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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...

NGUYEN VAN KHOAI....In their story about John Kerry's Silver Star on Thursday, Nightline interviewed a Vietnamese man who said this wasn't the first time he'd been asked about Kerry's medals: Back in Tran Thoi, villager Nguyen Van Khoai said that about six months ago he was visited by an American who described himself as a Swift boat veteran and told him another American from the Swift boats was running for president of the United States. Nguyen said the man was accompanied by a cameraman. When I initially wrote about this, my assumption was that the "Swift boat veteran" in question...

Federal News Service APRIL 25, 1991, THURSDAY HEADLINE: HEARING OF THE EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE SUBJECT: PROSPECTS FOR NORMALIZATION OF US-VIETNAMESE RELATIONS CHAIRED BY: SENATOR ALAN CRANSTON (D-CA) SEN. CRANSTON: It's now my pleasure to call on Senator John Kerry, who has been a leader in this area as in so many others. And it was a special reason and background for his deep interest in a more sensible policy toward Vietnam. John? SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA): Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate this hearing which you and I talked...

Mystery Surrounds Kerry's Navy Discharge BY THOMAS LIPSCOMB - Special to the Sun October 13, 2004 An official Navy document on Senator Kerry's campaign Web site listed as Mr. Kerry's "Honorable Discharge from the Reserves" opens a door on a well kept secret about his military service. The document is a form cover letter in the name of the Carter administration's secretary of the Navy, W. Graham Claytor. It describes Mr. Kerry's discharge as being subsequent to the review of "a board of officers." This in it self is unusual. There is nothing about an ordinary honorable discharge action in...

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The following statement from John O'Neil, member of Swift Boat Veterans and POW's for Truth, concerns a news segment that aired on October 14th on ABC's Nightline with Ted Koppel. "While I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ted Koppel and ABC News I was appalled to learn that ABC News would go to the lengths of traveling to Vietnam to interview three Viet Cong communists in yet a third attempt by ABC to corroborate John Kerry's version of the events that took place on February 28th, 1969. "I would only ask the American people: 'Who do you...

We promised it, so here it is. And surprise - it's not one ad but two! These ads will debut tonight on FoxNews (Special Report w/ Brit Hume), but we have the transcripts. This is going to be a MASSIVE ad puchase, and as was hinted earlier, they will be aired during Monday Night Football The first ad is a 60-second spot featuring 90 swift boat veterans, in a a three-deep line, with the camera panning across the crowd - close-up and slowly. No vets speak, but the announcer delivers the following lines: Announcer: They served their country with courage...

Dear Senator kerry: At yesterday's meeting of the Lagniappe Wednesday Club at Daryl's Bait Shop, I and Jack Boudreau and Armen Yazoo were deputized to send you one more letter concerning your campaign. We are asking you to clarify some matters that have struck us as being untidy as an old boot in a pot of crawfish gumbo. We are still waiting for you personally to take on the task of answering the charges of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. These are serious matters and they won't go away, leastaways not from the minds of average people like us...

Peter Principles: The race to the Swift By Peter Roff UPI Senior Political Analyst Published 10/6/2004 6:35 PM (Please send comments to nationaldesk@upi.com.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- A group calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth laid waste to John F. Kerry's presidential campaign. The Swifties, as they have become known, used a single television ad -- which initially aired in less than 2 percent of U.S. households -- to undercut the Democratic nominee's principal virtue: his record in Vietnam. The group's activities brought attention to a period in Kerry's life that, well-known and apparently well-documented, had never really...

Of all the dirty tricks in this unhappy presidential campaign, the most outrageous has been the ad campaign by the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth," attempting to discredit John Kerry's service in Vietnam. Supporters of the malingering Bush have shamelessly challenged the war record of a wounded and decorated veteran. Their campaign illustrates the tactic of the Big Lie, as defined by Hitler and perfected by Goebbels: Although a little lie is laughed at, a Big Lie somehow takes on a reality of its own, through its sheer effrontery. "Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry" is a matter-of-fact...

