[goldstategop]

Yeah and who wanted to bring it on? The fellow who's accusing Bush of questioning his manliness.

[OpusatFR]

My sides hurt from laughing!

Kerry ought to do standup.

Oh stop, you're killing me...

[berkley]

Michael Moore, Al Gore, Whoopi Goldberg, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark.....doing Kerry's dirty work???????

[Atlas Sneezed]

Related threads:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1194683/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1194625/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1194605/posts

[Corin Stormhands]

Fighting back, Kerry said if Bush wants to "have a debate about our service in Vietnam, here is my answer: 'Bring it on.'"

HERE IT IS SENATOR KERRY...

'FESS UP OR SHUT UP!!!

[coconutt2000]

Well, the Navy would only know what John Kerry wrote into his Situation Reports... They probably didn't cross check those sitreps against the sitreps of other officers in the squadron. I mean, who would lie on a sitrep?

Well, possibly Kerry.

Is it possible for the officers of the other boats to release their sitreps for the same actions?

[jbwbubba]

I am sick of the double standard by the media, they will report that Bush is letting us do his dirty work. Yet they won't report on Moveon, ACT or many others, heck Kerry hired people from Moveon for his campaign. When he went dark after his convention those groups were happy to say we are picking up the slack. Yet Kerry is asked to denounce those groups like Bush is for the Swiftboats Vets, yet Kerry said he denounced the recent new attack ad from Moveon, yet most of the ad was from an old ad from Moveon that Kerry or any other dem didn't denounce.

[Mo1]

"Thirty years ago, this was the plain truth. It still is. And I still carry the shrapnel in my leg from a wound in Vietnam."

I'll believe it when I see the xrays

Oh and Sen Kerry ... BUSH DIDN'T RUN THIS AD ... YOUR FELLOW VETS DID

So scream and yell .. even stomp your feet .. the fact remains .. YOU ARE AVOIDING THESE VETS

How about YOU DEBATE THESE VETS WHO ARE MAKING THE CLAIMS

How about YOU RELEASE ALL YOUR RECORDS

[jackbill]

Mr. Fournier neglected to mention that three of the four living Swift Boat skippers in that incident claim that they were not under enemy fire. Kerry is the only one to claim that there was.

[Mo1]

Thurlow's records, obtained by the Post under the Freedom of Information Act

I still want to know how the Post could get these records .. but they can't seem to get Kerry's records

[Shermy]

"And I still carry the shrapnel in my leg from a wound in Vietnam."

this is a weird one. It could be true (a grain of rice?) but Kerry never claimed this throughout his years. You think he would.

The first time this popped up is when he had the bogus "release" of his medical documents. It wasn't a release, but he hired a doctor to comment on them. That doctor, for the first time, mentioned the "shrapnel."

Keep demanding the release of records.

[Mo1]

Bush and the White House have refused to condemn the ads, despite calls to do so -

AND .. President Bush has already commented on ALL the 527 ads

Nice Try Kerry ... Maybe you should read the papers sometime

[NotchJohnson]

Isn't this all possible because of the democrats Feingold and McCain? Yeah, McCain bought into this because he is a jaded old man who couldn't beat a newcomer in a primary.

[Prost1]

"SitzPinkler" For President

[TASMANIANRED]

Is this schrapnel in the leg really rice in his butt.

[Just mythoughts]

Here we go again, President Bush is not running for office on his or JFKerry "Viet Nam" service.

Somebody needs to intervene on behalf of JFKerry, he is losing it "BIG TIME".

[maxter]

Accusing President Bush of being behind this rings hollow. Too many times the left has tried to discredit Bush and failed. This is just one more time, ho, hum....

[mattdono]

"More than 30 years ago I learned an important lesson. When you're under attack the best thing to do is turn your boat into the attack. That's what I intend to do today."

Speaking of the organization airing the ads that challenge his war record, Kerry said, "Of course, this group isn't interested in the truth and they're not telling the truth. ...

"But here's what you really need to know about them. They're funded by hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Republican contributor out of Texas. They're a front for the Bush campaign. And the fact that the President won't denounce what they're up to tells you everything you need to know. He wants them to do his dirty work."

Kerry said, "Of course, the president keeps telling people he would never question my service to our country. Instead, he watches as a Republican-funded attack group does just that."

Ok. So, Kerry is being really brave now, right?.

He is ready to take on the Swift Boat Vets, now that they have made these accussation against him, right?

He is intoning the the Bush administration has everything to do with this, as if it is a surprise attack, right?

Right, Senator Kerry?

Ok. So, why is it that, in May, you spent 45 minutes on the phone with Rear Admiral Roy Hoffman begging him not to move forward with the Swift Boat Vets project?

NewsMax was there to witness and record spokesman O’Neill’s recounting to the media how the Senator from Massachusetts spent 45 minutes on the phone with group founder Rear Admiral Roy Hoffman, USN (ret) trying to “discourage” the band of brothers from going public with their united sentiment that Kerry is unfit to be the nation’s commander in chief.
SOURCE

It is, in fact, you, Senator Kerry (not President Bush) that has perpetuated this whole situation?

• Your use of a misleading photograph in all of your campaign materials (website, pamphlets, TV ads, etc.) is what stirred this thing up.
• When your campaign was asked to stop using it, you and your campaign refused.
• When threatened with a lawsuit, your campaign still used the photograph.

Interesting. You poke a bee-hive of raw emotions, tearing open 30-year old scars, still refusing to apoligize to all of the Vets for the words you cast down open them so many years ago, then they get motivated to do something about that, they start saying some things you don't like, and it's Bush's fault?

Are you serious?

You started this. You knew about it. You could have done something to prevent it (such as, stop using the misleading photograph). You are the one that has brought this down on yourself.

Grow up. Be a man. At least, act like a President, you big wussy.

[Paul_B]

Kerry's attempt at diversionary grandstanding. Just release the records, John. No big deal.

[NormsRevenge]

"Thirty years ago, official Navy reports documented my service in Vietnam and awarded me the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts," Kerry said in remarks to a firefighters convention.

Sign the 180 , Senator.