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> Comfortable? Have a bucket of buttered popcorn and a cold beer at
the
>ready? (If you were my friend Otto, you'd have instead a Grey Goose
>martini.) All set for the greatest political fireworks show of your
>life? Showtime is about to begin.
>
>Those SwiftVet ads, you see, have been just the prelims to warm the
>audience up. The main acts will be much more entertaining. They'll
>begin with signs appearing at Kerry campaign rallies saying:
>
>Ho, ho, ho - Kerry must sign the One-Eight-Oh
>
>What does that mean, you ask? It is the demand that Kerry sign a DOD
>(Defense Dept.) Form 180, which authorizes the release to the public
of
>all military records the Pentagon possesses on him.
>
>George Bush has released all of his, just like John McCain and Al
Gore.
>Kerry refuses. He's hiding stuff in there that destroys him, is why.
>One such record has already been leaked: The official Navy
>"after-action report" that was the basis of Kerry's being awarded the
>Silver Star. This is the key quote:
>
>PCF 94 [Kerry's Swift Boat] beached in center of ambush in front of
>small path when Viet Cong sprung up from bunker 10 feet from unit. Man
>ran with weapon towards hootch. Forward M-60 machine gunner wounded
man
>in leg. Officer-in-charge, LTjg Kerry, jumped ashore and gave pursuit
>while other units saturated area with fire and beached placing assault
>parties ashore. Kerry chased VC inland behind hootch and shot him
while
>he fled -- capturing one B-40 rocket launcher with round in chamber.
>
>
> It is impossibly insulting to anyone in the military awarded a
medal
>for bravery in battle that Kerry was given one of the highest honors
>the military can bestow - the Silver Star - for shooting a single
>wounded man while he was running away. How did Kerry engineer this?
>Only the yet-unreleased records will tell.
>
>Yet this is small potatoes to what's really in there. For starters, he
>has AWOL and performance problems that blow similar charges against
>Bush away. On February 18, 1966, Kerry signed Enlistment and Officer
>Candidate contracts for five years of active duty and reserves, plus
>one year of inactive standby reserves. On November 21, 1969, he wrote
a
>letter requesting early release from active Navy duty, lying that "my
>current regular period of obligated service (will) be completed in
>December of this year." Obviously, the true completion date was
>February 17, 1971.
>
> Nonetheless, after only three years and 18 days of active service,
on
>January 3, 1970, Kerry was transferred to the Naval Reserve Manpower
>Center in Bainbridge, Maryland. Yet Kerry has refused to release his
>Performance Records showing that he completed the 48 drills and 17
days
>of active duty per year required during his 2? years in the Ready
>Reserves. For some reason, the Democrat Party propagandists posing as
>journalists in the mainstream media have never asked about them.
>
>On July 1, 1972, Lt. John Kerry was transferred to Standby Inactive
>Status. Over 5? years later - and six years after his enlistment
>contract expired - Kerry was discharged from the US Navy on February
>16, 1978. It's not the phoniness of the medals and the after-action
>reports Kerry is hiding by refusing to sign Form 180. It's not even
his
>Reserve Duty Performance Records showing he missed as many drills as
>he's missed votes in the Senate. What he is really scared of is the
>record of his spending six years fighting an OTH - Other Than
Honorable
>- discharge.
>
> There are five classes of Discharge: Honorable, General, Other Than
>Honorable, Bad Conduct, and Dishonorable. Kerry's public activities in
>leading the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), including lying
>under oath, knowingly lying about alleged "atrocities" committed by
his
>fellow soldiers, meeting with North Vietnamese government officials
and
>Viet Cong leaders in Paris - all while still serving as an officer of
>the US Navy - were in direct violation of the Uniform Code of Military
>Justice
>(UCMJ), qualifying Kerry for a Dishonorable Discharge.
>
>When Kerry appealed, he was offered an OTH - Other Than Honorable - as
>a compromise. He knew even that would destroy any possible political
>career, so he continued to stay in the Reserves with further appeals
>and resubmissions for over five years, until finally, somehow and
>someway, he cajoled the military into making his discharge Honorable.
