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Posted on 08/31/2004 3:39:35 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
Senator Kerry: Tell the Truth and We'll Stop the Ads
Dated: Tuesday, August 31 2004 @ 02:00 PM PDT
August 31, 2004 Senator John Kerry 901 15th Street NW Washington, DC 20005
Dear Senator Kerry:
As you prepare for your address before the American Legion in Nashville, Tennessee, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth encourages you to use this opportunity to clarify your actions in Vietnam and your statements about your fellow Veterans and shipmates when you returned home. Since you have made your four-month tour in Vietnam the centerpiece of your campaign, we respectfully insist that you be truthful. The public is owed a full and honest accounting of your actions. Veterans are owed an apology from you and an acknowledgement that there was no basis in fact for the accusations you made against them.
We urge you to:
1. Apologize for your conduct once you returned from Vietnam. Your exaggerated testimony before the US Senate; the blanket indictment of your fellow veterans; throwing away medals and ribbons; all of these actions dishonored America and the armed forces. Your rhetoric and actions were not only wrong, they aided the enemy and brought great pain to POW's, veterans and their families.
2. Clarify the conflicting accounts involving the Bay Hap River incident of March 13, 1969 (Bronze Star and 3rd Purple Heart). You have now described three different versions of this incident. In the first version of this incident presented during the Democrat National Convention, you stated: "No man left behind," suggesting to the American people that you alone stayed on the river to rescue Mr. Rassmann. Later, when forced to acknowledge conflicting eyewitness testimony from fellow swift boat veterans, you said that your boat left the scene to return moments later to retrieve Jim Rassmann from the water. Yet, in another version of the same incident discovered in the Congressional Record, you reported that your boat struck a mine and Rassmann fell off the boat. Mr. Kerry, please explain to your fellow veterans and the American people which version is the truth.
3. Affirm that the injuries for which you received your purple hearts never required any medical treatment beyond perhaps a bandage and that, in all instances, these injuries were self-inflicted and came from your own weapon. Further, that if any of these purple hearts were falsely awarded, that you would not have been eligible to leave Vietnam after serving only four months.
4. Acknowledge what your own biographer is now saying, that the Christmas in Cambodia claim is "obviously wrong,” that you were never in Cambodia over Christmas or any other time during your brief, four-month tour in Vietnam and that your statements before the United States Senate in 1986 were false.
If you undertake these steps we will be satisfied that the American public has been sufficiently apprised as to these aspects of your career, and we will discontinue the media advertisements you have sought so fervently to silence.
Please know that Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are eager to close our own personal chapters on Vietnam and instead focus on the war we're currently fighting—the ongoing war on terrorism. In the absence of full public disclosure and a public apology, we will continue efforts to carry our message to an ever-expanding base of grassroots supporters.
Senator Kerry, we want to get Vietnam behind us. But, we can only do so if the truth is told.
We respectfully await your reply.
Sincerely,
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
To print out and wear as a Campaign Button, go HERE. Over 2,800 hits as of 8/31! Feel free to reuse this anywhere you wish...I don't think that a Clintoon type of semi apology or define "is" will work for the serial liar.
There are millions of us backing the Swift Vets.
If he attacks them, we will back the vets.
If he does some lame A$$ed apology, they will not buy it nor will we.
Checkmate!!
"If Kerry does this, he is finished, as an acknowledged liar.
"If Kerry doesn't do this, he is in trouble.
'He won't do it.
Shermy and I said the same thing on the other thread before we got to read this letter.
Also, if he admits to lying in Nam and in Congress, he will bring down the left wingers his age whose core is their hatred and lies about Nam. That means the left wing elites in charge of the media and the top DNC politicians.
They can't afford for him to admit to lying.
You have to hand it to John O'Neal and the SwiftVets. They are making moves worthy of a chess grand master.
"I hear he's going on the attack tomorrow in St. Louis"
I wonder how the VFW's will react? If the veterans react poorly to him (which I have a feeling they will), then the MSM will be in a real bind on how to present Kerry's speech. They cannot trumpet Kerry without giving more voice to more pissed off vets. It also plays into the swift boaters who are shifting their attacks to Kerry's post-war antics.
I'm just saying that the media has the power to spin and bury it... and create confusion about the apology... which will work to keep Kerry's comatose base in their comas.
The people who are awake will see it for what it is, but at least 1/3 of Kerry's base is sound asleep at the wheel. Maybe half. The other 2/3s of Kerry's base are pure ideological vacant idiots.
She apologized, professed to be a Christian and spent millions in 2000 to defeat GW and to push abortion.
I still don't buy her apology, and I'm not by myself.
Also, this is different. She was not a Naval Officer and a Senator running for president based on lies.
I was over at the Dummies site. It looks like many of them are throwing in the towel. There are a few die hard koolaid drinkers, but they are being chastized by the others. They are even turning on the DU cult board leaders. Very funny stuff.
If Effin told the truth, he'd get thrown out of the rat Party.
I don't think so.
John O'Neil probably knows Kerry better than Kerry knows himself.
FANTASTIC!!
we'll see. only time will tell but if his actions follow his normal pattern he won't apologize then he will a few days later and talk like he was enlightened by GOD himself
"I was over at the Dummies site. It looks like many of them are throwing in the towel. There are a few die hard koolaid drinkers, but they are being chastized by the others. They are even turning on the DU cult board leaders. Very funny stuff.'
Good news!
Keep us posted and give your hard disk an antibiotic injection.
Nasty attacks, then quick retreats to his Nantucket and Sun Valley fortresses. Intersperse with sailboarding.
I don't know if it is checkmate, yet.
It is a check, and the Swift Vets have all of their pieces left, Kerry has lost a lot of his power pieces.
Bravo!
But... but... but... I thought GEORGE W BUSH was the only person in America powerful enough to stop these ads.
You never plan on converting the rats to the side of sanity.
This is a war for the moderates, independents and a lot Nam Vets who haven't voted before. The message is getting through to them.
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