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Okay, now that the election is over, is Mr. Kerry going to tell us his 'plan' for ending the war in Iraq and for protecting the troops? After all, he told us he had a plan to win the war quickly and to protect the servicemen and women there. So, where is the plan? I mean, if it will save lives, if it will end the war in Iraq quicker, where is the plan? Is is not more important to save lives then to keep the plan to himself merely because of ego? Or is it that he never had...

A former secretary of the Navy is urging Sen. John Kerry to open up his personnel files to resolve the question of whether the Democratic presidential nominee received a less-than-honorable discharge from the Navy. William Middendorf, the Navy chief from 1974 to 1977, told WorldNetDaily today that Kerry, who began inactive reserve status in 1972, would have been issued a document three years later either for a reserve reaffiliation or a separation discharge. An "honorable discharge" from 1978 appears on the Kerry campaign's website, but a Navy lawyer who served under Middendorf believes that document is a substitute for one...

Did you see the edit I believe NBC did on the Kerry interview? It was with Tom Brokaw and everything I read about the interview said that when questioned about the IQ comparison recently made public, Kerry said " How would they know? I have not released my record." I thought everything concerning Kerry's record was out as stated numerous times by Kerry . But when watching the interview, that portion was edited out. You could tell it was cut out mid senctence. If true, that stinks. What happened to honest journalism.

<p>I have felt for quite some time that this would be the October surprise that takes Kerry down. Hopefully, it isn't too late.</p> <p>I've gathered all the articles we've posted to the site over the last month, and put all the links on this page for your enjoyment.</p>

I am new at this, and can anyone tell me why JFK's military records can not be obtained via the Freedom of Information act? I know that his records are of a personal nature but, once he runs for a public office, especially one as high as President of the United States. I would think that we all have the right to know all we can about this guy. The welfare of our country is at stake. This fact alone should place his records in the public domain! If not then, "Blast and Damned!" God Help us!

October Surprise? The Truth Behind Kerry's Military Discharge. What's Kerry Hiding?: "I have nothing to hide. I want you to ask me questions." --John Kerry, Reuters, August 3, 2004 The only 180 John Kerry hasn't accomplished in his litany of flip-flops throughout his campaign is Standard Form 180, the paperwork necessary for the complete release of his military records from the Department of Defense repository. The Kerry campaign and website continue to claim he has released all military records. In fact, they've released the few documents painting the senator in a favorable light. There are at least 100 pages, promising...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. -- A judge on Friday ordered the unsealing of court records in a 1994 lawsuit by Teresa Heinz Kerry and her sons in the airplane crash that killed her first husband, U.S. Sen. H. John Heinz III. The judge ruled that nearly all documents related to the case should be made public by Monday. Some records involving confidential materials, probably including details of the multimillionaire ketchup heir's holdings, would remain sealed. Attorneys for the Heinz family and estate appealed, and the state Supreme Court granted Heinz Kerry's attorneys a stay that would keep the file closed until the...

If Senator John Kerry wins the presidency nine days from now, his family will be the richest ever (even adjusted for inflation) to occupy the White House. How rich? And how much taxes does this rich family pay to Uncle Sam? Well, that's where things start to get murky. And there are no signs voters will get any illumination on the subject before election day. Despite repeated promises from the Kerry campaign back in May that Teresa Heinz Kerry would disclose her 2003 tax returns this October, this week's release of just two pages of her 1040 form (with no...

Here we are less than two weeks from the election and John Kerry is still playing "hide the ball." The last thing he wants most of us -- excluding his loony, militant base -- to know is who he really is. Kerry knows that if he releases his military records or is forthright about his true beliefs on the issues, he won't stand a ghost of a chance. His entire campaign, therefore, has been little more than an extended "wink and a nod." He is locked in an unspoken conspiracy with his wild-eyed Michael Moore/George Soros/Whoopi Goldberg base to feint...

Kerry Campaign Stonewalling on Nannygate Questions Does John Kerry, whose billionaire wife Teresa employs a small army of housekeepers, gardeners, cooks, chauffeurs, butlers and other hired help at her five estates around the country, have a Nannygate problem? Two calls this week to the Kerry campaign press office, asking if Mrs. Heinz has paid Social Security taxes on her domestic staff, have so far gone unreturned. Questions about whether candidates and their spouses are illegally paying domestic help off the books have bedeviled the political campaigns of the rich and famous since 1993, when Clinton Attorney General nominee Zoe Baird...

