August 27, 2004

JOHN KERRY covered up the killing of a child and invented the killing of several Viet Cong in official reports according to Kerry boatmate Steve Gardner, a claim backed by official documents and some of Kerry's own statements. Perhaps that explains this testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee April 22, 1971:
Senator SYMINGTON: Mr. Kerry, from your experience in Vietnam do you think it is possible for the President or Congress to get accurate and undistorted information through official military channels ..

Mr. KERRY: .. I had direct experience with that. Senator, I had direct experience with that and I can recall often sending in the spot reports which we made after each mission; and including the GDA, gunfire damage assessments, in which we would say, maybe 15 sampans sunk or whatever it was. And I often read about my own missions in the Stars and Stripes and the very mission we had been on had been doubled in figures and tripled in figures .. I also think men in the military, sir, as do men in many other things, have a tendency to report what they want to report and see what they want to see.

-- Original source, The Congressional Record flagged by Marc Marcos CNSNews.

So there we have it from the Senator himself. John Kerry was the author of many of the Swift Boat afteraction reports.

UPDATE: Captain Ed sounds off. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack