Gone by morning

Source: The Washington Times Inside The Beltway By John McCaslin
August 6, 2004

Gone by morning
A most ear-opening interview this week with John Kerry's former commanding officer in Vietnam, who told the Kevin McCullough Show in New York that he had asked Mr. Kerry to leave his unit in Vietnam after the issuance of his third Purple Heart.

Former Navy Lt. Thomas Wright said he frequently was forced to confront Mr. Kerry over willful disobedience to orders while aboard Swift Boat patrols.

He told radio host Kevin McCullough that on frequent occasions Mr. Kerry would randomly fire at "things he thought were moving" along the shoreline. The lieutenant stated that protocol was to fire only when the unit was receiving hostile fire. He explained that part of the patrol's goal was to develop contacts with noncombatants living along the rivers.

He said when confronted about his defiance, Mr. Kerry would either claim he didn't hear the orders or insist that he thought "he saw something" moving.

The former commanding officer's boldest claim was that after Mr. Kerry received his third Purple Heart, he and two other ranking officers flat-out asked the now Democratic presidential candidate to leave his unit because his behavior put the group in greater vulnerability and danger.

Mr. Kerry, he said, replied that he would not leave, "but was out of there by morning."


Joyce Notes: Sounds like Lurch a.k.a. Kerry is a cronic flip-flopper going back to his days as a calculating cowboy stiff with a trigger-finger out on the seas of Vietnam. He's by far NO WAR HERO. Lurch is a disgrace during and especially after his four months in the Navy. I repeat: Lurch is by far NO WAR HERO and should not in the least be confused with Arizona Senator John McCain who delayed an earlier release from his captors so that he can return home with other Americans held hostage with him. Lurch is a wimpy stiff with money bags, as well as bags under his eyes when his Botox treatments wear off, that served the minimum to avoid the draft. If this wasn't a political year and if Lurch wasn't running for office, retroactive charges should be filed against him for Dereliction of Duty.