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Not very long, and very informative. You have to read the catalogue of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take the position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, sit back, reset the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us again. In case you missed it, World War III began in November 1979 ... that alarm has been ringing for years. US Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer as Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he...

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Honor to the Soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor also to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field, and serves, as he best can, the same cause - honor to him, only less than to him, who braves, for the common good, the storms of heaven and the storms of battle. -- President Abraham Lincoln, December 2, 1863 In 1971, a Vietnam veteran wrote a speech defending the honor of the servicemen and women who served in that war and its surrounding theaters of operation. He hoped to present it before Congress,...

The War Democrats Believe InThe War Democrats Believe InBy Don FederFrontPageMagazine.com | October 20, 2004 The Democrats have been characterized as a party of peace marchers and flag-burners -- a Neville Chamberlain cadre chattering away on cable TV, knee-jerk internationalists who’ve mistaken the United Nations for the United States Marines.I must protest this calumny. Under the right circumstances, the Democrats can be Sgt. York and Audie Murphy times Rambo. There was a little war of which Democrats are exceedingly fond – so much so that they’re still bragging about it five years later.It’s a conflict that didn’t involve allegations of...

To say that Nightline found "the one group" who hasn't weighed in on Kerry's Vietnam service is total BS. While we've all heard ad nauseam from the 9-11 families and have heard the press talk about how Bush has offended them by using the images of 9-11, WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN OF VIETNAM, who had to endure John Kerry's legacy of lies, both then and now, during this campaign? I am one of those children, and had to endure teachers who censured me, people who told me (as a small child) "YOUR DADDY DESERVED TO DIE IN VIETNAM -- HE...

Shameless! John Kerry lied about his own mother. In the third debate, John Kerry spoke of his mother's final moments and her words to him: "Can I say, if I could just say a word about a woman that you didn't ask about, but my mom passed away a couple years ago, just before I was deciding to run. And she was in the hospital, and I went in to talk to her and tell her what I was thinking of doing. And she looked at me from her hospital bed and she just looked at me and she said,...

The following statement from John O'Neil, member of Swift Boat Veterans and POW's for Truth, concerns a news segment that aired on October 14th on ABC's Nightline with Ted Koppel. "While I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ted Koppel and ABC News I was appalled to learn that ABC News would go to the lengths of traveling to Vietnam to interview three Viet Cong communists in yet a third attempt by ABC to corroborate John Kerry's version of the events that took place on February 28th, 1969. "I would only ask the American people: 'Who do you...

Steal This Election by Patrick Rooney 15 October 2004 Those who love America must be on guard, that what isn’t taken from them legitimately can be stolen from them while they make nice with those seeking their destruction. The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. Abbie Hoffman With the legitimate methods of holding power becoming increasingly difficult, liberals are overturning every stone in a desperate effort to hang on. The establishment media has been in a steady free fall for some time. Lately it’s hastening. Tom Brokaw speaks of a “political jihad” against Dan Rather,...

Annan's son caught   http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1068887/posts "No Blood for Oil"- bribery & corruption worldwidevarious FR links | 01-31-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095509/posts Kofi Annan's son implicated in Oil for Food!Foxnews on air ^ | 3/11/04 | Foxnews     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095781/posts Kojo & KofiNRO ^ | 3/11/04 | Claudia Rosett     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095532/posts The Oil-for-Food Scandal ~ WSJ. The Wall Street Journal. ^ | March 11, 2004 | THERESE RAPHAEL       http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095444/posts AFTER THE WAR: The Oil-For-Food Scandal (long)The Wall Street Journal (opinionjournal.com) ^ | 11 March 2004 | Therese Raphael     http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095623/posts Mercenary intrigue...

Freepers who helped to defeat the democrat election fraud in 2000 will want to obtain this new book by John Fund ASAP, in order to be ready for their tricks in November 2004. I heard Fund on a radio talk show last week, briefly. He went into the scoop discovered on Free Republic in 2000, namely, how 15,000 Bush ballots were "spiked" in Palm Beach County. This was first discovered through statistical analysis by freeper Robert E. Cook, PE. If you are not familiar with this method of vote fraud, here is how it was done: corrupt 'rat precincts held...

