After-Action Report from Anti-Kerry Freep, NYC, Feb. 28

Feb. 28, 2004 | firebrand

[Mich0127]

Yay...I like those pictures!

[jmstein7]

Yeah!

How was the pub??? Sorry I had to miss that :(

[Dan from Michigan]

Benedict Kerry. What an apt name.

[Mich0127]

It was awesome..we had a lot of fun..wish you were there..missed ya!

[blackie]

Great job everybody ~ you make a difference!

We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists and the democrats are sad ~ very sad!

~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~

[jmstein7]

BUMP!

Great FReep today!

[Seeking the truth]

Great Freep...youse guys (a little Brooklynese for those outside the Tri-State area)

[AmericanMade1776]

New York-AP -- A crowd of Vietnam veterans and Vietnamese Americans in New York has been calling John Kerry a traitor.

They waved flags and carried signs that read "Benedict Kerry" at a protest rally staged by a group calling itself Vietnam Vets Against John Kerry.

Organizer Jerry Kiley says Kerry committed "a treasonous offense" by marching under the flag of the enemy while protesting the Vietnam War. Kiley says Kerry "stabbed his band of brothers in the back."

Kerry campaign spokesman Mark Kornblau (KORN'-blow) says Kerry "served honorably," and earned the right to "speak out against a war that he saw with his own eyes and believed was wrong."

Kornblau also says Vietnam veterans who actually served with Kerry are his strongest supporters.
http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=1675897
Copyright 2004 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

[jmstein7]

All two who lived, anyway.

[Dan from Michigan]

KORN'-blow)

That's how his name is pronounced?????

[AmericanMade1776]

from reuters.... US Vets, Vietnamese Demonstrate Against Kerry
Sat Feb 28, 2004 06:52 PM ET
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Around 200 U.S. Army veterans and Vietnamese people demonstrated outside Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry's New York headquarters on Saturday to protest his opposition decades ago to the Vietnam War.
Waving American and South Vietnamese flags and singing the U.S. national anthem, they held up signs saying "Hanoi John," and "Kerry Betrayed Vietnam Vets."

"We won't sit by and let the American people think that we are going to stand by somebody who stabbed us in the back," said Jerry Kiley, a veteran and one of the protest organizers.

Kerry, a Massachusetts senator and probable presidential challenger to President Bush in November, became a leader of the anti-war movement after returning from Vietnam, where he was decorated with a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts.

"John Kerry served his country honorably," said Mark Kornblau, New York spokesman for Kerry's campaign. "This protest is being organized by an individual who has made a career of profiting from tragedy."

Questions about Kerry's anti-war activities arose after some Democrats made an issue of Bush's service in the domestic Air National Guard, questioning whether he showed up for duty in Alabama in the early 1970s.

© Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=4461044&section=news

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[firebrand]

Fabuloso pictures! Good work! I think I see Ted Sampley in one or two of them.

[freedumb2003]

Way to FReep, baby!

[firebrand]

These are great! Wish we had the bagpiper soundtrack to go with them.

[firebrand]

ZING!

[NRA2BFree]

Thanks for the great report and the fantastic pictures! You guys ROCK!!

[blam]

Excellent report...and thanks to all the participants.

[firebrand]

Tri-State Chapter folks.

[Mich0127]

Mr. Kornblow, or whatever the hell his name is...BLAH BLAH BLAH..that is what he sounds like!

Funny thing is none Kerry's lackies had the guts to say a WORD to us!