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On October 14, 1979, John Kerry described a remarkable event from his days as a Swift boat officer for the Boston Herald: "I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absurdity of almost being killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon [sic] claimed there were no American troops was very real." -- President Nixon, of course, did not assume office until January of 1969. On March 27, 1986, during a speech opposing President Reagan's policy...

One never knows who is trolling FR for tidbits, sound bites and suggestions. Please use this thread to offer your own talking points and sound bites for the Swifties and media. PLEASE - Sincere, serious and well thought out sound bites/talking points only! Let's make this a neat, compact reference thread for the media and Swifties. If someone refuses to cooperate, please self moderate (abuse button)!

In 1996, I took the ride of my life, but I have no regrets about exposing Bill Clinton for the louse that he is. Blowing the whistle on a powerful politician was different from any activity I had ever undertaken, and I arrested people and dodged bullets for a living! I thought I had seen it all, but I was wrong. When I began my quest to surface the truth, I was an honest, independent, a-political FBI agent. But, when the establishment was finished with me, I was “aligned with the Dole campaign, Big Tobacco, shadowy right-wing financiers of various...

This American Hero is doing a great job! Go Swift Boat Veterans for Truth!

Interview from 8-10-4 edition of the Hugh Hewitt Radio program. I interviewed Steve Gardner today. He served two tours in Vietnam, including two months and two weeks of John Kerry's swift boat service--on John Kerry's swift boat-- from November 1968 through January 1969:HH: Mr. Gardner, welcome to the Hugh Hewittt Show, it is an honor to talk to you.SG: I am glad to be here Hugh.HH: Thanks for your service.SG: Thank you again, I really appreciate you're allowing me to come aboard.HH: Now let me start with some basics. I said you served two tours in Vietnam. Can you tell...

The Aug. 12 editorial did not mention one charge that gives credence to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth: that Sen. John F. Kerry lied when he repeatedly stated that he was on a mission in Cambodia on Christmas Day, 1968. In a floor speech in the Senate on March 17, 1986, Mr. Kerry said the memory of being in Cambodia that day was "seared" in him. Now that he has been challenged on that by his fellow officers, Mr. Kerry, through a spokesman, says his seared memory is now a "mistaken recollection" and he's not sure where he was...

Wednesday, August 11, 2004 Kerry's SWIFT meltdown Posted: August 11, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Hugh Hewitt © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com At this writing, the Kerry campaign has not yet responded to the media meltdown that is occurring around John Kerry's four decades of stories built on his secret, illegal missions into Cambodia during the four months he skippered a SWIFT boat. It is impossible to stonewall a story that broke out of the blogosphere and into the major media on Monday night and Tuesday morning, so eventually John Kerry is going to have to stand by his wildly implausible tales of cross-border...

Matt, The claims that the Kerry campaign and liberal media have been making concerning that the Swift Boat Vets did not serve on his boat and were not close enough to it to know what was going on can be refuted with two pieces of information provided by John Kerry himself! Item 1: Kerry's own film that has run all over the place shows these boats close together. Because he knew the best way to show what was going on on his boat was from one of the other boats in the patrol, he had the films taken from another...

.A Glimpse of What Life Might be Like Under a John Kerry Regime August 14, 2004 by Ray Blumhorst What would life be like under a John Kerry regime?  Some aspects of policies under a Kerry  administration appeared to be in clear display earlier this week in the behavior and words of his supporters on the streets of a little town in California called Santa Monica.  Santa Monica is well known for its liberal politics and the predominately liberal lifestyles of its inhabitants.  Thursday, August 12, 2004 President George W. Bush came to Santa Monica airport for a political fund...

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OK. I give up. Michael Moore, the rontund left-wing court jester, now adopted by the DNC, makes a claim the President Bush was AWOL while serving in the National Guard. Within days Big News is re-investigating charges from 2000. Now we find, through Senate floor records and Lexis Nexus that John Kerry claims to have been in Cambodia, on orders from a president yet to take office, and fighting a force that was two years away from forming, and you have the makings of a Clintonian lie and cover up. But try this: Not only is it an obvious lie,...

