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Two hundred years ago Napoleon Bonaparte named himself "Emperor for Life." He was wrong. He eventually died a lonely death while banished to a South Atlantic island. Similar to the French dictator, John Kerry imagines himself a patriot for life. He believes his four months of Vietnam service have given him a lifetime pass on patriotism in spite of his unpatriotic record in the 35 years since. A brief review tells it all. Kerry revealed in his 1971 Senate testimony that he met with two Communist groups in France while the war was still underway: Communist North Vietnam and the...

George W. Bush is getting a little bump in the public-opinion polls. He may win, but it will be in spite of himself. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth finally put a little pizzazz in the president's re-election campaign, breaking Democratic momentum at just the right moment, and the president thanks them by threatening to sue if they don't stop it. Republicans don't do politics. It's a game they don't really understand. The soul of the party, such as it is, resides in the corporate boardroom. Republican strategists think like CEOs: When the going gets tough, curtsy and apologize. The...

But Droz, a key witness in the ongoing debate over Kerry's service record, is missing from it, killed in a rocket attack in Vietnam in April 1969 days after Kerry returned home. While Droz cannot defend Kerry, his widow, Judith Droz Keyes, said she feels she must. She said she is confident that her husband would defend both Kerry's record in Vietnam and his antiwar activism. "John Kerry was a good friend, and a loyal friend to my late husband," she said in a telephone interview from her office in San Francisco. "My husband isn't here to speak, and all...

Wow, this latest New York Times article will be really damaging to the the swift boat vets who are accusing Kerry of cowardice. This article will probably bring an end to the swift boat debate. New York sLimes

This morning, a "reporterette" (Jessica Vascellaro) for the DNC media surrogate Boston Globe released a hitpiece on the anti-Kerry Swift Boat veterans. She coordinated her hit with a delegate to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Judith Droz Keyes. Droz Keyes, a San Francisco lawyer and far-left "war hater", was recruited because of her status as "the grieving widow" of one of the Swift Boat veterans. Droz Keyes and Vascellaro put words in the mouth of Keyes' dead husband in order to prop up Senator Kerry's shaky "combat heroism" story. However, the great Ann Coulter's aphorism "Liberals simply can't grasp the...

It is absolutely critical that we all remember to VOTE for Kerry in November and "Keep the dream alive !!" This message not endorsed by any candidates......... Enjoy .......

Purple Hearts, Kerry’s Exit Strategy by Col. Bob Pappas, USMC, Ret. Official Navy records establish that Kerry served well in Vietnam, albeit a host of witnesses have come forward to challenge the legitimacy of both the record and Kerry’s self-exalted hero status. The fact remains that he has awards, except now there is an admission by Kerry’s campaign (not Kerry), that his first purple heart may have been due to an unintentional self-inflicted wound. In copyright article by Art Moore dated August 17th, 2004, Kerry's war journal contradicts medal claim? The author states, “A previously unnoticed passage in John Kerry's...

The invasion of Cambodia by the United States, 20 years ago, helped bring the Khmer Rouge to power and turn Cambodia into the killing fields. The Vietnamese responded to this horror by doing what many in the international community believed was necessary, but were simply unwilling to do. Responding to direct provocation on the part of the Khmer Rouge, they ended the genocide by invading Cambodia. What was our response? Not only did we refuse to deal with the new regime which Hanoi installed, but in a fit of personal pique we organized an international economic boycott of Vietnam and...

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...

WASHINGTON - The chief critic of John Kerry (news - web sites)'s military record told President Nixon in 1971 that he had been in Cambodia in a swift boat during the Vietnam War — a claim at odds with his recent statements that he was not. Photo AP Photo Special Coverages Latest headlines: · Bush lawyer quits in anti-Kerry ad flap AFP - 9 minutes ago · Swift Boat Writer Lied on Cambodia Claim AP - 29 minutes ago · Lawyer Advising Vets Quits Bush Campaign AP - 37 minutes ago All Election Coverage "I was in Cambodia, sir. I...

