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According to Congressional travel records, House and Senate members spent 6,910 days on “official travel” overseas in the first three-quarters of 2009, spending an estimated $9.4 million. They hit the obvious-Iraq and Afghanistan-but also those bastions of American security concern Scotland, Morocco, Denmark and Sweden. But when Sen. Jim DeMint tried to visit Honduras, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry forbade an official trip, cutting off funds for the flight-an unprecedented step for a committee chairman. Sen. Kerry then tried to exchange permission for the trip for the release of Sen. DeMint’s hold on two administration appointees — a bribe...

Vietnam Vets Rally Against Kerry in D.C. 1 hour, 7 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Chanting "Kerry lied," hundreds of Vietnam veterans on Sunday rallied against fellow veteran and Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites). AP Photo Comrades died because of people like Kerry and Jane Fonda, asserted Larry Bailey, a U.S. Navy (news - web sites) veteran and president of Vietnam Vets for the Truth. With the U.S. Capitol as a backdrop, Bailey accused Kerry of lying three decades ago when he returned from Vietnam and gave testimony before the U.S. Senate in 1971 alleging widespread atrocities...

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth remember the Vietnam War, Senator’s Kerry’s Vietnam service, and his denunciation of his fellow veterans as war criminals after he returned from Vietnam and eagerly embarked upon his political career. Some of them would have preferred Senator John Edwards to President Bush, but all of them agree that Kerry is unfit to be President. Senator Kerry is whining that President Bush has not condemned and censored the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ad disputing Kerry’s version of his brief service in Vietnam. Kerry is charging that the Swift Boat Veterans are a front for...

On August 6, I sent an email to Don Carmichael, General Station Manager of WBAY, Green Bay, WI, protesting their "pulling" the Swift Boat Veterans ad, exposing Kerry's lies about many of his VietNam "recollections". I just received a response from Mr. Carmichael stating that "WBAY is accepting the ad". I KNEW you could do it Green Bay!! It just isn't right to go all spineless up there in the land of Vince Lombardi!!!!!!! Fer cripes sake!!!!

News flash from the Kerry Campaign trip in Florida ... as the Kerry motorcade left the hotel, John Kerry flipped the bird to a Swift Boat Veteran Against John Kerry. Our SBV exclaimed "That is what I came here for!" Evidentially JFK didn't catch TehRAYza's speech last night!