>Then and only then did he leave the Navy.
>
>The full story of how he gamed the system is in those records he won't
>release. The legal activist group, Judicial Watch
><http://www.judicialwatch.org/> , has now filed a formal complaint
><http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2004/kerryawards.htm> with the
>Pentagon demanding such release. But this is just the opening salvo.
>
> The 14th Amendment to the Constitution has five sections. Here is
>Section Three:
>
>
>No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector
>of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or
military,
>under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously
>taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United
>States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or
>judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the
>United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against
>the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress
>may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
>
>
>As Kerry took an oath to support the Constitution as a military
officer
>of the United States, and subsequently gave public and verifiable aid
>and comfort to an enemy engaged in warfare with the United States, he
>is Constitutionally disqualified to run for President (or be a Senator
>for that matter).
>
>Judicial Watch is thus preparing to file a lawsuit in federal court
>charging that Kerry's candidacy for President is a violation of the
>14th Amendment.
>
>Note, however, that last sentence in Section Three: "But Congress may
>by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." It
>turns out there are many Republican Congressmen and Senators who are
>closet Kerry-supporters - so much so that they will be offering H.R.
>and S. Resolutions exempting Kerry from his 14th Amendment disability.
>They will stand up on the House or Senate floor and give earnest
>speeches in support of the resolution. How they will keep a straight
>face, and suppress any sign whatever of malicious glee, I have no idea
>- but that's one of the skills any politician has.
>
>So sit back and relax, folks. Have another beer (Otto - have another
>martini...). This is going to be as Ed Sullivan used to say,
>rrrreallybig, a rrrreallybig show.
>
> (Oh - did I forget to say who leaked that after-action report from
>Kerry's Pentagon files, and who will be leaking the rest by, say
>October 15, if Judicial Watch can't pry them loose first? Here's a
>clue: he's two or three cutouts away from a certain senator from New
>York who dreams of once again residing in her husband's former home.)
the
>ready? (If you were my friend Otto, you'd have instead a Grey Goose
>martini.) All set for the greatest political fireworks show of your
>life? Showtime is about to begin.
>
>Those SwiftVet ads, you see, have been just the prelims to warm the
>audience up. The main acts will be much more entertaining. They'll
>begin with signs appearing at Kerry campaign rallies saying:
>
>Ho, ho, ho - Kerry must sign the One-Eight-Oh
>
>What does that mean, you ask? It is the demand that Kerry sign a DOD
>(Defense Dept.) Form 180, which authorizes the release to the public
of
>all military records the Pentagon possesses on him.
>
>George Bush has released all of his, just like John McCain and Al
Gore.
>Kerry refuses. He's hiding stuff in there that destroys him, is why.
>One such record has already been leaked: The official Navy
>"after-action report" that was the basis of Kerry's being awarded the
>Silver Star. This is the key quote:
>
>PCF 94 [Kerry's Swift Boat] beached in center of ambush in front of
>small path when Viet Cong sprung up from bunker 10 feet from unit. Man
>ran with weapon towards hootch. Forward M-60 machine gunner wounded
man
>in leg. Officer-in-charge, LTjg Kerry, jumped ashore and gave pursuit
>while other units saturated area with fire and beached placing assault
>parties ashore. Kerry chased VC inland behind hootch and shot him
while
>he fled -- capturing one B-40 rocket launcher with round in chamber.
>
>
> It is impossibly insulting to anyone in the military awarded a
medal
>for bravery in battle that Kerry was given one of the highest honors
>the military can bestow - the Silver Star - for shooting a single
>wounded man while he was running away. How did Kerry engineer this?
>Only the yet-unreleased records will tell.