Some 20 Year Senate Record. What a joke! Just How Many Bills Has Kerry Passed? Bush said Kerry passed five bills. Kerry said he's passed 56. Who's right? That depends on the definition of "passed" and "bills." October 15, 2004 Modified:October 16, 2004 Summary At the final presidential debate, Bush said Kerry had passed only five bills during his career, and Kerry said he had passed 56. Actually, we found eleven measures authored by Kerry have been signed into law, including a save-the-dolphins law, a law naming a federal building, a law giving a posthumous award to Jackie Robinson last...

Kerry's Wife Releases Part of Her 2003 Income Tax ReturnBy DAVID CAY JOHNSTON and ERIC LIPTONPublished: October 16, 2004 ASHINGTON, Oct. 15 - Teresa Heinz Kerry reported income of just over $5 million last year, slightly more than half of it from investments in tax-exempt municipal and state bonds, her 2003 income tax return shows, confirming her status as the wealthiest spouse of any major party nominee in United States history.Ms. Heinz Kerry on Friday released a small part of her 2003 income tax return, unlike her husband, Senator John Kerry, and President Bush and his wife, Laura, who have...

Theresa paid a tax rate of about 3% on the income she's reporting; story says she must have a lot more income to manage all the houses, etc.

After releasing a partial return of the family taxes, we were told that Teresa Heinz-Kerry's tax return indicated a paid rate of about 12% of income.

Mystery Surrounds Kerry's Navy Discharge BY THOMAS LIPSCOMB - Special to the Sun October 13, 2004 An official Navy document on Senator Kerry's campaign Web site listed as Mr. Kerry's "Honorable Discharge from the Reserves" opens a door on a well kept secret about his military service. The document is a form cover letter in the name of the Carter administration's secretary of the Navy, W. Graham Claytor. It describes Mr. Kerry's discharge as being subsequent to the review of "a board of officers." This in it self is unusual. There is nothing about an ordinary honorable discharge action in...

Military Record Unlike McCain, Bush, and Gore, Kerry has adamantly refused to authorize the release of his military records. Most think it's because of his phony battle medals. I think the real reason is below. He was not granted an Honorable Discharge until March 2001, almost 30 years after his ostensible service term had ended! This is very much out of the ordinary, and highly suspect. There are 5 classes of Discharge: Honorable, General, Other Than Honorable, Bad Conduct, and Dishonorable. My guess is that he was Discharged in the '70s, but not Honorably. He appealed this sometime while Clinton...

Heinz Kerry Hiding $45 Million in Income, Paid Just 1.2% in Taxes Teresa Heinz Kerry earns approximately $50 million in annual income, ten times what she revealed on tax forms released late Friday, according to the New York Times. The staggering sum generated a mere 1.2 percent federal income tax liability, unless Heinz Kerry paid additional federal taxes not shown on the forms released Friday. The average middle class American family pays 20 percent of their income in taxes, a rate 16 times higher than the would-be first family. Story Continues Below Noting that the Kerry campaign has not challenged...

This is all I have on this. They mentioned that she is going to release her complete tax returns this week and the press will have a field day. Has anyone else heard anything?

Why won't Kerry reveal his military records as President Bush has done?Because he is hiding something! What can he be hiding? It has to be something terrible, so terrible and dishonest that it would immediately turn even his supporters against him. His record contains such a stain that it would prove Kerry guilty of every nasty (and untrue) thing he's said about Bush.What could it be? And, to the "liberals" on this list, Kerry's refusal to tell the truth, to continue to hide what he knows would influence voters, DOES allow us to describe what it must be.First, we know...

Regardless of whether it came through clearly in Thursdays debate, the gap between Republicans and Democrats on foreign policy has reached truly alarming proportions. Not even during the 1980s, when deep divisions separated hawkish Republicans like Ronald Reagan from dovish Democrats like John Kerry on issues like Central America and the nuclear freeze, did our two parties disagree as much over Americas place and proper course in the world. Evidence comes from an opinion survey conducted by Gallup for the German Marshall Fund of the United States and summarized in a recent issue of The Weekly Standard magazine. Ostensibly designed...

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Harold W. Andersen: Swift-boat questions continue because Kerry refuses to reply BY HAROLD W. ANDERSEN WORLD-HERALD CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Published Sunday, September 19, 2004 An attorney friend wrote to complain about "wild-eyed accusations" against John Kerry. His letter said that "most of the assertions by the Texas-funded 'Swift Boat Veterans' regarding John Kerry's actions in Vietnam had been refuted by real facts and undermined by their own contradictory statements." But the truth is that most of the assertions by members of "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" not only have not been refuted - they haven't even been replied to. Most of...

