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Who is Thomas Vallely, anybody knows?
Newsweek ^ | September 05, 2004 | crushelits

Posted on 09/05/2004 7:58:06 PM PDT by crushelits

Sept. 13 issue - John Kerry wanted to hit back. It had been a miserable August as he took incoming fire about his military service from a gang of hostile Vietnam vets. But no, campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill and other staffers argued, the Swift Boat ads would blow over. Finally, Kerry had had enough. For three or four days, as he campaigned across the country, Kerry ripped into Cahill, furious that the mostly baseless attacks on his valor were driving his numbers down. "He was very angry," one old friend says. "The calculation had been made that this wasn't going to hurt him." Kerry's solution was to reach for an old ally. "Get Vallely," he screamed.

Thomas Vallely is the leader of the pack of vets that Kerry calls his dog-hunters, a group that has beaten back the attacks on his Vietnam record since his first Senate race 20 years ago. "He knows that I know the other players," Vallely says of Kerry's Mayday call. "He knows that I also like this stuff."

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1 posted on 09/05/2004 7:58:07 PM PDT by crushelits
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To: crushelits

Is he related to Paul Vallely? (I think it's Paul) He's a retired General who lost a son in Iraq.


2 posted on 09/05/2004 8:00:58 PM PDT by Just Lori (Do you ever wonder if Dubya is a lurker?)
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To: crushelits

Frankie Valley?

3 posted on 09/05/2004 8:01:34 PM PDT by zarf
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To: crushelits; Admin Moderator

What to do?
Not correct title,
but poster has posed a legitimate question.


4 posted on 09/05/2004 8:02:14 PM PDT by onyx (JohnKerry deserves to be the last casualty of the Vietnam War.)
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To: crushelits
inreview

The BOSTON GLOBE reported in 1996 that the Kerry home movies "reveal something indelible about the man who shot them - the tall, thin, handsome Naval officer seen striding through the reeds in flak jacket and helmet, holding aloft the captured B-40 rocket. The young man so unconscious of risk in the heat of battle, yet so focused on his future ambitions that he would reenact the moment for film. It is as if he had cast himself in the sequel to the experience of his hero, John F. Kennedy, on the PT-109."

"John was thinking Camelot when he shot that film, absolutely," says Thomas Vallely, a fellow veteran and one of Kerry's closest political advisers and friends.

Don't think he'll help much!

5 posted on 09/05/2004 8:02:38 PM PDT by pierrem15
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To: crushelits

Here he is

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-menuext&ie=UTF-8&q=%22Thomas+Vallely%22


6 posted on 09/05/2004 8:05:12 PM PDT by Texasforever (God can send you to hell but he can't sue you. He can't find a lawyer.)
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To: pierrem15

You aren't in Massachusetts anymore, Tom.


7 posted on 09/05/2004 8:06:49 PM PDT by AmishDude
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To: crushelits

" September 18, 1972 -- John Kerry's brother Cameron and Vietnam veteran Thomas Vallely are arrested in Lowell, Massachusetts in the basement of a building that houses both Kerry's campaign headquarters and those of opposing candidate Tony DiFruscia. Cameron Kerry and Vallely are charged with breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny. Kerry will win the Democratic nomination for a Massachusetts congressional seat the next day, but lose in the general election to Republican Paul Cronin. Thomas Vallely will later become director of the Vietnam Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University."


8 posted on 09/05/2004 8:07:01 PM PDT by WestTexasWend
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To: crushelits
All I could get on the link was ads, but I read enough to figure out that this guy is his hit man. I resent the sentence that says the Swiftboat vets were waging "mostly baseless" attacks. But then didn't the big wig at Newsweek admit they were for Kerry?
9 posted on 09/05/2004 8:07:06 PM PDT by ladyinred (John Kerry reporting for "SPITBALL" duty!)
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To: Spanaway Lori; crushelits

September 18, 1972 -- John Kerry's brother Cameron and Vietnam veteran Thomas Vallely are arrested in Lowell, Massachusetts in the basement of a building that houses both Kerry's campaign headquarters and those of opposing candidate Tony DiFruscia.

