[Nick Danger]

From Jan. 30 to March 13, 1969, Kerry and the crew of the PCF-94 would conduct 18 missions

Isn't "respected historian" Douglas Kerryshill now saying that the double-secret mission to Cambodia took place in January, 1969?

[coloradan]

This is big.

[tkathy]

I suspect the band of brothers is kept quiet by endless promises of White House access and White House parties. When I think how a rep candidate would be treated under these same accusations...

[John Jorsett]

[Tacis]

Another easy way to check, simply have Alston release HIS military records. That should do it.

The problem, here, is that since it isn't Bush who's been caught in an ever deepening tangle of lies, misrepresentations and fabrications about his military service, how do we get the ultra-left wing, anti-American, pro-Viet Cong, neocommunist media to follow up?

KERRY: RESIGN AND APOLOGIZE!!!

[proudmilitarymrs]

Just damn!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Blogger and fellow conservative Lorie Byrd follows up, at the PoliPundit site (which you all should be checking out daily, incidentally):

Kerry Should Be Begging The Media To Cover Swift Boat Vet Story

"If [the Alston] story at Captain's Quarters were ever to be proven true by the mainstream media, John Kerry would likely be toast. However, if even one of the stories of those alleging Kerry lied about his Vietnam experience is shown to be a deliberate untrue smear against Kerry, his campaign would have something to point to in response to all additional allegations regarding his Vietnam service. So, instead of sending out the Lanny Davis types to shout down the allegations and denounce the alleging veterans as liars and smear artists, it would seem the Kerry camp would beg the NYT and Washington Post and television networks to take a good close look at the allegations and reveal the truth once and for all. But that would only work if the truth were on his side."

[RVN Airplane Driver]

Jacke Gleason said it best: How Sweet it is!!

[spycatcher]

From Aug 10th: Evidence Shows Crewmate Rev. Alston Never Served Under Sen. Kerry

[SteamShovel]

I think I just heard Kerry go Uh-Oh!

[nuconvert]

[MasonGal]

..and the hits (er, LIES) just keep on comin'.... :))

Keep it up, Kerry..

[Peach]

The lies keep piling up.

Unfortunately, lying is a resume enhancement for the Democrats. I truly believe the malignant leftists would elect a pedophile if it meant they could get rid of Bush.

[Josh in PA]

Get this out to Drudge and the rest of the boys.

[Sofa King]

If this can be confirmed, then President Bush himself needs to be getting this out.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Wow! I assume I should be skeptical and hesitant to accept this report as factual... I also assume that O'Reilly and the many others who have disdained the Swiftboat Vets for Truth will view this as another "low blow" and ridiculous charge/challenge to the decorated war hero (JFK).

John Kerry has made his Vietnam experience the cornerstone of his candidacy and qualifications for the presidency. While we know his record of the past 20 years in no way prepares or qualifies him for the presidency, I think it is certainly valid to question what he purports to be his primary qualifications.

Thanks for posting.

[guitfiddlist]

It just might be useful to start some choruses of "Say it ain't so, John!" - through the mainstream media. For example, if we emailed letters along these lines to newspaper editors along these lines - how could they protest?:

To the editor:

"The right-wing conservatives are accusing Kerry of lying about his military service and heroism. This must be stopped in its tracks. Kerry should immediately release all his military records and show the entire nation that this is all a smear campaign."

Heh-heh

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Bob]

They counted 155 bullet holes in the boat and found a live enemy rocket in the main cabin. It had come to rest in a sack of potatoes.

WTF,O???

While I've never been on one, I didn't think Swift boats had any sort of galley. Why in the world would a sack of potatoes be on a Swift boat? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but this statement makes no sense to me at all.

[maggief]

"From Jan. 30 to March 13, 1969, Kerry and the crew of the PCF-94 would conduct 18 missions"

= 43 days, correct?

http://www.johnkerry.com/about/john_kerry/service_timeline.html

Late January through
Early March, 1969

Starting in late January 1969, this crew completed 18 missions over an intense and dangerous 48 days, almost all of them in the dense jungles of the Mekong Delta. Kerry's crew included engineman Eugene Thorson, later an Iowa cement mason; David Alston, then the crew's only African-American and today a minister in South Carolina; petty officer Del Sandusky of Illinois; rear gunner and quartermaster Michael Medeiros of California; and the late Tom Belodeau, who joined the crew fresh out of Chelmsford High School in Massachusetts. Others rotated in and out of the crew. The most intense action came during an extraordinary eight days of more than 10 firefights, remembered by Kerry's crew as the "days of hell."