JOHN KERRY is famously hard to pin down; you can reach out to grasp his opinion only to find that it has flitted away like a bashful butterfly, or a goldfish you are trying to catch with your bare hands. But nowadays his pronouncements and campaign ads are easy to read. They suggest that Iraq is like Vietnam; that our top priority is accordingly not to win but to get out. John Kerry evidently believes, a propos Vietnam, that we should have run away sooner. Many Americans disagree. Many Americans believe that we should have stood by our friends until...

http://jb-williams.com/soldier-debate1.htm US soldier in Iraq responds to 1st Debate! By CAPTAIN RON HAYES LETTER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BY A SOLDIER IN IRAQ In response to the 1st Presidential debate! The 1st debate in the campaign for presidency of the United States raised some crucial issues that are still a cause for confusion to the American people. I decided it’s time for a viewpoint from someone who is in the middle of this war and has no room for debating this issue. I have been in Iraq almost 9 months and I have seen the good and the bad of...

A Tennessee-based clearinghouse for media and weblog reports on allegations of voter fraud across the country is up and running...(snip) Here it is:Link to Voter Fraud BlogThis topical archive was created to catalog news and blog coverage of election fraud and suspected election fraud from around the country and around the blogosphere during campaign 2004. If you wish to submit a news article or blog item, please send a link, date, source and summary to voterfraud-at-gmail.com.

Over the past 20 years, determined Vietnam veteran B. G. "Jug" Burkett has succeeded in challenging hundreds of phony military records — but he has not succeeded in holding the media accountable when they carelessly rely on bogus service stories to make political points. Burkett is now getting some welcome reinforcements: the corps of amateur experts whose instant analysis demolished the credibility of CBS's purported Bush National Guard records. (B. G. Burkett is not to be confused with Bill Burkett, the man who gave the phony documents to CBS.) "The Dan Rathers of the world can no longer put up...

I'm getting a bit tired of John Kerry and the MSM continuing to insist that Saddam Hussein has "nothing to do with al Qaeda." They are wrong. "The invasion of Iraq was a profound diversion from the battle against our greatest enemy, al Qaeda." --John Kerry (Sept. 24-04) They connected the dots in 1998 but Senator Kerry and MSM can't seem to connect the dots in 2004.- - - - - -So, the Free Republic PJ Brigade has come to the rescue. Here is an easy to read chart, citing plenty of evidence of the links between Osama bin...

‘The Question of God' The PBS ShowBreakPoint with Charles Colson September 14, 2004 It’s hard to imagine two institutions less associated with a classical Christian worldview than Harvard University and the Public Broadcasting System. That’s why it comes as a pleasant surprise that, starting September 15, the two will come together to give Christianity a chance to make its case against the secular alternative. The two-part series, airing September 15 and 22, is called “The Question of God.” It’s based on the book by my good friend Dr. Armand Nicholi, a professor at Harvard Medical School and editor of the...

Hilarious Satire from the site Communists For Kerry.Go there and poke around: lots of fun.                Their posters page has links to the heavy files for downloading and printing: http://www.communistsforkerry.com/GPU/viewtopic.php?p=72 

Monday, Sept. 20, 2004 10:23 a.m. EDT Teresa: My Critics Are 'Scumbags' Hot-tempered would-be first lady Teresa Heinz Kerry has once again lashed out at her critics, this time during a Pittsburgh television interview where she called them "scumbags." The ugly outburst, revealed nationally for the first time in a engthy profile in the Sept. 27 issue of the New Yorker magazine, is the most outrageous so far by the billionaire ketchup heiress, and pushes the bounds of behavior voters might accept in a first lady.

I have seen some preview spots on this show. It should be good. They supposedly speak of the connection between the UN Oil For Food scandal and the possible funding of terrorism.

Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete And Flawed Clashes Roil Kerry Campaign By Michael Dobbs Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 22, 2004; Page A01 When John F. Kerry rescued James Rassmann from the Bay Hap River in the jungles of Vietnam in March 1969, neither man could possibly have imagined that the episode would become a much-disputed focus of an American presidential campaign 35 years later. For Kerry, then a green and gangly Navy lieutenant junior grade and now the Democratic challenger to a wartime Republican president, that tale of heroism under fire has become integral to his campaign. A centerpiece...

The Homosexual Fifth ColumnIdeology, Not Science By Allan Dobras September 13, 2004 As four of Emilio Mola Vidals army columns moved on Madrid, the Spanish Civil War general referred to his militant supporters within the capital as his fifth column, intent on undermining the loyalist government from within. ~ Encyclopedia Britannica, 2004 The homosexual rights movement is not a cause based on science, social justice, or fairness toward a persecuted minority. Rather, it is the work of a devious and clandestine fifth column that seeks to undermine the moral values in place in Americasince the founding of the Republic. Its...

