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Despite the partisan media's claims to the contrary, John Kerry has not successfully refuted "almost all the Swiftees' charges." Though he has attempted to dodge the bullets, he has been deeply wounded by them. Instead of responding factually to the charges, Kerry and his defenders have: -- personally attacked the Swiftees and reportedly hired private investigators to look for dirt on them; -- mischaracterized Swiftee John O'Neill as a Nixon dirty trickster; -- reiterated their lies about President Bush's Air National Guard service; -- filed complaints with the FEC to muzzle the Swiftees; -- pressured media outlets not to run...

I was asked by many FReepers to make this it's own thread, as they felt it wasn't getting enough exposure.I put this EXPOSE KERRY'S FRAUD SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH sticker on my truck the other day. The next day on the way to work and back home I got lots of honks and 'thumbs up'! Lots of folks liked the message as we are seeing in the sales of "Unfit for Command".The sticker serves 2 purposes: 1 - Shows visible support for "Swift Boat Veterans For Truth" to passing motorists 2 - Gets the swiftvets.com website visible to the...

Dear Mr. President, What an honor it is to be able to email you. There are two issues I would like to cover in this letter. The first one is to say how thankful I am for the Swift Vets and their courage to uncover the truth about John Kerry. It breaks my heart and angers me that anyone would consider him a hero. He lied about our brave soldiers in Vietnam, causing their homecoming to be even more painful and hateful. My husband, Ralph, was just one soldier hurt by his lies. He was spit on at the airport...

Bush said on Thursday that he did not believe Sen. John Kerry lied about his war record, but he declined to condemn the television commercial paid for by a veterans' group alleging Kerry came by his war medals dishonestly. MORE Bush made the comments during a half-hour interview with the NEW YORK TIMES for Friday editions. "I understand how Sen. Kerry feels -- I've been attacked by 527s too," Bush said. "I think Sen. Kerry should be proud of his record," Bush said. "No, I don't think he lied." But when pressed repeatedly if he would specifically denounce the advertisements,...

John Kerry placed in the Congressional Record on January 28, 1998 the eulogy he gave (apparently) at the funeral of a former swiftboat companion. He describes what could be an entirely different version of the Rassmann falling in the river/mine exploding story. * * * 

PORTLAND, Ore. - A swiftboat crewman decorated in the 1969 Vietnam incident where John Kerry (news - web sites) won a Bronze Star says not only did they come under enemy fire but also that his own boat commander, who has challenged the official account, was too distracted to notice the gunfire. Retired Chief Petty Officer Robert E. Lambert, of Central Point, Ore., got a Bronze Star for pulling his boat commander — Lt. Larry Thurlow — out of the Bay Hap River on March 13, 1969. Thurlow had jumped onto another swiftboat to aid sailors wounded by a mine...

Watching Crossfire on CNN. Novak implied that one of the two men on the boat with Kerry during his first Purple Heart will come forward to contradict Kerry’s story. He wouldn’t tell Carville the name of the person, but said it would come out soon. Should be fun.

Kerry says those who were there back him up on swift boat service ANOKA, Minn. Democrat John Kerry is again lashing out at the ad campaign attacking his military record. The presidential candidate told a forum in Minnesota today that the Navy documented his actions 35 years ago, and the sailors on his swift boat back him up. He denounced what he called "the lie that's been put out there" about his war service. A campaign by the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth claims Kerry didn't deserve his five medals awarded for service in Vietnam. Kerry told the forum...

Vietnam Vet Questions Kerry on War Record Thursday August 26, 2004 8:01 PM AP Photo MNJM101 By JERRY SCHWARTZ AP National Writer Twice in 33 years, John O'Neill looked up from a hospital bed and saw John Kerry on television. Each time, he was stirred to action. In 1971, while recovering from leg surgery, O'Neill watched his fellow Vietnam veteran tell a Senate committee that U.S. soldiers had admitted committing war crimes there. Infuriated, O'Neill debated Kerry on national television. He accused him of libel and spreading ``the big lie.'' This year, in intensive care after donating a kidney to...

The newest ad from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has come out with a new one. This time Kerry's own foregunner from PCF-44 calls Kerry "deceitful."

