Posted on 09/01/2004 4:46:34 AM PDT by rudy45
They now have a rabid response team.
bump
Did anyone else see Geraldine Ferrarro on FNC comparing the SBVT with Iraqi terrorists. She said the letter written to Kerry was like a list of hostage demands and they should be wearing black masks like the guys in Iraq.
Nice.
OK, I am here, even though I detest listening to this jerk. I can only do it because I know Zell and Cheney will be on tonight.
Don't forget: they were instrumental in getting the pig elected - TWICE!
I believe GW needs to become pre-emptive in this campaign in the same fashion he has been pre-emptive in the war on terrorists.
I was really afraid I'd missed this speech, just now found your thread at 11:40 am, and someone on it posted that the speech was to begin at 11 am.
Then of course I realized this was a Kerry speech, and I'm not late at all!
I'm early!
It must be pitiful to be reduced to crawiling out of obscurity every 20 years to say something stupid.
Anyone know which news channel will be most likely to cover it? I am hoping Fox News will, but wonder if I should be playing with all those buttons on the remote. I wonder what they are for. Haven't used any but the on-off button for a few years now.
Marked FLR!
Has it begun yet? My kids curriculum is on video tape and they are using the TVs right now for their school. Besides, if it's not on network TV, I won't see it...don't have cable.
Getting Clintoon elected took place before the www and blogs. We know how to get things done now. Kerry can bring in all the "heavy hitters" he can get his hands on. He's already gone.
I caught part of that and it infuriated me to no end.
FNC needs to dump that washed up has-been.
It's supposed to start at 11 CST, so he's not late yet. Fox should show it since they showed GWB yesterday.
Thanks. I've got an errand to do and didn't want to miss it.
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
P.O. Box 26184
Alexandria, Virginia 22313
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
Kerry is waiting for Rush? :)
Sounds like your family figured out what it took to REALLY become Americans.
Wonderfully lucky for you and yours!!!
Okay Freepers, off to the doctor's office. Take good notes!
"I heard this morning that he will tell the vets that he has a plan to end terorism. Will he divulge his plan or make everyone wait til he's elected? That will be a long wait."
Well, he could get the whole world blown up. That would end terrorism.
The problem for Kerry is that these guys were effective because they were defending the president. Everyone on FR should know by now how difficult it is to attack a sitting president.
I'm pretty sure that Micheal Moore is now a liability to the dems. I think the attack machine is beginning to be perceived as anti-American.
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