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Navy Investigates Kerry's Medals

In 1996, [Chief of Naval Operations] Admiral Jeremy Boorda committed suicide after he was accused of wearing medals he hadn’t earned.

At the time, Sen. Kerry told the Boston Herald that the error was “sufficient to question his leadership position.”

“If you wind up being less than what you’re pretending to be, there is a major confrontation with value, self-esteem and your sense of how others view you,” Kerry told the Boston Globe.

This just in: The United State Navy has started an official investigation into John Kerry’s Vietnam medals. Among other issues, the Navy says it has *never* issued a Silver Star with Combat V, but John Kerry’s website say John Kerry has one.

To be fair, the errors may be all “processing errors”. Kerry’s Bronze Star was updated in 1988 and again in 2003 and includes 3 separate citations describing differing reasons for the Bronze Star. One of them may indeed be accurate (although some bloggers have questioned why only Kerry received a Bronze Star that day he pulled a crewmate out of the water, and nobody else).

The problem for Kerry is that even if these are clerical errors by the Navy, Kerry should know they are errors. Instead, Kerry’s running on these medals as qualification for President.

In response, John Kerry criticized VP Cheney’s 5 deferments last night, as though that were somehow important to the reelection of George Bush.

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2 responses to “Navy Investigates Kerry's Medals”

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    Truth

    Check this out. Here is the combined total number of days that the following people have spent defending our nation in combat: George Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, John Ashcroft, and Karl Rove gave a total of 0 days fighting for America’s freedom. ZERO! But not that any of this matters in the current election season. I mean, these are just the leaders of the most powerful nation in the world.

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    Michael

    I would count Bush as spending the last 3 years, 24 hours a day, fighting for America’s freedom. He’s the Commander-in-Chief. And unlike you, I’m not going to belittle the National Guard. They’re over there fighting in Iraq now. I give Bush 7 additional years for that service, 1966 – 1973.

    Kerry gets 4 years from Feb 1966 to Mar 1970, but then you have to subtract 34 years of working against the military by his Senate testimony of fictitious war crimes and voting to gut military spending on equipment including the B-1 bomber, the Abrams tank, and most recently the $87 billion to pay for support for our troops.

    Total Score: Bush 10, Kerry -30.

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Michael, a sinner saved by grace, sharing what the good Lord has shared with me.

Solomon, in the book of Ecclesiastes, said, “I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.”

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