Kerry vows to disprove Swift boat claims

Yahoo ^ | 11/16/07 | GLEN JOHNSON

[xtinct]

BOSTON - Sen. John Kerry, whose 2004 presidential campaign was torpedoed by critics of his Vietnam War record, said Friday he has personally accepted a Texas oilman's offer to pay $1 million to anyone who can disprove even a single charge of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

In a letter to T. Boone Pickens, the Massachusetts Democrat wrote: "While I am prepared to show they lied on allegation after allegation, you have generously offered to pay one million dollars for just one thing that can be proven false. I am prepared to prove the lie beyond any reasonable doubt."

Kerry, a Navy veteran and former prosecutor, said he was willing to present his case directly to Pickens, who provided $3 million to bankroll the group during Kerry's race against President Bush.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Kerry’s Herald story, his Senate speech and the Washington Post piece have sealed his fate in history as a liar.

[RipSawyer]

O.J. had intended to help Kerry with this project but he was too busy looking for the real killers! Now with Simpson in his current situation, well, what the heck, Kerry will just have to do it on his own.

[Beckwith]

... his Senate speech

Wasn't a speech. It was perjury.

Kerry was testifying in front of the Fulbright Committee. When one testifies before Congress, one is sworn in.

[Brad from Tennessee]

There were two speeches—one when he was a VVAW hippie and the other in 1986 when he was a U.S. senator:

“I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people that I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have that memory which is seared — seared — in me.”

Link to a good Washington Post op-ed on Kerry’s BS:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27211-2004Aug23.html