For the past year, and most recently by CBS News, we have been deluged with reports that George W. Bush did not complete his agreed duty in the Texas National Guard. Even the records show that George Bush exceeded his obligations from 1968-1973, and only came into question during the last 18 months of his agreed obligation when he requested and received official permission to transfer to an Alabama unit and then enroll in an MBA program at Harvard. His obligation was for 6 years from May of 1968 to May 1974. He received an educational release from his...

As the ONLY MSM newperson with "guts" we need you to help "US" , the public, force Kerry to sign the Form 180. We need that missing information and we need "YOU" to point to the proof (yes it does exist) that Kerry collaborated with the enermy in 1970 and 71. Two times for sure and maybe a third time. NO reasonable logical American could vote for a person who has committed such acts of treason against the USA. The problem is that voters not born in 1950 or before know nothing about Kerry's cowardly character.

Navy Contradicts Kerry on Release of Military Records By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer September 16, 2004 (CNSNews.com) - The U.S. Navy released documents Wednesday contradicting claims by Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry that all of his available military records have been released. The Navy, responding to a Freedom of Information Act request from the legal watchdog group Judicial Watch, also referred interested parties to Kerry's campaign web site for government military documents. Navy Personnel Command FOIA Officer Dave German wrote in an e-mail to Judicial Watch that the Navy "withheld thirty-one pages of documents from the responsive military...

With all of the hubbub about President Bush's National Guard service, where is the outcry for Kerry to sign SF-180 to authorize the release of ALL of his records? The news media has given Kerry a pass of incredible proportions. As the prospective Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces, I think that it is high time to really see ALL of Kerry's Official service record. I want to see his OERs (not OETRs). I want to see his complete medical records. I want to know what actions the US military took subsequent to his 1971 testimony - since...

Concerned Americans request that you - Senator Kerry authorize the Department of the Navy to independently release your military records (through your execution of Standard Form 180), complete and unaltered, including your military medical records. That means every page - ALL PAGES. KERRY HAS A "FEW" IRRELEVANT DOCUMENTS AT HIS WEB SITE HANDPICKED BY KERRY TO FOOL THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. The SF 180 can be downloaded at http://www.vba.va.gov/pubs/forms/sf180.pdf or faxed on demand via 301-837-0990 (request document 2255). Concerned Americans can generate form SF 180 and personally hand them to Sen. Kerry as he campaigns. This will give him multiple opportunities...

We are apparently amidst a national conversation between the Kerry campaign and the mainstream media about President Bush’s military records when he served as a fighter pilot in the National Guard. The question of whether he missed a physical or several meetings seems to be asked over and over again. The catalyst for all these questions is the federal records which are kept about each member of the Armed Forces. These documents are the best evidence of what really happened at that time. Of lesser value are the memories of various individuals who served with George W. Bush. Did they...

John Kerry and his campaign flaks have accused the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth of lying and being a shill for the Bush campaign. And yet John Kerry refused to address the many questions that surround his allegedly “heroic” service in Vietnam. We believe Americans deserve to know the truth. Fortunately, the truth is out there … in John Kerry’s military records. We can settle this controversy once and for all by opening those files. All John Kerry needs to do is execute Standard Form 180. Upon doing so, Mr. Kerry will shed light on the subject. He will...

Ed Rogers, a republican strategist was just on Fox Weekend Live (~10:55 am 9-5-04) and he said, “Yesterday it was reported the Kerry's had $5.49 million of income in 2003 they paid $677,000 in taxes. That's 12% - 12% on five and a half million dollars in income. They want American workers, entrepreneurs, making $200,000 to pay 38%. That’s gonna be a big issue.”

Saturday, August 21, 2004 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette filed a petition yesterday to join two other newspapers that are seeking to open the will of the late U.S. Sen. H. John Heinz III.

Nixon redux Guest View Bruce Kesler Special to The Augusta Free Press If, as is often quoted, the first casualty of war is truth, then the first casualty of truth in this war between the Vietnam veterans is the mainstream press. The "mainstream press" is sometimes also referred to as the old press: The New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, Associated Press, NBC, ABC, CBS. Most of us grew up depending upon them for facts, and even aspiring to be of them. Most of us, whether partisan or not, saw the mainstream press as the civic center that a...

