A frame grab shows Swift boat veteran Ken Cordier in a television commercial attacking candidate John F. Kerry's war record. (Reuters)
Posted on 08/22/2004 8:03:09 PM PDT by neverdem
Democrat's Team Says Veteran's Role in Drive to Discredit Kerry Shows a Link
CRAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 21 -- The Bush campaign said late Saturday that it dismissed an adviser on veterans issues after learning that he is part of an independent group that has been running anti-Kerry ads.
The Bush campaign said Kenneth Cordier, who appears in a new advertisement to be aired by the anti-Kerry group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, will no longer serve in his voluntary position on Bush's veterans steering committee. A Bush spokesman said Cordier had not previously informed the campaign that he had been involved with the group, but the Kerry campaign said the matter provides evidence supporting its complaint to the Federal Election Commission alleging illegal cooperation between the campaign and the independent group.
"Col. Cordier did not inform the campaign of his involvement in the advertisement being run by a 527 organization," Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt wrote in a statement, referring to the technical name for independent groups such as the Swift boat organization. Schmidt said Cordier "will no longer participate as a volunteer for Bush-Cheney '04."
Cordier's connection to the Bush campaign was made public yesterday by the Kerry campaign, which found that Cordier had been named on the Bush Web site earlier this month as a member of the veterans committee but that his name had subsequently been removed. A Bush aide said Cordier, who spent six years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam and was a Bush supporter in 2000, called the campaign to disclose his involvement on Friday and was told he could no longer serve as an adviser to the campaign.
The ads by the Swift boat group, named for the type of boat Kerry commanded during the Vietnam War, has been causing a furious...
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A frame grab shows Swift boat veteran Ken Cordier in a television commercial attacking candidate John F. Kerry's war record. (Reuters)
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Does Dana Milbank (a Skull and Bones guy) really want to take on a man who spent over six years in a POW camp in North Vietnam, being tortured because of bullshit lies that John F'n Kerry was spewing in front of a Senate committee?
I don't think that would be a good career move.
I wonder where Milbank has been during all of this. He is usually the Compost's go to guy if they want some articles bashing President Bush.
But, in the larger context of this Presidential campaign...with the mainstream press in Kerry's corner... is this going to kill us in the end?
There are a lot of you out there more expert -- who have forgotten more about political campaigns than I will ever know -- am I worrying about nothing?
This ad campaign is brilliant. It has the 'Rats running around in circles, and their counteroffensive is very weak.
Kudos to Cordier, and all the swiftboat vets involved in this campaign.
The swiftboat vets are going to sink Kerry's boat, and all the stinking liars like Michael Moore and Whoopi Goldberg who climbed aboard it, hoping to rise in power with him by trashing our wonderful President.
Click the logo to donate to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth!
John Kerry kept silent about the Swift Boat Vets for Truth until he got wind of the second Ad that is coming out the week. That's because John Kerry knows this issue will sink him if he can't find a way to muzzle them.
I applaud John O'Neil and the other Swift Boat Vets for striking back at John Kerry for slandering them.
Wish they hadn't done that. It makes it appear that there is something sinister about the Swift Boater's, when there is not.
Don't let it keep you awake nights, newbie.
The swiftboat vets are doing exactly the right thing.
If it kills us in the end then at least we went down fighting. After moveon.org, Michael Moore, and all the other crap we've had thrown at us for the past six months it feels damn good to be giving them back some of their own medicine. The big difference, though, is their attacks are based on lies and our attacks are based on truth. In the end, I have faith that truth will overcome the lies.
Kenneth Cordier was a POW, not a Swift Boat Vet and I would imagine that John McCain is the only former POW who is willing to forgive John Kerry for what he did after his 132 days in Vietnam
O'Neil's book should arrive next week. And I made a donation to this very effective group on their website SwiftVets.com.
The only thing that keeps me awake nights is the thought of a President Kerry.
I've been feeling that way all day today after hearing all the mediapressWHORES POUND on W! When I heard NBC Olympics anchor LIMPley slam W, I knew that we are in big doo-doo! With this guy stepping down from W staff, it gives the impression of wrong doing! The power of the lib RAT establishments are tooooo damn powerful for us to overcome...:(
The main stream media will try to convince people that this a political attack orchestrated by the Bush Campaign, but when all the interviews are done and everyone speaks, the whole country will see that it's personal to the Swift Boat Vets for Truth, nothing political at all
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