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A faded 35-year-old operations order recovered from the Naval Historical Center in Washington bears directly on the ongoing dispute between Sen. John Kerry and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth about who wrote the key after-action report that ended Kerry's service in Vietnam. The report appears in the official Navy records and is posted on Kerry's presidential campaign Web site. The report details Kerry's participation in a naval operation on the Bay Hap River on March 13, 1969, in such glowing terms that he was awarded a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star for pulling Special Forces officer James Rassmann...

<p>A faded 35-year-old operations order recovered from the Naval Historical Center in Washington bears directly on the ongoing dispute between Sen. John Kerry and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth about who wrote the key after-action report that ended Kerry's service in Vietnam. The report appears in the official Navy records and is posted on Kerry's presidential campaign Web site.</p>

Coral Gables, Florida (CNSNews.com) - A former Navy crewmate and supporter of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says it is time to "let the dead rest." He demanded that the Vietnam veterans who are questioning Kerry's military service and anti-war activism "shut up." Del Sandusky, one of Kerry's naval crewmates in Vietnam who was present during the actions that led to the Kerry's Silver Star, Bronze Star and two of his three Purple Hearts, made his remarks about the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth immediately following Thursday night's debate between President George W. Bush and Sen. Kerry at the...

Media Pushes Fictions over Facts By Robin Boyd Posted On September 27, 2004 @ 09:58 PM EST [Post Comment] The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were the focus for crucial weeks of the 2004 Presidential Campaign. Day after day, Democrats decried the use of “partisan money” to fund the Swifties’ ads, calling on President Bush to denounce the partisan attack against John Kerry. John Edwards called on the President to stop hiding behind what he called a “front group.” The media’s search for Bush/Cheney connections to the Swift Boat vets was also relentless, and it is a study in media...

Never Forget (link)

WASHINGTON — A new ad featuring wives of Vietnam POWs criticizing John Kerry's (search) testimony before the Senate in 1971 will begin airing Thursday. The new ad is by Swift Vets and POWs for Truth (search), an expansion of the earlier Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group's ad buy is its largest yet — $1.4 million — and the ad can be seen on broadcast affiliates in Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Nevada and on national cable channels. In the ad, titled "Never Forget," John Kerry is quoted from his 1971 testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in which...

The new swift boat ad features the wives of former POW's. Very powerful as usual. Remember you can donate to keep the ads on the air at www.swiftvets.com

I went to make a donation today to the swift boat vet's since I had not made my donation yet and fiscally it was the best time for me to do so. So I forgot the web address and put in www.swiftboatvets.com. It and another address I put in linked me to this: http://www.swiftboatliars.com/ Anyone seen this? Also,what is the correct link to donate to the real swift boat vet's for truth? I am being re-directed to the smear of the DNC instead. Thanks, MFH

<p>This new, poignant Swift Boat ad, begins airing tomorrow. HUMAN EVENTS has obtained the 60-second ad that features brief comments by the wives of former Vietnam-era POWs, expressing their feelings about Kerry’s questionable post-war activities. According to sources near the Swift Boat organization, $1.4 million will be spent to get this most recent message out. The ad will appear nationally on cable, and on broadcast TV in Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Nevada.</p>

Well, stay tuned today, folks. The Swifties will have another ad, probably tonight - and this one features POW wives talking about John Kerry's testimony and actions when he returned from Vietnam - while their husbands were being held and tortured in North Vietnamese prisons. (We wrote about these women before. Click here to see our first take on their potential impact) Not only will this surpass the last ad buy ($1.4 million), it will also include a "satellite tour" of these brave women. Radio, TV, press conferences - ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. A serious and well-funded grassroots effort. Frankly,...

Comedian Dan St. Paul's SF Comics' Spoof of the Swift Boat Ad Generates Big Reaction on the Internet SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 2004--A new version of the Swift Boat Ad is taking the Internet by storm. The spoof was put together by a group of actors and comedians from the San Francisco Bay Area and has already gotten thousands of viewings in its first day going live. http://www.bushvets.org/

My lawyer readers will immediately recognize this as an invitation to Kerry supporters to make a motion for partial summary judgment on the SwiftVets' claims. This short paragraph from a New York Times article perfectly illustrates the liberal media's widespread characterization of the results to date of the SwiftVets' campaign (boldface added): Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which drew national attention with advertisements making unsubstantiated attacks against Mr. Kerry's military service, has less money and uses several strategies to stretch its dollars, said one of its leaders, John O'Neill. To find a similar example from the blogosphere, one need look...

She [Vice President Dianne Brandi] also turned down the latest spot from Swift Boat Veterans for Truth because it "accuses Kerry of treason, a crime punishable by death."

Fonda has been traveling the country registering women voters and denouncing President Bush as a "radical ideologue" - backing Kerry the same way she did 34 years ago when she bankrolled his group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War.........

Sometimes you can just sense the machinery of the regulatory state shifting into gear. I sense it in what would seem an unlikely event: CBS's use of forged documents in a story attempting to discredit President Bush's National Guard service. Paradoxically, this journalistic blunder is likely to stimulate efforts to muzzle the conservative media, which few would accuse CBS of being part of. Here's why. For years, the contours of the country's political dialogue have been set by the establishment media: The New York Times, The Washington Post, the three network news programs and, to a lesser extent, Time and...

I believe we now have conclusive proof that: (1) Dan Rather is not an honest newsman who was simply duped by extremely clever forgeries; and (2) We could have won the Vietnam War. A basic canon of journalism is not to place all your faith in a lunatic stuck on something that happened years ago who hates the target of your story and has been babbling nonsense about him for years. And that's true even if you yourself are a lunatic stuck on something that happened years ago (an on-air paddling from Bush 41) who hates the target of your...

I believe we now have conclusive proof that: (1) Dan Rather is not an honest newsman who was simply duped by extremely clever forgeries; and (2) We could have won the Vietnam War. A basic canon of journalism is not to place all your faith in a lunatic stuck on something that happened years ago who hates the target of your story and has been babbling nonsense about him for years. And that's true even if you yourself are a lunatic stuck on something that happened years ago (an on-air paddling from Bush 41) who hates the target of your...

Due to popular request, these are the links to all of the SwiftBoat ads on the SwiftBoat Vets site with ad dates and file sizes.Be kind to their bandwidth! Download and watch it from your own computer instead of streaming it multiple times! You can download it by right-clicking the link and choosing "Save". No matter what format you choose, the ad is the same, so to just pick the format that works for you. The RealMedia format tends to be the smallest download size, but you need to have RealPlayer.Here is a direct page to the same links for...

First Look at New Ad Set to Air Wednesday, 9/22 [Go to the website to see the video. It is amazing! Best attack ad I have ever seen!]

FROM KRANISH ARTICLE WRITTEN IN MARCH: "Steven Michael Gardner served side by side with John Forbes Kerry in Vietnam, was wounded under Kerry's command, and was manning twin .50-caliber machine guns on a night that has forever haunted Kerry -- the night his crew killed a young boy in a sampan." LINK TO ORIGINAL BOSTON GLOBE ARTICLE FROM MARCH. I briefly reached Kranish on his cell phone, and he asked me to leave a message on the office phone. I left him the message challenging him to do an update of this story. It haunted Kerry? Kerry's report did not...