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“I believe very deeply that it was a noble effort to begin with. I signed up. I volunteered -- ****I wanted to go over there**** and I wanted to win.” -- John Kerry, Meet the Press (2001)



REVEALED


Kerry sought a ****deferment****, but was denied. The very same thing that Dick Cheney received...and in which Theresa Heinz Kerry labeled as being "unpatriotic."

"When he approached his draft board for permission to study for a year in Paris, the draft board refused and Kerry decided to enlist in the Navy." Harvard Crimson, February 18, 1970.


Revealed: how 'war hero' Kerry tried to put off Vietnam military duty

"The Harvard Crimson newspaper followed a youthful Mr Kerry in Boston as he campaigned for Congress for the first time in 1970. In the course of a lengthy article, "John Kerry: A Navy Dove Runs for Congress", published on February 18, the paper reported: "When he approached his draft board for permission to study for a year in Paris, the draft board refused and Kerry decided to enlist in the Navy."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/07/wkerr07.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/03/07/ixnewstop.html


Original article in full:
http://www.thecrimson.com/printerfriendly.aspx?ref=352185

Excerpt(s):

"When he approached his draft board for permission to study for a year in Paris, the draft board refused and Kerry decided to enlist in the Navy. The Navy assigned him to the USS Gridley which between December 1966 and July 1968 saw four months of action off the Vietnam coast."

"One time Kerry was ordered to destroy a Viet Cong village but disobeyed orders and suggested that the Navy Command simply send in a Psychological Warfare team to be friend the villagers with food, hospital supplies, and better educational facilities."

"He does not feel there would be a massive slaughter of American sympathizers once the United States pulled out."

"On other issues, Kerry wants "to almost eliminate CIA activity."