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To: GeronL; Viet-Boat-Rider; Rightfootforward; PhilDragoo; Chieftain; maryz; Steven W.; All

.....Repya, a veteran of both the Vietnam and Gulf wars, launched the Minnesota Veterans for Bush effort at a State Capitol campus news conference Friday
morning.

"We are firing a shot over the bow of the SS Kerry and telling him Minnesota is Bush country," said Repya, a leader of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Minnesota.

Scott O'Grady, who became a celebrity in 1995 after his F-16 fighter jet was shot down over Bosnia, criticized Kerry's anti-war activities and Senate votes on
military matters, going so far as to accuse Kerry of "treason" for meeting with representatives of North Vietnam when the two countries were still officially at war.
Kerry said in 1971 that he had talked with both the South Vietnam and North Vietnam delegations at the Paris peace talks, which he attended as a private citizen.

"I don't want a commander in chief who's going to turn his back on this country's men and women in uniform," O'Grady said......

.....But at least one of the book's allegations has tied the campaign in linguistic knots.

"Unfit for Command" accuses Kerry of inventing stories of being sent, illegally, across the Vietnamese border into Cambodia at a time when President Richard
Nixon said U.S. forces were not in that nation.

Jennifer Porter Gore, a spokeswoman for Kerry's Minnesota campaign, said, "We know John Kerry served on a swift boat that patrolled a river that was the border
between Vietnam and Cambodia, so it's a bit of a stretch to say he wasn't in Cambodia."

Kerry spokeswoman Tara McGuinness earlier told the St. Louis Post Dispatch that Kerry had later amended his speech to say that on the Christmas Eve in question
he had been near Cambodia but not in Cambodia. ...

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11 posted on 08/14/2004 12:33:14 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Jennifer Porter Gore, a spokeswoman for Kerry's Minnesota campaign, said, "We know John Kerry served on a swift boat that patrolled a river that was the border between Vietnam and Cambodia, so it's a bit of a stretch to say he wasn't in Cambodia."

But Jennifer, according to the evidence O'Neill and Corsi have presented in their book, Kerry was nowhere near that part of the river. Say, Jennifer, why won't Kerry authorize release of his full service record to the media?

18 posted on 08/14/2004 2:55:48 AM PDT by Bonaparte
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Jennifer Porter Gore, a spokeswoman for Kerry's Minnesota campaign, said, "We know John Kerry served on a swift boat that patrolled a river that was the border between Vietnam and Cambodia, so it's a bit of a stretch to say he wasn't in Cambodia."

This is just painful to read. Public school product?

29 posted on 08/14/2004 9:32:50 AM PDT by Chaguito
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