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Navy Chief is a credible poster at the SBV forum (he broke the news the Kerry wrote the spot reports). He has some pretty explosive info that needs a voice. Thanks. This is my first time posting - sorry if I messed it up!

Thank you for your support of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Your generous response has driven our efforts as we spread the truth about John Kerry. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is making an historic impact on this presidential election. We have joined forces with a group of American prisoners of war who were held captive by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War and are now called Swift Vets and POWs for Truth. Together we need your help to tell the story of how John Kerry's activities only served to encourage our enemies and prolong the captivity of our...

I am applying for a job at Blockbuster Video to bring in some extra money while my finanical advisor career takes off. One of the questions they ask you is "Are you a Vietnam Era Veteran?" According to Blockbuster, A Vietnam Era Veteran is defined as: Any person who: 1) Served on active duty for more than 180 days any time between August 5, 1964 and May 7, 1975 that was discharged or released other than dishonorably: or 2) Was discharged or released from active duty for a service-connected disability if any part of such active duty was performed between...

The new swift boat ad features the wives of former POW's. Very powerful as usual. Remember you can donate to keep the ads on the air at www.swiftvets.com

<p>This new, poignant Swift Boat ad, begins airing tomorrow. HUMAN EVENTS has obtained the 60-second ad that features brief comments by the wives of former Vietnam-era POWs, expressing their feelings about Kerry’s questionable post-war activities. According to sources near the Swift Boat organization, $1.4 million will be spent to get this most recent message out. The ad will appear nationally on cable, and on broadcast TV in Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Nevada.</p>

Those who dismiss critics of John Kerry's Vietnam service as just a bunch of right-wing Republicans out to advance George W. Bush's cause don't know what they are talking about -- or they are engaged in wishful thinking. Okay, I may have once thought that about the critics, too. But after poring over the large volume of e-mail I received after my Aug. 28 column, "What Matters About Kerry and Vietnam," I don't any longer.

The ad is back up.

During the Vietnam War, veteran John Kerry testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that an investigation, conducted by Kerry and his group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), revealed that American soldiers committed war crimes and atrocities in Vietnam. The investigation was called Winter Soldier. Now that Kerry wants to be President, some of his former colleagues, quite understandably, resent his allegations and his consorting with the North Vietnamese--as he did in Paris. Although this may be a shock to many liberals, American military policy in Vietnam was not to commit war crimes and atrocities. Some try to...

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