"Leslie Swartz" wrote in message
...
Hey Leadfoot:

Remove the "spin," and what the USN IG said was

NOT

"an investigation has determined that kerry earned his medals"

BUT INSTEAD

"their appears to be insufficient reason for an investigation"

Bi-i-i-i-i-i-ig difference, homes.

No diference at all MORON,

ROTFLMAO


Steve Swartz

Lets print the whole article, you repugnants seem to be in love with
snippage

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy has rejected a legal watchdog group's
request to open an investigation into military awards given to Democratic
presidential nominee John Kerry during the Vietnam War, saying his medals
were properly approved.
"Our examination found that existing documentation regarding the Silver
Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart medals indicates the awards approval
process was properly followed," the Navy's inspector general, Vice Admiral
Ronald Route, said in a memo written to Navy Secretary Gordon England.

"In particular, the senior officers who awarded the medals were properly
delegated authority to do so. In addition we found that they correctly
followed the procedures in place at the time for approving these awards."

In rejecting the request for an investigation made by Judicial Watch last
month, Route said that "conducting any additional review regarding events
that took place over thirty years ago would not be productive."

Kerry has been criticized by a group of Vietnam veterans called Swift Boat
Veterans for Truth, about whether he earned the decorations Kerry's campaign
has touted during his campaign for the presidency.



SBVT are slime dogs











"Leadfoot" wrote in message
news8O3d.329675$Oi.320638@fed1read04...

"Harry Andreas" wrote in message
...
In article ,
wrote:

Somewhat smarmy, but welcome nevertheless:

********************************
After extensive additional interviews, I no longer have the
confidence
in these documents that would allow us to continue vouching for them
journalistically," he said. "I find we have been misled on the key
question of how our source for the documents came into possession of
these papers. That, combined with some of the questions that have
been
raised in public and in the press, leads me to a point where -- if I
knew then what I know now -- I would not have gone ahead with the
story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the
documents in question."

*****************************


Also:
"It was an error that was made, however, in good faith and in the
spirit
of trying to carry on a CBS News tradition of investigative reporting
without
fear or favoritism.

Please know that nothing is more important to us than people's trust in
our ability and our commitment to report fairly and truthfully. "

No favoritism?
Fair?
Running a bash-the-candidate story 8 weeks before the election?
That's a new definition of fair to me.
Where is the bash Kerry story that should be there for balance?

Give them a good story to bash Kerry with. I think at the moment CBS
would
kill for one.

Unfortunately for the repugnants is that the latest on Kerry's medals is
that they were all awarded legitimately according to a navy
investigation
in
a DOD press release on Friday (the day to release news you want ignored)

I have to admit that I understand why people would think Shrub is
smarter.
You have to be really dumb to go to Vietnam if you don't have to. ;-)




This story's mere presence on a highly watched news show this
close to an election demonstrates favoritism.

I have questioned the credibility of television news, 60 Minutes in
particular and CBS in general ever since they ran the Audi unintended
acceleration stories back in the 80's. There have been many, many
instances of biased journalism from this crew since then.

This story bears an uncanny resemblance to NBC's rigged gas tank
explosions in 1992.

Dan Rather's rush to get this story into the news and smear Bush weeks
before the election speaks volumes about his politics and ethics.

--
Harry Andreas
Engineering raconteur