Let's see former POW McCain's comments on this.
Kerry opened this can of worms and now he is going to have to eat his fill.
"My name is Steve Gardner. I served in 1966 and 1967 on my first tour of duty in Vietnam on Swift boats, and I did my second tour in '68 and '69, involved with John Kerry in the last 2 1/2 months of my tour. The John Kerry that I know is not the John Kerry that everybody else is portraying. I served alongside him and behind him, five feet away from him in a gun tub, and watched as he made indecisive moves with our boat, put our boats in jeopardy, put our crews in jeopardy... if a man like that can't handle that 6-man crew boat, how can you expect him to be our Commander-in-Chief?"
-- Steven Gardner
The above quote was from a press conference given at the National Press Club in Washington on May 4, 2004. You may view Steven’s comments at the following web site. Just scroll down to Steven’s picture and click on it.
http://swift1.he.net/~swiftvet/index.php?topic=SwiftVetQuotes
Searching through that web site, you will find 250 men who served on Swift boats, including the entire chain of command above Lt. Kerry, agree with Steven Gardner that Kerry is not fit to be Commander-in-Chief. That compares to the 13 crew members who support his candidacy.
The public DOES NOT KNOW about the Vietnam/Watergate era. I hope the Switfvets can contribute to an educational period in which many who are ignorant of what really went on can learn.
Above all....how could a man responsible for Veterans' torture be considered for President? Horrific.
John McCain needs to stop worrying about what the media and democrats will think about him and STAND UP and be counted as a warrior for the truth.
McCain's disdain for Kerry is widely known, but he hasn't
publically stated it for a good many years.
McCain will have nothing to say, he understands that what he said, what Fonda said, what MacNamera said, what other prisnors said, basically it didn't take much to instigate a beating.
Inflating a Kerry sized head could be hazardous, McCain won't say anything.
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Now this would be the death blow to the Kerry campaign-an ad by former POW's who said that they were made to listen to this Kerry propoganda while being held captive.
Only problem is Kerry didn't leave his stuff behind him. He decided to glorify it.
It had to happen. Sooner or later this nation had to deal with the treatment of our Viet Nam Troops. Face to face.
Kerry was counting on the short attention span of the American Public and the voters under 45 who cannot grasp the hatred hanging in the air.
It does not take a rocket scientist to know the Viet Nam Vets do not have such a short attention span. They may have come home, tried to put it behind them and got on with their lives, but they never, ever forgot. It is not hatred. It is not dirty political trickery or "shadowy 527 groups."
It is a group of Viet Nam Veterans who have decided to endure anything and everything the left (and even some on the right) decides hurl at them to stand up for their beliefs and to do what is right.
Lawyers and character asassinations are the modern subsitutes for spit and blood. The difference is that now the vets are home to fight, not still on the battlefields or in the prison camps.
Nothing, nothing has changed in regard to John Kerry's treatment of Viet Nam Veterans.
Every time I see Kerry on TV (I know it's very un-Pennsylvanian of me), I say for, many good reasons, "It's on b*tch!!" Then I promptly change the channel to something that doesn't make me want to kick in my tv.
These were the strong ones. There were some who didn't make it.
Going to campaign against John Kerry is something I wouldn't consider.
I will never understand McCain's attitude.
I'm so happy that these vets finally get the chance to say their peace. They've been denied this opportunity for far too long, and it's the "Kerry's and the Fonda's" who are now going to see what it feels like to be on the recieving end.
Military units often peg screw off artists and %*ck-Ups with duties that will minimize risk to others.I had just assumed the commanders had gotten together one night and pinned a purple heart on his sorry ass wound as a way to get rid of him,and sent him packing.
The Bush Administration has once again been wise by keeping its fingerprints off this one.They were mum during the "Moore Offensive"and can with credibility remain silent now,all the while munching the canary,hehehe... The Voices of these men ,these Veterans,are heard much clearer and more loudly because they have been the ones who initiated this action. No Media stone wall will hold this back for long.....
The only thing that ticks me...
that these allegations didn't send The Good Ship Kerry to the bottom of Boston Harbor
when he first ran for the House of Representatives.
(If "the press" can get the records of Ryan in Illinois unsealed, the should
be able to find out if Kerry has been bribing his "Band of Brothers" to appear with him
for decades! Get to work, Fifth Estate!)
I noticed a subtle shot across McCain's bow...
The Kerry campaign, asked to comment, sent UPI an e-mail message that included two quotes from a Oct. 21, 1996, New Yorker article entitled "A Friendship that Ended the War" and asked they be included.
"John McCain [...] Going to campaign against John Kerry is something I wouldn't consider.'"
I heard Lt. Col. Tom Collins say the same thing on Greg Garrison's radio show last week. Kerry is so deplorable. A traitor for sure. He must never be CIC.
Heck, I can't listen to Kerry's droning pedantic supercilious verbal diarrhea for two seconds before changing the station.
First they just get by getting a lying draft dodger elected...A POLISHED Liar.
Now they've nominated a MALINGERING MALCONTENT who they've branded a "Hero" (by whose definition, I can't find). He's just a BAAAAD Liar.
When they come back to Earth and get with the Webster's Dictionary we all grew up with, maybe they'll have a chance again.