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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...

The national security state began to threaten the Constitution itself. From the time of the Vietnam war (itself the product of a huge intelligence failure): We thought the Soviets and the Chinese were collaborating, when in fact they were almost at war with each other, the executive branch has been more and more tempted to use secrecy to avoid responsibility, even legality. The Iran-Contra affair was only the latest such episode. Worse, we are poisoning the wells of our historical memory. Of late, the Soviet Union has been going through an extraordinary period of exhuming the worst crimes of its...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - President Bush (news - web sites) wants to work with Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) to pursue court action against political ads by "shadowy" outside groups, the White House said Thursday amid growing pressure on the president to denounce attacks on John Kerry (news - web sites)'s war record. "The president said if the court action doesn't work, that he would be willing to pursue legislative action with Sen. McCain on that," Bush spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to New Mexico. McCain, R-Ariz., has called on Bush...

Why James Rassmann Is Honestly Mistaken About John Kerry Saving His Life by Grant K. Holcomb 24 August 2004 The Officers-in-Charge of Swift boats PCF-51, PCF-23, PCF-43, and PCF-3 state that they were not receiving enemy fire after the mine explosion. I do not doubt the sincerity of Mr. James A. Rassmann regarding his version of events on March 13, 1969. My own experience and review of such part of the record as is available convinces me that then First Lieutenant James A. Rassmann is right about then Lieutenant Junior Grade John F. Kerry helping him out of the water....

The sudden resignation of Bush's top lawyer doesn't end the extensive web of connections between George Bush and the group trying to smear John Kerry's military record," said Kerry-Edwards campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill. "In fact, it only confirms the extent of those connections." A senior House Democrat, Michigan Rep. John Dingell, sent a letter asking Attorney General John Ashcroft to investigate the possible "illegal coordination" between the two. The Bush campaign and the veterans group have denied any coordination.

Admitted War Criminal Cries Foul There are several methods of evaluating the claims of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, 254 of whom have signed a letter saying John Kerry is not fit to be commander in chief. There is the Bill O'Reilly method, which is to abandon independent thinking and simply come out in the middle, irrespective of where the two sides are. In response to Newt Gingrich's remark that the Swift Boat Veterans' independent ads were "the conservative movement's answer to Michael Moore," O'Reilly said, "I don't want either of them." In Nazi Germany, O'Reilly would have condemned...

Bob Beckel called John O'Neill a "liar" on Hannity & Colmes. I believe that a libel suit is in order.

Something struck me today that jolted my thinking on the whole Swift Boat Veterans issue. As I was reading the reports of John Kerry sending campaign staff to Crawford to ask President Bush to denounce (A G A I N ! ! !) the ads put out by 527 something just smacked me in the face. Over most of the campaign year John Kerry has not faced much adversity. From the media pre-ordaining him as "the" candidate earlier in the year, to his sudden and swift winning of the nomination, to his further coronation experience at his nominating convention -...

ARLINGTON, VA -- Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Manager Ken Mehlman issued the following statement: "Ben's resignation is an example of a decent public servant who understood the entrenched double standard in the media’s examination of the relationship between campaigns and outside interest groups, exemplified by their tolerance of blatant lies by two Kerry spokespeople regarding their campaign's relationship with Bob Bauer. The Kerry campaign’s hypocrisy today embodies the worst of American politics. Ben's Democratic counterparts and outside observers of campaign finance law have all made clear that there's no legal conflict in what Bauer, Joe Sandler and Ben Ginsberg do for...

It is a lying mariner, That leadeth the DNC. "By thy large head and Botoxed brow, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? "The election’s doors are opened wide, And I am going to vote; The people are met, the election is set: What more have you to note?." He holds him with his sweaty hand, "There was a fast boat," quoth he. "Hold off! unhand me, JFK!" Eftsoons his stand dropt he. He holds him with his beady eye - The voter stood sock still, And listens like a couch potato: The Mariner hath his will. The voter sat on a...

