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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...

It was hard not to chuckle at the piece of pantomime as John Kerry appeared on stage at the Democratic National Convention, gave a mock salute, and said, "My name is John Kerry, and I am reporting for duty." This, I thought, is the start of the man's undoing. It was all just too theatrical. Something of a charade. Kerry has painted himself both as a Vietnam war hero and as an anti-Vietnam war demonstrator. Well, you can likely be one of the two, but hardly both. Now a sensational new book is hitting the bookshelves and it paints a...

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.

WASHINGTON - Books like ``Unfit for Command'' may soar to the top of the bestseller lists and generate buzz on radio and TV talk shows this political season - but they are unlikely to sway large numbers of undecided voters. The reason is simple: Books with a sharp political slant tend to preach to the choir - hard-core partisan audiences - rather than win converts. ``They reinforce those who have already converted,'' said professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center. Bookshelves and movie theaters have been awash in political fare as the 2004 presidential race intensifies...

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...

2004 VOTE John Kerry in 1971 TV Debate; From the June 30, 1971 broadcast of "The Dick Cavett Show," John Kerry debates John O'Neill on U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. SUN.Aug. 15,2004, C-SPAN, 6PM ET & 9PM ET

It was like a rock concert, complete with bright lights and loud music. But it was not Jon Bon Jovi, who will wow the crowd in Portland during a campaign stop today. It was Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry who wowed them at the Isola Arena at the Jackson County Expo Center late Thursday afternoon. Not even the heat could keep an overflow crowd of nearly 7,000 from rising as one and raising the roof of the rodeo and livestock arena when Kerry and wife Teresa arrived nearly an hour late. Kerry, smiling from ear to ear, recognized the enthusiasm...

The Mudville Gazette is pleased to announce the First Annual John Kerry Fan Fiction Contest. Entries may be submitted in comments, via e-mail (greyhawk - at - mudvillegazette.com) or as entries on your own blog - I'll link from here. Have at it. Have fun. Speaking of fun, in reality, back during Christmas '68 I was almost seven, and mom and dad gave me my first shotgun. To this day it's seared in my memory - crawling on my belly through the rice paddies in the Cambodian fever swamp, hunting the elusive Khmer deer...

I live in Iowa. My hardcore, pro-Bush brother-in-law went to the Iowa State Fair today. He said, "I never thought I'd see the day that Iowa turned FOR Bush. But everywhere at the Fair today there were people walking around carrying 'Bush' yard signs!"I pressed him further, and he said that all folks were talking about was the 'Kerry Vietnam thing' and the Cambodia story in particular and how mad they were. He was absolutely amazed.He also said that the Democrat's booth was like a 'dead zone' and the Republican booth was swarmed to the point that he couldn't even...

ACU has just released a compact paperback detailing John Kerry's history of far-left extremism and why he would be a poor choice for President and Commander-in-Chief. It's an excellent personal campaigning tool when you're out there informing the indecideds this election season. One FREE electronic copy (PDF) sent to your email address.

A repeat of ABC's June 30, 1971, "The Dick Cavett Show." This show featured a debate between John Kerry and John O'Neill on U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Both men served in the Navy and commanded swift boats in Vietnam. After returning from the war, John Kerry served as spokesman for an organization called "Vietnam Veterans Against the War." John O'Neill supported the U.S. policy toward Vietnam and in Southeast Asia.

Slow day for campaigning with Charley dominating the headlines today. Lack of wind prevented Kerry from windsurfing on the Columbia River, so we lost a great opportunity there.   Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry waves to a supporter as he walks the streets of Portland, Oregon on August 13, 2004. Kerry said on Friday President George W. Bush's handling of Iraq and the war on terror had contributed to Middle East instability and helped drive up oil prices for the U.S. consumer. Kerry, who will face Bush in the November 2 White House election, also pounced on a new report...

JOHN KERRY'S "MORE SENSITIVE WAR ON TERROR"WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA: UNFIT #19 by Mia T, 8.13.04   (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) NEW! compleatjohnkerry.blogspot.com NEW! unfitforcommand.blogspot.comjohnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side. John Kerry America has been in too many wars for any of our wishes, but not a one of them was won by being sensitive. A sensitive war will not destroy the evil men who killed...

Kerry's Cambodia account challenged by ex-commander By Scott Canon Knight Ridder Newspapers KANSAS CITY, Mo. — John Kerry's repeated claim that he spent Christmas Eve of 1968 upriver in Cambodia — against official United States policy — has drawn harsh criticism from anti-Kerry veterans. Roy Hoffmann, a retired admiral who was a Navy captain in command of Kerry's unit at the time, said the candidate's Cambodia statements can't be true. "I think he just outright lied," said Hoffman, a founder of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. "He never was there." Over the years, Kerry has referred to spending Christmas...

MIDI - THIS MAGIC MOMENT Life-changing moment...seared in my memory And every last detail...is so clear to me We're facing gunfire...oh, what a Christmas eve It was in Cambodia...that is hard to believe Nixon sent us there...he said we should go with care But he said we could not squeal...the whole thing was so surreal Life-changing moment...seared in my memory Wait, am I mistaken? Was it in Jan-u-air-air-air-air-eee Life-changing moment...seared in my memory I killed thirteen hundred...oh, yes, really We're facing gunfire...oh, what a Christmas eve It was in Cambodia...that is hard to believe Nixon sent us there...he said...