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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The last time the Vietnam War loomed so large in a presidential election, it was 1972 and U.S. soldiers were still fighting in Southeast Asia. But the war has taken center stage again as both parties seek the support of Vietnam veterans - turning to them as the emerging elder statesmen among U.S. war veterans. At a conference this past week, on the 40th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the Vietnam Veterans of America urged its members to make their voices heard. "This election is probably more important than any election for president since...

Former Iraq war commander Gen. Tommy Franks said Sunday that Sen. John Kerry is qualified to be commander-in-chief, rejecting criticism from more than 200 Vietnam veterans who served with Kerry and say he's unfit for command. "I'm not a fan of hyperbole whether it is for or against Sen. Kerry," Gen. Franks told ABC's "This Week." Asked specifically about allegations that Kerry fabricated some of his combat record, Franks said, "Yeah, I think it is hyperbole." "For some reason we've fallen pray to a notion that says there has to be vitriol on order to simply say, I support Sen....

Product Details Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.; (August 15, 2004) ISBN: 0895260174 Amazon.com Sales Rank: 2 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1186124/posts?page=78#78Kerry was asked to leave VietnamBy Kevin McCullough© 2004 WorldNetDaily.comThe image Americans were asked to believe, at the Democratic National Convention, of a John Kerry who "defended this nation" as a soldier in Vietnam and "will defend this nation" as its commander in chief has hit a snag.The soldiers he served alongside of don't really believe that he did defend his country very well. And as one of his former commanding officers told my radio show on Wednesday, Kerry's chain of command was...

-- To preempt the release of a new book questioning John Forbes Kerry's account of his service in Vietnam, the Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign announced it had received the endorsement of yet another military veterans group. Viet Cong Veterans for Kerry (VCVFK), an ad hoc group of North Vietnamese soldiers who served in the early 1970s, said their support is "payback for all Mr. Kerry did for us in his 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He almost single-handedly put an end to U.S. atrocities against innocent Viet Cong soldiers and their families." The Viet Cong veterans' support comes...

Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry and wife Teresa Heinz Kerry are not quite on the same script when it comes to whether President Bush responded appropriately in the stunned first moments when he learned on Sept. 11, 2001, that a plane had struck the World Trade Center. On Thursday, Kerry told a convention of minority journalists that he would have reacted more decisively to the news than Bush, who continued reading with a group of Florida schoolchildren for seven minutes after an aide whispered the news into his ear. It's a scene that filmmaker Michael Moore uses to skewer...

Kerry defends his '70s anti-war activities KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Sen. John F. Kerry [related, bio] expressed pride in his 1970s antiwar activism yesterday as controversy continued to swirl over a TV ad accusing him of betraying his fellow veterans when he protested the Vietnam war. ``I stood up against the war in the 1970s,'' Kerry said. ``Some people still don't like that, and they're still trying to fight that. That's 35 years old. But I'm proud of what I did to stand up. And I learned a lot.'' A group calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth launched...

There’s dissention in the ranks and the smell of mutiny on deck as a parade of Vietnam veterans who served with and/or knew John Kerry in Vietnam come forward to denounce him as a leader, officer and veteran. This situation has helped becalm Kerry’s already some say foundering campaign warship, which got little if any boost from the Democratic National Convention and which also got about the same result from Kerry’s selection of John Edwards as his vice-presidential running mate. Kerry’s latest headache is followed by frustrating events like Shove-It-Gate, Sandy Berger’s light-fingers episode in the National Archives, and Kerry’s...

I have been puzzled about the lack of conversation about the appearance of such opposing views between sKerry's crewmen, and the Swiftvets. It just stands to reason that one of the groups is just flat wrong (I didn't say lied). It intrigued me that so many, who are against sKerry, could be ofset by so few that support him. It is almost as if the media thinks that the public would buy off on a conspiracy of such a grand scale.I got curious about the motivation of the supporters. While many have postulated about $$$ or some plum position in...

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My friend Counterpunch created a thread a couple days ago. He made some Anti-Kerry signs. Said he was working on making them bigger. Well...Here is that thread. Anyways. I made them bigger for everyone to enjoy! Feel free to use these on your Web site Counterpunch! Take these to rallies! Copy these, and paste them into Microsoft paint. Then print em out! They don't look bigger when you click on them...but trust me...once you've pasted them into paint they fill up a piece of paper perfectly!!!! Click on this link for a HUGE SIGN! Click on this link for a...

