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Eddie Adams: Photojournalist won Pulitzer for Vietnam execution picture 08:34 PM CDT on Sunday, September 19, 2004 - Associated Press NEW YORK – Eddie Adams, a photojournalist whose half-century of arresting work was defined by a single frame – a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photo of a communist guerrilla being executed in a Saigon street during the Vietnam War – died Sunday. He was 71. [Adam's] ...fame resulted from a single photo taken Feb. 1, 1968, the second day of the communists' Tet Offensive, in the embattled streets of Cholon, Saigon's Chinese quarter. Drawn by gunfire, Mr. Adams and an...

Harold W. Andersen: Swift-boat questions continue because Kerry refuses to reply BY HAROLD W. ANDERSEN WORLD-HERALD CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Published Sunday, September 19, 2004 An attorney friend wrote to complain about "wild-eyed accusations" against John Kerry. His letter said that "most of the assertions by the Texas-funded 'Swift Boat Veterans' regarding John Kerry's actions in Vietnam had been refuted by real facts and undermined by their own contradictory statements." But the truth is that most of the assertions by members of "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" not only have not been refuted - they haven't even been replied to. Most of...

<p>September 19, 2004 -- President Bush yesterday defended his National Guard record, saying his military supervisors gave him permission to work on a political campaign while he served in the Air National Guard.</p> <p>Bush questioned the authenticity of documents used by CBS News anchor Dan Rather that accuse him of getting special treatment during his service in the Guard. "There are a lot of questions about the documents and they need to be answered," Bush said."I think what needs to Ÿhappen is people need to take a look at the documents, how they were created and let the truth come out."</p>

C-BS Admits Kerry Footage Fake, But Story True… UPI (Unseemly Press Int’l). A new Swift Boat veteran’s television ad has created more controversy for C-BS News. C-BS, recently discovered to be an unregistered 527 PAC operating in lock-step with the DNC, says it did not give the Swift Boat Vets permission to use their news footage of Kerry throwing his medals over the fence at the White House in 1972. The ad is a series of audio and video clips of Presidential Candidate John Kerry throwing ribbons and medals over the White House fence while explaining in various interviews why...

President Bush and Sen. John McCain would ban independently financed political attack ads from the TV and radio airwaves; Bush says that election season ads by "527" organizations, such as the one I run, the Club for Growth, "are bad for the political system." John Kerry, meanwhile, has been damaged in the polls by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads financed by big Republican donors; many of his supporters want them pulled off the air. Such complaints are drenched in hypocrisy, no matter which side they come from. Back when the White House was promoting the McCain-Feingold campaign law,...

Claim: This is simply a he-said, she-said story, with Kerry on one side and other observers on the other. Fact: Many of the inconsistencies between accounts come from John Kerry himself. He has now given three conflicting accounts involving the Bay Hap River incident of March 13, 1969, when a mine exploded under one of five swift boats patrolling the river. It was this incident in which Kerry was awarded a Bronze Star and his third Purple Heart. § In eulogizing a crewmate (recorded in the Congressional Record), Kerry reported that it was his boat that struck an underwater mine...

Retired Navy Capt. Wade Sanders, who commanded a Swift Boat alongside John Kerry in the Vietnam War, came to Flagstaff Tuesday night to energize local Democrats and talk with the veterans at the American Legion. The second group proved the tougher crowd to win over. Sanders -- a former Navy undersecretary in the Clinton administration, now a San Diego attorney -- spoke before more than 200 Democrats at Little America before they held a closed-door meeting to discuss their grassroots strategy for the coming weeks of campaigning. "John Kerry is coming not from fear, but hope," Sanders said. His speech...

Why did John Kerry surprise almost everyone by making his involvement in Vietnam the main focus of the Democratic National Convention this year? All candidates have to cope with negative information about themselves. If the negative information is bad enough, they must handle it somehow. Kerry and his team knew most of his fellow Swift boat veterans and millions of others were still furious about his long, savage smear of the U.S. military during his anti-war activities after his return from Vietnam. He saw political danger there. So he took the biggest political gamble of his life. Sometimes, by framing...

Swift boat veterans for lies and slander Published 8/26/04 By Randy Patrick "A lie," Mark Twain wrote, "can go halfway around the world before the truth even gets its boots on." At the time he wrote it, Twain's quip was hyperbole; today it is fact. A good example is the disinformation campaign by a group calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which is aimed at discrediting Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's Vietnam war record. Because of this group's deceptive TV ads, many people now think these veterans were members of Kerry's Swift boat crew. They were not. They "served...

