Thursday, August 19, 2004
TRUTH-CHALLENGED SWIFT BOAT COMMANDER FACES CONTRADICTION
By Tweed
This is beginning to feel like Wagner - leit motifs are recurring with great frequency, just occuring with slightly different instrumentation. Yes, yet another Swift Boat douche bag is facing the contradictions of his own making.
This time, Larry Thurlow, an oil company executive and former swift boat commander, is looking like a bigger idiot than he already actually is. Turns out that Thurlow received a Bronze Star for his actions during the same encounter during which Kerry's actions resulted in his receiving a Bronze Star - when he pulled a special forces guy out of the drink while being fired upon (and while wounded).
Thurlow's been saying that Kerry was never under fire - he was there and he saw it all happen. But the after-action report describing the events leading to Kerry and Thurlow receiving their Bronze Stars (Thurlow turned his boat around to help a damaged swift boat - under fire), noted that all the ships were under fire.
Lte. JG Thurlow Before and After a Recent Press Conference
Here's the best part - Thurlow was the senior skipper of the swift boats in action that day, and custom dictates that he prepare the after-action report (of course, he now claims Kerry drafted the report). Oh yeah, Thurlow now says also that if his Bronze Star was awarded on the basis of his being under fire, he would think it fraudulently given and return it. Which leads this writer to wonder why he would not have thought it fraudulently given back then - is the Navy in the habit of giving Bronze Stars to people for bravely turning their boats around, not under fire, and helping another ship, not under fire? Don't get me wrong, what he did may have been brave, but Bronze Star worthy? Did he actually believe, at the time, that he received his Bronze Star for that?
Of course, the current claims of Thurlow and friends is roundly contradicted by every man who was on Kerry's boat and the guy Kerry saved.
Sounds like a big pile of
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By Tweed
This is beginning to feel like Wagner - leit motifs are recurring with great frequency, just occuring with slightly different instrumentation. Yes, yet another Swift Boat douche bag is facing the contradictions of his own making.
This time, Larry Thurlow, an oil company executive and former swift boat commander, is looking like a bigger idiot than he already actually is. Turns out that Thurlow received a Bronze Star for his actions during the same encounter during which Kerry's actions resulted in his receiving a Bronze Star - when he pulled a special forces guy out of the drink while being fired upon (and while wounded).
Thurlow's been saying that Kerry was never under fire - he was there and he saw it all happen. But the after-action report describing the events leading to Kerry and Thurlow receiving their Bronze Stars (Thurlow turned his boat around to help a damaged swift boat - under fire), noted that all the ships were under fire.
Lte. JG Thurlow Before and After a Recent Press Conference
Here's the best part - Thurlow was the senior skipper of the swift boats in action that day, and custom dictates that he prepare the after-action report (of course, he now claims Kerry drafted the report). Oh yeah, Thurlow now says also that if his Bronze Star was awarded on the basis of his being under fire, he would think it fraudulently given and return it. Which leads this writer to wonder why he would not have thought it fraudulently given back then - is the Navy in the habit of giving Bronze Stars to people for bravely turning their boats around, not under fire, and helping another ship, not under fire? Don't get me wrong, what he did may have been brave, but Bronze Star worthy? Did he actually believe, at the time, that he received his Bronze Star for that?
Of course, the current claims of Thurlow and friends is roundly contradicted by every man who was on Kerry's boat and the guy Kerry saved.
Sounds like a big pile of
