[CTRL] William Cooper On Bob Kerry

[William Shannon]

http://williamcooper.com/ Bob Kerrey... Return Bronze Star! by William Cooper Veritas News Service -- Exclusive, April 27, 2001 -- Nobody should ever receive a medal for killing unarmed innocent old men, women, and children. Bob Kerrey should never have accepted the Bronze Star medal under the circumstances that truthfully occurred. It is the fact that he accepted the medal even though he knew the citation was a fraud, along with the testimony of the eye witnesses that totally destroys the credibility of Kerrey's story. The eyewitnesses cliam his tale is a fabrication. I am a Vietnam combat veteran. I was in Vietnam in 1969 at the same time as Kerrey as a River Patrol Boat Captain. I don't believe a word he says. Bob Kerry, by accepting a medal and a citation that he knew was nothing less than a bold faced lie, has cheapened the legitimate medals worn by men and women who earned them the hard way. He has disgraced himself by using that lie to seek, obtain, and hold public office. In a story that appeared in this mornings press Senator John McCain said the following: "Bob received a Bronze Star for his action that night. He would be the first to agree that his conduct, no matter how unintentional, did not merit commendation. But his conduct on another night, one month later, won him the decoration our country bestows on only her greatest heroes. And were you to read the citation that accompanied his Medal of Honor, you would know beyond a doubt he earned it." What's wrong with that statement? It's a lie, that's what's wrong. No one in the military is forced to accept medals or commendations. Bob Kerrey accepted the Bronze Star without so much as the slightest protest and he could have declined to accept it... which he did not do. The statement by McCain that, ..."were you to read the citation that accompanied his Medal of Honor, you would know beyond a doubt he earned it," has now been called into question. You see Senator McCain if I had read the citation that accompanied his Bronze Star I would have known beyond a doubt that Kerrey had earned it... or would I? Because of the truth of what happened that night, his acceptance of the Bronze Star, and the insistance of the eyewitnesses that his story is a fabrication, I cannot now accept either citation as, "beyond doubt". It makes me wonder about the circumstances under which he received his other medals. I also take exception to John McCain telling me the definition of a hero. McCain had the luxury of flying high above his victims and never saw a one of them. He was shot down, something he was to avoid. He was captured, also something that he was not supposed to allow. John McCain did everything he was not supposed to do. The kicker is that while his fellow prisoners kept their mouths shut and bore their suffering, John McCain gave classified information in exchange for medical care. In addition John McCain made a film with his captors in which he condemned the United States Navy as war criminals and worse. That film was shown all over the world. His statements were aired over Radio Hanoi. I know... my crew and I listened to them over, and over again, night, after night, after night, usually right after Hanoi Jane Fonda gave her pro communist anti American spiel which demanded that we surrender to our benevolent North Vietnamese freedom fighters. I know what combat is and I know what heros are... I fought alongside some real heros, both navy and Marine Corps on one of the most heavily contested rivers in history. John McCain is no hero by anyones definition. John McCain makes me sick to my stomach every time I see or hear him. In addition John McCain wears a chest full of the highest medals that can be given to anyone in military service... non of which were earned by John McCain. All prisoners of war, at least officers, were automatically given the nations highest medals on a regular time regulated basis simply for being a prisoner, not ever for the purposes for which the medals were created. Bob Kerrey should voluntary return the Bronze Star. He should never have accepted it in the first place. Someone should be investigating the massacre that Bob Kerrey ordered performed. And because of the lies that have emerged someone should also be investigating the circumstances under which he received his other medals to see if they were legitimate or just more lies.