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The Swiftees have just begun. I heard that a 2nd ad is due out today and someone posted that it will feature a POW and what he endured because of Kerry's actions after he came home.

All this is just hearsay...I haven't gone to the Swiftee site yet today.

Kerry will not overcome 61 years of habit. I just started *Unfit* and his commanders say that from the git-go in VN he argued about his assignments, criticized his commanders' mission plans and said that all the missions were calculated to inflate the commanders' records. Kerry's main goal in joining the Swift Boats was to escape combat and when ordered into canals and creeks, he refused and demanded to be assigned to coastal operations because they were safer.

O'Neill recounts Kerry's response in the debate on the Cavett show as *Oh, wow. There are so many things....." after O'Neill took him to task for his anti-war rhetoric. O'Neill was shocked that Kerry wasn't emotionally moved at all, pointing out that this was just a political calculation for F'n.

Letting Kerry be Kerry will sink him even faster, IMO. The media is going to have a rough time spiking or spinning this more than they have. I do not believe the CBS poll that says the race has just tightened nationally. I think W has been ahead up til now and his lead is widening. CBS cites veteran support for W as 58%. I have not met more than one vet who supported F'n prior to the Swift vets' ad/book. Vet friends tell me that Dem vets have changed their support in droves once shown the inconsistencies in Kerry's records and this was 6 weeks ago.

I think vets tended to stick together in support of Kerry the vet just because so much trash has been thrown at VN Vets in the past 30 years. Now, it isn't just that he was a *hero* who turned against the war after coming home, it is that he was a cowardly goldbrick whiner even during his 3 months of actual combat in a relatively safe unit. It is just recently that the fact that 1 month out of his *4* months in combat was spent in training. As a civilian, I was not impressed to learn that Cam Rahn was a former French resort and not the site of heavy fighting when Kerry was there, either.

I'll always remember his lying statements to Congress and the press as the low point of the last 40 years - here he was, one of 'us', and he goes before the world to tell lies about the quality of our service in Vietnam.

He should never, ever have been entrusted with any office or any responsibility over us.

What really has my attention are the attack dogs his party have turned loose! Not too afraid of having the American people hear the debate, are they?

God bless the Swifties!