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[I've searched for a previous posting of this & can't find one. Can't vouch for anything about it, but I've received it as an email fwd. several times in the last few days & it has the ring of truth to me, at any rate.] Observations by Chris Thomas, Air Force Pilot: I would like to add my two cents about my John Kerry experience. During my career as an Air Force pilot, I spent two years flying a small twin engine prop plane around the Pacific from my base in Okinawa, Japan. On one trip we had to fly...

During the better part of the last three years we have endured an endless series of offerings from the Bush-Haters-Book-of-the-Month Club. These volumes have overexerted titles and overly verbose subtitles like Big Lies: The Rightwing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth or Worse than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush. They contain very little unique information from one to the next. Most are petty; some are demonstrably fraudulent, such as Joe Wilson's The Politics of Truth. They are mostly written by people who are professionally distasteful of President Bush. All of them have been written by...

Kerry’s Former Military Defenders Hold Press Conference [Parody] Today 10 senior military officials held a press conference to publicize their previously released statement criticizing what they call Vice President Dick Cheney’s attacks on John Kerry (1,2). Relevant excerpts follow: Cary Jamesville (good conservative twin of psychotic former presidential advisor): This question is directed to you all. Now how many of you have actually met Dick Cheney? Wesley Clark: Well, I met him at a party once. Nice sort of a guy...kind of a wall flower. Jamesville: And the rest of you? Rest of Them (Sheepishly):Well...er...no... Jamesville: What!?!? You mean you...

It happened the first time over 30 years ago. John Kerry and his gang trashed fellow soldiers after Kerry left his comrades early to pursue his own agenda. They were called baby killers. They were called mass murderers. Some of those testifying before Congress were not whom they purported to be. Thirty years later, Kerry & Gang are trashing brave men again. This time it is the comrades who served alongside him. Carville, Lanny Davis and others are figuratively spitting on them again and are calling them liars. John Kerry never paid for selling out his country and his comrades....

Another FReeper, The Bandit, has raised the question about this photo and those appearing in it with Kerry. Definately go to that threadhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1189173/posts?page=1 for full details. This post is to examine the picture itself. What is going on with this picture? It seems the shadows are from different sun angles. Does anyone have an explanation for this? (The top picture has had dark lines added to it to show the shadows in question. Bottom pic is as pulled from the other thread) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1189173/posts?page=1

John F. Kerry's campaign for president is imploding. And he knows it. The anti-war candidate went public as a pro-war candidate this week, and the members of his beloved "Band of Brothers" are exposing a whole book's worth of ugly lies. And they've got details, evidence, footnotes, signed affidavits and witnesses who back up their claims. Kerry himself bestowed immense credibility on his "Band of Brothers" when he used a picture of some of them in his campaign ad titled "Lifetime." Essentially, Kerry made Vietnam, and these men, the centerpiece of his campaign. Of course, that was when he thought...

(CNSNews.com) - Newly released FBI files reveal that presumed Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry attended a second meeting with North Vietnamese communists in Paris in the early 1970s. Kerry has previously admitted to meeting only once with the North Vietnamese delegations in 1970.According to the FBI files, Kerry met with representatives from the North Vietnamese government in Paris in 1971 in an effort to secure the release of captured American prisoners of war. Kerry has previously acknowledged meeting "both delegations" of Vietnamese communists in Paris in 1970, but has said nothing of the 1971 meeting. Researcher and author Jerry Corsi,...

Aligning oneself with the Vietnamese government during the war between Vietnam and the United States. Arguing against the war, statements of alleged atrocities and a continued undermining of the US government that gave substantial assistance to the Republic of North Vietnam by their own admission. Violates: United States Constitution, Article Three, Section 3 Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in...

Edwards responds to Cheney's criticism of Kerry By KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN The Associated Press 8/13/2004, 4:14 p.m. ET FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A day after Vice President Dick Cheney criticized John Kerry, Democratic Sen. John Edwards defended his running mate on Friday, saying he "spilled his blood for the United States" and accusing the Republican of distorting Kerry's words. Cheney told voters in Ohio Thursday that Kerry had called for a "more sensitive" war on terror and mocked that notion as something that won't impress the Sept. 11 terrorists or the Islamic militants who have beheaded U.S. citizens. Edwards, returning...

