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Book Description: Regnery Publishing 8/15/2004, 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. First Printing. 0895260174 (5-17) Additional items ship at a discounted rate (not free). Please ask for details. Please Note: All pictures are catalog/stock photos and NOT an actual picture of the actual item being sold. Also, hardcovers listed as good or acceptable probably do NOT have dust jackets, so please don't expect one. Finally, all items ship by media mail unless you choose expedited at checkout. Media mail can take anywhere from 4-14 business days, so please do not expect the item to arrive in a few days. Bookseller Inventory # SKU-000102840

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Book Description: Regnery Publishing, 2004. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New DJ. 1st Edition, 4th printing. Regnery Publishing 2004 1st Edition, 4th printing New/New DJ Editorial Reviews ReviewDue to the timing of its publication, Unfit for Command could be dismissed as the sort of controversial, loaded typical in a presidential election year: Either courageous and necessary, or untruthful and malicious, depending on one's political point of view. Filled with interviews of men who served in Vietnam at the same time as John Kerry, the poses the following question: "Why do an overwhelming majority of those who commanded or served with John Kerry oppose him" (Note that the issue of "service" has sparked investigation into its definition--in other words, just how close was the interaction between Kerry and those cited in the during Kerry's Vietnam tour of duty) The charges leveled against Kerry in this are severe and include filing false operating reports; lobbying for and receiving three Purple Hearts for minor wounds, two of which were self-inflicted; receiving a Silver Star under false pretenses; offering false confessions of bogus war crimes in both print and testimony; and recklessness in the field, including the burning of a village without cause or direct order. The also claims that Kerry left Vietnam after serving just four months instead of the usual one year tour and that he returned home and accused his fellow soldiers of atrocities without offering any evidence, endangering POWs in the process. It is debatable whether the will change any minds, or votes. Instead, readers will likely reach one of two conclusions: Either John Kerry grossly misrepresented his military service or the authors are spinning the interviews that they conducted for ulterior motives. There is a third option, however; readers will further investigate both sides of the debate, and by doing so, may reach conclusions independent of partisan extremes. --Brian Neff From "What sort of combination of hypocrite and paradox is John Kerry" ask the authors in this heated critique of the Democratic presidential candidate's Vietnam-era military service and antiwar activism. O'Neill, a lawyer and swift boat veteran, and Corsi, an expert on Vietnam antiwar movements, argue that Kerry misrepresented his wartime exploits and is therefore incompetent to serve as commander in chief. Buttressed by interviews with Navy veterans who patrolled Vietnam's waters, some along with Kerry, the claims he exaggerated minor injuries, self-inflicted others, wrote fictitious diary entries and filed "phony" reports of his heroism under fire-all in a calculated quest to secure career-enhancing combat medals. They also maintain that Kerry, whom they call a "moral coward," committed atrocities that alarmed his peers and superior officers during his four-month tour of duty. Yet his activities on behalf of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War clearly raises the authors' hackles the most, and they present Kerry's post-war actions as additional, damning evidence of his "total unfitness," claiming that his testimony against the war "caused more deaths and prolonged the war in Vietnam by undermining support at home and contributing directly to a Vietnamese Communist victory." The battle that lies at the heart of this is the decades-old feud between antiwar veterans and their my-country-right-or-wrong counterparts. The authors' conservative take on the war is palpable: the U.S. military failed to unleash "massive, indiscriminate bombing" to force North Vietnam's capitulation; the conflict was a struggle against communism, not a civil war; and the dissenting soldiers undermined homefront morale. Consequently, this overwrought and repetitive polemic seethes with a resentment that compromises the otherwise eyebrow-raising testimonies. Further, without access to Kerry's full military and medical records, the authors rely heavily on 35-year-old recollections and recent Kerry biographies by Douglas Brinkley and a Boston Globe reporting team. Those looking for a thorough, unbiased investigation into Kerr. Bookseller Inventory # 268483

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Book Description: Regnery Publishing, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 2004. Hard Cover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. A shocking indictment of John Kerry by some of the men who knew him best. Bookseller Inventory # 001641

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