<p>ALBANY, Ga. (AP) - In a Sept. 11 story about military retirees' reaction to new documents concerning President Bush's National Guard service, The Associated Press incorrectly identified Ahmad Majied of Albany as a former Navy SEAL. Majied assisted SEAL teams while he was in the Navy, but never was trained as a SEAL. "I should have been more specific," he said Friday.</p>

The current toxic political atmosphere, in which one side is concerned about voter fraud and the other about voter disfranchisement, is largely the product of the elephant in the parlor left over from the 2000 election. Of course, I'm talking about the Florida recount, the gold standard for botched elections, and all the bitter recriminations it launched. The Florida battle returned to the news as the 2004 election approached in Michael Moore's hit film Fahrenheit 9/11, which begins with a malicious account of what happened in 2000. In essence, Moore claims that George W. Bush, aided by Florida's Republican secretary...

Possible Saddam-Al Qaeda Link Seen in U.N. Oil-for-Food Program Friday, September 17, 2004 Fox News LUGANO, Switzerland — Did Saddam Hussein use any of his ill-gotten billions filched from the United Nations oil-for-food program to help fund Al Qaeda? Investigations have shown that the former Iraqi dictator grafted and smuggled more than $10 billion from the program that for seven years prior to Saddam's overthrow was meant to bring humanitarian aid to ordinary Iraqis. And the Sept. 11 Commission has shown a tracery of contacts between Saddam and Al Qaeda that continued after billions of oil-for-food dollars began pouring into...

The Collusion Memos These memos repeatedly make clear that a small collection of extreme left groups -- abortion groups, race organizations, labor unions and leftist groups specifically focused on judges -- are driving the Democrats' agenda and decisions. These groups tell Senate Democrats whom to attack and vote down, when to hold hearings on which nominee, how many hearings to hold and rules ofr allowing floor votes. The memos even indicate that the groups persuaded Democrats to delay nominations in order to affect pending cases. Executive Summary (PDF Format) Click here for Part 1 of the memos (PDF Format) Click...

From the first clashes with Muqtada al-Sadr’s militia members on the streets of Najaf, Iraq, on Aug. 12, to the final cease-fire 15 days later, American troops fought a battle that sometimes was overshadowed by political and religious events. But as the politicians and religious leaders met, soldiers and Marines fought — and dominated — the battlefield. “The soldiers and Marines that fought with Task Force 2-7 performed remarkably,” said Lt. Col. Jim Rainey, commander, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment. “They took the fight to the enemy and closed with the enemy and destroyed the enemy, whether he attacked us,...

It Didn't Start With Dateline NBC By Walter Olson National Review, June 21, 1993 * * * An "electronic Titanic"--as Howard Rosenberg of the Los Angeles Times called it---"an unprecedented disaster in the annals of network news, and perhaps the biggest TV scam since the Quiz Scandals." To many, NBC's Dateline fiasco seemed a freak, a bizarre departure from accepted network standards. Would any half-awake news organization have helped stage a crash test that was rigged to get a particular outcome? Or concealed from the public key elements--the hidden rockets, the over-filled tank, the loose gas cap? Or entrusted its...

<p>More than six weeks ago, an opposition research staffer for the Democratic National Committee received documents purportedly written by President George W. Bush's Texas Air National Guard squadron commander, the late Col. Jerry Killian.</p> <p>The oppo researcher claimed the source was "a retired military officer." According to a DNC staffer, the documents were seen by both senior staff members at the DNC, as well as the Kerry campaign.</p>

I'm going to give instructions here on how to capture the GOP convention video streams from the Fox News website. I'm also going to provide a playlist for them so you can just click on the one file and have them all play in order, with the ability to skip forward to the next talk. The whole thing will fit on one CD. If you want, you can burn copies to hand out. 1. Go to www.xi-soft.com and download and install Net Transport (it's freeware) 2. Run Net Transport and click on the New Button (3rd button in the row...