Accepting the Democratic nomination for vice president, John Edwards said of John Kerry, "If you have any question of what he is made of, just spend three minutes with the men who served with him then." The Democratic National Committee is trying hard to keep you from spending a minute with most of the sailors who served with Kerry during his abbreviated tour in Vietnam, because they have unflattering things to say. The DNC is threatening to sue television stations which run a commercial produced by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Of the 23 officers who served with Kerry...

PHILADELPHIA - (KRT) - A group of Vietnam veterans that is challenging Sen. John Kerry's claims of heroic war service says it received a flood of donations in recent days after advertising its contentions on television in three states. The group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, said it hoped to use the money to monitor Kerry's campaign travels and run ads in cities where he appears. "That's our goal," said John E. O'Neill, a Houston attorney who's one of the group's leaders and co-author of "Unfit to Command," a 251-page book being distributed this week by the conservative Regnery Publishing...

Proof Kerry is Telling the Truth Major Embarrassment for the Right It turns out John Kerry is telling the truth about spending Christmas in Cambodia. A British journalist who worked in Cambodia in the Sixties has just come forward with a recording of the following popular Cambodian folk song: Grandma got run over by a swift boat Walking home from our hooch Christmas Eve You may say Cambodia has no swift boats But me and Aunt Teresa, we believe [chorus] She'd been smoking too much Thai stick And we begged her to keep low But she felt like skinny dipping...

Here's Johnny!

Kerry Works to Attract Gun Votes 8/12/2004 Focused on winning the votes of gun supporters in swing states, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is promoting himself as a "lifelong hunter" and Second Amendment supporter. The approach has led the National Rifle Association (NRA) to step up its efforts to challenge Kerry's stance, the Washington Post reported Aug. 9. Kerry has been using as many occasions as possible to show voters that he supports responsible gun use. A flier from the Laborers' International Union describes the candidate as a hunter. In a campaign commercial, Kerry is pictured with a shotgun. And...

The campaign trail leads to hilarity in this music video featuring the music styling of candidate John Kerry. Watch him rock on about beating Bush, the Mekong and his good hair. And no campaign stop is complete without a bevy of bikini-clad babes (complete with a Janet-inspired reveal. Click HERE and click "Watch Film".

Do you have any pets that have made an impact on you personally? Kerry: I have always had pets in my life and there are a few that I remember very fondly. When I was serving on a swiftboat in Vietnam, my crewmates and I had a dog we called VC. We all took care of him, and he stayed with us and loved riding on the swiftboat deck. I think he provided all of us with a link to home and a few moments of peace and tranquility during a dangerous time. One day as our swiftboat was heading...

When presidential candidate John Kerry virtually ignores 20 years in the U.S. Senate to make four months in Vietnam the centerpiece of his campaign, the men who served with him have a right to a fair hearing. The Kerry campaign and much of the mainstream media have been dismissive of the swift-boat veterans who oppose his candidacy. Even before exploring the substance of their charges, the group is dismissed as right-wing financed Bush puppets. The truth is, however, that while swift-boat veterans opposing Kerry undoubtedly have a political agenda -- they think him "Unfit for Command" of the armed forces,...

To the editor: Benedict Arnold of Connecticut was an American patriot and a hero at Saratoga early in the American Revolution. However, this fact was cancelled when he became a traitor later in the war. I served three tours in Vietnam and commanded a recon platoon and three infantry rifle companies. In 1971, I was wounded for a seventh time. In 1971, John Kerry was working with Jane Fonda aiding the enemy that we were fighting. They were burning American flags and carrying pictures of Ho Chi Minh and communist flags. The next year, propaganda posters could be found all...

John Kerry continues to play damage control on his decades-long contention he was on a secret mission in Cambodia on Christmas Eve 1968, as word comes the author of a positive account of his Vietnam duty is preparing a column to explain the candidate's suspect story. According to the Drudge Report, historian Doug Brinkley, author of "Tour of Duty," is writing a piece for the New Yorker saying it was actually January 1969 when Kerry was sent into Cambodia, not December 1968. Kerry spent four months in Vietnam as skipper of a SWIFT Boat before returning to the U.S. and...