Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[seabass]

>>>You're using one person opinion to justify our position<<<


You got it exactly backwards......as usual. I'm using substantive data to arrive at a reasonable conclusion while YOU are using one source - the swift boat book - to justify your position. Have you asked any questions about this......like the bronze star story for example? James Rassman, the guy Kerry plucked out of the water and who recommended him for the star stands by the account:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rassmann

Then...the Navy's own records:

"Newly obtained military records of one of Sen. John F. Kerry's most vocal critics, who has accused the Democratic presidential candidate of lying about his wartime record to win medals, contradict his own version of events.

In newspaper interviews and a best-selling book, Larry Thurlow, who commanded a Navy Swift boat alongside Kerry in Vietnam, has strongly disputed Kerry's claim that the Massachusetts Democrat's boat came under fire during a mission in Viet Cong-controlled territory on March 13, 1969. Kerry won a Bronze Star for his actions that day.

But Thurlow's military records, portions of which were released yesterday to The Washington Post under the Freedom of Information Act, contain several references to "enemy small arms and automatic weapons fire" directed at "all units" of the five-boat flotilla. Thurlow won his own Bronze Star that day, and the citation praises him for providing assistance to a damaged Swift boat "despite enemy bullets flying about him."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13267-2004Aug18.html


If the events were fabricated, why did Thurlow accept his star in the first place?