Michael Moore Lies & Distortions Documented LATEST ADDITION: (Dave Kopel: Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 9/11) There Wasn't, Isn't, Never Will Be an Afghan Oil Pipeline!(Unocal Reiterates Position on Withdrawal from Afghanistan Pipeline) (NYP: Moore Myths)(AP: Bin Laden Brother Disputes Moore Film)(Slate: Unfairenheit 9/11. The lies of Michael Moore - Christopher Hitchens)(UK Guardian: Michael Moore is a bully, says Who guitarist)(Newsweek: More Distortions From Michael Moore - Michael Isikoff)(McCaslin: Major's Mom Call Moore "Maggot That Eats The Dead")(Sydney Morning Herald: Less is Moore)(Ed Koch: Moore Would've Opposed WWII Too)(Washington Post: Baloney, Moore or Less - Richard Cohen)(American Spectator: Coalition of...

John Kerry faced major challenges at the beginning of this election cycle: first, the popularity and credibility George W. Bush had with the American people post 9/11; second, his anti-war movement with Jane Fonda - to include abusive statements about the 2.6 million American soldiers that served during the Vietnam War; third, his abysmal anti-national security voting record; and forth, his failure to leave a legislative footprint in the Senate after being there twenty years. In response to these challenges, Kerry settled on a strategy that maligned President Bush's military service and undermined the peoples' trust in Bush as Commander-In-Chief....

This is the only place that you will get the full and true story of President Bush’s Air National Guard service. There are no UNANSWERED questions. There are no missing records. He did not miss any meetings. The truth is known. You can find everything in this article, in other publications but none of the others are complete. You have to put them all together to get the full story. It is a shame that our national "objective" media refuse to do their job and put the whole story together. First, in answer to the charge that Bush was AWOL...

It's obvious not only that George W. Bush has already earned his Great President badge (which might even outrank the Silver Star) but that much of the opposition to Bush has a remarkable and very special quality; one might be tempted to call it "lunacy." But that's too easy. The "special quality" of anti-Bush opposition tells a more significant, stranger story than that. Bush's greatness is often misunderstood. He is great not because he showed America how to react to 9/11 but because he showed us how to deal with a still bigger event — the end of the Cold...

Who Is Jeremiah Denton? June 28, 2004 Email of The Week In 1973, Jeremiah A. Denton, Jr. walked off an Air Force C-141 aircraft to freedom after being held captive in North Vietnam for more than seven years. Born in 1924 in Mobile Alabama, Denton graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1946. In June 1965, he was assigned to Attack Squadron 75 on the USS Independence flying the Grumman A-6 Intruder. On 18 July 1965, while pulling up after leading a bombing attack on enemy installations near Thanh Hoa, he was shot down and captured by North...

UNTIL President Bush began his speech on the final night of the Republican National Convention, the goal of the United States' anti-terror policy was perceived by a largely supportive public as a bid to assure safety. With a rhetorical flourish worthy of the great speeches of all time, George W. Bush has transformed the war into a battle for liberty. In a speech that was at once eloquent and substantive, sensitive and dynamic, profound and familiar, Bush has risen to a level few presidents have ever reached. Sometimes a strategist just has to sit back and gasp. Occasionally, a seasoned...

David Broder, the noted columnist for The Washington Post, got right to the heart of the matter in a recent column when he wrote:  ''Will we ever recover from the 60's?  What's happening with the bitter dispute over John Kerry's role in Vietnam confirms my fears that my generation may never see the day when the baby boomers who came of age in that troubled decade are reconciled sufficiently with each other to lead a united country. The ferocity of the dispute over John Kerry's Vietnam wounds and decorations--and about his testimony when he decried American atrocities in that war--is...

Plan Calls for Employing Civilians or Cutting Jobs The Defense Department plans to transfer thousands of uniformed health care personnel out of their positions in military medical facilities over the next few years and replace them with civilian workers or contractors. The initiative is part of a larger Pentagon effort to reassign military members to jobs that are more directly tied to war-fighting and national security, leaving the tasks they had been performing to civil servants or private contractors, or eliminating the positions. The plan could bring important changes in the way the Defense Health Program provides medical and dental...

The seizure of 200 schoolchildren with their parents in Russia, for a total of perhaps 400, presumably by Chechen terrorists, caps a stemwinder of a newsday. The amazing thing is that the headlines were all of a piece: 12 Nepalis executed in Iraq; 2 French journalists held hostage in Iraq; 16 killed in twin bus bombing attacks in Israel; 10 dead in a bombing attack on a Moscow subway. So swiftly did they overtake yesterday's events, the two Russian jetliners downed by Chechen suicide bombers that they might have been one event. So it was no coincidence that the principal...

