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SENATOR JOHN KERRY'S Vietnam War record has been a focus of the presidential campaign for weeks. For a New York company that produces reality-based video games, that makes the topic ripe for a jump from politics to pixels. The company, Kuma Reality Games, which specializes in recreating military encounters, is making one of Mr. Kerry's Swift boat missions the situation for a game. It says that the game is intended to entertain and to inform, and that it is nonpartisan. Armed with a computer keyboard, players are invited to enter an interactive simulation of Viet Cong ambushes on a small...

Are they self-destructive? This week Democrats will hit the airwaves to continue questioning President Bush's National Guard duty. Their claim: Bush has a pattern of lying about his military service. Is it any wonder John Kerry's poll numbers have plummeted. Ignoring former President Clinton's advice to avoid miring in Vietnam, the Kerry camp apparently believes attacking Bush on what is a non-starter with voters is the best way to counter continued questions about the veracity of Kerry's war time claims and post-war activities. But this tact only reminds voters of the accusations made by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and,...

(CNSNews.com) - Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry called the best-selling book Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry "a pack of lies" in an interview with syndicated radio and MSNBC TV host Don Imus Wednesday morning. "Look, it's a pack of lies. It's an absolute pack of lies," Kerry said about the book. " It's been proven to be a pack of lies, and I have no interest in reading it," Kerry told Imus in response to a question about whether Kerry had read the book by Vietnam veteran John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi. Kerry said...

You might find it VERY interesting to see this Borders Employees forum and read some of the comments.

Vietnam Vets Rally Against Kerry in D.C. 1 hour, 7 minutes ago WASHINGTON - Chanting "Kerry lied," hundreds of Vietnam veterans on Sunday rallied against fellow veteran and Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites). AP Photo Comrades died because of people like Kerry and Jane Fonda, asserted Larry Bailey, a U.S. Navy (news - web sites) veteran and president of Vietnam Vets for the Truth. With the U.S. Capitol as a backdrop, Bailey accused Kerry of lying three decades ago when he returned from Vietnam and gave testimony before the U.S. Senate in 1971 alleging widespread atrocities...

New Documents from 60 Minutes support Kerry's Cambodia Claims !!! These 100% original and authentic documents, verified by CBS staff handwriting experts as 100% genuine, were discovered by unnamed and "unimpeachable sources" (ie. someone other than the president) but perhaps not "unindictable sources". This letter from Pol Pot not only supports Kerry's claim of being in Cambodia, it also supports his claims of heroic feats of bravery while a Swiftboat pilot, proves he did meet with foreign leaders who will support him in Iraq if he is elected, and a host of other matters.

Swift Boats, Slow Media By Chris Shugart, 13 sep 04 Give the media credit for their predictable consistency. And they at least get an ‘A’ for effort in their valiant (though transparent) attempt to ignore the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth organization. For three months these Vietnam vets were everywhere making bold public allegations about John Kerry’s “exaggerated claims about his own service in Viet Nam .” The media didn’t seem to notice. On May 4, at a televised press conference, eighteen Navy combat veterans and commanders went on the record opposing John Kerry's bid for the Presidency. These weren’t...

It has been clear for some years that the Democratic Party has no pension for truth, and a visibly growing desperation for power. But the American people are witnessing an unbridled Evil within that Party today that is unprecedented, and that’s what makes the blood boil in good old America loving Democrats like Zell Miller. The DNC thought they could get away with running our nations most liberal senator as a war time Presidential candidate on the basis of his four months in Vietnam, until his fellow soldiers came out of the woodwork challenging his self appointed hero status. Then...

The Vietnam Veterans For Truth had a rally yesterday in Washington DC exposing Kerry's lies, and paying honor to Vietnam Vets. Prior to the rally, a group called Veterans Institute For Security & Democracy held a press conference, blasting the group while whining and complaining about the SwiftVets & Other groups (they also spoke of other things, but this was clearly their agenda, it was on C-SPAN yesterday following the Veterans Rally. The only reason I'm mentioning this is because upon seeing it, I became outraged with the group, so I decided to do a little research and see what...

