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Originally Posted by watermock

Blue, you have to be kidding me.



Of course. Except when it's a freaking scratch according to TWO SOURCES and Kerry didn't really know what he was doing, obviously. If he had blown off his hand because he lit the fuse like a 12 year old on July 4th, he would of gotten a purple heart.

In which case, your issue is with military policy at the time... and factcheck.org; not me.

Why should Hibbard care once he got stateside, did he have some vendetta against Kerry?

I don't know Hibbard, so if it's all the same to you, I won't speculate on his motives. The link provided above does state (re: Hibbard), however, that he says the injury he now claims to "remember well" was to Kerry's forearm. Trouble is, Navy medical records show the injury was above the elbow.

Well, when you have someone making crap up, it's their right to dispute it correct? This wouldn't of come up without Kerry making himself out like McArthur on steroids.

Let me remind you this guy had the shortest service in his unit, lasting 4 months and screwed up his own grenade.

And honestly Blue, your taking some questionable political stances here that are notexactly honest. I don't mind you being one of Kerry's DupedO'Crats, but try to keep it even handed.

Just because my political views don't always mesh with yours does not make them "questionable" or "not exactly honest", Mock. Every stance I take is based on information I've assimilated through various sources, just like yours are.

Kerry is the one hanging his WarJock on the wall, while ignoring his record in the Senate.

Why don't we do this....Let's have Kerry show where his three purple hearts were inflicted. Let's see his forearm. He want's to "roll up his sleeves for America". Surely a wound of any significance would be apparent even after this time, particuliarly the first one. I don't need to see the one when apparently his balls were blown off and he left active duty after 4 months, 16 days in Nam. It was a total political stunt.

But the real amusing thing was, he used it as an anti-war platform before Congress to get himself into the Senate.

Now it's some convoluted war policy without anything more than thinking the Euro's were not raking in billions in Graft from the Oil for Terrorism program. It wasn't "BushCorp" that raked in Billions, and it isn't Halbitron, altho they are making money, they are at least doing more than taking kickbacks from Saddam. It's all so rediculous. We are fighting terrorists in a 2 million person cemetary where they bury weapons and a freaking Mosque armory, and what is his solution? Get the UN and France's approval? They were swimming in milk.

The bottom line is that either Kerry, all his crewmates, the official Navy records, snopes, factcheck, and everyone who supports Kerry's version of the circumstances of his Vietnam service.... or the swiftvets, who are not nonpartisan, but paid Republican operatives with a book they want to sell... is not advancing an accurate accounting of events that transpired 30+ years ago. Having seen numerous significant inaccuracies and inconsistencies in the swiftboat version, I tend to believe the official records.