Cameron Kerry and Vallely are charged with breaking and entering with the intent to commit larceny. Kerry will win the Democratic nomination for a Massachusetts congressional seat the next day, but lose in the general election to Republican Paul Cronin. Thomas Vallely will later become director of the Vietnam Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12920


10 posted on 09/05/2004 8:08:08 PM PDT by JulieRNR21 (I trust NOBODY BUT BUSH! Take W-04....Across America!)
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To: ladyinred

See my google link. He is an old VVAW guy and is a real piece of slime.


11 posted on 09/05/2004 8:08:28 PM PDT by Texasforever (God can send you to hell but he can't sue you. He can't find a lawyer.)
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To: crushelits
September 18, 1972 -- John Kerry's brother Cameron and Vietnam veteran Thomas Vallely are arrested in Lowell, Massachusetts in the basement of a building that houses both Kerry's campaign headquarters and those of opposing candidate Tony DiFruscia. Cameron Kerry and Vallely are charged with breaking and entering with the intent to commit larceny. Kerry will win the Democratic nomination for a Massachusetts congressional seat the next day, but lose in the general election to Republican Paul Cronin. Thomas Vallely will later become director of the Vietnam Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

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12 posted on 09/05/2004 8:08:38 PM PDT by dixiechick2
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To: crushelits
He was the one who was busted with Kerry's brother back in '72 for breaking into the opposition candidate's office.

"September 18, 1972 -- John Kerry's brother Cameron and Vietnam veteran Thomas Vallely are arrested in Lowell, Massachusetts in the basement of a building that houses both Kerry's campaign headquarters and those of opposing candidate Tony DiFruscia. Cameron Kerry and Vallely are charged with breaking and entering with the intent to commit larceny. Kerry will win the Democratic nomination for a Massachusetts congressional seat the next day, but lose in the general election to Republican Paul Cronin. Thomas Vallely will later become director of the Vietnam Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. "

13 posted on 09/05/2004 8:09:45 PM PDT by mass55th ( “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”)
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To: crushelits
For three or four days, as he campaigned across the country, Kerry ripped into Cahill, furious that the mostly baseless attacks on his valor were driving his numbers down.

What does this say about this guy's mental state that he spent three or four days throwing a hissy fit? Sheesh.

14 posted on 09/05/2004 8:12:06 PM PDT by NYCVirago
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To: mass55th
Almost all of Kerry's "band of brothers" are affiliated with either the 'Vietnam Veterans Against the War" or " Veterans for Peace" both organizations are anti-american front groups for ANSWER.
15 posted on 09/05/2004 8:13:02 PM PDT by Texasforever (God can send you to hell but he can't sue you. He can't find a lawyer.)
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To: crushelits

Seems like the perfect opportunity to further introduce J f'n liar to the American people, the part where he was deeply involved in treasonous activities such as discussing the murder of US Senators, and illegally negotiating with the communist enemy in Paris.

This part of F'n Liar's resume has not been much in the news as yet. Most people have no idea.


16 posted on 09/05/2004 8:13:46 PM PDT by Newtoidaho
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17 posted on 09/05/2004 8:15:27 PM PDT by onyx (JohnKerry deserves to be the last casualty of the Vietnam War.)
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To: WestTexasWend
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Check out the John F. Kerry Timeline. Email it to your friends.
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18 posted on 09/05/2004 8:16:40 PM PDT by christie (http://www.hillaryforpresident-2008.com -- NOT!)
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To: ladyinred
the Swiftboat vets were waging "mostly baseless"

Let's see, now: "mostly" means 51%, so I guess at least 49% were NOT baseless.

Now, let me guess which 49% we can believe...

19 posted on 09/05/2004 8:17:04 PM PDT by lancer (If you are not with us, you are against us!)
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To: onyx

LMAO


20 posted on 09/05/2004 8:18:29 PM PDT by Texasforever (God can send you to hell but he can't sue you. He can't find a lawyer.)
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