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Navy chief on Swiftvets.com is saying they FOUND IT!!

October 26, 2004 - There is one thing John Kerry is consistent on: his propensity for manipulating the truth. From Vietnam to the floor of the senate to the halls of the United Nations, Kerry has stretched and exaggerated to create “the truth” and has done so without compunction. His latest “over the top” invention is his “two-hour meeting with the entire UN Security Council.” The crafting of this tale should tarnish his image in the eyes of his supporters, if not we should consider their intelligence highly suspect. Throughout his campaign he has embraced the mantra “Bush lied.” Starting...

This is an excerpt from the book Unfit for Command, copyright 2004 by John E. O'Neill and Jerome R. Corsi. The excerpt begins at the top of page 123. "It is a fact that in the entire Vietnam War we did not lose one major battle. We lost the war at home, and at home John Kerry was the field general."ROBERT ELDER Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Press ConferenceWashington, D.C., May 4, 2004 Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet intelligence officer to defect to the West, spoke out in June 2004 about the KGB intelligence operation that he believed...

Two hundred and thirteen years ago, a brand new America ratified the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. These amendments guaranteed certain rights to the people. The very first amendment included the free speech clause, protecting us from government censorship or worse. Until the First Amendment was written, people usually ended up dead or in prison for criticizing their government anywhere else at the time. Now, a controversy has put supporters of censorship of political speech firmly in the spotlight. Based on a flawed article by Elizabeth Jensen of the Los Angeles Times where the motto ought to be...

We did it! Thanks to wonderful citizens such as you, we have raised enough money to get our message into Pennsylvania. Our ads started playing this morning. The importance of this cannot be understated. We have obtained an email from the Kerry campaign which proves his campaign has been actively blocking the ability of the POWs to have their video Stolen Honor played. Three different venues have been booked in the Philadelphia area, and in each instance, the facility cancelled after various threats. It just seems so unfair to us that a man like Michael Moore can readily have his...

The media are too busy repackaging old Iraq news in an October offensive against President George W. Bush's reelection to investigate truly startling evidence unearthed this week that the Communist Party may have been directing John Kerry's anti-war activities in the early 1970s. The evidence, contained in captured communist records on file at the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University, shows a well-coordinated effort by the Communist Party to recruit American servicemen and officers to become part of the American anti-war movement. The objective was to organize high-profile activities to undermine support for the Vietnam War, including holding hearings on...

In a new TV special, set to air later this week, John Kerry's fellow Swift Boat veterans have harsh words for the former "war hero." Captain George Elliott says he believes Kerry should have been removed from command, and possibly even thrown out of the Navy. Elliott was commander of Coastal Division 11, where Kerry spent his four short months of active duty in Viet Nam. Fellow Swift Boat vet Steve Gardner is even tougher – he says Kerry could well have been court-martialed, had the chain of command known then what they know now. These and other first-person interviews...

Begin 1st excerpt: BANGERT, Joe (former VVAW; endorses VVAW & VAIW) --9/07/70: With Kerry/Fonda at Operation RAW (Rapid American Withdrawal), Valley Forge, PA --1/31/71: Bangert:/WSI: “..the men were afraid to complain about such atrocities because those who complained were subject to harsh discipline by company commanders.” FBI/Sec. 2, p38: data on flyer about WSI testimony being handed out: “JOE BANGERT, 22, Sgt. E-5, helicopter gunner…(1968-69), PA resident, testifies to the disembowlment and skinning of Vietnamese woman …by an American, after she was killed by ARVNs. Body was hung on a tree as a “warning” to other “gooks.” He further testifies...

Vietnam veterans who oppose John Kerry's presidential campaign sent out 2.4 million pieces of mail in six battleground states over the past two weeks, restating their complaints against the Democratic candidate. Sean McCabe, a spokesman for Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, said Friday that two mailings went to the same 1.2 million households in Minnesota, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin and New Mexico, targeting homes where veterans reside. A 12-page color mailing claims Kerry lied about his service in Vietnam, betrayed fellow soldiers by accusing them of war crimes and assisted leftist radicals. A second four-page mailing asks voters:...

For anyone interested in supporting the swiftvet ads, they do need more money, and today is the last day we can contribute to get ads out before election. You can go see the latest swiftvet ads at www.swiftvets.com. (I still haven't learned how to post a pic or a link so you can click on it.) Here's the email I just received from them:If you have not made a second contribution, would you please provide us with this support today. We must purchase our final ads on Tuesday morning. We know we are asking a lot, but you also know...

