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Injured, angry, determined, Swiftees unite to fight Kerry
The Washington Times ^ | 10/11/2004 | Stephanie Mansfield

Posted on 10/11/2004 5:03:10 AM PDT by Chuck N

Midnight in South Vietnam, and the river is black. Past the rice paddies and shacks, small fires are burning by the shoreline as Lt. John H. Davis' 50-foot aluminum swift boat — PCF 19 — makes its routine patrol through the reeds. In a split second, rocket fire shatters the silence, and through a plume of oily smoke, the boat sinks to the river's bottom. "My whole crew lost their lives that night. I was the only one who survived," Lt. Davis says. Lt. Davis, now 62, lost his left eye. The bones in both legs were shattered. But the scars of war are nothing compared to the demons that wake him from his sleep, leaving him drenched in sweat and trembling with fear. "My latest nightmare was that I was pulling my crew out of the water. When it came to the last body, it was me." Lt. Davis has come to Washington at his own expense, along with 89 other Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, to tape the eighth 60-second TV spot questioning Sen. John Kerry's fitness to be commander in chief.

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: heroes; kerry; swiftboat; swiftboatveterans; swiftboatvets; swiftvets; truth
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1 posted on 10/11/2004 5:03:10 AM PDT by Chuck N
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3 posted on 10/11/2004 5:08:02 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Kristian

I heard Jennings at the infamous panel discussion yesterday assert that the SBFT allegations were demonstrably false.

Rather said "I'm sorry" to a questioner for playing and replaying the ad for free as part of the newscast.

The questioner, a very hurt and angry sounding Latina, asked them how they could have allowed a 30 second ad spot to become the centerpiece of the entire campaign and if they understood how much damage they had caused.

It was kind of funny.


4 posted on 10/11/2004 5:08:26 AM PDT by johnb838 (MSPO: Main Stream Propaganda Organ)
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To: Kristian

http://www.swiftvets.com


5 posted on 10/11/2004 5:09:19 AM PDT by stevek1
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To: Chuck N

I like Steve Gardner, he has a great sense of humor :^)


6 posted on 10/11/2004 5:11:43 AM PDT by FesterUSMC ("If you don't have the hammer, you are going to be the anvil, and I would rather have the hammer!")
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To: Kristian

http://swift1.he.net/~swiftvet/index.php?topic=Ads


7 posted on 10/11/2004 5:14:07 AM PDT by rocksblues (Sorry John, we remember and will never forget your treason!)
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To: Kristian

Donate, donate, donate, donate....


8 posted on 10/11/2004 5:16:53 AM PDT by bella1 (bella1)
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To: Chuck N

Go Get Em Guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


9 posted on 10/11/2004 5:20:38 AM PDT by BillyCrockett
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To: Chuck N

Get Kerry for me, here is my story:

I am the wife of a Vietnam War Era Veteran lately I’ve been getting rather nasty remarks. The other day a co-worker laughingly asked me how sure I was that my husband never raped anyone in Vietnam.

Last week our 31 year old daughter asked my husband, in tears, if he ever did any of those things that Kerry accused the Vietnam Veterans of doing. This was very hurtful to my husband. For my husband and I, it is like living the nightmare of the Vietnam War all over again.

I resent Kerry for all that he has put the Vietnam Veterans and their families through. I will, also, always resent those ignorant Americans (Including Kerry) who rub such nonsense in our faces.

Kerry won three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and Silver Star for his Vietnam War combat. Let’s face it, only a rich boy could get all these metals in a less than 4 months war record. Let us get real here, those are too many metals to be won in such a short time. I think that the one who went over board was Kerry. The question should be, “Did Kerry have an obsession for collecting war metals or was he just a rich boy wanting to make himself seem like he was superior to all the other Vietnam War veterans, of which the majority were poor young men?” Why is it that out of all the military men during the Vietnam Era only a rich boy like Kerry knew that he would get an automatic discharge if he received 3 purple heart metals?

