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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...

This coming Thursday at 11:00am Eastern, G. Gordon Liddy will host leaders of the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation (VVLF) on his radio show. The VVLF recently filed a conspiracy lawsuit against John Kerry in federal court. During the program, excerpts from both "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" and Kerry's libelous 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will be broadcast. Here are short bios of Liddy's guests, all of whom also appeared in the devastating Swift Vets and POWs for Truth TV ad campaign: Col. George E. "Bud" Day, USAF (Ret.) President of Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation Shot...

RighTalk.com's "The Inquisition" will interview two guests today on the red hot topic of Sen. Dick Durbin's appalling comparison of Guantanamo Bay to "Nazis, Sovients in their gulags or some mad regime -- Pol Pot or others" Joining Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler at the top of the hour will be Brian Nick of the National Republican Senate Campaign Committee. During the second half of the show we will talk with former POW Paul Galanti of the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation, whose recent letter excoriating Durbin as "having aided and abetted the enemy in time of war" has been posted...

Senator Durbin, As one who was held in a North Vietnamese Prison for nearly seven years and whose definition of torture and bad treatment is somewhat at variance with yours, I deplore your senseless comments about alleged "barbaric treatment" at our terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo. Your remarks comparing Guantanamo to the regimes of Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot are outrageous. I tried to think of why a rational human being could make such an outlandish statement but I keep coming up short. I thought I'd seen it all when Howard Dean performed his infamous scream in Iowa but your...

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...

By rights, the second Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ad should be more devastating than the first. The new ad focuses on John Kerry's 1971 antiwar congressional testimony. If the content of the first ad, questioning the circumstances in which Kerry won his medals and Purple Hearts, inevitably becomes a "he said-he said," the second ad is an inarguable "he said it." Look it up in the Congressional Record, Thursday, April 22, 1971, Pages 179-210. One of the prisoners of war featured in the new ad, Paul Galanti, spent nearly seven years in captivity in Vietnam. "John Kerry gave the...

Former POW Says Kerry Lied About Vietnam Atrocities By Melissa CharbonneauWhite House Correspondent August 24, 2004 CBN.com – (CBN News) - The controversy over those ads against John Kerry will not go away. Today a new commercial goes on the air. This one is not targeting his service in Vietnam. It is about the impact of his anti-war activities after he came home. In an exclusive interview with one of the key figures in this new commercial, CBN News spoke with former POW Paul Galanti. Galanti never knew John Kerry in Vietnam. A Navy pilot captured in 1966, he spent...

A Swift Blow Kerry’s antiwar record stings. By rights, the second Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ad should be more devastating than the first. The new ad focuses on John Kerry's 1971 antiwar congressional testimony. If the content of the first ad, questioning the circumstances in which Kerry won his medals and Purple Hearts, inevitably becomes a "he said-he said," the second ad is an inarguable "he said it." Look it up in the Congressional Record, Thursday, April 22, 1971, Pages 179-210. One of the prisoners of war featured in the new ad, Paul Galanti, spent nearly seven years in...

A former prisoner of war in Vietnam says he recently experienced a "flashback" when he heard a recording of John Kerry accusing soldiers of war crimes in 1971 testimony before a Senate committee. Paul Galanti Paul Galanti, captured in 1966 after ejecting from his fighter jet about 100 miles south of Hanoi, said on the Sean Hannity radio show yesterday he first heard Kerry's testimony in late 1971 when it was broadcast by his North Vietnamese captors over the public address system in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" prison. The broadcast on Radio Vietnam by "Hanoi Hannah" was used to reinforce...

Galante accusing Kerry of aiding and abetting enemy.

Sean has announced that Paul Galanti from the 2nd anti-Kerry ad on his antiwar claims will be interviewed on his show shortly. WABC radio--AM770--4 PM EST.

