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Don’t Blame Bush Kerry’s Vietnam problems are of his own making. It's all George Walker Bush's fault. The entire controversy floated by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is the result of President Bush's desire to besmirch John Kerry's tenure in Vietnam. That's the Democrats' story, and they're sticking with it. Too bad it's not true. "The President keeps telling people he would never question my service to our country," John Kerry told the International Association of Fire Fighters in Boston August 19. "Instead, he watches as a Republican-funded attack group does just that. Well, if he wants to have...

Phase two of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attack on John Kerry's candidacy will likely begin shortly. On page 99 of the number one best-selling book “Unfit for Command” the SwiftVets change from challenging John Kerry’s medals and behavior in Viet Nam to his anti-war protests and testimony once he returned home. The left has drawn McCain’s “dishonest and dishonorable” comment like a gun any time they are quizzed on the distortions and inaccuracies of Kerry’s word and deeds of his four months in Viet Nam. That won’t work as phase two begins. John McCain is of the opinion...

That the fight over Sen. John Kerry's controversial claims of combat heroics has turned into a genuine political phenomenon has caused some of my media colleagues to be surprised, mystified and fed up. Yet millions of American voters have dared--without the media's blessing--to take up Kerry on his challenge to make his Vietnam War feats the centerpiece of his presidential campaign. Despite arrogant calls for the electorate to return to "legitimate issues," Kerry's honesty about his tour as officer-in-charge of two swift boats has arguably become the most passionate issue of this campaign. This fight won't go away so easily....

With apologies to Rudyard Kipling and the British Army) Johnny went public with ‘is boasts, an’ ‘ero without fear, “Til sudden like the Swifties say, “We got a turncoat ‘ere.” The Libs they just ignored ‘em, sayin’ “Ah, it’s all a lie!” Then Johnny’s outted by their ads an’ to myself says I: Oh it’s Johnny this an’ Johnny that, ‘e’s the ‘ero of the day. But it’s wait now, Mr. Kerry, what’s that record really say? The horns are loudly blowin’ boys as our band begins to play, An’ it’s goodbye, Mr. Kerry, as they blow your arse away....

Why are the Big Media savaging the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth? Why are the Kerryites telling us to move on and debate the real issues--health care, education, the economy? Because they know this could kill John Kerry's candidacy. Because they know this is not just about Vietnam, but also about the credibility and character of the man who would be President.

NEW YORK -- Retired Rear Adm. William L. Schachte Jr. said Thursday in his first on-the-record interview about the swift boat veterans dispute that "I was absolutely in the skimmer" in the early morning on Dec. 2, 1968, when Lt. (j.g.) John Kerry was involved in an incident that led to his first Purple Heart. "Kerry nicked himself with a M-79 [grenade launcher]," Schachte said in a telephone interview from his home in Charleston, S.C. He said, "Kerry requested a Purple Heart." Schachte, also a lieutenant junior grade, said he was in command of the small boat called a Boston...

Senator Also May Have Set Up Meetings Between Chinese Firms, U.S. Officials (WASHINGTON, D.C.) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released recently declassified documents showing that Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry accepted laundered contributions for his 1996 re-election campaign from the Communist Chinese government and that, in exchange, he may have arranged meetings between Chinese aerospace executives and U.S. government officials. Obtained from the FBI through Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act requests, the documents are related to the FBI’s “Chinagate” investigation into the Clinton campaign’s acceptance of contributions from Communist...

FBI files indicate that VVAW leader Al Hubbard reported to the VVAW Executive Committee meeting upon returning from Paris the following, “Hubbard indicated that VVAW as an organization had received commitments of support from Leftists throughout the world. He indicated that following the conference he had private discussions with individuals from Laos and Cambodia, the primary topic discussed were tactics in the United States anti-war movement. In his opinion these discussions turned out to be the most important part of the conference for him. He said that during these talks he was able to confirm the fact that a seven...

Recently I have read that John Kerry has told the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that he was not referring to them in his senate speech in 1971, but to all the other Vietnam War veterans. Well, we should apply the same standard to this that Kerry and his news pals have used, that is; That Kerry did not serve in their tent, unit, team, foxhole, aircraft, patrol unit, or squad so therefore he cannot know what these men were doing or not doing. Therefore, because by his own admission that by these standards the SBVT could not have known...