The thickening storm clouds over the fierce dispute between the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the indignant Democratic presidential candidate can be pierced if John Kerry will release all of his records of service in the Vietnam War. Deep in a long front-page Washington Post article by Michael Dobbs, "Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete," there is a smoking gun. In the Aug. 22 piece, Dobbs largely gives credit to Kerry's version of one of the controversies - whether there was enemy fire on March 13, 1969, the day Kerry rescued James Rassmann from the water. But the smoking gun appears...

Before Bill Clinton was impeached back in 1998, liberals everywhere focused almost exclusively on his sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, saying it was nobody's business but his, and that America needed to just ''move on.'' After his impeachment, they turned their attentions to Kenneth Starr, the man who investigated Clinton, excoriating and slandering the good judge relentlessly for simply doing the job he was appointed to do... a job he did quite well and admirably, by the way. The one thing they didn't do at any time surrounding the impeachment scandal is concentrate on the single most important aspect of...

www.suntimes.com Open the records and shut the speculation August 24, 2004 While George Washington seems to have managed to become president without having too many people leaping to impugn his character or questioning his role in the American victory in the Revolutionary War, just about every other candidate who would become president since then has found his military record and character the subject of intense public scrutiny. Sen. John Kerry is no different. Though the past fortnight's debate over just what went on in the four months Kerry saw duty in Vietnam is particularly bitter, even in the rough-and-tumble annals...

Monday, Aug. 23, 2004 12:39 a.m. EDT Hentoff: Kerry in War Record Cover-up Longtime civil libertarian and columnist for the left-wing Village Voice, Nat Hentoff charged Sunday that the Kerry campaign is engaged in a transparent cover-up of the Massachusetts Democrat's war record and an attempt to muzzle freedom of speech. In an interview with WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg, Hentoff noted that the Pentagon has responded to a Washington Post Freedom of Information Act request for Kerry's full military file by turning over just six pages of their 100-plus page Kerry dossier, with a spokesman explaining that Kerry himself wouldn't...

At the White House, press secretary Scott McClellan said he couldn't say specifically whether Mr. Bush signed Standard Form 180, but the president did request and release his own military records in February. "I don't believe he signed any form, but he did authorize making his military records available publicly," Mr. McClellan said. "We have released all the records, and reporters were allowed to look at his medical records as well."

I had an epiphany while watching Bob Dole on CNN earlier today. It became crystal clear why the Ketchup Boy is hiding his records and refuses to sign the SF180...I will bet dollars to doughnuts that there are trails which clearly show that he put himself in for at least that first Purple Heart and was denied. It has to map out how he circumvented the system in order to collect his medals. That is, indeed, the smoking gun in this fiasco. I hate to restate the obvious, but I believe that it cannot be said too much. John Kerry...

From a reliable source: Tony Bennettwill join Courtney Cox, Leonardo DiCaprio, Melanie Griffith, Angelica Huston, Michael Keaton, Viggo Mortensen, Rob Reiner, Mary Steenburgen, Ted Danson, Sharon Stone and othersfor a $5,000/plate "secret" fundraising dinnerforJohn Kerryon Thursday, August 26th 6:30 P.M. VIP Reception and Dinnerat theFairmont Miramar Hotel 101 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica

Campaign '04: John Kerry says he'll fight claims he lied about or exaggerated his service in Vietnam. The best way to fight such charges would be to stop calling people names and start providing some answers. He'll have to show that the charges by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are false. That's a tall order. The allegations are numerous, well documented and quite serious. In general, they insist that Kerry has consistently overstated his heroism, that many accounts of his service in Vietnam are not true and that he has slandered his fellow veterans by claiming they...

Hentoff says there is a "SMOKING GUN" in today's Washington Post article (by Dobbs) about the Swift Boat Vets for the truth--- Hentoff quotes the sentence by Dobbs that KERRY REFUSES TO RELEASE HIS RECORDS. This, according to Hentoff, is the smoking gun. What is Kerry hiding, asks Hentoff.Hentoff is also ticked off about the lack of reporting of Kerry/DEMOCRAT connections to their 527s. He mentions HAROLD ICKES as one of the main culprits.Hentoff accuses mainstream journalists of MALPRACTICE. He says the antidote is the book, Unfit for Command, which is flying off the shelves of bookstores. He says the...