I believe that Kerry should apologize to the 2.5 million Vietnam Veterans. I urge Kerry to denounce his smear of the Vietnam Veterans and apologize to the Vietnam Veterans.


10 posted on 10/11/2004 5:27:21 AM PDT by Sadie789
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To: Sadie789

bttt


11 posted on 10/11/2004 5:41:06 AM PDT by Techster
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To: Sadie789
I think it was Aristotle who said, "The reward of virtue is virtue; the price of vice is vice."

Nothing will ever take away from the honor of your husband's service. And nothing will ever erase John Kerry's ignominy. Both men's just rewards are both here and in the hereafter.
12 posted on 10/11/2004 5:43:32 AM PDT by SolomoninSouthDakota
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To: Techster
Kerry’s OUTRAGEOUS slander / Backstabber deserves to be SPIT on!

Have you ever watched one of the beheading videos? I have seen two of them and I don’t care to see another. I am a Vietnam combat Veteran and I’m a little hardened to sights like that, but those beheadings are most likely the most hideous, deplorable, in-humane, and gruesome actions that I have ever seen.

The people conducting and condoning the beheadings are below animals. They are the scum of the earth that deserve to die a torturous death. Their souls have eroded into a burnt remnant of a human being. Hanging in the town square is too good for them.

WAIT A MINUTE! I am one of those sub-humans! At least according to John Kerry. John Kerry is so sure that I am the same as those barbarians that are beheading people in Iraq that he went before the Senate of these United States and testified that I and my fellow Veterans were “cutting off ears, cutting off heads, and taping wires to genitals and turning up the power.”

I wonder if my wife and four children know that their husband and father is a scum of the earth that deserve to die a torturous death? That my soul has eroded into a burnt remnant of a human being. And that hanging in the town square is too good for me?

My eleven-year-old daughter, Victoria, might see John Kerry’s testimony before the Senate and discover what kind of monster her father is! After all, isn’t John Kerry a United States Senator! A person would not be elected to represent Americans if he were a liar and traitor, now would he. So what he said about me must be true!

For me to have to explain to Victoria that John Kerry is a liar and a traitor, and that I am not a hideous murderer as the Senator claims, is my reward for answering the call of duty for my country.

For me to have to explain to Victoria that the people of Massachusetts don’t care about America or the truth, and that they have a twisted view of America that is not the right way to be, is also my reward for answering my country’s call.

Enduring John Kerry’s lies and trying to raise my family to respect America isn’t easy when the main stream media covers for him.

John Kerry’s outrageous slander of Vietnam Veterans, and the manner in which he stabbed his shipmates in the back with his lies for his own personal ambitions, demonstrates what a despicable person that he is.

It is John Kerry that is the scum of the earth that deserve to die a torturous death. It is John Kerry’s soul that has eroded into a burnt remnant of a human being. Hanging in the town square is too good for HIM!

Upon my return to Los Angeles from Vietnam I was spat on and called a “Baby Killer” by a group of longhairs outside the terminal at LAX. I find myself decades later having to explain to my daughter that I am not a person who beheads people like those inhuman animals in Iraq as John Kerry claims. This is the impact that Kerry’s lies have had on my life, and the lives of many Vietnam Veterans.

If I could get within distance, I would SPIT in John Kerry’s face. In my humble opinion, anyone that would cast a vote for John Kerry might as well move to Massachusetts and live with the other people who don’t care about America or the truth, and that have a twisted view of America that is not the right way to be.

13 posted on 10/11/2004 5:46:23 AM PDT by Viet-Boat-Rider (((KERRY IS A NARCISSISTIC LIAR, GOLDBRICKER, AND TRAITOR!)))
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To: Viet-Boat-Rider

My daughter had watched one of those beheading videos with her husband, that is why she was crying and asking my husband that. Why do you think my husband was so hurt? Kerry has caused so much heartache for all of you guys and your families; as well as ours. It is just unreal.