STRATHAM, N.H. - President Bush (news - web sites) challenged Democratic rival John Kerry (news - web sites) on Friday to give a yes-or-no answer about whether he would have supported the invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) "knowing what we know now" about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction. "I have given my answer," Bush told a cheering crowd. "We did the right thing and the world is better off for it." Kerry voted to give Bush the authority to send troops to Iraq and has said repeatedly that ousting Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)...

THE REUTERS DIARY FOR JOHN KERRY AND JOHN EDWARDS Thursday, August 5, 2004 I. Schedule for John Kerry All times Eastern JOHN KERRYS UPCOMING SCHEDULE Thursday, August 5 In Washington, Missouri 9 a.m.: Delivers remarks at the UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc., 2004 Convention. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, Washington, D.C., NW. Open press. 1:30 p.m.: With Edwards, attends "Believe in America." Union Station, 450 Union Station, St. Louis, Mo. Open press. 6:30 p.m.: With Edwards, attends a "Believe in America" rally. Missouri State Capitol, Jefferson City, Mo. Open press. Note: The candidate overnights in Kansas City, Mo....

I recieved this in an e-mail and I apologize if it's been posted before. Can this possibly spread enough around America, to make a difference in the coming election... We should all hope so!    about John   "During the Vietnam War I was Task Force Commander at An Thoi, and my tour of duty was 13 months, from the end of Tet to the beginning of the Vietnamization of the Navy units. Now when I went there right after Tet, I was restricted in my movements. I couldn't go much of anyplace because the Vietcong controlled most of the...

Sen. John Kerry's bid to become commander in chief of wartime America has opened old wounds among some former Vietnam-era prisoners of war who bristle over the Massachusetts Democrat's anti-war activism. His activities and statements, pushed out of sight by a campaign that spotlights Mr. Kerry's service in Vietnam, were used by the POWs' North Vietnamese captors to sap the morale of prisoners and U.S. troops still in the field in South Vietnam, say former POWs. "They were always talking about [anti-war demonstrations], and they picked right up on Kerry's throwaway line, 'Don't be the last man to die in...

The RNC has a new website for the documentary of Kerry's flip-flops on the Iraq war, www.kerryoniraq.com. The documentary has been updated to include footage of Kerry's nomination acceptance speech. At the site, you can request a copy of the documentary to show to friends and neighbors, report on screenings of the documentary, get a transcript of the film, and submit a review The site already has some killer reviews from the debut last week: Rudy Giuliani, Former Mayor Of New York City: "Every American Should See This." "The tape that I saw before, which I urge Ed to show...

John Kerry's "band of brothers" hasn't had much to say about his 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee where he claimed GIs in Vietnam routinely committed atrocities. Now former CNN executive Ted Kavanau says it's high time for somebody to ask them to verify Kerry's under-oath account. The would-be commander in chief claimed that American soldiers, "personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, [blew] up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle...

Earlier this afternoon, John Kerry's former commanding officer in Vietnam, Lt. Thomas Wright told talk radio audiences of his personal first hand account of how he asked John Kerry to leave Vietnam after he knew Kerry had received enough purple hearts to ship out. Wright told of how Kerry would frequently disobey orders and was a general nusiance to the operation of the Swift Boats. Click Here for Audio from Kevin McCullough Show earlier this afternoon.

This is the type of commercial the pubs should be running, but won't. It's devastating for Kerry and shows him to be the lying, cowardly traitor that he is. WE FREEPERS NEED TO DO OUR PART TO MAKE SURE IT STAYS ON THE AIR UNTIL THE ELECTION! Click here to view the video!

An old Kerry foe, Houston lawyer back in spotlight By BENNETT ROTH Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau RESOURCES LATEST IN PRESIDENTIAL RACE: WASHINGTON -- As President Bush plunges into his race against Democrat John Kerry, he might want to get some debating tips from Houston attorney John E. O'Neill. In 1971, O'Neill squared off against Kerry on the Dick Cavett Show in a 90-minute, televised forum in which the two Vietnam War veterans sparred over the U.S. role in Southeast Asia. President Nixon and top aide Charles Colson had taken a keen interest in O'Neill as part of their...

FReeper and co-author of 'Unfit for Command' Jerome R. Corsi, PhD is being attacked on WashingtonMonthly and MediaMatters. From WashingtonMonthly: LUNATICS?....A few misguided souls took issue with my cavalier dismissal of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as "certifiable lunatics" yesterday. If you're one of them, I have two words for you: click here. It turns out I was being too kind.... That leads to this MediaMatters page: While much has been written about the identity and history of John E. O'Neill -- one of the authors of the forthcoming Regnery book Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against...