A photo appears on JohnKerry.com (and was reprinted in the Washington Post) that shows clear signs of having been clumsily doctored. Has this come up before? Most obviously, look under Kerry's armpits. Clear sky below, blue water above. A complete novice to Photoshop could've done a better job. There are other signs of doctoring, too. Why has nobody called Kerry on this?

Unfit For Command can't be stopped. The blazing new book by John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi has been making news and sitting atop both the Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists for a while now. Today, publisher Regnery (a Human Events sister company) announced that Unfit will sit at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list on September 5.

Ok here is the deal. We the ones who are politically acute can smell desperation when a candidate goes outside the norm. Kerry is that desperate person, he is desperate like a fox. Why am I saying this? Because Kerry made a desperate gamble about the SwiftVets, and for now it is definately working. We the proud members of the Republican Party are sometimes too trustworthy in our opponents abilities to crash and burn, and it was just this close for the Kerry Campaign to do just that. But out of 10 people I have talked to in the past...

"I was a POW of the Vietnamese in Hanoi in 1971, and am aware that the testimony of John Kerry, the actions of Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, and the radical left; all caused the Commies to conclude that if they hung on..they would win."... "His stories to the Senate committee were absolute lies..fabrications..perjury..fantasies, with NO substance. That dark shadow has defamed the entire Vietnam War veteran population, and gave "Aid and Comfort" to our enemies..the Vietnamese Communists." Dear Joe Scarborough: About John Kerry for President and the Swiftboat vets The major issue in the Swiftboat stories is, and always...

Fresh off after having to force his campaign to admit that his first purple heart wound was in fact self-inflicted, John Kerry continued his bizarre actions towards the President - when who he is really mad at is the Swift Boat Vets - who are not connected to the President. Kerry was forced to acknowledge as much in a phone call to one of the Swift Vets Sunday evening. Yesterday in New York - after speaking directly with a 527 group - Kerry again accused President Bush of "hiding behind 527 groups". Kerry did this despite President Bush's direct denouncement of...

MIDI - BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY Ketchup Boy....see him cry-i-i...see him cry Ketchup Boy...my oh my......SwiftVets made him cry Ketchup Boy...his campaign will die...watch it die Ketchup Boy...say bye bye...it just won't fly Ketchup Boy...called TaRAYza on his cell phone Please make them let me alone She gave him her reply...Now, now, don't cry Ketchup Boy....see him cry-i-i...see him cry Ketchup Boy...my oh my......SwiftVets made him cry ha ha ha ha ha ha....ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...ha ha ha ha Ketchup Boy....see him cry-i-i...see him cry Ketchup Boy...my oh my......SwiftVets made him cry Ketchup Boy...his campaign...

Daily Prayer Thread for "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" Current Press Releases Pray for Truth to be Victorious!

Finally figured it out Posted by McQ I've been bothered by a passage that was contained in a NYT article that all three of us had a go at this last Friday. You remember the one, it was the topic of the day. The NYT entitled it: "Friendly Fire: The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad". But in that article there was this paragraph: A damage report to Mr. Thurlow's boat shows that it received three bullet holes, suggesting enemy fire, and later intelligence reports indicate that one Vietcong was killed in action and five others wounded, reaffirming the presence of...

A group of Vietnam veterans bankrolled by George Bush supporters has rejected an appeal by the President and is vowing to continue a controversial series of TV ads criticising the Vietnam combat record of the Democratic challenger, John Kerry. Roy Hoffmann, a retired admiral and founder of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, said his organisation of more than 250 Vietnam veterans would continue to raise questions about Senator Kerry's combat service. The anti-Kerry veterans planned a second week-long wave of campaign ads beginning yesterday in the battleground states of Pennsylvania, New Mexico and Nevada. The ad, highlighting Senator Kerry's congressional...

***JOHN ONEILL TO DISCUSS KERRY CAMPAIGN ADMISSION - FIRST PURPLE HEART - SELF INFLICTED. ON AIR/2:30pmEST/Kevin McCullough Show - Listen Live***ONeill will also respond to Kerry's quiet attempt to contact Swift Boat Vets on Sunday as exposed by Drudge today...