OK, I admit it, I don't know. Or at least I didn't. I was born in 1968, growing up in a house where my father was too old to be drafted and my brothers were too young. Much of what I knew of Vietnam was the little bit they told us in high school, qualified by how we weren't supposed to be there, our soldiers died for nothing, we stayed there too long, and Americans did barbaric things. The rest of what I knew was from movies made by Oliver Stone - we weren't supposed to be there, our soldiers...

March 13, 1969 1. On March 13, 1969, did you wound yourself in the hip with a rice grenade? 2. Why was the above wound reported to the Navy for a Purple Heart as coming from a water mine? 3. On March 13, 1969, did you suffer a contusion (minor) (i.e., bruise) on your arm, as opposed to a bleeding wounded arm? 4. Did you claim your third Purple Heart and leave Vietnam eight months early on the basis of this bruise? 5. On March 13, 1969, did the boats other than yours stay behind and come to the aid...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This editorial will appear in the September 13, 2004, issue of National Review. Speaking on behalf of Vietnam veterans in his Senate testimony on April 22, 1971, John Kerry said, "We wish that a merciful God could wipe away our own memories of that service..." Thirty-three years later, it's clear that his plea fell on deaf ears. Kerry recalls his Vietnam service in virtually every campaign speech he makes. At the Boston convention, his four-month stint in Vietnam was repeatedly invoked as his primary qualification for the presidency. Kerry's problem is that those who served alongside him haven't...

The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have certainly eclipsed most other political news for the past couple of weeks. They have overshadowed oil prices hitting record highs, weakening retail-sales estimates, declining Dow Jones and NASDAQ averages, and the ongoing battle in Najaf. That isn't to say that the media aren't covering these news items; it is to say that there isn't ongoing political analysis of these issues and their impact on the presidential race. The one story that all media are following is the controversy surrounding the swift-boat vets and their TV ads and book. This controversy has grown...

Using the Freedom of Information Act to request and get a hold of as much of the documentation as possible. The conclusions match what I've been thinking.

CNSNews.com) - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's 1971 testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reveals that the then anti-war activist admitted to writing many of the battle reports during his four months of combat in Vietnam. Kerry told the committee on April 22, 1971, "...I can recall often sending in the spot reports which we made after each mission..." Kerry also said that many in the military had "a tendency to report what they want to report and see what they want to see." Kerry's comments about the battle reports came in response to a question from then...

Politics: Campaign finance reform hasn't ended attack ads. It hasn't stopped MoveOn.org or the Swifties. Good. Let's hear it for loopholes that allow free speech. Both John Kerry and President Bush have done some play-acting in recent days on the issue of negative campaigning. Kerry, stung by ads by fellow Vietnam vets questioning his claims to be a war hero and reminding voters of his over-the-top antiwar rhetoric, says Bush should stop these attacks. As if Bush could. Kerry knows better. Bush, for his part, says he'd be glad to join Kerry in squelching all this nastiness being funded outside...

Raging debate at another site with a bunch of libs who are claiming that there are only about a half dozen or so Swift Boat vets against Kerry who were actually there with him. I've seen it mentioned that there are actually 64 of them. Is there a list somewhere? Swiftvets.com only tells you the other 17 or so OIC's, but not the others.

John O’Neill commanded the same Swift boat during the Vietnam War that John Kerry did. One of 254 Swift boat veterans who holds a negative view of the Democratic presidential candidate, O’Neill is co-author of the current best-seller Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry (Regnery Publishing). To learn more about this group of highly-decorated veterans, visit SwiftVets.com. John O’Neill is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He earned a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Texas Law School. He was law clerk in 1974 for Justice William Rehnquist at the...

Lately I've been wondering how stories we read in "Big Media" would be different if 90-plus percent of reporters and editors were Republicans – not Democrats. Here's how I think the swiftboat-vets story might read. A "band of brothers" nearly 300 strong asserted today in a new TV advertisement that John Kerry lied about his service in Vietnam, then "shot his fellow sailors in the back" following his 4-month "service," when he assumed leadership of the Vietnam Vets Against the War and offered false testimony before Congress about nonexistent atrocities committed by American servicemen.