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...

[mondonico]

Here's the text from Drudge:

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...

[VRWC_minion]

Isn't this phone call too little, too late ? , Just like the accusation against Bush ?

[Thinkin' Gal]

KERRY PHONES SWIFT BOAT FOES
Around his record he tippy-toes.
The vets aren't scammed.
Kerry's ego is rammed.
"Do you know who I am?"
Lurch demands.
"A treasonous fellow"
The swift vets bellow.

[zook]

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."

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So, it was all the other soldiers commiting the attrocities, not Kerry and his pals?

[Dog]

Scott thank you for pointing that out!!!!

[Dubh_Ghlase]

And HITLARY comes to the rats rescue....

[cyncooper]

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(d) at night when Kerry was sleepwalking.

Interesting about the sleepwalking..."Unfit"?

Soooo, another who served with Kerry but wasn't *on* his boat but Kerry wants to claim him as someone who served with him IF he can get him on his side. Brant wouldn't cave like so many others didn't cave when Kerry tried this before. I like Brant.

[Cboldt]

They're setting up the defense of the first purple heart that Kerry was simply wrong when he wrote this in his "diary."

Not much of a defense. Show us the records, and explain how a PH request turned down by Hibbard was resubmitted, months later, via a different chain of command.

Kerry is working hard to keep this story in the news.

[zook]

Oops! Sorry about posting same message twice!

[najida]

"Come on guys! I wanna be President! Back off or I'll sic Tereasa on you."

[OldFriend]

Bless Dole for sharing his conversation with Kerry with the rest of the world!!!

[Cboldt]

He wants to make a deal. Kerry will apologize to the Vets about war crimes and admit that his first PH may have been in error. In return, the SBVFT will stop attacking him.

He is daft. The SBVFT assert that Kerry is Unfit for Command. They will not stop, until their rationale for reaching that conclusion is clear to the public.

[kenth]

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."

He actually thinks this helps him? I'm sure he'll flip around and tell the other veterans, "oh, I didn't mean you guys. I meant all those other guys."

He's flipping, but at least admitting to trashing the veterans.

[Riley]

Am I to infer here that Kerry is telling Brant that "all that stuff I said about attrocities was about other soldiers--not you guys!"

That's how it sounds to me.

[New Perspective]

[MamaLucci]

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

I'm really starting to believe this will be Kerry's undoing.

[JIM O]

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."

So he is now saying his friends were not criminals but the rest of us were! I take this as a worse offense against all of us than his original statement.

[cyncooper]

Nah, he has a history (see my previous posts that illustrate just a smidgeon) of trying to strong arm people into joining his side.

Some do.

Most don't.

That's what this was.

Again.

[Mo1]

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."

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

$10 Says Kerry doesn't have a CLUE on what he said

[kellynla]

Kerry will apologize to the Vets about war crimes and admit that his first PH may have been in error. In return, the SBVFT will stop attacking

Kerry will admit that his accusations of "mass atrocities" by American G.I.'s were lies and he will resign from office and remove himself from candidacy for POTUS. Nothing less will be acceptable. Period!

Semper Fi,
Kelly