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This is sweet indeed. The irony is just too, too rich to absorb completely. Who will tell the story of these men? Who will write the book? Who will make the movie? Here are men, slandered by this self-serving politician John Kerry, who lived their lives for the past 30 years with this ember of a stain, seemingly dead to the rest of us, but glowing and living within them. Most of them, I believe, came to the point where they were prepared to live with the injustice, come to terms with it. After all, it was over. What could...

The Swift Boat Veterans gather to assess their impact on the campaign. Monday, November 15, 2004 12:01 a.m. BOCA RATON, Fla.--"The last mission of Vietnam War veterans ended on Nov. 3, at 2:08 p.m. Eastern Time, when John Kerry conceded the presidential race to George W. Bush," announced James Warner, a lawyer who was a Marine pilot in Vietnam and spent five years and five months in Hanoi as a prisoner of war. On Saturday night, Mr. Warner gave a "debriefing" on the role that two controversial groups of veterans played in raising doubts about John Kerry's fitness to serve as...

On the afternoon of Aug. 9, John F. Kerry stood on the lip of the Grand Canyon, about to make one of the biggest mistakes of his three-year quest for the presidency. A stiff wind was blowing across the canyon, and Kerry, whose hearing was damaged by gun blasts in Vietnam, had trouble understanding some of the questions being thrown his way. But he pressed on, coughing from the pollen blowing on the breeze. Would Kerry have voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq, one reporter asked, even if he knew then that Iraq didn't have weapons of...

Swift Boat Veterans pleased ad campaign paid off, says a local organizer of effort Its mission accomplished, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has essentially dissolved. "I don't think there is any doubt that we succeeded," said retired Rear Adm. Roy F. Hoffmann, who helped start the organization from the den of his Chesterfield County home then saw it grow into a national movement. Like just about everyone else, Hoffmann said "I stayed up all night" watching the election returns that denied John Kerry the presidency. That was the organization's goal - to prevent Kerry from being "commander in chief," Hoffmann...

Bush Cheney reelection architect Karl Rove gave credit on Sunday to the Swiftboat Veterans and POWs for Truth for exposing John Kerry's anti-war past and energizing Republican voters to turnout at the polls. Asked what role anti-Kerry ads sponsored by the Swiftvets played in Bush's reelection victory, Rove told "Fox News Sunday": "They were made important by the fact that Sen. Kerry, at his convention, really talked . . . only about Vietnam." The top White House advisor explained: "I was amazed by the people that I met around the country who were energized by that issue being discussed ....

'John Kerry will never call us terrorists and war criminals again," crowed John O'Neill, the Vietnam war Swift Boat captain who led the fiercest attack of the campaign against the Democratic candidate. With his brothers-in-arms from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Mr O'Neill was celebrating President George W Bush's victory with fervour. For the Swift Boat captains and crew who fought to destroy Sen Kerry's credibility as a Vietnam war hero, it was a victorious end to a vendetta that began more than 30 years ago. "I will leave it to the professionals to decide whether we played a...

Nov. 15 issue - The attack of the swift boat vets did not catch the Kerry campaign by surprise, not entirely at least. Kerry's operatives had worried from the beginning that some right-wing group would try to use his old Vietnam antiwar speeches against him. In the summer of 2003 the Kerry campaign had quietly made some inquiries with C-Span, asking the cable network not to release old videotapes of Kerry as an angry young vet fulminating about war crimes and atrocities. Portions of his sometimes overwrought testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971 could be twisted into...

Nov. 15 issue - The attack of the Swift Boat vets did not catch the Kerry campaign by surprise, not entirely at least. Kerry's operatives had worried from the beginning that some right-wing group would try to use his old Vietnam antiwar speeches against him. In the summer of 2003 the Kerry campaign had quietly made some inquiries with C-Span, asking the cable network not to release old videotapes of Kerry as an angry young vet fulminating about war crimes and atrocities. Portions of his sometimes overwrought testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971 could be twisted into...

