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The campaign trail leads to hilarity in this music video featuring the music styling of candidate John Kerry. Watch him rock on about beating Bush, the Mekong and his good hair. And no campaign stop is complete without a bevy of bikini-clad babes (complete with a Janet-inspired reveal. Click HERE and click "Watch Film".

Do you have any pets that have made an impact on you personally? Kerry: I have always had pets in my life and there are a few that I remember very fondly. When I was serving on a swiftboat in Vietnam, my crewmates and I had a dog we called VC. We all took care of him, and he stayed with us and loved riding on the swiftboat deck. I think he provided all of us with a link to home and a few moments of peace and tranquility during a dangerous time. One day as our swiftboat was heading...

When presidential candidate John Kerry virtually ignores 20 years in the U.S. Senate to make four months in Vietnam the centerpiece of his campaign, the men who served with him have a right to a fair hearing. The Kerry campaign and much of the mainstream media have been dismissive of the swift-boat veterans who oppose his candidacy. Even before exploring the substance of their charges, the group is dismissed as right-wing financed Bush puppets. The truth is, however, that while swift-boat veterans opposing Kerry undoubtedly have a political agenda -- they think him "Unfit for Command" of the armed forces,...

To the editor: Benedict Arnold of Connecticut was an American patriot and a hero at Saratoga early in the American Revolution. However, this fact was cancelled when he became a traitor later in the war. I served three tours in Vietnam and commanded a recon platoon and three infantry rifle companies. In 1971, I was wounded for a seventh time. In 1971, John Kerry was working with Jane Fonda aiding the enemy that we were fighting. They were burning American flags and carrying pictures of Ho Chi Minh and communist flags. The next year, propaganda posters could be found all...

John Kerry continues to play damage control on his decades-long contention he was on a secret mission in Cambodia on Christmas Eve 1968, as word comes the author of a positive account of his Vietnam duty is preparing a column to explain the candidate's suspect story. According to the Drudge Report, historian Doug Brinkley, author of "Tour of Duty," is writing a piece for the New Yorker saying it was actually January 1969 when Kerry was sent into Cambodia, not December 1968. Kerry spent four months in Vietnam as skipper of a SWIFT Boat before returning to the U.S. and...

Anti-Kerry group sees rise in donations after airing ads BY TOM INFIELD Knight Ridder Newspapers PHILADELPHIA - (KRT) - A group of Vietnam veterans that is challenging Sen. John Kerry's claims of heroic war service says it received a flood of donations in recent days after advertising its contentions on television in three states. The group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, said it hoped to use the money to monitor Kerry's campaign travels and run ads in cities where he appears. "That's our goal," said John E. O'Neill, a Houston attorney who's one of the group's leaders and co-author of...

When presidential candidate John Kerry virtually ignores 20 years in the U.S. Senate to make four months in Vietnam the centerpiece of his campaign, the men who served with him have a right to a fair hearing. The Kerry campaign and much of the mainstream media have been dismissive of the swift-boat veterans who oppose his candidacy. Even before exploring the substance of their charges, the group is dismissed as right-wing financed Bush puppets. The truth is, however, that while swift-boat veterans opposing Kerry undoubtedly have a political agenda -- they think him "Unfit for Command" of the armed forces,...

Saturday, August 14, 2004 Vets' evidence against Kerry ironclad Posted: August 14, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Henry Lamb © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com John McCain dishonored himself when he appeared with John Kerry to denounce the statements of the Vietnam veterans who say John Kerry is unfit to be commander in chief. McCain obviously spoke before he knew the facts. The Kerry campaign and much of the media went ballistic when a television ad featuring several veterans who oppose Kerry's candidacy was aired by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The Kerry campaign immediately launched a campaign to get TV stations to bar the ad,...

.....Repya, a veteran of both the Vietnam and Gulf wars, launched the Minnesota Veterans for Bush effort at a State Capitol campus news conference Friday morning. "We are firing a shot over the bow of the SS Kerry and telling him Minnesota is Bush country," said Repya, a leader of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Minnesota. Scott O'Grady, who became a celebrity in 1995 after his F-16 fighter jet was shot down over Bosnia, criticized Kerry's anti-war activities and Senate votes on military matters, going so far as to accuse Kerry of "treason" for meeting with representatives of North Vietnam when...

