Roy Hoffmann, Busted Again!! His own task force contradicts him!

[Sparkly]

WASHINGTON - The Navy task force overseeing John Kerry (news - web sites)'s swift boat squadron in Vietnam reported that his group of boats came under enemy fire during a March 13, 1969, incident that three decades later is being challenged by the Democratic presidential nominee's critics.

The March 18, 1969, weekly report from Task Force 115, which was located by The Associated Press during a search of Navy archives, is the latest document to surface that supports Kerry's description of an event for which he won a Bronze Star and a third Purple Heart.

The Task Force report twice mentions the incident five days earlier and both times calls it "an enemy initiated firefight" that included automatic weapons fire and underwater mines used against a group of five boats that included Kerry's.

Task Force 115 was commanded at the time by retired Rear Adm. Roy Hoffmann, the founder of the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which has been running ads challenging Kerry's account of the episode.

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[Feanorcurufinwe]

1. I just have to mention

it's not "Kerry's description" of the event -- it is the official Navy version of the event.

[Sparkly]

2. Good point

Here again, it's the SwiftLiars vs. the US Navy... Pretty rich when the head of the Navy's task force was in fact one of the main SwiftLiars!