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===== "'Unfit for Command' Hits #1 on NY Times Bestsellers List" ===== What is arguably the country's most controversial new book has now become the country's best-selling book. "Unfit for Command," which vaulted onto the New York Times Bestsellers List at #3 last week (issue date 8/29/04), climbed to the #1 spot this week (issue date 9/5/04).

Good luck finding a copy of "Unfit for Command." But you can complain all you want about the controversial new book's attacks on presidential candidate John Kerry. Major online bookstores, as well as their real-life counterparts, were having difficulties fulfilling orders Wednesday for the book, which details allegations from a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth critical of Kerry's Vietnam War service. The book, currently listed as No. 3 on The New York Times best-seller list for hardcover nonfiction, went on sale Aug. 11 with an initial printing of 85,000 copies, according to publisher Regnery Publishing. Incessant publicity has...

Kerry critique also atop both Amazon, Barnes & Noble charts. © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com "Unfit for Command," the scathing critique of John Kerry's service in Vietnam, will appear on the New York Times best-seller list at No. 1 on Sept. 5. As WorldNetDaily reported, the blockbuster will make its New York Times debut on the Aug. 29 list at No. 3. New cover of "Unfit for Command" shows best-seller status.

As of 2:00 EDT Boarders at Bailys Crossroads had 7 copies. They had 10 made an announcment over the loudspeaker that the had them.. Congrats on not hiding the book. They are also taking reservations for the book...big yellow paper taped to counter.

Unfit For Command can't be stopped. The blazing new book by John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi has been making news and sitting atop both the Amazon and Barnes & Noble bestseller lists for a while now. Today, publisher Regnery (a Human Events sister company) announced that Unfit will sit at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list on September 5.

www.washingtontimes.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anti-Kerry book selling swiftly in D.C. area By Tim Lemke THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published August 25, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A new book questioning the service of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry as a boat captain in the Vietnam War is a swift seller. Bookstores in the Washington area report that demand for "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Captains Speak Out Against John Kerry" has been so strong that they are sold out of the book or are scrambling to order new shipments to keep copies on shelves. "I can tell you it's selling very briskly and usually sells...

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From “Unfit for Command,” p. 123 - 124: Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet intelligence officer to defect to the West, spoke out in June 2004 about the KGB intelligence operation that he believed was the basis for the assertions of war crimes and atrocities at the heart of John Kerry’s 1971 testimony to the Fulbright Committee.For Pacepa, the case was clear. John Kerry’s 1971 accusations of war crimes in Vietnam sounded to him just “like the disinformation line that the Soviets were sowing worldwide throughout the Vietnam era.” The KGB had as a top priority the damage of American...

FLASH: 'UNFIT FOR CAMMAND' HITS #1 BOOK IN NATION SCANNING 63,210 COPIES, PUBLISHING SOURCES TELL DRUDGE... FRANKS 'SOLDIER' TOTAL BOOKSCAN OF 139,208 SINCE RELEASE... CLINTON 'MY LIFE' 1,042,649... MAUREEN DOWD 'BUSHWORLD' 49,308 TOTAL IN 3 WEEKS [15,742 LAST WEEK]...

I saw the following post at Swiftvets.com ! What a great idea! "Vets at VA hospitals often have limited reading materials, a wonderful gift is to donate your Unfit for Command to you local VA medical center and state run veterans homes so that our fellow brothers and heros will know more about John Kerry before the November election. "

Wednesday, August 25, 2004 150 vets vs. 250 vets Posted: August 25, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Joseph Farah © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com John Kerry came to America's attention April 22, 1971, with an appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in which he testified about the accusations of 150 Vietnam vets who claimed their country was engaged in fighting a genocidal war in Southeast Asia. Ironically, today, Kerry is trying to run away from the accusations of more than 250 Vietnam vets who say he is unfit to command – not only because of those reckless accusations in 1971, but because of his...

