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"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." --Samuel Johnson Whoever could have imagined that four months spent as officer-in-charge of a Navy Swift boat in Vietnam would figure so largely, 36 years later, in Sen. John F. Kerry's campaign for president of the United States? The Lord does indeed move in mysterious ways. Kerry chose to make his Vietnam service, for which he was awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts, an issue in the campaign. On the night he accepted the Democratic Party's nomination at its convention in Boston, he welcomed to the podium...

John Kerry abandoned our husbands, sons, fathers, and brothers in favor of trade and normalization of relations with Vietnam. His actions paved the way for the further abandonment of POWs and MIAs from World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War. John Kerry, as chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, ordered the destruction of committee documents, blocked avenues of investigation, and misrepresented progress on the POW/MIA issue to justify lifting of the trade embargo against Vietnam.

This is my first post, so bear with me.....long time reader. I just tried to access the Swift Vets site and it appears to be hacked.

I am going to post this here because I need as many eyes to see this as possible in hopes someone will know where I can find the following PDF that was removed from Kerry's web site after only two weeks. I am crossing my fingers someone may have downloaded the following file and kept a local copy of it: Spot Reports for January, 1969 (pdf: 2.4MB)Filename should be: SpotReports_January1969.pdfOh please, someone tell me they have it!

Last Thursday, The Drudge Report touted an exclusive report that John Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley was rushing to publish in The New Yorker a corrected version of Kerry's seared memory of being in Cambodia on Christmas Day, 1968.However, The New Yorker's press release issued today for their next issue, dated August 23, 2004, contains no mention at all of the piece by Brinkley.Hmmm....still in rewrite, perhaps?

Last week John Kerry recanted the detailed and emotional story of his Christmas Eve, 1968 illegal mission into Cambodia that he has been telling for 30 years, most notably in a movie review of Apocalpse Now that he wrote for the Boston Herald on October 14, 1979, in a statement on the floor of the Senate on March 27,1986, and in an AP story from 1992. Faced with mounting evidence that this brazen fabrication was crumbling, Kerry spokesmen acknowledged that Kerry wasn't in Cambodia on Christmas Eve, 1968, but hung tough on Kerry's having been across the border on several...

Remember when Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, just got released and republicans come out of the woodwork to refute claims made in the movie. The first attack the liberals would use was "HOW CAN YOU ATTACK THIS MOVIE! YOU HAVENT EVEN SEEN IT! HOW CAN YOU JUDGE A MOVIE THAT YOU HAVENT SEEN!" Now a new book has been released by John E. O'Neill that is VERY critical of the way John F. Kerry conducted himself in Vietnam, and the same people that were defending Fahrenheit 911 saying you cant attack it unless you see it first are attacking this book...

LOS ANGELES, CA (PRWEB) June 10, 2004 -- Paperless Archives (www.paperlessarchives.com) has announced the publishing of 20,000 pages of FBI Files related to Senator John Kerry. These FBI files include coverage of John Kerry's activity as a leader of the anti-Vietnam War group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War. These FBI files have been the subject of great discussion and news coverage recently, yet few have actually ever seen a single page of the documents. Paperless Archives (www.paperlessarchives.com) has now made it possible for everyone to obtain and review copies of these files. Most of this material was originally released in...

airing now c-Span

Talking about Kerry and the Swift Boat Vetrans on the National Syndicated Show "Beyond the Beltway now!

Editorial Second Thoughts 8-11-04 I'll say this about Sen. John F. Kerry. He told the truth about his war crimes to Tim Russert during an April 18, 1971, appearance on Meet The Press. Kerry said, "there are all kinds of atrocities and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free-fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50-caliber machine guns which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people....

John Fraud Kerry has been on the stump saying that he would leave NO American behind if he were elected. Well, the question needs to be this WHY are 9 people actually supporting Kerry's Vietnam lies? NOT, why are 60 people questioning him! Especially Jim Rassman! Jim Rassman was thrown off Kerrys boat after boat #3 was hit by a mine and kerry hit the gas! then Kerry fled the scene for 5 minutes, leaving Jim Rassman behind! then he came back to pluck him out of the water. If i was Rassman I would of kicked Kerrys ass! Kerry...

Kerry 'invented Christmas in Cambodia claim' By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 12/08/2004) For the first time, Sen John Kerry, the Democratic presidential challenger, has been left floundering by allegations that he invented a key episode of his decorated wartime service in Vietnam - a central plank of his election platform. Mr Kerry has fought off charges for several years that he did not deserve all the medals he won in Vietnam, which included a Bronze Star and Silver Star for gallantry, and three Purple Hearts for combat wounds. John Kerry: Vietnam record central to his election bid Crewmates from...

Let's say John Kerry's military records disprove everything the Swift boat vets are charging. Let's say you're John Kerry, and you KNOW your records prove you are telling the truth. Why won't you just release them and make this go away? For the sake of this one thread, let's pretend that Kerry's records would completely exhonerate him. Why wouldn't he release them?

As more instances of Sen. John Kerry telling a story about his spending Christmas 1968 in Cambodia come to light, his campaign has yet to address the charge of fellow veterans that the presidential candidate's account is a lie. As of press time, neither WorldNetDaily nor Fox News Channel has received a response to the charges from Kerry's staff, despite repeated requests. As WorldNetDaily reported, the authors of the best-selling book "Unfit for Command," which refutes many of Kerry's war stories, claim that despite the senator's 1986 speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate mentioning spending Christmas Eve in...

The real focus of this election is quite simple. It is the candidacy of a Left-Wing extremist – John Kerry. What was the reason that the Democrats did not get a convention bounce? The Old Media would like you to believe that it is because of a “polarized” electorate. The real reason is John Kerry! The uproar created by the Vietnam Swift Boat Vets is just a small part of the story. These Veterans who have served honorably have every right to express their story. I commend them for it. But, although it raises questions about Kerry’s character and sheds...

MIDI - YELLOW RIVER Kerry's serving in Vietnam...U.S. pilots had been dropping bombs He took the time to write home to mom...Mekong River Christmas eve in Cambodia...he learned that's no Utopia Bullets flew in the whole area...Mekong River Mekong River, Mekong River...he went somewhere he shouldn't be Mekong River, Mekong River...he says that "Nixon ordered me" We're hearing comrades say that to command he is unfit Every one of those guys knows Kerry's full of it...on the Mekong River He got off to a healthy start...he faked his way to a Purple Heart And his report was a great...

Democrats haven't been this upset about an American engaging in free speech since Juanita Broaddrick opened her yap. Two hundred fifty-four Swift Boat Veterans have signed a letter saying John Kerry is not fit to be commander in chief, a point developed in some detail in the blockbuster new book by John O'Neill, aptly titled "Unfit for Command." At the 2003 reunion of Swift Boat Veterans, about 300 men showed up: 85 percent of them think Kerry is unfit to be president. (On the bright side, Kerry was voted, in absentia, "Most Likely to Run for President on His Phony...

America is, in some ways, a very great and good nation.  Good people, good land, good opportunities.  It’s not a perfect place, but this is Earth not Heaven, so the best we can do is to strive for a more perfect union.  In many ways we get there, at least in comparison with other nations.      However, there are some things that boggle the mind.  Presidential elections are one of them.     And we’re coming up on another one in less than three months.  Oh, it’ll seem far longer than that, I assure you.  Claims, counter-claims, lies, damned lies, statistics, slander,...

Please take the time to read this guy's findings. Thank God for the internet. Kerry will have to answer to some of this before this campaign is over.