Looks like all that O'Donnell did was to keep calling O'Neill a LIAR instead of respectfully debating him on the issues. Liberal Panic? What happened to civility?

PUEBLO, Colo. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential nominee and Vietnam War veteran John Kerry tried to burnish his national security credentials on Saturday by vowing to hunt down terrorists with the same energy he used to pursue the Viet Cong. And the Massachusetts senator kept up his attack on President Bush, accusing his Republican rival of allowing Osama bin Laden, to "walk out of the back door." "This president keeps going around the country trying to scare people," Kerry told thousands of supporters at an outdoor rally in Pueblo. "He talks about only one thing. The only thing he wants to...

After the war, when Communist repression spread over South Vietnam sending hundreds of thousands of "boat people" to face likely death at sea, dozens of former antiwar leaders led by singer Joan Baez took out newspaper ads decrying the abuses. Those who joined in the statement did not say that they regretted opposing the war, but they faced up to some sense of responsibility for the painful consequences of what they had advocated. The signers included many from the moderate antiwar camp and even some radicals like the priests Daniel and Philip Berrigan, but John Kerry's name could not be...

I just returned from the Operation Streetcorner kerry protest in Raleigh. It was a beautiful morning and I urge all freepers and lurkers who are going to the state fair to stop by and spend some time! It is at the corner of Blue Ridge Road and Hutton Streets (just down from the K-Mart) and is a great opportunity to get the message out becasue of all the state fair traffic.Here are some pics of the early morning warriors: From left to right we have Mike, Bay (former S. Vietnamese Naval Officer), Teresa, Bob, Tom, and the little freeper -...

URGENT Right now, we are only able to afford to air ads in two states. We need to at least get into Pennsylvania. If all of our email contributors simply repeat 75% of their first contribution, we can do it. And if you have thought about giving but have yet to do so, this is it. We need your help now. Most of us survived on Navy pay, so we know how difficult this might be. But, we also know how important it is. Help us get into Pennsylvania. Without your help, we will have to abandon any advertising in...

For a guy who started his presidential campaign focused on his military service, John Kerry sure doesn't mind leaving that service record shrouded in mystery. There is controversy about every single aspect of Kerry's service – from the time he signed up for duty, to his brief command of a Navy swiftboat in Vietnam, to his commendations, to his medical records, to his departure from Vietnam and, now, even the question of whether he was honorably discharged. With the presidential election only 11 days away, there is only one way we'll get answers to the many questions surrounding Kerry's service...

'Swifties' make $4.7 million ad buy Washington, DC, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Swift Vets and POWs for Truth said Thursday they had purchased nearly $5 million in television time for anti-Kerry ads in critical swing states. The group, a 527 organization representing more than 250 Swift Boat veterans who served in Vietnam with Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry along with a number of the American POW's held captive by the North Vietnamese, said it had purchased $3.2 million in TV time in Florida and $1.5 million in Ohio for ads that will run beginning Friday. The first of the ads...

My cousin Larry, a Vietnam era veteran (US Army, MOS 52D20, active duty March '66 - March '68), just called me a while ago to report on an event his local radio station hosted for their listeners.To go back a bit... Last week the AM-920 "Morning Blend" co-hosts Mark Vance and Andrea Shea-King obtained a DVD copy of "Stolen Honor" and announced on the air that they were going to find a place to show the documentary for their listeners and friends. As of Friday last week they had not located a place to air the documentary; the Melbourne Community...

Last month, I wrote this piece about the rally held by the Vietnam Vets for Truth in Washington D.C. To me, the most moving speech at the rally was delivered by Laura Armstrong, daughter of Roger ("Black Bart") Bartholomew, a First Air Cavalry rocket artillery helicopter pilot who was killed in Vietnam on Thanksgiving Day 1968, when Laura was eight years old. Ms. Armstrong was kind enough to provide me with the text of a letter she sent to ABC Nightline regarding its attempt to enlist Viet Cong Communists against the Swiftvets. Here is what she wrote: To say that...

Unanswered questions of 2004 Posted: October 18, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 Creators Syndicate, Inc. That John Kerry won the debates, no matter how any of us score them, seems undeniable. Before the first debate in Miami, his campaign was dead in the water. Throughout August, he had been swift-boated by the Veterans for Truth with repeated attacks on his combat service, character and credibility. The GOP convention completed the demolition. By one poll in September, only 36 percent of the nation held a favorable view of Kerry, a seemingly impossible hurdle to surmount. The president led in every...