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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...

WOODS HOLE - A massive great white shark trapped for days in a saltwater pond near Woods Hole had not found its way out by yesterday afternoon, a day after marine biologists tried unsuccessfully to herd it toward open water. Anxious to guard the 14-foot, 1,700-pound female shark from gawkers and trophy fishermen, state officials on Thursday enacted an emergency regulation that forbids the attempted taking of a great white shark in Massachusetts waters. State environmental police have also been patrolling the Elizabeth Islands day and night to ward off sightseers attracted to the spectacular scene near Naushon Island, which...

Swift boat veteran suspended 9/24/2004, 5:23 p.m. PT The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Clackamas County prosecutor has been suspended for two weeks without pay because he used office equipment to prepare his affidavit as one of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, District Attorney John Foote said Friday. Alfred French, a senior deputy district attorney, used the computer in his office to receive and print a draft of the affidavit on July 21. On the same day, he asked a legal secretary in the office to notarize the document, Foote said in a statement. The Swift Boat...

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John O'Neill appears on Hardball with Chris Matthews

On tonight's Factor show, you, Billy O'Reilly referred to the Swiftvets, in your usual condescending tone, as "those Swiftboat people". I know it's hard to conceal your disdain for these distinguished Veterans. However, for the record Bill, the following terms are acceptable: Swiftvets, Swiftboat Veterans, Swiftboat Veterans For Truth. Try to work the word "Veteran" in there. They earned it, despite what you may think. If you cannot bring yourself to call these noble men Veterans, I think calling them Swifties is acceptable as John O'Neill uses that term.Show some respect for the men who fought to make this a...

Time to ask forgiveness for having slandered US vets It is becoming increasingly clear that John Kerry will lose this presidential election, principally because he violated one of the most important religious laws, inculcated within nearly every Jewish child from the youngest age, namely, the commandment not to slander innocent parties and not to engage in malicious gossip. What led to Kerry's drop in the polls starting in August was the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth pummeling Kerry with negative advertisements on three issues: his wartime record in Vietnam, his indictment of US troops as war criminals upon his return,...

I think that many people who have seen the sixth ad being put out by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth will agree with me when say that the ad, entitled "Friends" had the potential to do as much damage to the Kerry campaign as the entire Rathergate/Danron fiasco. Don't believe me? Watch the ad yourself. And, in case you can't see it, here's a transcript. The beauty of this ad is that it is simple, verifiably true, and utterly devastating. We know that John Kerry met with the Vietnamese Communists because he admitted it to us. We know that,...

In the latest ad by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, Sen. John Kerry is linked to "Hanoi" Jane Fonda as a man America cannot trust because he betrayed his country by consorting with Vietnamese communists. Jerome Corsi, co-author of the 527 group's best-selling book, "Unfit for Command," has charged Kerry's 1970 meeting with North Vietnamese communists violated U.S. law. Corsi, who has studied the anti-war movement since the 1970s, notes U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953 prohibits a U.S. citizen from going abroad to negotiate with a foreign power. ... in 1971, Kerry called a press conference in Washington and urged...

The veterans organization that sparked controversy last month when it questioned John F. Kerry's military service in Vietnam plans to launch a new commercial today that equates Kerry with Vietnam War protester Jane Fonda and accuses the Democratic presidential nominee of secretly meeting with "enemy leaders" during the conflict. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth said it will spend $1.3 million to air its advertisement in five battleground states and on national cable television networks over the next week. The ad, titled "Friends," makes no assertion of any direct link between Kerry and Fonda, but it suggests that their contacts...

Gonna be a hot time in the old town tomorrow. Checkout the new "Friends" ad: http://www.swiftvets.com/ Kerry: "Met secretly with enemy during war" "Accused troops of war crimes on daily basis" "Eventually Jane Fonda apologized, John Kerry hasn't" "At a time of war can America trust a man who betrayed his country?"

In the new Swiftvet ad, those Americas who were still unaware have learned that John Kerry illegally went to Paris to negotiate with the enemy. Whether it was genuine can be debated, but even Jane Fonda apologized. Kerry never has. He was offered a chance by the Swiftvets, but he refused. Good men died because he lied. HANOI JANE FONDA APOLOGIZES "I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of things that I said or did,"...

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!]

Up till now, the Swift Vets have made relatively small ad purchases multiplied many times over by earned media. That's about to change. I'm hearing that starting mid-week, the Swifties will make their biggest ad buy yet (maybe twice as large as any previous). And if you look at the trend of the ads they've put out so far, it's only getting worse for John Kerry. Word is, they're in the studios right now cutting a spot that looks at Kerry's exploits in Paris when he met with the North Vietnamese (read: THE ENEMY) while he was still a naval...

Up till now, the Swift Vets have made relatively small ad purchases multiplied many times over by earned media. That's about to change. I'm hearing that starting mid-week, the Swifties will make their biggest ad buy yet (maybe twice as large as any previous). And if you look at the trend of the ads they've put out so far, it's only getting worse for John Kerry. Word is, they're in the studios right now cutting a spot that looks at Kerry's exploits in Paris when he met with the North Vietnamese (read: THE ENEMY) while he was still a naval...

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Borders Union Employees Brag About Hiding ‘Unfit for Command’ September 16, 2004 – The Borders bookstore employees union (Note From Webmaster: Here is a copy of google cache displaying this page as it seems to have been taken offline .) online forum is an amazing look into the minds of booksellers. One section of the forum is specifically devoted to a discussion of how Borders employees deliberately hide copies of Unfit for Command or accidentally damage the books so they must be returned. One poster noted: “We’re ‘finding’ that most of the few copies we’re getting are damaged and need...

very few years since the early 1990s, Bub Morgan has met up with Navy pals from his time in Vietnam. But at a 2003 reunion in Norfolk, Va., Morgan was surprised and unhappy to spy a vet he hadn't seen in years. "When John Kerry arrived I said to my friend, 'What is he doing here?'" said Morgan, a Wilmot resident and former officer in charge of a Navy Swift boat. Morgan's disdain for the Massachusetts senator stemmed from Kerry's assertion in the early 1970s that Americans had committed atrocities in Vietnam. Earlier this year, with Kerry running for president,...

September 16, 2004 – The Borders bookstore employees union (Note From Webmaster: Here is a copy of google cache displaying this page as it seems to have been taken offline.) online forum is an amazing look into the minds of booksellers. One section of the forum is specifically devoted to a discussion of how Borders employees deliberately hide copies of Unfit for Command or accidentally damage the books so they must be returned. One poster noted: “We’re ‘finding’ that most of the few copies we’re getting are damaged and need to be sent back, so sad. Too bad Bushies! Regnery...

Claim: This is simply a he-said, she-said story, with Kerry on one side and other observers on the other. Fact: Many of the inconsistencies between accounts come from John Kerry himself. He has now given three conflicting accounts involving the Bay Hap River incident of March 13, 1969, when a mine exploded under one of five swift boats patrolling the river. It was this incident in which Kerry was awarded a Bronze Star and his third Purple Heart. § In eulogizing a crewmate (recorded in the Congressional Record), Kerry reported that it was his boat that struck an underwater mine...