>
>Yet this is small potatoes to what's really in there. For starters, he
>has AWOL and performance problems that blow similar charges against
>Bush away. On February 18, 1966, Kerry signed Enlistment and Officer
>Candidate contracts for five years of active duty and reserves, plus
>one year of inactive standby reserves. On November 21, 1969, he wrote
a
>letter requesting early release from active Navy duty, lying that "my
>current regular period of obligated service (will) be completed in
>December of this year." Obviously, the true completion date was
>February 17, 1971.
>
> Nonetheless, after only three years and 18 days of active service,
on
>January 3, 1970, Kerry was transferred to the Naval Reserve Manpower
>Center in Bainbridge, Maryland. Yet Kerry has refused to release his
>Performance Records showing that he completed the 48 drills and 17
days
>of active duty per year required during his 2? years in the Ready
>Reserves. For some reason, the Democrat Party propagandists posing as
>journalists in the mainstream media have never asked about them.
>
>On July 1, 1972, Lt. John Kerry was transferred to Standby Inactive
>Status. Over 5? years later - and six years after his enlistment
>contract expired - Kerry was discharged from the US Navy on February
>16, 1978. It's not the phoniness of the medals and the after-action
>reports Kerry is hiding by refusing to sign Form 180. It's not even
his
>Reserve Duty Performance Records showing he missed as many drills as
>he's missed votes in the Senate. What he is really scared of is the
>record of his spending six years fighting an OTH - Other Than
Honorable
>- discharge.
>
> There are five classes of Discharge: Honorable, General, Other Than
>Honorable, Bad Conduct, and Dishonorable. Kerry's public activities in
>leading the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), including lying
>under oath, knowingly lying about alleged "atrocities" committed by
his
>fellow soldiers, meeting with North Vietnamese government officials
and
>Viet Cong leaders in Paris - all while still serving as an officer of
>the US Navy - were in direct violation of the Uniform Code of Military
>Justice
>(UCMJ), qualifying Kerry for a Dishonorable Discharge.
>
>When Kerry appealed, he was offered an OTH - Other Than Honorable - as
>a compromise. He knew even that would destroy any possible political
>career, so he continued to stay in the Reserves with further appeals
>and resubmissions for over five years, until finally, somehow and
>someway, he cajoled the military into making his discharge Honorable.
>Then and only then did he leave the Navy.
>
>The full story of how he gamed the system is in those records he won't
>release. The legal activist group, Judicial Watch
><http://www.judicialwatch.org/> , has now filed a formal complaint
><http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2004/kerryawards.htm> with the
>Pentagon demanding such release. But this is just the opening salvo.
>
> The 14th Amendment to the Constitution has five sections. Here is
>Section Three:
>
>
>No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector
>of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or
military,
>under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously
>taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United
>States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or
>judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the
>United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against
>the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress
>may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
>
>
>As Kerry took an oath to support the Constitution as a military
officer
>of the United States, and subsequently gave public and verifiable aid
>and comfort to an enemy engaged in warfare with the United States, he
>is Constitutionally disqualified to run for President (or be a Senator
>for that matter).
>
>Judicial Watch is thus preparing to file a lawsuit in federal court
>charging that Kerry's candidacy for President is a violation of the
>14th Amendment.
>
>Note, however, that last sentence in Section Three: "But Congress may
>by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." It
>turns out there are many Republican Congressmen and Senators who are
>closet Kerry-supporters - so much so that they will be offering H.R.
>and S. Resolutions exempting Kerry from his 14th Amendment disability.
>They will stand up on the House or Senate floor and give earnest
>speeches in support of the resolution. How they will keep a straight
>face, and suppress any sign whatever of malicious glee, I have no idea
>- but that's one of the skills any politician has.
>
>So sit back and relax, folks. Have another beer (Otto - have another
>martini...). This is going to be as Ed Sullivan used to say,
>rrrreallybig, a rrrreallybig show.
>
> (Oh - did I forget to say who leaked that after-action report from
>Kerry's Pentagon files, and who will be leaking the rest by, say
>October 15, if Judicial Watch can't pry them loose first? Here's a
>clue: he's two or three cutouts away from a certain senator from New
>York who dreams of once again residing in her husband's former home.)