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<p>Steven Michael Gardner served side by side with John Forbes Kerry in Vietnam, was wounded under Kerry's command, and was manning twin .50-caliber machine guns on a night that has forever haunted Kerry -- the night his crew killed a young boy in a sampan.</p>

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In an interview with WorldNetDaily, "Band of Brothers" member James Wasser flatly denied he told a former swiftboat crew mate that he had always despised their skipper John Kerry but "came around" after a persuasive, private meeting with the senator at the beginning of the presidential campaign. Gunnersmate Steve Gardner, featured in the latest Swift Boat Veterans for Truth television ad challenging Kerry's war record, has been claiming on numerous TV and radio talk shows in the past month that Wasser made that statement to him in a telephone conversation in early March.

The Kerry Poodle Groomers have protrayed the Swift Boat Vets as unreliable because they have "Republican" connections and the media lapped it up. Well one of the two most visible of Kerry's "Band of Brothers" is a union electrician and delegate to the DNC Convention this year. In fact, a Kerry delegate. Click Here and Find Wasser as a Pledged Kerry Delegate Could it be that Wasser is more Democrat than Vietnam Veteran in his outlook? Is he a partisan shill taking advantage of a brief (4 month) acquintance for political gain? I watched Sean Hannity take Wasser to...

During his war protest days in the early 1970s, Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry once denounced the United States of America as "the real criminal" in the Vietnam War. In comments first reported by the New York Times 33 years ago, Kerry condemned the entire country as "criminal" during a 1971 demonstration on Wall Street, a few weeks after the trial of Lt. William Calley. "Guilty as Lieutenant Calley may have been of the actual act of murder, the verdict does not single out the real criminal ... the United States of America," railed the future Democratic presidential hopeful. The...