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"During this scene, Butler includes a photograph of Kerry shoving his ribbons through the fence"

RELATED STORY: Third shocking chapter recounts medal trashing ceremony; reveals Kerry’s antiwar secrets The #1 New York Times bestseller UNFIT FOR COMMAND is creating a firestorm this campaign season with its detailed investigation of Kerry’s actions in Vietnam and his anti-war activities when he returned home. The Swift Boat Vets expose the false accounts that led to Kerry's medals, and how POWs suffered in the hands of their captors because of his antiwar rhetoric. The book reveals other Kerry secrets, including his flip-flopping story about his disgraceful act of trashing war medals. First he claimed that he threw his medals....

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The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are launching another television ad attacking John Kerry. The new ad features John Kerry in the 1970s renouncing the medals he won during the Vietnam war. The Swift Boat group is spending $400,000 to put this ad on in Florida. The group is also spending another $800,000 on nationwide cable TV featuring their previous ad that had former POWs accusing Kerry of betraying the United States. Here are the details of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth 30-second ad: Images: American flag, Washington Monument, soldiers marching, veterans saluting. Then a scraggly, bearded and...

(CNSNews.com) - The latest Swift Boat Veterans for Truth advertisement doesn't feature anti-Kerry veterans. Instead, it uses John Kerry's own words - spoken as a young anti-war protestor -- against him. "How can the man who renounced his country's symbols now be trusted?" the new Swift Boat veterans' ad asks. The ad makes the point that symbols "represent the best things about America - freedom, valor sacrifice" -- and should therefore be respected. Some didn't share that respect, the announcer says - leading into a sound bite of John Kerry talking about helping a veteran "renounce his medals," which Kerry...

It only shows Kerry for a second (at around 1:15) but you can get a feel for the radical nature of the event and organization. Listen carefully near the end and you will hear a VVAW member state that the next time he fights will be to take these steps. Referring to the steps at the US Capitol or the WH.

  In a videotape from 1971, obtained exclusively by ABCNEWS, Vietnam veteran John Kerry said he gave back his medals in order to "wake the country."ABCNEWS.com Discarded Decorations Videotape Contradicts John Kerry’s Own Statements Over Vietnam Medals By Brian Ross and Chris Vlasto ABCNEWS.com April 26— Contradicting his statements as a candidate for president, Sen. John Kerry claimed in a 1971 television interview that he threw away as many as nine of his combat medals to protest the war in Vietnam. "I gave back, I can't remember, six, seven, eight, nine medals," Kerry said in an interview on a...

This is an image of the infamous "Medal Returning Ceremony" as the Kerry Campaign refers to it. When I saw this picture, I realized something about this event that I don't ever remember hearing discussed. If you look at the fence, there is a make-shift sign right where the medals where thrown. It says "Trash". There can be no mistake as to what is being referred to as "Trash".

THE LOGIC OF RIBBONS AND MEDALS - PART II: Be warned, this is an extremely long post. But it's time to finish off the thought I started last Tuesday: why did John Kerry throw his ribbons in protest in 1971 but not his medals? Kerry's answer to this question - at least since 1984 - is that he didn't have time to go home and get them. That answer strikes me as two things: impossible to disprove and less than convincing. We know that from 1971 to 1984 Kerry clearly wanted people to believe he'd thrown his own medals. We...

WASHINGTON - Former Sen. Bob Dole isn't making much of the controversy over whether decorated Vietnam veteran John Kerry (news - web sites) threw away his medals or ribbons during a 1971 anti-war protest. When it comes to choosing a president, "I don't think it matters," Dole, the Republican candidate for president in 1996 and a veteran whose arm was badly injured in World War II, told Fox New Sunday. Kerry returned from Vietnam an outspoken critic of the war. For years, he has said he threw away his ribbons, not his three Purple Hearts, Bronze Star and Silver Star...

THE MORE John Kerry is asked about his Vietnam War medals, the more he resembles Bill Clinton answering questions about Monica Lewinsky. During a 1971 anti-war protest, Kerry famously threw something over the fence at the U.S. Capitol. Other veterans tossed their medals over the fence, and Kerry presumably did the same. Back then, he led people to believe just that. Here is a transcript of a 1971 television interview with Kerry, reproduced last week by The New York Times and CNN: Interviewer: “How many did you give back, John?” Kerry: “I gave back, I can’t remember, six, seven, eight,...

