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Skriven 2004-07-28 21:05:00 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: Film
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All of these clowns think this is 1968 and the election is about the 
Vietnam war, which ended over 30 years ago.

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http://www.drudgereport.com/dnc8.htm

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED JULY 28, 2004 12:56:02 ET XXXXX 

CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS KERRY CONVENTION FILM: WAR SCENES REENACTED 

**World Exclusive**

A bombshell new book written by the man who took over John Kerry's Swift 
Boat charges:   Kerry reenacted combat scenes for film while in Vietnam!

The footage is at the center of a growing controversy in Boston.

The official convention video introducing Kerry is directed by Steven 
Spielberg protégé James Moll.  

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Moll was given hours of Kerry's homemade 8 millimeter film to 
incorporate into the convention short, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. 

"Kerry carried a home movie camera to record his exploits for later 
viewing," charges a naval officer in the upcoming book UNFIT FOR 
COMMAND.  

"Kerry would revisit ambush locations for reenacting combat scenes where 
he would portray the hero, catching it all on film.  Kerry would take 
movies of himself walking around in combat gear, sometimes dressed as an 
infantryman walking resolutely through the terrain.  He even filmed mock 
interviews of himself narrating his exploits.  A joke circulated among 
Swiftees was that Kerry left Vietnam early not because he received three 
Purple Hearts, but because he had recorded enough film of himself to 
take home for his planned political campaigns."

UNFIT FOR COMMAND, Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, 
will be unleashed next month by REGNERY. [It ranked #1,318 on the AMAZON 
hitparade Wednesday morning.]

 

The films shot by Kerry's own Super 8 millimeter hand-held movie camera 
have the grainy quality of home movies.

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The BOSTON GLOBE reported in 1996 that the Kerry home movies "reveal 
something indelible about the man who shot them - the tall, thin, 
handsome Naval officer seen striding through the reeds in flak jacket 
and helmet, holding aloft the captured B-40 rocket. The young man so 
unconscious of risk in the heat of battle, yet so focused on his future 
ambitions that he would reenact the moment for film. It is as if he had 
cast himself in the sequel to the experience of his hero, John F. 
Kennedy, on the PT-109."

"John was thinking Camelot when he shot that film, absolutely," says 
Thomas Vallely, a fellow veteran and one of Kerry's closest political 
advisers and friends. 

NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson in 
his new book RECKLESS DISREGARD, details one of the claimed Kerry 
reenactments for film: 

"On February 28, 1969, now in charge of PCF 94, Kerry came under fire 
from an enemy location on the shore. The crew's gunner returned fire, 
hitting and wounding the lone gunman. Kerry directed the boat to charge 
the enemy position. Beaching his boat, Kerry jumped off, chased the 
wounded insurgent behind a thatched hutch, and killed him. Kerry and his 
crew returned within days, armed with a Super 8 video camera he had 
purchased at the post exchange at Cam Ranh Bay, and reenacted the 
skirmish on film."

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