Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Two War Heros, One Named Kerry ...

Sweat, War Hero


John Kerry was introduced at the 2004 Democratic National Convention by Wade Sanders, a retired Navy Captain and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy who served as a Swift Boat officer in Vietnam. Like Kerry, Sanders was the recipient of a Silver Star for gallantry in action. During the 2004 campaign, Sanders functioned as Kerry lead attack dog against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, repeatedly denouncing the veterans on the air as liars and comparing them to Nazi propagandists.  [American Thinker]

 SO WHAT?

In the July 18, 2011, issue of the Navy Times, it was announced that Navy Secretary Ray Mabus revoked the Silver Star, the nation's third-highest valor award, which was awarded nearly 20 years ago to retired Capt. Wade Sanders of San Diego. A spokeswoman for Mabus confirmed the secretary's decision, which he made in August 2010 following a review and recommendation by the Navy Department Board of Medals and Decorations. "Mabus signed a memorandum in which he revoked the previously awarded Silver Star," said Capt. Pamela Kunze.[2] [3]

"Had the subsequently determined facts and evidence surrounding both the incident for which the award was made and the processing of the award itself been known to the Secretary of the Navy in 1992, those facts would have prevented the award of the Silver Star," Kunze said. [Wiki]
Kerry- War Hero
As one might imagine, the media has ignored this story. Even the Navy Times declined to post its own article online.


Marc Miller

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Remember when Kerry took a semi-swift boat across Boston harbor before reporting to duty at the Demonrat convention? What a dick!

Freddie Sykes

Anonymous said...

Really? Never heard of such a thing, and totally unexpected from a rat like Mabus. There must have been too many witnesses. Now how about LBJ's?

Casca

TimO said...

Takes a while for the truth to come out.
Just think what'll be announced about the current guy in 10 years or so....

Anonymous said...

How is it that in a supposedly civilized country such as ours, that the SENTENCING RECOMMENDATIONS does not list "immediatly take the cuzzy sumbitch outside the courthouse, stand him up against the wall and shoot him dead"? Hmmmm?

Imagine, if you will, the shit-storm that would be ensueing if it was one of Dubya's advisors.......

H the (even more disgusted than normal) Comet

Kristophr said...

H: such executions need a crime with at least a witness and video tape, or multiple witnesses.

I'm not against taking a real asshole out behind the courthouse and shooting him, but if the evidence consists of circumstantial stuff, he needs to be just imprisoned.

Too many innocents have been set up by lazy or malicious cops/prosecutors.

Anonymous said...

Casca - Good point, but unfortunately, in LBJ's case, all the parties and witnesses are dead.
That was criminal - if Congressman LBJ, a mere observer, was in such a valorous action, why weren't the other members of his aircrew decorated? Really stinks to high heaven.
Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick

Anonymous said...

Dick, I can channel the spirit of Douglas MacArthur. He told me he did it to make the peckerhead go away.

Casca

Anonymous said...

BTW, in re whacking shitheads behind the courthouse, I subscribe to the Sherman Doctrine: "Kill them all. The Lord knows his own."

Casca

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