FORT WORTH, Texas - (KRT) - Think you've got a right to know the names of the people paying for attack ads in a local congressional race? Curious what the Sustainable World Corp. is and why it cares who the next U.S. president is? Good luck. These mysteries and plenty more are brought to you despite campaign finance reform. This is the first presidential election since Congress tried to limit the influence of big contributors. While reformers can point to some successes, the highly touted effort has done little to tie the hands of wealthy donors, said Southern Methodist University...

Vietnam again divides the nation http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/09/12/loc_loc1aelex.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Why are we still talking about this?' voters ask By Howard Wilkinson Enquirer staff writer

WASHINGTON — Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the conservative group that has attacked Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John F. Kerry's Vietnam record, has raised $6.7 million from more than 53,000 donors in recent weeks, the group said Friday. Among those contributing were the wealthy Texas brothers who helped finance controversial ads against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) when he ran against President Bush in the 2000 primary, a former member of Congress and a Los Angeles television producer. "We have major donors and moderate-level donors," spokesman Michael Russell said, adding that the group received $182,405 from 2,681 donors on just one...

Open Letter to the Democratic Party To whom it may concern: Be advised that the majority of Veterans and Independent Voters are fed up with your assaults on the Viet Nam Veterans that are exposing your “war hero” When Kerry used his Viet Nam service as his central theme, he seems to have conveniently forgotten the insults he poured on us during the 1971 Senate Hearings. It also seems that he has done everything to keep his “New Soldier” out of the hands of the general public, to include the latest PDF version on a website that is now blocked....

WASHINGTON - U.S. Democrats accused George W. Bush yesterday of lying about his service as a pilot in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam War even as experts said new documents suggesting the U.S. President did not fulfill his military obligations may be forgeries. In a risky strategy that could backfire on supporters of the Democratic nominee John Kerry, the party's national chairman held a news conference demanding Mr. Bush answer questions about his service raised in a memo allegedly written by his former commanding officer. "Mr. President, why did you lie to the American people?" said Terry McAuliffe....

....................The financial report "proves without a doubt that we have received genuine grass-roots support for our message and, more importantly, touched off a national debate concerning John Kerry's character and leadership ability as a potential commander in chief," said Adm. Roy Hoffmann, founder of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. In television commercials, the accuracy of which has been undermined in newspaper articles and disputed by the Kerry campaign, the swift boat group has challenged Kerry's service in Vietnam and the medals he received there. The swift boat anti-Kerry campaign began just over a month ago with a relatively modest $500,000...

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...

“It’s the wrong war at the wrong time in the wrong place.” Those words from Senator Kerry don’t date back some 30 years to his anti-war protesting days. They weren’t uttered at an anti-American rally, and they’re not in reference to Vietnam. Those words from John Kerry date back to last Monday while campaigning in Pennsylvania and they’re in reference to the Iraq War. The former New York City mayor was right. Senator Kerry still has time to change his position on the war a few more times before the election. With the left-wing media reporting hard on the death...

WASHINGTON - When Vietnam veterans rally on Capitol Hill against Sen. John Kerry's antiwar activities this weekend, John Tabarrini of Moreno Valley will be among them. "He testified that we were all basically war criminals," said Tabarrini, who served in the air wing of the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam from 1972 to 1973. "And I have a problem with that." Kerry testified before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing after returning home from Vietnam. He told the panel that U.S. soldiers had been involved in a series of atrocities during the war, including rape and the random killing of...

If President Bush is re-elected, he needs to make Glenn Reynolds his new attorney general. He is a distinguished law professor at UT, the respected author of numerous books and law review articles, and an expert on hot-button issues like nanotechnology. Unlike John Ashcroft, his particular interests are individual liberty in an age of advanced technology. That alone makes him my candidate. But Reynolds also hosts a web log called Instapundit that’s been called The New York Times of the blogosphere. In addition to original reporting and commentary, Instapundit is also the traffic cop for hundreds of sites that plug...

I would like to extend my sincere and personal gratitude for your generous contribution to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. I am sure you have seen the impact your contribution has had on the public discussion surrounding Senator Kerry's fitness for duties as Commander-in-Chief. You have helped us to raise awareness of these important issues - and the American people are beginning to respond. We would not be where we are today, with what we have accomplished, without your help. Our mission is far from over, however. John Kerry's campaign - aided by a sympathetic media - has responded...