While Akron native Kenneth Cordier was imprisoned at the ``Hanoi Hilton'' in 1971, John Kerry, back from four months in Vietnam, was testifying before Congress of atrocities committed in Vietnam. Kerry's statements, considered by Cordier to be a betrayal of fellow veterans, continue to anger the retired Air Force colonel today. The 67-year-old resident of Dallas is one veteran who was featured in a Swift Boat Veterans for Truth advertisement, and was recently taken off a Veterans for Bush Steering Committee list. Cordier still serves on a Department of Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee. Brendon Cull, a spokesman for the Ohio...

1. Prior to “Dewey Canyon III” Mike Thelan East Coast Coordinator for the VVAW tells a gathering of possible attendants that the VVAW’s official position is not to encourage anyone to commit acts of violence, but that VVAW activists are not “discouraging someone from “doing it”. VVAW activists are not “discouraging someone from committing acts of violence, pg 4 2. FBI files indicate that “VVAW is under active investigation in view of indications of communist and other subversive infiltration”. indications of communist and other subversive infiltration, pg 24 3. Speaker at VVAW antiwar rally Carl Moore makes following statements, “President...

Eric Allie, of The Pioneer Press, has done many wonderful political cartoons supporting the President and the Swift Boat Vet for Truth. Here are a few of his best from the All Thing Republican website and some others that hammer the point home. So enjoy... Laugh... Then donate to the Swift Boat Vets for Truth! Other of Eric Allie's cartoons HERE. You may e-mail Eric Allie at eallie_2000@yahoo.com

YOU MIGHT BE A DEMOCRAT... * You own something that says, "Dukakis for President, " and still display it. * You've tried to argue in favor of anything based on, "Well, they're gonna do it anyway so..." * You've ever said, "We really should call the ACLU about this." * You believe that a few hundred loggers can find another career, but the defenseless spotted owl must live in its preferred tree. * You ever based an argument on the phrase, "But they can afford a tax hike because..." * You've ever argued that with just one more year of...

Bill Means needed to talk to me, he said. Right away. I didn't ask why; I figured it had something to do with Vietnam. We'd talked briefly a couple of months earlier about the war and about Swift boats. Thirty-five years ago, as a Navy seaman, Means had patrolled the southern coastline of the South China Sea and the mangrove-dense rivers of the country's interior -- 12 months in all, mostly spent in the pilot house of one of those 55-foot, aluminum-hulled Navy fighting boats. About a week ago, we made tentative plans to talk again. Then I didn't hear...

This is huge! Leading UK newspaper reports that the Pentagon's inspector general is going to investigate ALL of Kerry's decorations and citations. John Lehmann quoted as saying he never signed Silver Start citation in 1986.

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...

Nixon redux Guest View Bruce Kesler Special to The Augusta Free Press If, as is often quoted, the first casualty of war is truth, then the first casualty of truth in this war between the Vietnam veterans is the mainstream press. The "mainstream press" is sometimes also referred to as the old press: The New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, Associated Press, NBC, ABC, CBS. Most of us grew up depending upon them for facts, and even aspiring to be of them. Most of us, whether partisan or not, saw the mainstream press as the civic center that a...

WASHINGTON: Two new polls show President George Bush having gained a distinct edge on Senator John Kerry. A new Bush-Cheney internal polling reveals that President Bush has turned around his Electoral College deficit and is now leading by a few votes more than the 270 needed to win. Bush aides claim that the president now has 288 electoral votes and is surging in even more states. Bush is also leading Kerry by 1 to 3 percent in likely voter polling, meaning he could win the popular vote, too, according to them. Pollster Tony Fabrizio has said that Kerry’s bad August,...

The widow of a Bush family confidant says her husband gave the future president an Alabama Senate campaign job as a favor to his worried father. Did they see him do any National Guard service? "Good lord, no." - - - - - - - - - - - - By Mary Jacoby Sept. 2, 2004 | NEW YORK -- Before there was Karl Rove, Lee Atwater or even James Baker, the Bush family's political guru was a gregarious newspaper owner and campaign consultant from Midland, Texas, named Jimmy Allison. In the spring of 1972, George H.W. Bush phoned his...

The New York Times has a new typewriter key for the Swift Boat Veterans story that reads: "the unsubstantiated charges of the Swift Boat Veterans." Unsubstantiated? It was Kerry – not the Swift Boat Veterans – who told The Washington Post: "I wish they had a delete button on LexisNexis." The Swift Boat Veterans haven't been forced to retract any of their story. Meanwhile, John Kerry has been issuing about a retraction a day since the Swift Boat Veterans started talking.