Former Air Force pilot Scott O'Grady, a high-profile volunteer in President George W. Bush's campaign, accused Sen. John Kerry on Friday of committing "treason" in opposing the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and early '70s. Speaking at a St. Paul news conference to announce a pro-Bush veterans group in Minnesota, O'Grady criticized Kerry for meeting with a Viet Cong emissary in Paris in the waning days of the Vietnam War and testifying before Congress about atrocities committed by U.S. troops. A leader of a pro-Kerry veterans group denounced O'Grady's accusation and said it was outside the bounds of proper...

FLEMINGTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2004--A video released last week by the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth (www.swiftvets.com), an organization aiming to refute John Kerry's Vietnam war record, has drawn the attention and skepticism of independent voters. As reported on the website ReadMyLipz.com, the Swift Boat video, featuring outspoken Vietnam veterans claiming that Kerry has been untruthful about his Vietnam service, was successful in drawing the attention of non-affiliated voters. In fact, 6 out of 10 independents who viewed the video reacted with suspicion and skepticism. During an on-line poll of more than 1,200 pre-selected nation-wide voters - Republicans, Democrats and...

A few months ago on TV, Senator John Kerry, you angrily asked a detractor “Are you questioning my patriotism?” He responded that he was not, but I sure am. Rather than deciding which power tie you should wear each day, I feel you should be in an orange jumpsuit in a federal penitentiary for treason. You betrayed all my fellow Vietnam veterans, our POW’s, our loyal Montagnard allies (at the cost of many of their lives), and you betrayed me. Your entire political career was launched when you spoke before Congress in 1971, using eloquent testimony written by Bobby Kennedy’s...

Thank you, John Kerry, for helping make us Vietnam veterans war heroes now, but you also were the primary reason that the American public grabbed sturdy unbending brooms of judgment and swept us into the closet of silence and shame for so many years. Now, with your latest unreported insanity, you are getting ready for our society to grab those same stiff brooms and sweep our brave, noble young men and women fighting against the War on Terror in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, into that cold, dark cell of heartbreak and betrayal, like we Vietnam veterans had to endure in...

6:00 PM Tuesday, August 17, 2004 Aquaturf Club, Mulberry Street, Plantsville, CT Vietnam Vets for the Truth, LLC (VVT) is hosting a fundraising dinner at the Aquaturf Club in Plantsville, Connecticut, on August 17th. Proceeds from the dinner will benefit VVT's "Kerry Lied... While Good Men Died" rally - an event being held on September 12th in Washington D.C. VVT represents the majority of Vietnam veterans who stand in opposition to John Kerrys bid for the White House and who deem him unfit to be Americas Commander-in-Chief. Earlier in the year, the group broke the Saigon Museum Photo story that...

The genie is out of the bottle. The best efforts of the mainstream media to blockade the story of Kerry’s lies about Cambodia, and the charges by the vast majority of men who served with him in the Swift Boat operations, have failed. Glenn Reynolds  prints a telling letter from a reader who requests anonymity. Read the entire entry, but here are the key sentences: ...last night I was talking to a friend who is a hardcore liberal Democrat and is, in fact, a first cousin of a very well-known Democratic Senator. He was very upset about the Kerry-Swift Vet-Cambodia controversy....

John Kerry was in Cambodia on Christmas. I was looking over that famous picture of him and his "buddies" in Viet Nam. You know the one where they look discusted to be in the same boat as him and all have their backs turned to him. Well I was looking at the original one to see if it was a fake in Adobe Photoshop, suddenly with a few dabs here and there it turned out that it was taken in Cambodia! Can you believe it? I sure couldn't. Here is what I found, Simply Amazing! Who knew? John Kerry that...

Kerry received three purple hearts and therefore, upon his request, was allowed to leave the combat area of Vietnam. I understand that the Navy's policy of letting those leave the combat area after getting three purple hearts was rarely used. Does anyone in this vast knowledge of military history and facts know how many others (besides Kerry): 1. Left the combat zone after receiving three purple hearts? 2. Got three purple hearts in the Navy during Vietnam? I think this could be a most excellent point of discussion...

Scott O'Grady, the Air Force pilot who captured headlines in 1995 when he survived being shot down over Bosnia, on Friday said Sen. John Kerry committed "treason" during the Vietnam War.

The former Navy personnel who are attempting to discredit Sen. John Kerry's record of service in Vietnam are doing so to argue that he is unqualified to be commander in chief. Most appear to be angry with him on account of his opposition to the Vietnam War, not his service in it. They have done a better job of damaging the reputation of the U.S. Navy than they have of damaging John Kerry.Moreover, they ignore what I consider to be the most important qualities any commander in chief must possess. If elected in November, John Kerry will make an exceptionally...