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PORTLAND, Ore. - Several Vietnam veterans are calling for an assistant district attorney to resign after questions were raised about his statement in a recent ad criticizing Democrat John Kerry’s military service. Alfred French of the Clackamas County district attorney’s office appears in the ad sponsored by the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. In the spot, French says: “I served with John Kerry. ... He is lying about his record.” A group of Vietnam veterans who protested outside the county courthouse Monday said French implied he had firsthand knowledge of Kerry’s war actions when in fact he had heard...

To all who have read "Unfit for Command" and believe the contents, need to post their views and opinions on the website's of Barnes and Noble and Amazon. The book burning Libs are hijacking the sites intended for giving a thumbs up or down to make political statements and disenfranchising the reputation of the "Swifties" with rhetoric. I encourage all those out there that appreciate the courage of the Swifties to take a stand for truth check out the sites.

NEW YORK - This morning, John Kerry used New York City as the launching pad for his latest rounds of attack on President Bush and urged the GOP to abandon the negative attacks of "fear and smear" and to return to the debate on issues. However, it is clear from a reported phone call that Kerry participated in Sunday evening that Kerry sees that the discontentment of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as fundamentally non-related to the Bush campaign. Kerry reportedly placed a call to Robert Brant (Ret.) Commander, United States Navy. Brant had skippered boats #96 and #36...

CHICAGO, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- The Chicago Sun-Times criticized the rival Chicago Tribune Tuesday, questioning the timing of an editor's recall of fighting with Sen. John Kerry in Vietnam. On Sunday, Tribune editor William Rood wrote a first-person account of his memories of serving in a Navy Swift Boat, as the Democrat presidential candidate did. Kerry received two purple hearts and a bronze star for bravery, which has come under dispute by one Republican-leaning veteran's group. In a Sun-Times editorial Tuesday, the newspaper called into question Rood's motives as he "said nothing and did nothing until the campaign came looking...

[This is a response to my email below] Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:10:34 -0400 Dear Dr. Camhi, I'm not justifying anything, I'm relaying to you the result of my raising your concerns with the editors. Other readers have very similar concerns. Mr. Okrent has said that he will be writing about The Times's coverage of Senator Kerry and President Bush at some point between now and the election in November. I will keep your message on file for him to consider when he is ready to write. Sincerely, Arthur Bovino Office of the Public Editor [This is the email he...

Japanese TV (JNN-TBS) has now prominently carried in news prime time in Japan a short story on the American SWIFT BOAT VETERAN TV ADS, President Bush's comments on them, and the fact that the TV ads are highlighting questions about American Presidential Candidate John Kerry's heretofore unblemished Vietnam War background, etc..The do borrow the terminology of American slanted liberal media, calling them "attack ads" ("chusho CM" or transliterated: "injury commercials"). But they do seem to get the story out to the Japanese viewers about Kerry's shaky ground of recent.YOU CAN SEE THIS VIDEO CLIP (probably for another day or...

When John Kerry called the Swift Boat Vets for Truth "liars" on August 19, he ignored a point articulated afterwards by his spokeswoman, Stephanie Cutter: "When somebody's attacking your military record, you reach a boiling point, and he reached a boiling point last night," Cutter explained. "When you go and fight in a war, when you spill blood for your country, your instinct is to fight back and defend your record." Cutter was looking at matters from Kerry's angle, but her point works even more powerfully from the point of view of the Swift Boat Vets. That's because even before...

Kerry supporters have strained credulity, not to mention the First Amendment, in the entire last year with unrelenting attacks on President George Bush, portraying him as puppet, deserter, murderer, and even Hitler. Michael Moore’s discredited movie continues its run, despite more than 50 documented lies. Democrat books linking liar to George Bush litter the shelves. While Kerry barely contains his glee at this mountain of false attacks on George Bush, his long face cries foul at the “lies” of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. But which lies, exactly, started the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth controversy about John Kerry?...

.............How low the Democrats have sunk. Now DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe, one- time enforcer for the draft-evading Bill Clinton, crows about Kerry's military prowess while bashing Bush for being "AWOL." When party biggies are reduced to arguing that their guy is better because he served in a war to which they objected, truly they have run out of compelling issues. Note that Kerry's charges -- that the Bushies are behind the Swift boat ads -- come as the new Swift boat spots attack, not Kerry's military record, but what Kerry said in public testimony before the U.S. Senate in 1971....

Swift kick in the gut It's detestable that vets who claim to be for 'truth' would stoop to cowardly tactics to discredit Kerry. It occurred more often in rumor than in reality, but troops in Vietnam coined a word for it nonetheless. The word was "fragging." As the stories went, U.S. soldiers would sometimes try to eliminate an American officer they didn't like by tossing a fragmentation grenade his way during the heat of combat, a cowardly attack against one of their own that was difficult if not impossible to trace back to its origin. Today, John Kerry is being...

