Kerry Phones Swift Boat Foes (Drudge Siren)

Drudge Report ^ | 8/24/04 | Matt Drudge

[Callahan]

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE AUG 24, 2004 11:09:31 ET XXXXX

KERRY PHONES SWIFT BOAT FOES

**Exclsuive**

Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry personally phoned anti-Kerry swift boat vets, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Kerry reached out to Robert "Friar Tuck" Brant Cdr., USN (RET) Sunday night, just hours after former Sen. Bob Dole publicly challenged Kerry to apologize to veterans.

Brant was skipper of the #96 and # 36 boat and spent time with Kerry in Anm Thoi. Kerry and Brant slept in the same quarters, and Brant used to put Kerry back to be at night when Kerry was sleepwalking.

Brant received a call from Kerry at his home in Virginia while he was watching the Olympics on TV.

The call lasted 10 minutes, sources tell DRUDGE.

KERRY: "Why are all these swift boat guys opposed to me?"

BRANT: "You should know what you said when you came back, the impact it had on the young sailors and how it was disrespectful of our guys that were killed over there.

[Brant had two men killed in battle.]

KERRY: "When we dedicated swift boat one in '92, I said to all the swift guys that I wasn't talking about the swifties, I was talking about all the rest of the veterans."

Kerry then asked if he could meet Brant -- man to man -- face to face.

Brant declined the invite, explaining that Kerry was obviously not prepared to correct the record on exactly what happened during Vietnam and what happened when Kerry came back.

Developing...

[Future Useless Eater]

Kerry is desperately trying to find more vets to back him,
or better yet, switch their stories (at least slightly)


I WONDER what kinds of 'DEALS' he is making for this info???

[RogueIsland]

Yesterday on Hannity, there was some democrat skank calling Bush "A disgrace to this country for not serving in Nam".

I'll bet she voted for Clinton twice, though.

[Fishtalk]

I think Kerry's worse than most of us could ever have believed before.

For me, who lived through that time, the scales keep falling from my eyes and I continued to be horrified.

During the wind-down of the Vietnam War I was a new Mom, working a full time job and living a law-abiding American life.

There was no Internet, no Free Republic, no Rush Limbaugh. Not that I would have sat and read and absorbed it all like I do now, I don't know. I've always been a reader and did read the newspapers, newsmags, that kind of thing. So I likely would have been reading web sites like FreeRepublic, et al, had there been an Internet.

I had no idea that Kerry started the VVAW, no idea that he testified like he did before congress, no idea that he met with Communist leaders, no idea that millions of Cambodians, etc, were slaughtered because America withdrew.

I do recall the antics of Jane Fonda and remember thinking what an ass she was. But there was an ill-wind blowing throughout America at that time, ill more because America wasn't fighting the war to win it. I now know it was because spineless cowards like Kerry wanted us out of there and were afraid to fight the war like a man. The Vietnam War was what you get when Democrats try to run a war.

That ill wind blew on my young self and I was weary and tired of watching the body bags being unloaded on the TV. Someone on the Today show announced that the Vietnam War was over one morning and by me that was just fine.

Now, soundly over age 50, I can't help but compare it to today's current events. I supported the war in Iraq, I supported due to the claim of those weapons of mass destruction, but I also supported it because Saddamn was just a bad, bad man and it was time for him to go. Part of my American pride stems from my country having saved the lives of thousands, perhaps millions, of Iraqis from more brutality by Saddam and his satan sons.

I would never have supported an American withdrawal from Vietnam had I known the Cambodians and who's that guy, Pol Pot? would suffer or come to power.

I also, today, take great pride in our country's lonely but noble quest to stem terrorism. I would not stand it if the US gave up, withdrew from Iraq and Afghanistan, wasn't firm in resolve. But back then I shrugged relief that America was getting out of Vietnam.

The dichotomies(sp?) of the two eras strike me vividly.

I know that there wasn't enough truth out there and that guys like Kerry were orchestrating their own rise to power in the blood of others.

It's different today. The main difference being: access to the truth.

[showpromid]

So he accuses the SVBT of being shills for Bush at the same time he's calling them to ask them to please stop? Nice.

[KQQL]

Ferry :
DUDE what are you doing to me ? join me for $$$$?

[RJL]

KERRY: "When we dedicated swift boat one in '92, I said to all the swift guys that I wasn't talking about the swifties, I was talking about all the rest of the veterans."

In 1992, Twenty one years later? Thanks for nothing.

And the rest of you Vets are still war criminals. Again John, thanks for nothing.

John, An old saying applies here "Don't piss down our back and then tell us it's raining.

[cake_crumb]

"I thought the candidates weren't allowed to communicate directly with the 527s."

Hey, good point! I was so upset about that he said I almost forgot that the man he said it TO is a member of a 527.

That's illegal. File, O'Neil. You got 'im!

[ken5050]

I enjoyed your comments...I'd surmise I'm slightly older than you..I'm 56..if we had FOX news, talk radio, and the internet in 1964..Goldwater would have beaten LBJ..

[PJ-Comix]

Have you ever read PsychoCybernetics by Malcolm Maltz? It is about self-hypnosis. Anyway, I honestly believe that Kerry has self-hypnotized himself into LOSING the election. See, on the concious level he was to win the election to help his incredibly low self-esteem. But on the subconcious level, Kerry loathes himself which is why he is unconciously self-hypnotizing himself to lose the election.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[PJ-Comix]

Hey Kerry .. Just HOW MANY TIMES do you plan to shot yourself in the foot??

Read my post about self-hypnosis. I believe Kerry has subconciously hynotized himself to LOSE election due to his extreme self-loathing.

[repentant_pundit]

Kerry then asked if he could meet Brant -- man to man -- face to face. Brant declined the invite

how long before kerry tells the media "a Swift Boat Veteran for Bush refused to meet with me."

[jusduat]

Great history lesson. I was more or less the same (55+ now)
The scales came off my eyes when I became a born again
Christian and decided to live my faith and not to just
claim it.

[myheroesareDeadandRegistered]

"The Internet and talk radio are saving this nation."

I hope you are right.

[SevenofNine]

COOL we seeing Hanoi John Meltdown

Rack ittt LOLOL!

[SevenofNine]

COOL we seeing Hanoi John Meltdown

Rack ittt LOLOL!

[cake_crumb]

'...and the willing media will tout the line "See, he's apologized. Can't we move on?" '

Move on to what? To concentrate on the people he victimized and their families? To his senate record, which is just an extension of the same pattern of his loathing of all things US military? Sure, I'm willing to move on to those two things. The swifties are too, thus the content of the second ad.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

KERRY: "Why are all these swift boat guys opposed to me?"

BRANT: "You should know what you said when you came back,
the impact it had on the young sailors
and how it was disrespectful of our guys that were killed over there.

[Brant had two men killed in battle.]

KERRY: "When we dedicated swift boat one in '92,

I said to all the swift guys that I wasn't talking about the swifties,

I was talking about all the rest of the veterans."

ROT IN HELL HANOI KERRY!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[prairiebreeze]

The SwiftBoat Vets aren't moving anywhere, except straight ahead, on course, true to path.

sKerry is sKeered!

Prairie