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Last week, John Walker Lindh  petitioned the president to commute his 20-year sentence for fighting with the Taliban, imposed in 2002.  It’s a shame that this pampered child of Marin County is sitting in a cell for something as trivial as treason. Under a plea bargain, Walker Lindh (AKA: Abdul Hamid, AKA: Sulayman Al-Lindh) pleaded guilty to supplying services to the Taliban regime and carrying explosives for  Afghanistan’s former rulers.Which is like to saying that Benedict Arnold supplied services to George III. Johnny Jihad trained in an al-Qaeda camp – where he learned to fire an AK-47 and rubbed elbows...

unspun.info  |  reality - spread it around  |  feel free to forward Bush vs. Kerry  -  the Turning Point Saturday, November 6, 2004 - Arlen Williams - http://www.unspun.info/swiftvetspows.html George W. Bush has won the Presidency over John F. Kerry -- a personal victory.  It is also an ideological victory, for America's founding vision of the Creator endowed covenants, virtues and rights of a very special and sovereign nation, over licentious, socialist and globalist revisionism.  But as to how this election was won, it was very much a media victory.  On John Kerry's side were bigger money, PAC attacks, media power...

Being a prisoner of war in Vietnam had some high points but many more low ones. The worst days physically were behind us in 1970, 1971, and 1972. After Ho Chi Minh died in 1969, the routine torturing of POWs for propaganda purposes pretty much stopped. Our captors panicked in November, 1970, following the daring raid on a closed POW camp at Son Tai 20 miles west of Hanoi — and moved all of us into the huge Hoa Lo prison in central Hanoi. We finally were permitted a semblance of societal life after years in solitary and/or stuffed into...

Galanti Is No Shill For Bush Campaign... To the Editor of the Times-Dispatch: Until recently, I was truly conflicted about the furor surrounding the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads and the liberal response. .... instead of legal threats against media outlets and publishers, the Kerry campaign, through the DNC, John Edwards, and Kerry himself, has gone on the record denouncing the SBVT as "liars," "front men for the Bush campaign," and "Karl Rove's attack dogs." ....I have personal, first-hand knowledge of the character of one of the SBVT who appears in the latest round of ads that examine the...

WASHINGTON - Two former Vietnam prisoners of war who appear in ads attacking Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) were appointed by the Bush administration to a panel advising the Department of Veterans Affairs (news - web sites). The former POWs in the ad, Kenneth Cordier and Paul Galanti, serve on the VA's 12-member Former POW Advisory Committee. VA Secretary Anthony Principi appointed Cordier in 2002 and Galanti in 2003. Cordier said the VA panel has nothing to do with the Bush campaign or the anti-Kerry group. "It's totally apolitical, and we meet twice a year to...

"Of course, the president keeps telling people he would never question my service to our country. Instead, he watches as a Republican-funded attack group does just that. Well, if he wants to have a debate about our service in Vietnam, here is my answer: 'Bring it on.'" -- Sen. John Kerry Dear John, As usual, you have it wrong. You don't have a beef with President George Bush about your war record. He's been exceedingly generous about your military service. Your complaint is with the 2.5 million of us who served honorably in a war that ended 29 years...

Galante accusing Kerry of aiding and abetting enemy.

The following e-mail was forwarded to me by a friend of Paul Galanti. Galanti was in the Hanoi Hilton for almost seven years, and was the Virginia chair of John McCain's presidential campaign (nobody's perfect). The email is actually from him, but he credits the contents to a retired Rear Admiral who was assigned to the same duty as Kerry: Go, Ollie! Here's a long one sent to me by a USNA '51 retired RADM (and POW) quoting a '59 RADM retired: I was in the Delta shortly after he left. I know that area well. I know the operations...