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
Yes, Johnny, my boy, THE TRUTH SHALL SET YE FREE !!
Great News Travis.
"I've read that the SBVs have 17 more ads "in the can" and ready to run on a moment's notice.
"They can play the right "card" just-in-time to keep Kerry off balance, off his game, and on defense.
"The Swifties are NOT playing games. This is a well-laid "military campaign."
'They have lots of torpedos ready to fire.'
Today we found out that they can buy a spot ad for their tv ads for $400 to $500.
Lets make sure that they have plenty of funds to buy a whole lot of tv spots if needed:
https://www.swiftvets.com/swift/ccdonation.php?op=donate&site=SwiftVets
He will need a lot of bandaids, ice and Depends before this is over.
Thanks!
I doubt if Pizza Hut would hire these losers or sell a franchise to them.
arkanside?
or a "boorda" incident?
He won't respond. He'll ignore it like he's ignored the Swift Vets since they first came out. He'll send out his mouth pieces, but he, himself will not address this at all.
They and Lanny Davis butt boy friends monitor FR all the time. So they are watching and reading this right now.
Yep.
He is a life long serial liar and back stabber. Add that to his elite rat arrogance, and you have failure all the way around.
We have River Vets on this board.
Ask them what happens when one of their boat captains bolts and leaves any action like Kerry did where there was a damaged boat.
He reduced their over all protective firepower and weakened their defensive tactics by leaving boat paint on the river in his hurry to get out of there.
FOTFL!! My face hurts from smiling after following this thread:
"SO this is the spin they are trying to portray the * as a special forces special secret agent.... this is sad because the macho men that read this rag will buy it, I got three pages in and did not see one point that they could substantiate."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x70893
Excellent letter.
Thanks for posting it.
"arkanside?
or a "boorda" incident?"
That thought keeps running through my mind. I wouldn't to be on any plane with him or on the ground below him.
Man that O'Neil nows how to wage a war
And he has gonads of steel
All the democrat slime tactics have not budged him at all
Wimpy GOP could take a lesson here but unfortunately too many of them have no real beliefs so it is hard for them to go against the media
Like the gunowners and christian conservatives in 94 it will be a grassroots movement and not the establishment GOP that does the democrats in
My pleasure and thanks to the heads up from other Freepers that this letter was coming.
Thanks for the link. I just made my third contribution.
These guys are a hell of a lot more effective than the RNC.
Bump for the files
It is time to send those guys another $100
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