Thanks to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SwiftVets.com ), Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam sojourn faces fresh scrutiny. Mr. Kerry easily can answer their charges he exaggerated or falsified details of his four months in combat. Mr. Kerry should sign the Pentagon's Standard Form 180 to ensure his military records are fully public. Total transparency would help voters decide if Mr. Kerry should become commander in chief. In a May 4 open letter, 192 of Mr. Kerry's fellow Swift Boat veterans urged him to instruct the Navy to release his "complete and unaltered" military records. "We believe that you have withheld...

Summary: OpenSecrets.org shows that the Kerry-Edwards campaign has a 76% compliance rate with FEC disclosure provisions for campaign contributions, compared to 91% on average for congressional campaigns, and 93% for the Bush-Cheney campaign. See original article at The Truth Laid Bear ; text included below. --------------------------- Just noticed something interesting when comparing Kerry's campaign contributions against President Bush's over at OpenSecrets.org. The OpenSecrets folks track the "quality of disclosure" associated with campaign contributions, described as follows: "BEST EFFORTS" RULES: When making solicitations, candidates, PACs and party committees must make "best efforts" to obtain and report the name, address, occupation and...

What Democrat is willing to make a bet that Kerry will release all of his service records prior to the election? Kerry is trying to smear the Swift Vets because he cannot counter them with the truth from his own records. Bet your favorite Demo friend that Kerry won't release his service records anytime during the election, make it $1000, $5000, $10,000, whatever, its the safrest bet you'll ever make!

Please help John Kerry release the rest of his military records.  Apparently, his campaign does not know how to do it.  You can help!Download a Standard Form 180 here.  Use a "right-click" "save-as".Next create a new email and attach the Form 180 you downloaded to it.Send the form to these Kerry email addresses:info@johnkerry.comwebmaster@johnkerry.commeetup@johnkerry.comYou should also send them a friendly email urging Senator Kerry to fill out the form and come clean; point out how simple the form is.Please have your friends & family help out as well :) 

Deroy Murdock: Are Kerry's records really open? By DEROY MURDOCK, Scripps Howard News Service August 21, 2004 NEW YORK — Thanks to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SwiftVets.com ), Senator John Kerry's Vietnam sojourn faces fresh scrutiny. Kerry easily can answer their claims that he has exaggerated or falsified details of his four months in combat. Kerry should sign the Pentagon's Standard Form 180 to assure that his military records are fully public. Total transparency would help voters decide if Kerry should become commander in chief. In a May 4 open letter, 192 of Kerry's fellow Swift Boat veterans urged...

Thanks to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Senator John Kerry's Vietnam sojourn faces fresh scrutiny. Kerry can easily answer their claims that he has exaggerated or falsified details of his four months in combat: He should sign the Pentagon's Standard Form 180 to assure that his military records are fully public. Total transparency would help voters decide if Kerry should become commander-in-chief. In a May 4 open letter, just under 200 of Kerry's fellow Swift Boat veterans urged him to instruct the Navy to release his "complete and unaltered" military records. "We believe that you have withheld and/or distorted material...

It never stops with the Kerry campaign. The spin, the vagueness, the insincerity, it never stops. If John Kerry isn’t voting for funding the troops before he is voting against it he’s protesting a war and claiming he and others committed atrocities and war crimes while later making all of his actions during the “illegal war” the centerpiece of his presidential campaign. Now comes the impossible -to verify contention that John Kerry’s 1968 “mission” to Cambodia was so top, top secret that even the Pentagon wouldn’t dare keep paperwork on the “mission.” How stupid does the Kerry campaign think the...

Secret missions in Cambodia By Andrew Antippas Washington Times, 8-18-04 I understand that the campaign of candidate John Kerry is now asserting that not only did Navy Lt. Kerry visit Cambodia in his swift boat in 1968-69, but he performed four missions to drop off agents inside Cambodia. Perhaps, but I don't think so. In my Aug. 13 column in this paper, I described my job in the American embassy 1968-1970 as the "Cambodia man." My job was to follow events in Cambodia as they impacted the United States in Vietnam. This related in most part to border incidents. However,...

Republicans continue to press Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry to release his attendance records from his tenure on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Television ads that began airing Monday call into question the Massachusetts Democrat's commitment to reforming America's intelligence community. Kerry served on the panel from 1993 to 2000 and according to official records missed 76 percent of the public committee hearings during that time. During his eight years of service on the committee there were 49 open, public hearings. Of these 49, Kerry attended just 11. Among the most notable of those he missed is the June 8,...