LIAR #4: George Elliot
 

This guy, Kerry's commander, who actually wrote the citations for Kerry's medal, has been caught in so many contradictions and lies he won't even appear on camera anymore:


Swift Change Of Heart

Critic once saluted Kerry's bravery, loyalty, moral courage
AUGUST 20--The broadside against John Kerry's war record is particularly bizarre in light of what one of the leading bomb throwers had to say about the Democrat while both served in Vietnam. George Elliott, a key member of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth who appears in the anti-Kerry group's virulent TV commercial, recommended Kerry for a Bronze Star in 1969. In the below Navy report, Elliott, a lieutenant commander, recounts how Kerry was "highly courageous in the face of enemy fire" during a fight on the Bay Hap river in March 1969. During that skirmish, Elliott noted, Kerry dodged sniper fire to save a colleague who was knocked overboard when a mine detonated. In a March 1969 evaluation, Elliott reported that Kerry was involved in "several enemy initiated fire fights" and "exhibited all of the traits desired of an officer in a combat environment." A December 1969 fitness report was equally laudatory, with Elliott giving Kerry the highest possible grade available ("Is not exceeded") in most categories, including loyalty and moral courage. (5 pages)

Here is Thurlow's original report on Kerry's heroism at The Smoking Gun:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0820041kerry1.html

Or on his history of constantly contradicting himself here at Fact Check:

http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docid=231

Or here at the Boston Globe:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/08/06/veteran_retracts_criticism_of_kerry/