The second in a series of anti-Kerry ads was released today by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. In the new ad, Vietnam-era POWs critically denounce John Kerry for his anti-war activities. Despite today's allegations in the New York Times that the group is a front for Bush political operatives, the harshest words for Kerry in the ad come from Paul Galanti, a former POW who served as Virginia campaign chairman for Bush rival Sen. John McCain (R.) and who was also an active member of Veterans for Mark Warner (the Democratic governor of Virginia) during Warner's 2001 gubernatorial race."John Kerry...

More Republican Ties Revealed Behind "Swift Boat Vets For Bush", Says Kerry Campaign 8/20/2004 5:45:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: Chad Clanton or Phil Singer, 202-464-2800, both of Kerry-Edwards 2004 WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Public records reveal that two of the people in the new "Swift Boat Veterans for Bush" television ad are Republican activists, as the fact sheet below shows. This is just more proof that Bush's Republican allies are the ones behind this disgraceful smear of John Kerry's military record. It's pretty clear what's going on here. It's no wonder the Bush campaign refuses to...

Three Vietnam veterans who were held captive for years in the prison known as the "Hanoi Hilton" revealed Tuesday that their Communist jailers repeatedly cited John Kerry's 1971 Senate testimony branding them as war criminals to justify threatening them with execution and drive down their morale. "These statements [by Kerry] ... were proof I deserved to be punished," former POW Air Force pilot Jim Warner told United Press International. During every interrogation session, said Warner, his Vietnamese jailers echoed Kerry's charges that he was a war criminal. "The memory of that was still pretty fresh in my mind, and I...

A former Vietnam POW is alleging that his Hanoi captors specifically cited Sen. John Kerry's 1971 anti-war testimony to Congress as they brutally tortured him to get him to turn on his fellow GIs. One-time Navy pilot Paul Galanti was shot down over North Vietnam in 1966 and spent seven years in the infamous Hanoi Hilton. He told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday that he learned of Kerry's April 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee while being tortured by his Hanoi Hilton guards. According to the Times, "during torture sessions, [Galanti] said, his captors cited the antiwar...

[Please note that this article was posted twice before, but the excerpts only featured the first couple of paragraphs, so no one seems to have noticed these comments from retired Naval Commander, Paul Galanti:] On April 22, 1971, the day before he threw away his combat ribbons, Kerry testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivering a powerful message that Brinkley says convinced many Americans their country was waging an immoral war. Kerry's testimony was the lead news story on all three networks that evening, making him one of the faces Americans attached to the antiwar movement. Dressed in his...

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Thursday, Feb. 19, 2004 11:10 a.m. EST Vietnam POW: Hanoi Hilton Torturers Cited Kerry's Speech A former Vietnam POW is alleging that his Hanoi captors specifically cited Sen. John Kerry's 1971 anti-war testimony to Congress as they brutally tortured him to get him to turn on his fellow GIs. One-time Navy pilot Paul Galanti was shot down over North Vietnam in 1966 and spent seven years in the infamous Hanoi Hilton. He told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday that he learned of Kerry's April 1971 testimony before...

John Kerry believes his service in Vietnam inoculates him from Republican attacks on national security issues. But what about Kerry's activities after he came back from Vietnam? IT TOOK A LOT OF DIGGING, but my producer Duane was able to find the audio from John Kerry's 1971 appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I played the entire 19 minutes for my radio audience on February 17, and the reaction via the phones and email was uniform: Disliking John Kerry for his actions and words of 33 years ago is not a rare thing, especially among Vietnam veterans and active...

IT TOOK A LOT OF DIGGING, but my producer Duane was able to find the audio from John Kerry's 1971 appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. I played the entire 19 minutes for my radio audience on February 17, and the reaction via the phones and email was uniform: Disliking John Kerry for his actions and words of 33 years ago is not a rare thing, especially among Vietnam veterans and active duty military. Does this reaction matter? In the California primary it might. According to the 2000 Census, there are 1,122,528 Vietnamese Americans, 447,032 of whom live in...