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Thank you Swift Boat Vets -- and all veterans who have ever fought for America -- for having the courage to go back to an unspeakable place in your lives to try and prevent the world from becoming an unspeakable place, where terrorism is thought of as a nuisance and America becomes the terrorist's playground and killing field. Thank you. I'm sorry that America didn't welcome you home after your service in Viet Nam. And just in case no one ever said it ... Welcome Home.

A group of anti-Kerry Vietnam veterans whose television commercials attacking the senator shook the presidential race filed a report Friday showing it raised about $9 million through the end of September, and the group says it has raised millions more since then. The numbers came as the group announced its largest advertising buy ever - more than $3 million- this week. One commercial shows a series of veterans questioning issues like Mr. Kerry's service medals and his meeting with North Vietnamese in Paris at the time of the peace talks there. The last veteran states flatly, "John Kerry cannot be...

The US Federal Communications Commission does not have authority to step in to stop a television network airing a film that attacks Senator John Kerry for his anti-Vietnam War activities. "Don't look to us to block the airing of a program. I don't know of any precedent in which the commission could do that," the chairman, Michael Powell, said on Thursday. Blocking the program "would be an absolute disservice to the First Amendment and I think it would be unconstitutional if we attempted to do so." Nineteen Democratic senators and 85 Democratic House members wrote to Mr Powell this week,...

Former POW 'Astonished' By Kerry's False Testimony Charging War Crimes Col. George E. "Bud" Day is America's most highly decorated living veteran officer. He served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, receiving more than 50 combat awards and the Congressional Medal of Honor. What he wants now is to stop John Kerry from being elected President. Day traveled from his home in Florida to Washington, D.C., last week to participate in the filming of two new ads by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. In one of the spots, he directly addresses Kerry: "How can you expect our sons and...

The hit piece on John O'Neill.

The following statement from John O'Neil, member of Swift Boat Veterans and POW's for Truth, concerns a news segment that aired on October 14th on ABC's Nightline with Ted Koppel. "While I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ted Koppel and ABC News I was appalled to learn that ABC News would go to the lengths of traveling to Vietnam to interview three Viet Cong communists in yet a third attempt by ABC to corroborate John Kerry's version of the events that took place on February 28th, 1969. "I would only ask the American people: 'Who do you...

O'Neil is taking Ted Koppel apart right now and Koppel is trying to keep him from talking. this is real good.

Here is the audio of tonights interview on Nightline where Ted Koppel tried to debunk the silver star story. http://s2r-tech.com/swifty/jo-nl.mp3

The new swift boat ads are up on their web site, www.swiftvets.com , They are devastating. Check em out.

The Swift Boat Controversy: New Witnesses October 14, 2004 John Kerry's service in Vietnam has become a campaign issue. The group calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth alleges that Kerry has distorted the truth about what happened during the war and questions whether he deserved the medals he received. Tonight, you'll hear from eyewitnesses who have not spoken before: the Vietnamese who fought against him. We've had the debates and the race is a virtual dead-heat. This is the part of a campaign when there are daily fires--issues that rise, flare, and then go away, only to be replaced...

“Don’t make this [story] about meeting the Admiral,” the Admiral requested of me. Make it about the boat men and the great job they did. All the boat men. That’s what this thing is really about. “ And so my interview with the most gracious Admiral Roy Hoffmann, Founder of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, came to a close -- in the very same way it began -- with a porthole into the heart of a military man who, having attained such a high rank, has every reason to be proud, but who is, instead, humble to the core....

Two new ads up. You're gonna like 'em.swiftvets.com

Swifty Sneak ... Our Patrick Hynes has conducted a soon-to-be published interview (in the American Spectator) with the strategic advisers for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. They have assured us that we will be hearing more about THIS STORY in the coming days. This Story is the New York Sun article on Kerry's discharge http://www.nysun.com/article/3107

The final anti-Kerry ad from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truch will air tomorrow. HUMAN EVENTS will have it at 6:30 tonight. This final ad from the Swiftees will be hit the air waves tomorrow in a $3.1 million buy in the states of Colorado, New Mexico, and Ohio, and also on national cable broadcasts.

We promised it, so here it is. And surprise - it's not one ad but two! These ads will debut tonight on FoxNews (Special Report w/ Brit Hume), but we have the transcripts. This is going to be a MASSIVE ad puchase, and as was hinted earlier, they will be aired during Monday Night Football The first ad is a 60-second spot featuring 90 swift boat veterans, in a a three-deep line, with the camera panning across the crowd - close-up and slowly. No vets speak, but the announcer delivers the following lines: Announcer: They served their country with courage...

After months of the book sitting atop the newspaper's own best-seller list, the New York Times Sunday Book Review has finally taken the time to review "Unfit for Command." In the opening line of the review, the Times admits the serious influence the book could have in American political history: "If John Kerry loses the presidential election, 'Unfit for Command,' by John E. O'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi, will go down as a chief reason. The book - a sort of companion piece to the political attack ads placed by O'Neill's group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - is a...

Midnight in South Vietnam, and the river is black. Past the rice paddies and shacks, small fires are burning by the shoreline as Lt. John H. Davis' 50-foot aluminum swift boat — PCF 19 — makes its routine patrol through the reeds. In a split second, rocket fire shatters the silence, and through a plume of oily smoke, the boat sinks to the river's bottom. "My whole crew lost their lives that night. I was the only one who survived," Lt. Davis says.

Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is one of many donors who have helped Swift Boat Veterans for Truth raise more than $13 million now to unmask John Kerry, who with the media establishment's aid is desperately posing as some sort of moderate. The veterans "come from Oshkosh, Wis., and Orlando, Fla., San Francisco and Virginia Beach. One is on crutches. Others, former prisoners of war, walk stiffly, a result of being bound and tortured," the Washington Times reported today in an article headlined "Injured, angry, determined, Swiftees unite to fight Kerry." Steve Gardner of Clover, S.C., who spent more than...

Inside the Swift Boat Veterans Latest Move By: krempasky · Section: Election 2004 Politics is usually an ugly business but every now and then you are privileged to meet some truly exceptional American heroes. Last Saturday Red State was privileged to be the only blog allowed to cover the filming of the last – and most devastating of the Swift Boat ads. (In fact, there was only one other media outlet present) We spent the better part of an hour in an intense conversation with a genuine hero named Dr. Louis Letson. You can not spend more than five minutes...

Midnight in South Vietnam, and the river is black. Past the rice paddies and shacks, small fires are burning by the shoreline as Lt. John H. Davis' 50-foot aluminum swift boat — PCF 19 — makes its routine patrol through the reeds. In a split second, rocket fire shatters the silence, and through a plume of oily smoke, the boat sinks to the river's bottom. "My whole crew lost their lives that night. I was the only one who survived," Lt. Davis says. Lt. Davis, now 62, lost his left eye. The bones in both legs were shattered. But the...