Revised Policy Treats Obesity Under Medicare By Richard Simon and Carla Rivera Times Staff Writers WASHINGTON — Federal officials Thursday announced a new policy on obesity that could make weight-loss treatments eligible for Medicare coverage. "Obesity is a critical public health problem in our country that causes millions of Americans to suffer unnecessary health problems and to die prematurely," Tommy G. Thompson, secretary of Health and Human Services (news - web sites), said at a Senate subcommittee hearing where he announced that Medicare officials were removing the statement that "obesity itself cannot be considered an illness" from the Medicare manual....

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth P.O. Box 26184 Alexandria, Virginia 22313 August 31, 2004 Senator John Kerry 901 15th Street NW Washington, DC 20005 Dear Senator Kerry: As you prepare for your address before the American Legion in Nashville, Tennessee, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth encourages you to use this opportunity to clarify your actions in Vietnam and your statements about your fellow Veterans and shipmates when you returned home. Since you have made your four-month tour in Vietnam the centerpiece of your campaign, we respectfully insist that you be truthful. The public is owed a full and honest accounting...

Following are some of the major charges made against Hanoi John French Kerry by the SwiftVets, alongside supporting points and authorities, from Unfit for Command and other readily available documented sources on the internet and elsewhere: I. Kerry refuses to release official military and medical records (Unfit for Command pages 180-181) Kerry's campaign refuses to complete the simple Form 180 which would provide for the official & proper release of Kerry's military records and has sought to hide other records from the public and the press. 1) Washington Post reports on August 22, 2004, "Although Kerry campaign officials insist that...

GERALDO RIVERA: So, politics as usual? SUSAN ESTRICH: Oh, the worst Geraldo. You know, I thought I'd seen bad politics. I thought I'd seen smear politics. I thought I'd seen it at its worst. But I hadn't. This is worse than I could have ever imagined. I just think this is gutter politics, gutter politics at its worst. RIVERA: Mademoiselle? ANN COULTER: I assume she's talking about Kerry's attacks on his fellow veterans when he came back from the war... ESTRICH: NO, I am not Ann! COULTER: ...and called them baby killers and implied that when he picked up Jim...

In a report which might alternately be termed ?stunning? or ?terrifying?, United Nations weapons inspectors confirmed last week not merely that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but that he smuggled them out of his country, before, during and after the war. Late last week, the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) briefed the Security Council on Saddam's lightning-fast dismantling of missile and WMD sites before and during the war. UNMOVIC executive chairman Demetrius Perricos detailed not only the export of thousands of tons of missile components, nuclear reactor vessels and fermenters for chemical and biological warheads, but...

A whirlwind seems to have engulfed the Kerry’s campaign blowing it off course and threatening to submerge this floundering vessel. Senator Kerry as a young naval officer never faced a tempest like the one he has encountered coming upon him with the fury of a Hurricane Charley in waves of criticism lashing at his actions both during and after his brief service as a swift boat commander. Judging by the Democrat’s furious reaction to this unexpected change in weather in poll ratings, this political storm of rebuttal is doing some real damage to the facade that has been the Kerry...

(The Blogspirator's previous article "EXCLUSIVE: The Dirt on Ben Barnes Claims about Bush and the Air National Guard" covers more information about Ben Barnes and this video.) More on the Ben Barnes story... The Mainstream Media (MSM) is covering the Barnes "admission,", but EVERY STORY leaves out the bit about how Barnes is a top Kerry fundraiser who has raised $500,000 for Kerry, and the fact that . ABC News: Ex-Lawmaker Says He Helped Bush With Guard CBS News: Ex-Honcho: I Got Bush Into Guard AP: Lawmaker Regrets Helping Bush Get in Guard We'll get back to this one later...

From www.MichNews.com GuestSwift Boat Vets relive John Kerry’s Genghis “Con” By Doug Schmitz Aug 29, 2004, 12:20 “[The] mainstream media refuse to pursue [Kerry’s war record charges].  They have an agenda.  The agenda is to bring down George Bush.  If they really made these charges a burning issue, Kerry would go down in flames.  Because they refuse to make these matters an issue, they won’t be." — Paul M. Weyrich, Accuracy in Media, 8/17/04 COLUMNIST’S NOTE: The following is an in-depth analysis of the 24-hour smear campaign that John Kerry, his media allies and his countless anti-Bush ‘527’ groups have launched...