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Judicial Watch, the government-watchdog legal group, has filed a request with the Pentagon for an official investigation into the Vietnam-era medals received by presidential nominee John Kerry as well as his controversial anti-war activities. The organization petitioned both the U.S. Navy and the Defense Department. Part of the action included a request the government investigate Kerry's meeting with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong delegations in Paris while a member of the Naval Reserve. A Judicial Watch statement said its action is based on serious questions raised by the blockbuster book "Unfit for Command" by John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi....

The chairman of the Federal Elections Commission, a Clinton appointee, defended the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in the face of a complaint filed with the agency by Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry. Kerry claims the television ads, in which Vietnam veterans question the senator's veracity and slam him for his anti-war activities, have been illegally coordinated with the Bush-Cheney campaign. Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth is a 527 political group that says it is acting independently. The group's two television ads have been released in conjunction with a book by two of its members, John O'Neill and Jerome...

A new book questioning the service of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry as a boat captain in the Vietnam War is a swift seller. Bookstores in the Washington area report that demand for "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Captains Speak Out Against John Kerry" has been so strong that they are sold out of the book or are scrambling to order new shipments to keep copies on shelves. "I can tell you it's selling very briskly and usually sells out as soon as we receive it," said Julie Wiggins, manager of the Borders Books & Music store in White...

Some bristle over scarcity of book critical of Kerry By Terry Rodgers STAFF WRITER August 24, 2004 The book that triggered a firestorm of debate over Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's service during the Vietnam War is missing in action. Some frustrated customers have accused store clerks of having a liberal bias for not stocking "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry." But the truth is less conspiratorial: The book's publisher simply didn't print enough copies. Regnery Publishing Inc., a small company with headquarters in Washington, D.C., originally planned to print just 40,000 copies, a very...

As of Monday 8/23/04 the Borders bookstore in Davis, CA was sold out of the eight copies of "Unfit for Command" that was in-transit to the store on the previous Friday. On their service desk sits a large sign as follows: Unfit for Command is our #1 non-fiction bestseller Copies of it are very difficult to obtain Please reserve your copy now Davis is the home of UC Davis and is like Berkeley light. The Borders store is about 100 yards from the UC Davis campus. The liberals there must be going nuts!

One of the most powerful messages to come out of "Unfit for Command," the Swiftvets' book on Kerry, is how many times they cite Kerry's court hagiographer, Douglas Brinkley, in the book. That's because Brinkley wrote "Tour of Duty" for Kerry based on interviews with Kerry, plus access (that no one else seems to have) to his notes and journals. The Swifties demolish Kerry's claims so effectively, and so often, that it now calls into question Brinkley's work as a historian. Did he not attempt to contact ANY of the Swifties? Did he not interview any of them? Why not?...

Across the United States, thousands of conservatives and curious but undecided voters are trying to buy copies of Unfit for Command. Some of us have already had the good fortune to buy a copy. Now that we've read these books, let's not hoard them. Give or loan your copy to anyone who might benefit, preferably someone who is on the fence about John Kerry. I'm handing my copy around to veterans who haven't been aggressive enough to track down copies themselves. If we all do this, more people will read the book than just those who are already so filled...

NEW YORK (AP) - The nation's two biggest bookstore chains, Barnes & Noble and Borders, say angry customers are accusing them of political bias as the retailers struggle to keep up with demand for a best seller that questions John Kerry (website - news - bio) 's military service in Vietnam. "Unfit for Command," which went on sale Aug. 11 with a first printing of 85,000, will have 550,000 copies in print by next week, according to Regnery Publishing. Sales have soared as allegations about the Democratic nominee's wartime actions dominate the presidential campaign. A co-author of the book, John...

John Kerrys new novel, "Unfit for Command" is sold out. I have not been able to secure my own copy, but I hear that demand far exceeds the number on re-order to carriers. Its sad that because the American people cant learn about the candidate from where they should be able to learn about him, from John Kerry himself, they have to turn to documentaries like this. All he ever does is spout off about his 4 months of service in Vietnam 30 years ago, instead of his 20 years in the Senate. EVERY TIME he gives a speech, he...