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Washington, DC, Aug. 23 (UPI) -- Swift Boat Veterans for Truth will not pull television ads attacking John Kerry's service despite President Bush's wishes, sources said Monday. Sources close to the Swift Boat Veterans said the issue of Kerry's military service is too important to drop. "It is not a Republican or Democratic issue. If John Kerry was a Republican, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth would still run this ad."

Do you find the swift boat ads are believeable? Yes No Undecided Link to Poll

Do you find the swift boat ads are believeable? Yes No Undecided Link to Poll

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must admit to being of two conflicting minds when it comes to the anti-Kerry activities of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. On the one hand, there is nothing that makes my blood boil more than a fraudulent Vietnam veteran. In their remarkable book Stolen Valor, "Jug" Burkett and Glenna Whitley unmask some 1,500 Vietnam "wannabes," not only the media's favorite dysfunctional vets who, with the often all-too-eager cooperation of the press, attribute their problems with drugs, alcohol, crime, and poverty to their time in Vietnam, but also fixtures at local patriotic affairs who show up to give rousing speeches...

(Editor's note: What follows is a letter from the Republican National Committee to the Federal Election Commission, responding to the Kerry campaign's FEC complaint. As CNSNews.com reported on Friday, the Kerry campaign complained that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was illegally coordinating with the Bush-Cheney campaign.) The Honorable Bradley Smith Chairman Federal Election Commission 999 E Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. Dear Commissioner Smith: The Commission is about to receive a frivolous complaint from Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc. baselessly alleging illegal coordination between Bush-Cheney '04 Inc. and a group called Swiftboat Veterans for Truth. This complaint should be promptly dismissed since,...

Fighting fit: Kerry in BostonA war of words has erupted over US presidential candidate John Kerry's record in the Vietnam War. Democrat Kerry has unveiled a new advert calling on President Bush to abandon "smears" against his war record. Key Bush supporters have been accused of financing TV spots by an anti-Kerry veterans group. "These false attacks are tied directly to President Bush and his friends," Kerry's running mate Senator John Edwards said. "In fact a Bush campaign advisor had to resign today because he apparently appears in one of these advertisements." At issue are ads released by an anti-Kerry...

.......... As for volunteering for Vietnam, what Mr. Kerry actually volunteered for was patrol duty and only patrol duty, a safe assignment.As he wrote in his contribution to "A War Remembered": "They [swiftboats] were engaged in coastal patrolling and that's what I thought I was going to be doing. Although I wanted to see for myself what was going on, I didn't really want to get involved in the war." That makes sense, considering he already was opposed to the Vietnam War. And once he found himself assigned to potentially dangerous duty, he complained and moaned so much, demanding transfers...

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y., Aug. 21 - Talk about soaking the rich. The Democratic presidential nominee, John Kerry, breezed through the Hamptons this weekend to attend private fund-raisers and siphon a couple of million dollars from the wealthy, left-leaning East End of Long Island. But the real story here was the rain. A driving downpour on Saturday night put Mr. Kerry's arrival and appearances behind schedule. Campaign workers held umbrellas for donors getting out of their cars. Hair frizzled and mascara ran. Montauk Highway became a pond. At a tent party for 800 guests (minimum entry fee: $1,000) at the home...

Senator John Kerry, the presumed Democratic presidential candidate who is trading on his Vietnam war record to campaign against President George W Bush, tried to defer his military service for a year, according to a newly rediscovered article in a Harvard University newspaper. He wrote to his local recruitment board seeking permission to spend a further 12 months studying in Paris, after completing his degree course at Yale University in the mid-1960s. The revelation appears to undercut Sen Kerry's carefully-cultivated image as a man who willingly served his country in a dangerous war - in supposed contrast to President Bush,...

.......With the advertising volley reawakening painful debates about the Vietnam War, former Sen. Bob Dole, a Kansas Republican and respected World War II veteran, suggested yesterday that Kerry should apologize to all veterans for his 1971 testimony. Dole also joined the anti-Kerry veterans group in questioning the three Purple Hearts that Kerry won in Vietnam, saying on CNN's Late Edition that Kerry "never bled, that I know of," to earn the medals. "I mean, they're all superficial wounds." Ken Cordier, a retired Air Force colonel who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, stepped down Saturday from a volunteer position...

John Kerry surrendered the election to George W. Bush this month when he finally came out and said exactly what he would do in Iraq. After months of equivocating over how the president misled the American people with all those phony WMDs and teasing us that he had a secret plan for Iraq, the Democratic candidate for president said he still would have given the president the authority to go into Iraq even without any evidence of WMDs. Wow, what an admission! That's a position slightly to the right of Bush, who never went quite that far. The president removed...

Short and to the point for the media How come when Swift Boat Vets speak you shut them up with "Where you ON Kerry's boat?" And then attack them. So have you attacked William B. Rood also because he was not ON Kerry's boat.?

WASHINGTON - In an election with the most profound of issues on the table - terrorist threats at home, Americans at war abroad, and an economy in flux - the presidential campaign has become consumed by a tangled dispute over events that took place more than 30 years. And the issue, Democratic nominee John Kerry's Vietnam War record, is not likely to go away anytime soon. Tuesday, the principal group disputing Senator Kerry's record will launch a new TV ad that takes on Kerry's antiwar activism in the early 1970s and its devastating impact on some veterans. As with the...

Every decent American ought to be thoroughly outraged by what has transpired in response to the ads being run by those Swift Boat veterans contesting John Kerry's accounts of his heroics during Vietnam. Rather than merely refute their claims, dark forces are working to suppress their efforts to speak out on this subject. Unfortunately, with too few Americans understanding the threat posed by those who would forcibly subdue others with whom they disagree, the reaction to this infuriating episode has been minimal. A previous assault on the rights of citizens, perpetrated last summer on the Senate floor, set the stage...

'I will do everything I can to stop John Kerry becoming the commander-in-chief of this nation's armed forces' In his first interview for the British press, the Vietnam veteran leading the attack on John Kerry tells Charles Laurence why he must act The Vietnam veteran at the heart of an increasingly vicious campaign to discredit John Kerry's "war hero" status has vowed to do "whatever it takes to stop that man becoming commander-in-chief of America's armed forces". In an outspoken interview with the Telegraph, John O'Neill, speaking in his publisher's office in the shadow of Capitol Hill, denied being a...

I made the mistake of listening to NPR "Weekend Edition" this morning. What was I thinking? They had an interview about whether the the Swift Boat Veterans were telling the truth. Who did they choose to interview? The Editor of the Los Angeles Times! Yeah, he's objective.

<p>WASHINGTON -- When John F. Kerry rescued James Rassmann from the Bay Hap River in the jungles of Vietnam in March 1969, neither man could possibly have imagined that the episode would become a much-disputed focus of an American presidential campaign 35 years later.</p>

EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Saturday night urged President Bush to "stand up and stop" what he called personal attacks on him over his combat record in Vietnam. At a fund-raiser attended by about 750 people, Kerry said the attacks by a group of Vietnam veterans and former Swift Boat commanders have intensified "because in the last months they have seen me climbing in America's understanding that I know how to fight a smarter and more effective war" against terrorists. "That's why they're attacking my credibility. That's why they've personally gone after me. The...