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Puppygate!
Topic Started: Aug 25 2004, 06:39 AM (147 Views)
Admiralbill_gomec
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You heard it here first, folks:

This from today's Washington Times daily column Inside the Beltway:

VC surfaces
A new four-legged angle — actually a dog named "VC" — has suddenly materialized surrounding Sen. John Kerry's swift boat service in Vietnam.
In a 2004 presidential candidate questionnaire for Humane USA, Mr. Kerry was asked whether any pets have had an impact on his life.
"I have always had pets in my life, and there are a few that I remember very fondly," Mr. Kerry replied. "When I was serving on a Swift Boat in Vietnam, my crewmates and I had a dog we called VC.
"One day as our Swift Boat was heading up a river, a mine exploded hard under our boat," he continued. "After picking ourselves up, we discovered VC was MIA (missing in action). Several minutes of frantic search followed, after which we thought we'd lost him. We were relieved when another boat called asking if we were missing a dog."
Said Mr. Kerry: "It turns out VC was catapulted from the deck of our boat and landed, confused but unhurt, on the deck of another boat in our patrol."
J.J. Scheele, program director of Humane USA, confirmed yesterday that her organization did, in fact, receive the above statement from the Kerry campaign.
No military records on Mr. Kerry's Web site, which aides say is a complete accounting, mention a mine exploding under his boat or any dog. The only report of a mine detonating "near" Mr. Kerry's PCF 94 was March 13, 1969, when Mr. Kerry says he was injured and a man knocked overboard.

(Note from AdmiralBill: The link is the same from day-to-day, so if you click it tomorrow, you'll get something different. Still there's a fun article following this one in McCaslin's column.)

http://www.washtimes.com/national/inbeltway.htm
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Sgt. Jaggs
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How about a Voyager Movie
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doctortobe
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So the question is, was VC in Cambodia during Christmas of 1968?
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Admiralbill_gomec
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Jagalom Shaarek
Aug 25 2004, 07:04 AM
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I posted this more for the laugh, Jag, but it does bring up an interesting question. Was Kerry lying about this to appeal to pet lovers? When will it end?

Doc, I think this ficticious dog would have been on the boat around the time of March 1969.
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Hoss
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Is this another one of the tail wagging the dog stories?
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Admiralbill_gomec
Aug 25 2004, 01:31 PM
Jagalom Shaarek
Aug 25 2004, 07:04 AM
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I posted this more for the laugh, Jag, but it does bring up an interesting question. Was Kerry lying about this to appeal to pet lovers? When will it end?

Doc, I think this ficticious dog would have been on the boat around the time of March 1969.

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I haven't heard this "puppy story". The one I heard had him putting the pooch under his flak jacket to protect it.

Which, of course, got one Viet Vet cynic to respond, "I'd do the same thing. The shrapnel would hit the puppy before it would hit me." :o

My brother talked about having unit "pets" when he was there. The dog probably existed - who knows (or cares) about the rest.

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Jagalom Shaarek
Aug 25 2004, 09:04 AM
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I concur.
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Admiralbill_gomec
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You don't find this pandering? (Ignoring the now-established pattern of lying from Kerry, of course.)
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^^^ So what - pandering is a long established political method to get votes.

And don't sit there and tell me that Bush doesn't pander to certain groups to get votes because I would come right out and call you a liar. One example I cited earlier in another thread - pandering to the Mexican vote by providing amnesty to illegal immigrants.
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cptjeff
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Okay, is the boat mascot really worth mentioning? not terrebly important.
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