One after another came in over the radio on the subject of Senator Kerry and his medals, and then we heard the blessed voice of Senator John McCain. He pleaded that the whole controversy should be dropped. What we need, he said, is bipartisan action on what to do now in Iraq. Senator Kerry has agreed that we can't just bail out, and of course that is the position of the president. So why don't the two sides get together on a common strategy? "The other stuff is just politics," McCain said. Well yes, it is just politics, but politics...

On an April night in Washington 33 years ago, a tall, slender man in navy combat fatigues tapped me on the shoulder I was sitting in a large army tent pitched on the Mall, in the company of a couple of dozen Vietnam vets, one of whom—a bearded, wiry little guy with a terrific sense of humor and an inexhaustible supply of mescaline—was temporarily using my other shoulder as a resting place for the stump that had been his left leg. He’d just asked how come I was wearing a South Vietnamese officer’s jacket with the word "TIME" embroidered over...

<p>Sen. John Kerry has a problem with saying what he means and meaning what he says. This is hardly news, but it's surprising that Mr. Kerry has not amended this peculiar trait since becoming the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate.</p> <p>On April 23, 1971, after tossing a handful of ribbons and medals over the Capitol fence, Mr. Kerry spoke to a gathering of veterans. "This [Nixon] administration forced us to return our medals," he said. Later that year, he told a Washington television interviewer: "I gave back ... six, seven, eight, nine medals," including, he added, his Bronze and Silver Stars, as well as his Purple Hearts. Except that he didn't.</p>

If I was on one of my adventures around the world, I am about positive I would love to meet Senator John Kerry and his interesting, outspoken, alternate wife. They are fluent in worldly matters and could partake in lively conversations on global issues. As an Australian, I am filled with interest meeting people from every walk of life. Always. That’s the essence of my culture. But, there are some people you would love to have a beer with but would never do business with. That’s the savvy, yet kind, heart of Australia… you can welcome everyone, but never give...

Funny what a difference a week makes in the world of the political press. Our friends at the Washington Post write breathlessly this morning about leaks that led to the latest controversy over John Kerry's Vietnam War medals. As you no doubt recall, ABC and The New York Times reported Monday on an old videotape unearthed which shows Kerry saying decisively that he tossed his "medals" over the wall at Congress in protest with his anti-war brothers in arms. Of course, it later turned out Kerry tossed only the ribbons, not his medals. There were no doubts the story was...

I am sure that many of you out there are aware of the whole Kerry throwing away his ribbons, medals, both, someone elses medals (I think you get what I am saying)controversy. Well, I know that since Kerry is such a great war hero and since he was "forced"(notice the sarcasm) to throw over his medals(last week) or his ribbons (this week), we should do our duty by replacing them. (Keep in mind, we don't know what he will claim he threw when we ask him next week...he might change his mind again!) This is why we all should send...

If John Kerry hadn't already clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, his medals meltdown on "Good Morning America" this week would have sunk his campaign. Much as Howard Dean's crazed "I Have A Scream" speech jolted voters into wondering whether someone so hotheaded should be allowed anywhere near the nuclear trigger, Kerry's abusive tirade on ABC gave millions of viewers a foretaste of how far presidential discourse will sink if Kerry becomes president. Not one voter in 100 would vote against Kerry for trashing his Vietnam War medals at a Capitol Hill demonstration when he was 27 years old. What he...

April 26, 2004 Lost your password? Have it emailed to you. Hotmail & Yahoo users: If you have trouble logging in, copy & paste the link below in a new browser. http://www.gopteamleader.com/email_forward.asp?name=gma042604tm.txt RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie Statement Regarding Senator John Kerrys Comments on Good Morning America Washington, DC-On an appearance this morning on Good Morning America, Senator John Kerry denied that there is any contradiction in conflicting statements he's made over the last 30 years regarding whether or not he threw away medals he received in Vietnam. RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie made the following statement in response to Kerry's comments...

John Kerry—the most decorated of those who called each other "brother"—was going to be walking point. "So?" I said, as we stood under the stars, hugging ourselves against the chill. He smiled. "I got a better place for you to sleep." I trailed after him to a parking lot where half a dozen former junior officers in fatigues were leaning against a Mercedes sedan. John made introductions, assuring them that though not a vet, and in the employ of a publication that had declared Vietnam "the right war in the right place at the right time," I had spent a...