*****HUMAN EVENTS FIRST-RUN EXCLUSIVE*****: POWs Join Swift Boat Vets in Criticism of Kerry

Human Events Online ^ | August 20, 2004 | Human Events

[hinterlander]

Here's the newest ad from the Swifties.

* Moderator note. For those using Firefox browser, you may need to use this link to see the ad

http://a1281.v125028.c12502.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1281/12502/v0001/eaglepub.download.akamai.com/12502/sellout.wmv

[pettifogger]

Just sent the link to a Vietnam vet I know and love as well. He was already pro-Bush, but he has friends who are on the fence.

[jbarkley]

Wow, this ad is so powerful.

I can't wait to see how fast John McCain goes on vacation and is unavailable for comment.

Dems don't understand this is personal not political because everything is political to them.

[lifacs]

I don't believe Kerry is the real democratic candidate...

Ditto.

[television is just wrong]

I can't either. I will just look for it on FOX news.

[Valin]

Drip..Drip..Drip..Drip

[wasp69]

A shameful performance for which incidentally, he has never apologized. Its a good day when what goes around comes back in spades.

When I was growing up, my parents and all my friends parents were either Nam Era Vets, Nam Vets, or young adults when it happened. I remember any media retelling of events in Vietnam were heavily laced with propaganda that our guys were baby killers, rapists, torchers, etcetera and I always wondered why. As I grew into my teenage years I became more curious as to where this image came from since I could not believe that our country allowed wholesale destruction and murder on the scale it was portrayed.

I began asking my parents, my friends parents, the older guys who taught me as a young Sailor, and anyone whom I could about Vietnam. Along with the research I did as a teenager, and later as a young adult, I found that my suspicions were correct: What I was being fed was a load of crap. I now know from whom the slanderous labels came and I have learned to hate the ex hippies and the communist left with all of my fiber. So much so, it can be frightening at times.

Since my "awakening", if you will, as a young adult I have hoped and prayed to God Almighty that the "old timers" would finally grow tired of the image that was forced upon them by this traitor who belongs in the ninth circle of Hell (to take the place of Judas Iscariot), rise up, and destroy him. It has been a long time coming, but I think that day has arrived and no one will be able to stop it.

As an active duty member who is authorized to wear a National Defense Medal with a star (for a second conflict) as well as various campaign medals (let me be clear that I am not a hero and will never willingly take that mantle), I have made it my personal duty to make sure that myself and my fellow comrades in arms are never slandered like these great men and women were. If the time comes, I can only hope that I have the spine to lay it all on the line as these men and others of the past have.

Thanks, all, for reading my vent.

[Chad Fairbanks]

He won't apologize, he won't feel any remorse - he'll lie. That's what Kerry does. Lie on top of lie on top of lie... his whole career is a house of lies, and it is crumbling...

[CaptSkip]

"What the hell were they thinking?

That Hillary is their future.

Could it be? Exit Kerry...enter Hitlery???????????

[BillyCrockett]

Very powerful ad on the heels of their first ad. The Swifties clearly couldn't care less about the political results of their coming forward. They know this is their chance...finally... to tell the world the truth about John Kerry.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Does anyone have the text for this? I've tried three times to listen to this ad and my computer freezes up each time. You're all raving about it and I want to know what it says!!! Maybe Rush will play it today...

[dead]

how could anyone have known that Kerry would make his Vietnam service the focal point of his convention speech?

What else has he got? His Senate record? He can’t run far enough away from that.

For the last 35 years he’s done nothing but brag about his 4 months in ‘Nam. You didn’t need to be Kreskin to see that acceptance speech coming.

[votelife]

All Freepers check out the new swift boat ad.
If this doesn't move you, I'm questioning your patriotism.
http://humaneventsonline.com.edgesuite.net/unfit_video2.html

[mwl1]

No, the RATS are stuck with this dud. There will be no switch... would make a bad situation worse.

[GarySpFc]

I wish someone would tell me why this treasonous B#@$^#&D Kerry was not hung 30 years ago?

[GeorgiaBushie]

I know what you are saying but the POW's wounds (I pray)are going to get some much needed closure with confronting John and now "his" pain is going to become harder to publicly endure with the exposure of his atrocious behavior. I sincerely hope that he understands the pain that he has caused so many veterans.

I hope that clears up my post.

[Aegedius]

Two points to remember.

(1) These POWs are just the ones who survived the torture. The ones who didn't are on the wall.
(2). If Kerry had had his way, and our troops had been withdrawn BEFORE the POWs were released, then none of them would have returned alive. That includes McCain.

[CT]

Send this link by e-mail to as many people as you can.

This ad will be seen on computer screens across the world.

Kerry is finished. He doesn't even deserve to be a Senator!

[section9]

After viewing this ad, there is only one thing to say....

Nuthin' but Net!

To have POW's come in and savage Kerry after McCain's half-hearted attempt at a rescue is devastating.

John O'Neill is a genius. He has done more to devastate Kerry's support among independents and Veterans with two, cheaply-produced ads than Michael Moore has done against Bush with a six million dollar budget and a hundred million dollar take that the boxoffice.

Slam dunk!

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Mudboy Slim]

"John Kerry gave them for free what I took torture for because I refused to say it."

McStain's waaaay off base in trying to silent these gentlemen...MUD

[SuzanneC]

Heh!! I resent that. That's my flatware pattern.(really) LOL