It Ain't Over....YET! by Fred Marshall Jr. November 5, 2004 Many people, including a small number of uninformed veterans I suppose, mistakenly believe the efforts of the Swift Boat Vererans and POWs for Truth were politically motivated and intended to aid President Bush's re-election campaign. To believe that is to overlook the key word in the group's name...."TRUTH"....and requires disregarding the evidence presented by that group, plus additional information which surfaced as other inquiring minds were motivated to dig into Kerry's background during the campaign. John Kerry would like everyone to believe SwiftVets was just a temporary political organization out...

TRUTH REIGN SUPREME! The honor and esteem you have so long deserved has been restored. Your courage and determination make me proud to be an American. God bless every one of our VietNam Veterans!

The Odyssey Ends For Vietnam Vets They’re finally home and they kicked ass. Never defeated in a major battle in Vietnam, American Vietnam Vets finally came home this past Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Led by John O’Neill and the Swift Boat Vets, America’s Vietnam Vets came home and threw the usurpers, the imposters and their leader out of the palace of our Republic and reclaimed their rightful place as our true heroes and leaders. Their fellow citizens heard the truth of their words cloaked and ravaged for more than thirty years by the self-serving lies and slanders of pretend heroes....

Thank you Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth. You good men came to the aid of your country - again. Heroes for a new generation.We are indebted to you.A debt a grateful nation can never repay. May God bless you and your legacy. http://www.swiftvets.com

According to Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, it wasn't the evangelical vote, or Karl Rove's brilliant strategizing, or Osama bin Laden's last-minute endorsement that kicked the legs out from under John Kerry's presidential campaign. Asked Thursday what brought Kerry down, the former Democratic National Committee Chairman blamed The Swiftboat Veterans and POWs for Truth. "First of all, I think we lost all of our momentum when we didn't respond quickly to the Swiftboat attacks," Rendell told NBC "Today Show" host Katie Couric. "How ludricous is it that we had a legitimate war hero running against someone who didn't serve in Vietnam...

Kerry truly tried to present himself as a polished well healed gentleman, when he made his concession speech...Wednesday . He almost accomplished it ,too ... until he gave himself away with that last swipe at the Swiftboat Vets... It was obvious he just could not restrain his rage at them for them having exposed his treason ..... (he should have been advised not to do it) Bringing up the band of brothers blew his cover..... yahoo!!... (I have to admit I loved it)... Kerry knows the Swiftboat Vets got the truth out about him ... and that truth is what...

40 years ago, you answered the call of your country with heads held high. Young and full of American promise you were, off to fight against tyranny in a far off land for someone you'd never met. You endured the hell that is War, fighting with honor and victory even as your friends fell by your side. You did it for those fallen brothers, for the South Vietnamese who could not fight, most of all for your children so they wouldn't have to fight in their time. You came home to a country who's people were torn by that war,...

Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth achieved its primary goal yesterday with Sen. John Kerry's concession to President Bush, but the deeply divisive issues the group has raised and the activists it has spawned might not fade with the closing of the 2004 election. "The whole group was oriented to beating Kerry; now that that's been accomplished, there is a formative discussion to say, 'Where do we go from here?'" said Jerome Corsi, co-author of the group's influential New York Times No. 1 best seller "Unfit for Command." Corsi believes current discussions indicate there will be post-election follow...

ThankYouSwifties.com is now up and running. The purpose of the site is for you to leave the Swifties a note of thanks. The goal is to have all these thanks consolidated in one spot so they know how much we appreciate their dedication and resolve in helping to bring down John F'n Kerry. All FReepers are encouraged to visit and voice your gratitude to these brave heroes who have so spent so much of their time, money, and influence to sway this election. These gentlemen have, for the second time, protected this country from agression and deserve all the respect...

Thank You Interesting Times for wintersoldier.comThank You FReeper jrlc (Dr. Jerome Corsi) for Unfit for CommandGod Bless You

President Bush may be celebrating victory today, but he owes it to a group he never acknowledged during the campaign. I'm talking about the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth. They are responsible for keeping Bush in the White House – or, more precisely, keeping John Kerry from snatching it from him. There is not a doubt in my mind this was the difference in the race. The vets did Bush's dirty work. They took Kerry on and told the American people the truth about this fraud, this liar, this deceiver. Just enough Americans got the message to preserve a win for...

Hey sKerry...that's what happens when you pee all over your shipmates. Kinda bit ya in the butt, now didn't it?