"But that was 30 years ago, and now it is time to move on" "But, because of the nature of the war we fought we came back to a country that did not recognize our contribution" The Navy Public Affairs Library (NAVPALIB) A service of the Navy Office of Information, Washington DC Send feedback/questions to navpalib@opnav-emh.navy.mil Senator John Kerry Swift Boat Ceremony Washington, DC - June 17, 1995 Admiral Boorda, Admiral Zumwalt, Admiral Will, Admiral Moore, Admiral Hoffman, Congressman Kolbe, families, friends and my fellow Swifties. We have come here today -- with respect and love -- to complete the...

John Kerry has recruited private investigators to dig up dirt on the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth in a last ditch bid to discredit the group in retaliation for damaging his image as a Vietnam War hero. The Kerry investigators are "compiling incriminating dossiers on the members of the veteran group," reports the New York Daily News. One target of the Kerry dirt diggers is Swift Boat activist James Zumwalt, son of illustrious Adm. Elmo Zumwalt, whose file was shared with the News on Wednesday. According to the report, "a group of Democrtic loyalists" plan to paint Zumwalt as a...

Freepers are generous & willing to give whenever donation time rolls around but what if every Freeper gave $5 to the Swifties? Who knows how many registered members (and many more lurkers) there are on Free Republic but if we each gave at the very least $5 it WOULD make a difference! Just giving up fast food or some other purchase during the week and instead donating the money to Swifties would benefit us all in the long run. These vets not only put themselves on the line in Vietnam but they're doing it again now. The left and the...

Every four years, we decry the current presidential campaign as the most negative ever, even though the political history of the United States tells us otherwise. Statesmen in knee breeches thought nothing of publicly questioning a rival’s valor, honesty and ancestry. The offended party in turn could resort to the code duello, with a fair hope of silencing his critic once and for all. I’ll bet John Kerry wishes he had that option. Or maybe he’d prefer to exercise another time-honored political tradition and administer a public caning to the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, or Swift Liars to...

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Yesterday I pointed out in Implosion 101 that this had turned the corner and Kerry's counter attack was a failed arrogant argument. Drudge has these updates along with an amazing story about Kerry's outreach call to a Swiftie. FLASH: 'SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH' RAISED $1,764,000 IN DONATIONS ON WEBSITE IN PAST 2 WEEKS, SOURCES TELL DRUDGE... Kerry's campaign now says is possible first Purple Heart was awarded for unintentional self-inflicted wound... Kerry received Purple Heart for wounds suffered on 12/2/68... In Kerry's own journal written 9 days later, he writes he and his crew, quote, 'hadn't been shot at...

NEW YORK - This morning, John Kerry used New York City as the launching pad for his latest rounds of attack on President Bush and urged the GOP to abandon the negative attacks of "fear and smear" and to return to the debate on issues. However, it is clear from a reported phone call that Kerry participated in Sunday evening that Kerry sees that the discontentment of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as fundamentally non-related to the Bush campaign. Kerry reportedly placed a call to Robert Brant (Ret.) Commander, United States Navy. Brant had skippered boats #96 and #36...

FLASH: 'SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH' RAISED $1,764,000 IN DONATIONS ON WEBSITE IN PAST 2 WEEKS, SOURCES TELL DRUDGE... Kerry's campaign now says is possible first Purple Heart was awarded for unintentional self-inflicted wound... Kerry received Purple Heart for wounds suffered on 12/2/68... In Kerry's own journal written 9 days later, he writes he and his crew, quote, 'hadn't been shot at yet'... Developing...

Gen. George S. Patton III, the flamboyant field commander ... came to Boston to blast Kerry for "probably" causing "some of my guys to get killed" by his dissidence. "There's no soap ever been invented that can wash that blood off his hands."

I am sick of hearing about the mainstream media's attempt to discredit the SBVforT on the erroneous grounds that the Swifties didn't "serve" with Kerry. Here are photos and commentary from a Swifty as to the proximity of the boats on patrol, as well as, their intimate living conditions. As anyone can see, the perspective from some personnel on other boats actually has a broader view of another boat and the surrounding environment.