so you won't have to deal with being there and building mental blocks so you won't have to deal with having been there.
- Al Hubbard
Apparently Kerry included this in the book despite knowing that Hubbard had never been to Vietnam. But then Kerry himself has a problem with fictional memories, as when spending Christmas 1968 in Cambodia was "seared — seared" into his memory (he was lying).
There are even those — namely the guys who served with him — who might call Kerry a phony soldier himself.
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For some reason Kerry's book isn't easy to get ahold of nowadays. |
On a tip from Charles.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 8, 2007 8:57 AM
Comments
Why is that guy from the MOD SQUAD in that photo with Kerry?
Posted by: Anonymous at October 8, 2007 9:24 AM
Excellent post. If the free press functioned ideally, this is how the New York Times would have covered Kerry's remarks. The only reason Kerry can lie with impunity are the enablers who run the mainstream media. Instead of context, we get spin. Thanks again for pointing out the truth.
Posted by: Beef at October 8, 2007 9:57 AM
He thought it was time to tell the truth Right after he got caught lying.
Posted by: Bandit at October 8, 2007 10:18 AM
The 200 lb pumpking stealing AWOL soldier must surely be a Moonbat. Only a Moonbat would be dumb enough to throw his life away for a 200 pound gourd.
http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/07281/823836-100.stm
"AWOL soldier accused of stealing 200-pound pumpkin
Monday, October 08, 2007
The Associated Press
A soldier accused of deserting the Army and two other men tried to steal a 200-pound pumpkin from a Bentleyville grocery store, state police said.
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Posted by: Anonymous at October 8, 2007 10:46 AM
Just a quick question:
Has Kerry ever released all of his military records as he once promised he would do?
Posted by: joated at October 8, 2007 3:17 PM
Answer to joated's ?: Nooooooo!!!
Posted by: apostle53 at October 8, 2007 4:03 PM
I would have pointed out the contradictions and lies in Hubbard's paragraphs, but why bother? "Fake but accurate", right?
Posted by: KHarn at October 8, 2007 5:41 PM
Most people know that John Kerry is one of the most transparent phonies that ever consumed oxygen, but I wonder if people realize just HOW phony he is.
His service in the Navy consisted mainly on being aboard a ship that saw no action. Nothing at all wrong with that, but rather difficult to receive any battle decorations from that type of situation.
Then he requested transfer to the swift boat duty in Vietnam, no doubt because of his personal delusions in considering himself a JFK (the REAL JFK) type figure.
He was there a total of FOUR months folks...FOUR MONTHS. First month of such duty was typically devoted to training, so that left 3 months. Yet somehow he "earned":
A Silver Star
A Bronze Star
THREE Purple Hearts
All this while one of his buddies acting as cameraman to record all of Kerry's heroic exploits. (But that wasn't unusual, after all most GI's brought along their own cameraman in 'Nam....LOL!)
Are you kidding me? All that in 3 months??!! Forget about what the Swift Boat Vets said, even your common sense should tell you something stinks here. This guy would have to be Douglas MacArthur, George Patton, and Audie Murphy all rolled into one to accomplish all that in only 3 months. I think not.....
Now combine that with what you know about this phony, for example: Lying about atrocities he witnessed, lying about his mission to Cambodia, and lying about hearing Nixon's speech during Christmas of '68 stating there were no American forces deployed to Cambodia. (Of course Nixon wasn't president yet, nonetheless that event is "seared" into Kerry's memory).
Let's see the records you promised to release over and over again, Senator!
Posted by: Jack Bauer at October 9, 2007 5:19 AM