August 15, 2004 The Alston Timeline Several of you have written to ask that the Alston/Kerry issue be put into some sort of timeline, and I think one would be helpful. Below is the timeline I can re-create using the information and links supplied to me by Tom "River Rat" Mortensen, The Bandit, Lori, and several others. I'll update this timeline as more information becomes available.22 January 1969John Kerry and all other Swiftboat officers go to Saigon to meet with Admiral Zumwalt, leaving his command of PCF-44. Kerry and other Swift boat commanders travel to Saigon for meeting with Adm....

For those of you who have not been fully following the Swift Vet's story, one of Kerry's traveling entourage (David Alston) claimed he was under Kerry's command on a PBF and found Kerry to be a great leader. He even gave a speech to that effect at the Democratic National Convention, where he said the following: I know him from a small boat in Vietnam, where we fought and bled together, serving our country. There were six of us aboard PCF-94, a 50-foot, twin-engine craft known as a "Swift Boat." We all came from different walks of life, but all...

(CNSNews.com) - Newly released FBI files reveal that presumed Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry attended a second meeting with North Vietnamese communists in Paris in the early 1970s. Kerry has previously admitted to meeting only once with the North Vietnamese delegations in 1970.According to the FBI files, Kerry met with representatives from the North Vietnamese government in Paris in 1971 in an effort to secure the release of captured American prisoners of war. Kerry has previously acknowledged meeting "both delegations" of Vietnamese communists in Paris in 1970, but has said nothing of the 1971 meeting. Researcher and author Jerry Corsi,...

The biographer of John Kerry, the Democratic presidential candidate, said yesterday there was no basis for one of the senator's favourite Vietnam War anecdotes - that he spent Christmas 1968 in Cambodia, a neutral nation which US leaders vowed was off limits for American forces. "On Christmas Eve he was near Cambodia; he was around 50 miles from the Cambodian border. There's no indictment of Kerry to be made, but he was mistaken about Christmas in Cambodia," said Douglas Brinkley, who has unique access to the candidate's wartime journals. But Mr Brinkley rejected accusations that the senator had never been...

**Exclusive** TOUR OF DUTY author and John Kerry historian Doug Brinkley is rushing a piece for the NEW YORKER: to set-the-record-straight on Kerry's Christmas in Cambodia tale, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Kerry has turned to author Brinkley for a "modification" after it was exposed that Kerry was not in Cambodia during Christmas of 1968, as he once claimed from the Senate floor. The Brinkley piece for the NEW YORKER will now say that Kerry was not in Cambodia during Christmas, but rather in January, publishing sources tell DRUDGE. MORE Since the early 1970s, Kerry has spoken and written of...

You say you've been following the presidential campaign and are very interested in the candidates' positions on Iraq. Okay, then, answer me this: Which of the following statements did John Kerry make about bringing American troops home if he's elected? A) He sees a big withdrawal in his first term. B) He sees a big withdrawal in his first year. C) He sees a big withdrawal in his first six months. D) All of the above. The answer is D - and now you know the problem in trying to figure out where the Democrat stands. Kerry made all those...

WASHINGTON, August 12, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Catholics for Kerry 04 website has been blasted by the Catholic League for referring to President George W. Bush as the Antichrist. Under the heading “President Bush?”, the website says “Antichrist?” and links to comments by Wayne Madsden, who says, ”George W. Bush’s blood lust, his repeated commitment to Christian beliefs and his constant references to ‘evil doers,’ in the eyes of many devout Catholic leaders, bear all the hallmarks of the one warned about in the Book of Revelations—the anti-Christ.” Catholic League president William Donohue blasted the website saying, “This is the...

...at the Gen. MacArthur Memorial VFW Post 392...SNIP...if the Massachusetts Democrat is hoping that his military kinship with the post's 1,549 veterans will earn their votes, the men sitting around the bar one night last week said, he is the one in for a surprise."He wants to cash in and play on his credentials as a war hero," said David Howard, 53, who spent four years in Vietnam with the Army. "But when he came back, the very first thing he did was he co-founded the [Vietnam] Veterans Against the War. If you went and served and then you came...

Missing from the Democrat National Convention was the big political scandal of 2004: Former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, who was caught red-handed in a serious national security crime. Kerry, Clinton and Berger all lack one thing: Character. They can’t be trusted with America’s national security. Before Berger got caught, he was Kerry’s chief national security adviser. The moment Berger was found stealing classified documents down his pants and his socks to sneak them out of the National Archives, Kerry dumped him. (Kerry has yet to distance himself from the pathological liar Michael Moore, the filmmaker who wants the...