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jps wrote:


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Why in God's name would Rassmann, a Republican, lie about being under
fire while Kerry was rescuing him?

He could be wrong and honestly believe what he's saying.

There were three bullet holes in THURLOW's boat from the exchange.

Of course, now Thurlow is saying they were from a previous encounter.

Only three? Gee, that's pretty ****ty marksmanship for an "intense
firefight." From emplaced positions? Three holes? Uh huh. Ok.

This level of damage happens to be consistent with a single sniper in a
previous encounter, but isn't consistent with an "intense firefight" with
shooting coming from BOTH sides of the river.

I don't believe the VC were that poor of a shot. If they were, we would
have overrun the VC positions in an hour or two and we wouldn't have had
such a tough time over there.

Clearly, they could (and did) shoot straight when they shot at all.

I'd love to find out who wrote the commendations, as you suggest, but
without that knowledge you have to rely on the contemporaneous records
that were accepted as faithful by the Navy.

jps

There is only one - Kerry's own AA report. The others WHO WERE THERE say
that they did not file reports because there was no incoming fire taken.

Where's the media on this? Why not FOIA the radio logs from the land
operators? You might not be able to get all of them (who knows how
carefully they were preserved) but I bet that if there was some major
firefight that there is a record of the radio calls to the battlefield
HQ stating that they were taking fire, along with whatever backup and/or
support they requested (and what, if any, was provided.)

Or has that been done and there simply aren't any records, because the
radio calls didn't take place - because there was no enemy fire.....

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