Sometimes, when you do the Euro thing and take August off, you half-miss the tussle of an election campaign, the twists and turns of blogging, the daily adrenaline shots of getting hammered by various critics. But not this August. Every time I checked out the blogosphere or the cable news or the papers, I felt relieved to be absent with leave. The low point was obviously the Swift Boat vets, jumping like bait on the end of Karl Rove's line. For a president who never served in Vietnam to get his cronies to lambaste an opponent who actually put his...

One more brick in the Kerry wall...... http://teamhouse.tni.net/Misc/Kerry/ChungKerry.htm

Nov. 3, 2004: Vietnam vets - finally, you heroes have come home You were spit on. You were called war criminals. You were called baby killers. You served your country and came home to abuse and to be shunned by your countrymen. Many never came home at all. There were lost limbs, broken lives, broken families, alcoholism, drugs, homelessness, despair, and even suicide. You could not understand why you were so hated. There was no parade welcoming you home. There was nobody to offer you their seat on a full airplane. There was no one wanting to shake your hand...

From www.MichNews.com GuestSwift Boat Vets relive John Kerry’s Genghis “Con” By Doug Schmitz Aug 29, 2004, 12:20 “[The] mainstream media refuse to pursue [Kerry’s war record charges].  They have an agenda.  The agenda is to bring down George Bush.  If they really made these charges a burning issue, Kerry would go down in flames.  Because they refuse to make these matters an issue, they won’t be." — Paul M. Weyrich, Accuracy in Media, 8/17/04 COLUMNIST’S NOTE: The following is an in-depth analysis of the 24-hour smear campaign that John Kerry, his media allies and his countless anti-Bush ‘527’ groups have launched...

To: stockpirate I am not sure this is the proper place to put this...but here goes... To All The Vets of Viet Nam, I was born in 1955, a baby boomer...into an alcoholic and abusive family. I was 14 years old when Woodstock rocked this nation. I remember standing in front of a 12" black and white set watching it unfold on the 6 o'clock news. I also remember my father using the term..".long haired hippie pukes" and being totally disgusted with the whole mess. Being 14 with a father who like to use his fists..I naturally rejected anything he...

August 29, 2004 Three Decades Later, Vietnam Remains a Hot IssueBy DAVID M. HALBFINGER ohn Kerry and George W. Bush started out the tumultuous late 1960's in exactly the same place, young men of privilege with a scant two years separating them at Yale. But they were worlds apart in outlook, and they made starkly different choices after graduating that now, more than three decades later, continue to reverberate loudly in their presidential contest. At times the debate has grown so loud that it has nearly drowned out the issues of the moment, particularly in the week leading into the...

Quotes from the book (and the historical record): (from Kerry Senate floor speech in 1986) "I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by the Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States telling the American people I was not there...." (from a Boston Herald article, date not cited, quoting Kerry) "I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of...

"...I can cite many, many instances, sir, as in combat when these men refused to fight with us, when they shot with their guns over tin this area like this and their heads turned facing the other way. When we were taken under fire we Americans, supposedly fighting with them, and pinned down in a ditch, and I was in the Navy and this was pretty unconventional, but when we were pinned down in a ditch recovering bodies or something and they refused to come in and help us, point blank refused. I don't believe they want to fight, sir..."

Go to page 21 read to 25 "[redacted] that on April four, one nie seven two, a representive of the North Vietanese Government at the Paris Peace talks telephoned the 'movement' in the United States to be ready to take action, presumably demostrations, to counter expected escalation of bombing by American air forces in South Vietnam as a result of the increased military action of North Vietnamese forces in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam.

What the FBI files and history of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, (VVAW) reveal about, VVAW and John Kerry: 1. VVAW Plan to assassinate seven US senators. 2. VVAW was training to execute a Phoenix plan to decapitate the leaders of the US Government. 3. Member of VVAW arrested in-route to VP Agnew speech with an explosive device (BOMB). 4. VVAW running guns to a black militant group in Cairo IL. Use link 12 page 131, also same as link 10.. 5. VVAW funded by Communist party of America. 6. VVAW receiving funds from the Communist Party of a country...

It only shows Kerry for a second (at around 1:15) but you can get a feel for the radical nature of the event and organization. Listen carefully near the end and you will hear a VVAW member state that the next time he fights will be to take these steps. Referring to the steps at the US Capitol or the WH.