14 posted on 10/11/2004 6:03:30 AM PDT by Sadie789
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To: Chuck N

Maj. Bud Day BERT V. GOULAIT (THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

Lt. Davis, now 62, lost his left eye. The bones in both legs were shattered. But the scars of war are nothing compared to the demons that wake him from his sleep, leaving him drenched in sweat and trembling with fear. "My latest nightmare was that I was pulling my crew out of the water. When it came to the last body, it was me." Lt. Davis has come to Washington at his own expense, along with 89 other Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, to tape the eighth 60-second TV spot questioning Sen. John Kerry's fitness to be commander in chief.

15 posted on 10/11/2004 6:05:23 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ((John Kerry is now in full retreat))
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To: AmericanMade1776
Snow-haired Bud Day, a 79-year-old former POW, stands at attention. He is wearing a brown leather flight jacket befitting an Air Force major, complemented by the Medal of Honor around his neck. Others have donned "Swift Boat" baseball caps. (should of been under above picture)


16 posted on 10/11/2004 6:07:14 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ((John Kerry is now in full retreat))
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; BykrBayb; LakeLady; bridgemanusa; Darksheare; Dr Snide; faithincowboys; ..

Ping

BTTT


17 posted on 10/11/2004 6:11:48 AM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry; supported by, financed by, trained by, guided by, revered by, in favor of, Communists.)
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To: Chuck N
Is John Kerry a War Criminal and a Traitor?

Consider the following.

After the Tet Offensive of 1968, the Viet Cong were decimated, the North Vietnam Communists were beaten, but with the Socialist leaning press in America and the VVAW’s antiwar protests the North Vietnamese Communists decided to hold on. John Kerry did not join VVAW until after his return from Vietnam in early 1969, and until then VVAW didn’t have very many members (8,500) and were not very successful at getting heard. The FBI reports that VVAW was nearly inactive until the Moratoriums in the fall of 1969. See pg 90 So, the press and the antiwar movement in America prevented the North Vietnamese Communists from surrendering.

This meant that instead of a US victory in South Vietnam and freedom for the South Vietnamese we had about 10,000 more US deaths from the time John Kerry came on board with the VVAW until the end of the war. America’s POW's were being tortured while listening to tapes of John "Traitor" Kerry calling them baby killers. America’s brave soldiers were dieing in the jungles of Vietnam and John Kerry

The VVAW, an antiwar group, founded in the spring of 1967, which Kerry was one of the national leaders of, was receiving directions from the North Vietnamese Communist Government. VVAW in contact with in contact with NV Communist Government

The directions were on how the VVAW should protest the Vietnam War.

The interaction became so depraved, that the North Vietnamese Communist contacted the VVAW via a phone call and advised the VVAW that they were getting ready to start an attack on US troops and that the VVAW was to be prepared to increase the protests against the increase in bombing that the NV Communists were sure would happen. This put our men in further danger because of John Kerry and VVAW actions. VVAW gets directions from the North Vietnamese Communists

Al Hubbard, a leader of the VVAW briefed the NV, Soviets and other communist countries concerning “Electronic Battlefield Vietnam” as to tactics, methods and equipment which put US troops at extreme risk. Link to EBV

John Kerry had no concern for the lives of his fellow soldiers in Vietnam or the POW's, John Kerry only cared about himself and his ambition to become POTUS, whatever the cost.

How many deaths of United States servicemen does John Kerry have on his hands?

How many families has John Kerry's behavior as a VVAW leader and a traitor to his country caused untold pain and suffering to?

How many unnecessary tears have been cried because John Kerry betrayed our trust to help a Communist government?

Does John Kerry still have ties to Communists in America?

John Kerry was an officer in the US Navy during his protests of the Vietnam War, having not received his discharge until 1978.

Why didn't John Kerry speak out just one time against the war crimes of his "Comrades in Arms the North Vietnamese Communists"?

