Posted on 05/27/2006 10:22:00 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Kerry Pressing Swiftboat Case, Long After Loss By KATE ZERNIKE
John Kerry starts by showing the entry in a log he kept from 1969: "Feb 12: 0800 run to Cambodia."
He moves on to the photographs: his boat leaving the base at Ha Tien, Vietnam; the harbor; the mountains fading frame by frame as the boat heads north; the special operations team the boat was ferrying across the border; the men reading maps and setting off flares.
"They gave me a hat," Mr. Kerry says. "I have the hat to this day," he declares, rising to pull it from his briefcase. "I have the hat."
Three decades after the Vietnam War and nearly two years after Mr. Kerry's failed presidential bid, most Americans have probably forgotten why it ever mattered whether he went to Cambodia or that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth accused him of making it all up, saying he was dishonest and lacked patriotism.
But among those who were on the frontlines of the 2004 campaign, the battle over Mr. Kerry's wartime service continues, out of the limelight but in some ways more heatedly because unlike then, Mr. Kerry has fully engaged in the fight. Only those on Mr. Kerry's side, however, have gathered new evidence to prove their case.
The Swift boat group continues to spend money on Washington consultants, according to public records, and last fall it gave $100,000 to a group that promptly sued Mr. Kerry, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, for allegedly interfering with the release of a film that was critical of him.
Some of the principals behind the Swift boat group continue to press their claims.
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"I think I remember reading that he had only released the records to the Washington Post, which in turn, promised not to print anything they discovered."
I think he released them to the Boston Globe, a really, really fair and balanced rag! ;-)
I got a hat at Embry-Riddle aviation school a few weeks ago. "This is your Captain speaking" - now I'm an airline pilot ....
This whole business about what Kerry did or didn't do while in Vietnam was not important to me. What mattered to me was his post-Vietnam activities. I think the post-Vietnam stuff should have been the primary focus of the anti-Kerry vets.
Kerry thows away his medals - but keeps a hat!
"I think I remember reading that he had only released the records to the Washington Post,
Anyone have this?
No matter what one might think of the WaPo, if they had it, I am sure that some enterprising reporter would get it out. Does not pass the smeel test, imo."
I believe it was the Boston Globe.
I have a coat that says CTU.
But I am not Jack Bauer.
Jack Bauer fears me.
How about calling for the filibuster from the Swiss ski slopes. He's a dork.
Good point!
A defining attribute of liberalism.
More like all ass-hat with assoiated credibility of being one.
Section 8....ping
Yo JFK, we're ready for round 2. Are you sure you are? Bring it on.
As I understand it, public figures have a heavy burden in this area. It's very difficult for them to sue for libel or slander. However private citizens called liars by politicians may have a cause for a defamation lawsuit.
Exactly. He has a war chest of money from his investments in Google. You can bet he is running.
What is this, 480+ days since Senator Kerry PROMISED to make public his military records... "Reporting for duty" my foot.
Let me go look in the latest Legion Magazine and see if he has an item under "Searching for".
god, at least have the decency to go down with dignity... wait that is not something you would know about.. right? what a sore loser.. take comfort in knowing every household in the USA knows you went to Vietnam... now go do your job.
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