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Kerry Phones Swift Boat Foes (Drudge Siren)
Drudge Report ^ | 8/24/04 | Matt Drudge

Posted on 08/24/2004 8:07:05 AM PDT by Callahan

Edited on 08/24/2004 8:36:11 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brant; bush2004; kerry; robertbrant; swiftboatveterans
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To: Callahan
"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."


401 posted on 08/24/2004 6:17:15 PM PDT by atomicpossum (If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.©)
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To: yoe

Bump


402 posted on 08/24/2004 6:58:48 PM PDT by sport
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To: Callahan
Developing...

Like what - more phone calls? Put a fork in him, he's toast...

403 posted on 08/24/2004 7:03:01 PM PDT by Libloather (What did Bergler stow - and when did he stow it?)
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To: Callahan
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.

LOL! That's great.

404 posted on 08/24/2004 8:11:41 PM PDT by b4its2late (John John Kerry Edwards change positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
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To: Callahan

A "got to show this to the kinfolk" BUMP


405 posted on 08/24/2004 9:30:19 PM PDT by philman_36
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

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."


Oh that makes me feel sooo much better.


406 posted on 08/24/2004 9:36:05 PM PDT by Valin (It Could Be that the Purpose of Your Life is Only to Serve as a Warning to Others.)
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To: Fishtalk

Can I have some of your innocence?


407 posted on 08/24/2004 9:37:21 PM PDT by LibertyGirl77
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To: Sabertooth; jwalsh07
Another sad and pathetic Kerry comment. It is interesting though that Kerry implied in his execrable Senate testimony that he had first hand knowledge of atrocities, but in this latest spin apparently he didn't.

Obviously Kerry is sweating over this - and that is good - he should sweat. His failure to apologize and come clean is doing a Dorian Gray number on him.

408 posted on 08/24/2004 9:58:01 PM PDT by Torie
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To: All
Ramsey Clark to Join Panel for Saddam’s Defense
Wednesday, 25, August, 2004



People can get
Kerry's real book here,
right now,
online FREE!!

From Kerry's "The New Soldier":
Al Hubbard Sgt., 22 Troop Carrier Squadron Aug. ’65-June ’66

Emotions: Walking down the flight line at Saigon past stacks of aluminum cases containing American bodies and past stacks of aluminum luggage containing American currency. Seeing the tight, sad face of an Airman loading the bodies aboard a dirty Air Force Transport and the wide smiling face of a stewardess greeting the passengers aboard a clean Pan American Clipper Jet. Hearing a Vietnamese beg you to leave his country and an American colonel tells you to bomb his country. Hearing a Vietnamese invite you to live in his home, after the war and an American explain why you can’t live in his block, after the war. Flying over barren, brown, safe American held terrain and over lush, green unsafe enemy terrain. Feeling happy to be leaving a country in which you do not belong and sad to be returning to a country in which you are not allowed to belong. Sacrificing a portion of your consciousness so you won’t have to deal with being there and building mental blocks so you won’t have to deal with having been there.

- Al Hubbard, proven fraud who never set foot in Viet Nam. The only Vietnamese he ever met was when he was collaborating with the North Vietnamese in Paris
on the American Communist Party's nickel.
John Kerry's explanation: "He (Hubbard) simply exaggarated his particular position.
But nobody knew it at the time. And those things happen."

The New Soldier,
By John Kerry
and Vietnam Veterans
Against the War

PART I

PART II
PART III

Kerry hopes everyone
in the USA gets this book!

409 posted on 08/24/2004 10:00:55 PM PDT by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Hanoi Jane and Hanoi Kerry sitting in a tree, sitting in a tree F-R-E-N-C-H-I-N-G)
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To: FL_engineer

Thanks for the ping!


410 posted on 08/24/2004 10:06:05 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: adam_az; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub; Conspiracy Guy; kellynla; NavySEAL F-16; Viet-Boat-Rider; ...
Now, if only the Wayans brothers could direct a new version of Apocalypse Now.

TONY BENNET LEFT HIS HEART IN SAN FRANCISCO, WHILE JOHN KERRY DONATED HIS LIVER TO TED KENNEDY.

-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)

411 posted on 08/24/2004 11:58:39 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid (This tag-line paid for by "Friends of Paul Rodriguez.")
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To: The Scourge of Yazid

Check out my latest tune. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1198809/posts?page=69#69


412 posted on 08/25/2004 4:49:35 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (I'm Conspiracy Guy and I approve this message. "John Kerry is a liar!")
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To: Phsstpok

ANOTHER democrap who lied to his diary...


413 posted on 08/25/2004 9:21:17 AM PDT by Mr. K
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To: Callahan

Here we go again. IT'S NOT A SIREN, IT'S A LIGHT. LOL


414 posted on 08/25/2004 3:42:22 PM PDT by floriduh voter (www.conservative-spirit.org SUPPORT JAN GOVAN www.jangovan.com)
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To: floriduh voter

Don't know if anyone else has mentioned this in this thread or not, but - do you remember when Jane Fonda insisted on meeting with some veterans several years back? She didn't apologize for bad-mouthing the military either, just that she was sorry she hurt feelings (or something like that). It was bogus and a waste of time. Only a photo-op. Insincere. She never went back on what she said or did during the Viet Nam war. She's a fake, too.


415 posted on 08/25/2004 3:47:41 PM PDT by Max7
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