Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Here's a third-hand account portraying young John Kerry as a sort of Lord Banastre Tarleton of the Low Seas in Viet Nam.
Link.
Sure, it's far from primary source material. But the provenance is reliable.
Notice the date of the column...last February. Which of course predates any of the Swiftboat Veterans brouhaha by a comfortable margin.
“[T]he fabled and distinguished chief of naval operations,Admiral Elmo Zumwalt,told me — 30 years ago when he was still CNO —that during his own command of U.S. naval forces in Vietnam,just prior to his anointment as CNO, young Kerry had created great problems for him and the other top brass,by killing so many non-combatant civilians and going after other non-military targets.‘We had virtually to straitjacket him to keep him under control,’
Link.
Sure, it's far from primary source material. But the provenance is reliable.
Notice the date of the column...last February. Which of course predates any of the Swiftboat Veterans brouhaha by a comfortable margin.
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