John Kerry's Vietnam experience is not one story. It is at least two. A third, not fully explored, is whether the "combat Kerry" or the "anti-war Kerry" survived to become a U.S. Senate policy-maker. The two stories are Kerry in Vietnam and Kerry as the anti-war activist who accused his fellow veterans of committing atrocities on a daily basis with the full knowledge of their officers -- a view he holds to this day. Swift-boat veterans and the military records are the authorities on his months in Vietnam. Kerry has not agreed to sign Standard Form 180 for their release,...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Were John Kerry and the veterans organization he led the real reason the Republicans broke into Watergate in 1972, with information on them the target of the espionage? Was doing so an early onset of Republican political paranoia against his work, a harbinger of the pending campaign against him in 2004? Bob Weiner, the 1971-72 Youth Voter Registration director for the Young Democrats office at the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and recently a Clinton White House staffer for six years, is asking these questions after doing a little research to refresh...

FOX News reported this today: And questions keep coming. For example, Kerry recieved a Purple Heart for wounds suffered on December 2, 1968. But in Kerry's own journal, written 9 days later, he writes he and his crew, "hadn't been shot at yet." Kerry's campaign has said it is possible his first Purple Heart was awarded for unintentionally self-inflicted wounds. Sounds like some sort of admission to me.

NEW YORK -- Barnes & Noble Inc. said Monday it has been pinched by strong demand for a new book that questions the Vietnam-era actions of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. The nation's largest book store chain also said Republican and Democratic critics have lodged thousands of complaints accusing it of both favoring and suppressing "Unfit for Command," which accuses the Massachusetts senator of distorting his military record. The book, which went on sale Aug. 11, has already sold out and is not available, Barnes & Noble said. Its publisher, Regnery Publishing Inc., won't have more books available until later...

August 24, 2004VETERANSPresident Urges Outside Groups to Halt All AdsBy ELISABETH BUMILLER and KATE ZERNIKE RAWFORD, Tex., Aug. 23 - President Bush said on Monday that political advertisements run by a broad swath of independent groups should be stopped, including a television advertisement attacking Senator John Kerry's war record. But the White House quickly moved to insist that Mr. Bush had not meant in any way to single out the advertisement run by veterans opposed to Mr. Kerry.Mr. Bush spoke to reporters at his Texas ranch after a weekend in which veterans supporting and opposing Mr. Kerry, a decorated Vietnam...

For 35 years, Rich Baker seldom talked about Vietnam, Swift boats or John Kerry's ability as a young naval officer. But now, with Republican partisans challenging Kerry's wartime record, Baker said he feels compelled to strike back. "Every Swift boat officer gave his all in Vietnam, but Kerry stood above the rest of us," said Baker, 61, of Scott, a former Navy lieutenant and Swift boat commander. "He was number one as far as courageousness and aggressiveness. He set the tone." Campaign aides to Kerry, the Democratic candidate for president, yesterday asked Baker to speak out publicly to counter television...

Two Psychologists on Kerry: Dangerous on National Security   C. Alan Hopewell, Ph.D., Former Major, MSC, USAR Dr. Leonard Magruder, President, Vietnam Veterans for Academic Reform   "Mr. Kerry's service in Vietnam is a credit to him as a man. But it cannot be used as a shield to protect him from a fair assessment of his judgement and wisdom as a statesman." -- Washington Times . Dr. C. Alan Hopewell, a Vietnam era vet and fellow psychologist, was Chief of Psychology for Landstuhl Regional Army Medical Center in Germany and Director of the Neuropsychological Lab, 7th U.S. Army,...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush on Monday criticized a commercial that accused John Kerry of inflating his own Vietnam War record, more than a week after the ad stopped running, and said broadcast attacks by outside groups have no place in the race for the White House. "I think they're bad for the system," added Bush, who had ignored calls to condemn the ad while it was on the air. Democrats criticized the president's remarks at the same time they worked to limit the political damage from the ad which they denounce as a smear sanctioned by Bush and his...

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(Editors' note: John O'Neill will be appearing before the Wednesday Morning Club at the Beverly Hills Hotel at noon on September 8. For more information call 1-800-752-6562.) A number of the combat commanders, fellow officers and other men who served with Sen. John Kerry in Vietnam challenge his accounts of combat heroism in a new book, "Unfit for Command" (Regnery Publishing), by John E. O'Neill, who took over command of Swift Boat PCF 94 from Lt. Kerry, and Jerome R. Corsi, who has written extensively about the Vietnam War protest movement. This is the last of three excerpts that include...