Steven J. Pitkin says about his Winter Soldier testimony. “John Kerry and other leaders of that event pressured me to testify about American war crimes, despite my repeated statements that I could not honestly do so. One event leader strongly implied that I would not be provided transportation back to my home in Baltimore, Maryland, if I failed to comply. Kerry and other leaders of the event instructed me to publicly state that I had witnessed incidents of rape, brutality, atrocities and racism, knowing that such statements would necessarily be untrue.”

I've also been wondering why Kerry never reported the atrocities he supposedly witnessed while in Vietnam. Maybe because Kerry may have never witnessed any atrocities while he was in Vietnam. The VVAW leaders were meeting with the North Vietnamese Communist Government, leaders of the Communist Party in Moscow, and possibly the KGB, leaders of the Communist Party International in Paris, leaders of the Communist Party USA, and last but not least the group of Communists in South Vietnam that backed the North Vietnamese Communists.

These Communist groups were directing the VVAW leaders as to what they wanted them to do, when they wanted them to do it, and that is what the VVAW did.

So in a nutshell, when the world communist leaders told Kerry and his VVAW group what to do, that is what they did, no questions asked.

Then there is this posted by Freeper Quilla!

In the last few weeks several political insiders have forgotten themselves and referred to TWA Flight 800, the airliner, which exploded in July of 1996 just east of New York City, as a terrorist incident. But only one has done it twice.

That person is Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts. Appearing on "Larry King Live" on Sept. 11 of this year, Kerry suggested that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by a terrorist act. The second admission took place on Sept. 24 on "Hardball" with Chris Matthews. On this occasion, Kerry casually recited a number of terrorist attacks against the United States, among them TWA "Flight 800." Like Larry King before him, Chris Matthews either did not catch the remark or chose to let it pass.

And that there is this posted by Freeper Fedora:

According to Newsweek magazine, Kerry met with Liu Chaohying, a Hong Kong businesswoman who wanted to have her company listed on the U.S. Stock Exchange. Kerry lobbied on her behalf by helping to organize a meeting between Liu Chaohying and a senior Securities and Exchange (SEC) official.

In return, Kerry accepted a $10,000 contribution in the form of a Beverly Hills Fundraise on Sept 9, 1996, less than a month before the election, Newsweek reported.

It would later be established that Liu Chaohying was not simply a profit-motivated businesswoman, but rather a lieutenant colonel in the Communist China's Peoples Liberation Army.

Newsweek reported that more than $28,000 in illegal contributions were funneled into the campaign of then President Bill Clinton and Kerry, and that "the contributions came out of $300,00 in overseas wire transfers sent on orders from the chief of the Chinese military intelligence - and routed through a Hong Kong bank account controlled by Liu Chaohying."


The Los Angeles Times reported that Senator Kerry sent 28 letters on behalf of San Diego defense contractor Parthassarthi "Bob" Majumder between 1996 and 1999 in order to "free up federal funds" for a guided missile system designed by Majumder. In return, court documents show, Majumder induced his employees to contribute approximately $25,000 to Senator Kerry's campaign, while paying them proceeds from the government tracts in return.

18 posted on 10/11/2004 6:22:46 AM PDT by stockpirate (Kerry; supported by, financed by, trained by, guided by, revered by, in favor of, Communists.)
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To: Sadie789

I was engaged to a guy who served in Nam and he wrote to me about every day and he NEVER mentioned ANY of the atrocities that Kerry accused our soldiers of. I broke off the engagement, but I still have respect for the soldier. He is a good man, successful with wife, kids, his own business. I lost two old friends in Nam, and I do not believe they ever committed these atrocities either! God bless their souls. Nice guys.


19 posted on 10/11/2004 6:24:02 AM PDT by buffyt (You don't create terrorists by fighting back. You defeat the terrorists by fighting back. ~GWBush~)
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20 posted on 10/11/2004 6:26:49 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (When will the ABCNNBC BS lunatic libs stop Rathering to Americans? Answer: NEVER!)
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