After watching that pitiful excuse for a debate last night, all I can say is, "Thank God for the Swift Boat vets." Why? Because without them and the persuasive case they have made against John Kerry for president, I am quite certain he would still be the leading candidate for president today. The debate last night focused on foreign policy and national security issues – President Bush's strength, we're told by the pollsters. It should also be Kerry's weakness, given his vacillation on the war on Iraq and his own record of turning on American troops in Vietnam. But that's...

The book that turned the 2004 presidential race on its head - "Unfit for Command," by John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi - has yet to be formally reviewed by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and most other mainstream U.S. newspapers, despite sitting atop the New York Times best seller list now for four weeks in a row. Next week "Unfit's" reign at the top ends, at least in the New York paper, with Kitty Kelley's book on the Bush family "dynasty" supplanting it in the number one spot. But while the O'Neill-Corsi book was...

The New York Times, which was affectionately referred to as the “Grey Lady,” has died after a long illness. The paper, begun in 1851, was 153. The New York Times, which was affectionately referred to as the “Grey Lady,” has died after a long illness. The paper, begun in 1851, was 153. The world was notified on the Internet over two months ago on numerous blogs, talk radio, and websites such as the Drudge Report, as well as on 24-hour cable news outlets such as CSPAN and FOX News.

It is being reported by major news outlets like FoxNews and ABC News now that Bill Burkett, the source of the fake memos, first sent them to the Kerry campaign before CBS even knew about them. The Associated Press obtained a copy of an email transmitted to a list of Texas Democrats about a conversation he had with Kerry campaign advisor, and former Senator, Max Cleland. The email to the Texas Democrats indicated that Burkett and Cleland spoke about information that would counter criticism of Kerry's Vietnam War service. It stated, "I asked if they wanted to counterattack or ride...

While Akron native Kenneth Cordier was imprisoned at the ``Hanoi Hilton'' in 1971, John Kerry, back from four months in Vietnam, was testifying before Congress of atrocities committed in Vietnam. Kerry's statements, considered by Cordier to be a betrayal of fellow veterans, continue to anger the retired Air Force colonel today. The 67-year-old resident of Dallas is one veteran who was featured in a Swift Boat Veterans for Truth advertisement, and was recently taken off a Veterans for Bush Steering Committee list. Cordier still serves on a Department of Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee. Brendon Cull, a spokesman for the Ohio...

Yes, yes. This came out in 2000 and I asked him then, at the time, if he [helped get Bush into the Guard]. He said: "No, absolutely not. I did not do that."

OPINION -- There was something almost quaint about the Chicago Tribune’s editorial assertion August 24 declaring that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth controversy surrounding John Kerry’s war record was over. Forgetting that we are in the midst of a “new media” revolution that allows everyday Americans to investigate truth claims on their own - without the clouded filter of biased journalists - the Tribune editors wrote, “That should be the end of the debate about John Kerry's experience in Vietnam.” Days before, the Tribune had injected itself prominently into the presidential campaign and the Swift Boat controversy by giving...

Last week’s column, in which I wrote about a group I called the Swift Boat Liars, generated an unprecedented e-mail response. Within hours of its publication, about 60 e-mails bleeped in my inbox, most of them questioning my veracity, sanity, patriotism or manhood - sometimes all four. If anyone had figured out how to send anthrax by e-mail, I’d be dead already. One week and a considerable amount of soul-searching later, I must acknowledge that I erred on a couple of points. Among other things, I accused the mainstream news media of swallowing the swift vet stories whole, without critical...

A veteran who served with John Kerry in Vietnam spoke yesterday in Columbia to defend his former skipper’s war record against a national group trying to debunk its legitimacy. Brian W. Kratzer photo Gene Thorson, a crew member of a swift boat captained by John Kerry during the Vietnam War, defends the presidential candidate’s war record yesterday outside Courthouse Square in Columbia. Critics have questioned Kerry’s account of March 13, 1969, attack on his boat in Vietnam. Gene Thorson, a crew member of the swift boat Kerry commanded, addressed a group of about 40 veterans and their families yesterday at...