Posted on 06/22/2008 11:27:28 AM PDT by neverdem
For most people, Swift boat has become a political verb, a synonym for the kind of attack that helped destroy the presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry in 2004.
But for a group of Vietnam veterans at the center of the attacks, it is still a fresh fight.
On Friday, the group, who served with Mr. Kerry in Vietnam, sent a letter to T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire Texas oilman who helped finance the 2004 attack advertisements, taking him up on a challenge he issued last November: that he would give $1 million to anyone who could disprove a single charge the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth made against Mr. Kerry.
The letter-writers served alongside Mr. Kerry during the events that the Swift boat group insisted he had embellished or made up to win his military decorations.
Identifying themselves as patriotic, concerned veterans they say the accusations of the Swift boat group damaged their reputations and deeply affected their families, tarnished the sacrifices we made, called into question the medals we were awarded and challenged the very authenticity of our service.
The group is working with Mr. Kerry, who himself seized on the challenge soon after Mr. Pickens made it at an American Spectator dinner. In a letter, he offered to meet with Mr. Pickens to rebut the charges. Mr. Pickens wrote back to say that he was good for his money, but that Mr. Kerry would have to provide his military record, the journal he kept in Vietnam and movies and tapes made in his tours there.
Mr. Pickens also qualified his challenge, saying he meant that someone would have to prove false things in the groups television advertisements putting aside a best-selling book and extensive news media interviews that attracted the bulk of the attention. He challenged...
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They havent had an authentic hero since JFK
"Jerk" fits Kerry, but combat veterans are rarer in politics than they were in Kennedy's day.
There aren't many McCains in Congress.
I'm grateful to anybody who served, whatever party they're in.
Fair enough
Being the moron that he is, it stands to reason that he'd try to fight a battle 4 years too late.
It's the "paper of record." Sometimes they have really good stories. Sometimes they smell to High Heaven. This is the latter.
How about you?
John F'n Kerry is running scared. Poll shows Kerry vulnerable, but is that good news for O'Reilly?
Thank you for your essays. Pound on Heath for his party's energy policies. Good luck!
All mine went to the SBVFT also. The Grand Old Pussies will have to do something to deserve a donation if they ever want money from me again.
even though the Swifts officially stood down in May, the forum remains open
This is apparently about the Silver Star (beach the boat) incident
posted on this thread:
http://www.swiftvets.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=176462
Globe Op-ed: “T. Boone, show us the money”
“”The 15-page letter and 42 pages of Navy reports and other documentation focus principally on a 1969 engagement in which three boats under Kerry’s supervision counterattacked after an ambush on a tributary of the Bay Hap River.
Kerry won a Silver Star for his actions.......””
Kate~~
No actually, they were all true. The liberal MSM tried to ignore the Swift Vets and assured Kerry they would not report on it. In their arrogance to continue the Kerry lies, they thought they could control information and were wrong.
Kate Zernike is a certified liar and DNC operative.
Only a complete and total idiot or a schemer could rack up three ‘wounds’ in a 4-month period. That, coupled with this cretin’s filmed re-enactments of his ‘engagements’ would likely lead one to believe the latter. I believe, that he doesn’t have a clean SF 180 that is dated at the time of his first release because he was separated under ‘other than honorable conditions’. His SF180, if he ever releases it will be dated around the time of Jimmy Carter’s blanket amnesty, about the same time when Kerry’s Honorable discharge is dated.......my guess is we’ll never see any of this.
LOL!
To me, “Swift Boating” means “shining the light of truth on lying politicians”.
"Hey John, isn't it about time you pulled your panties out of your butt?"
;)
There are plenty more sources.
I don't mind that you support John McCain. That is your right and privilege.
I do mind, however, that you impugned my integrity by responding BS to my mentioning the fact that McCain went strongly to the defense of Kerry and blasted the Swift Boat Vets for Truth.
I don't expect an apology, but suggest you get your facts straight before accusing me of lying again!
BS
Boy that first article is some convoluted logic
Take care son. This Sixty something veteran isn't real stable, especially concerning all things Viet Nam!
Kerry is up for reelection this year.
So McCain defended not attacking Vets.
Big deal. That doesn’t make him on Kerrys side.
Who ya gonna vote for? Obama?
Gonna sit this one out?
There is plenty to be critical of with McCain but lets not help the other team.
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