[Cincinatus' Wife]

Texas City is a town of nice people. It's between Houston and Galveston.

[aruanan]

The ad, which has circulated mostly on the Internet and received some airplay on radio, features veterans who claim to have served with Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry during the Vietnam war.

Saying this is like saying, "George H.W. Bush, who claims to have been President of the United States following the Reagan presidency, said...."

That these guys served in the same Swift Boat group as Kerry is a simple statement of fact. The use of "claim" is clearly prejudicial (or just incompetent writing).

[DustyMoment]

Although I'm not overly thrilled with Mr. Clements' use of the pejorative term "claim to have served", I give him credit for trying to write a balanced article.

Nonetheless, the Swiftboat Veterans' ad deserves to be aired. WE are the ones who decide what is right, NOT the media!!!! As an American, I demand to see the ad. I suffered as the result of Kerry's Winter Soldier testimony before Congress, I deserve to hear the truth from those who served with Kerry. Kerry maligned and slandered ALL of us who served during Vietnam, whether we were in-country or not.

This is an issue of truth and free speech. If these ads are suppressed by the media and the Kerry campaign, it violates my right to know the truth.

[kittymyrib]

Conservatives should dump that liberal rag, the Houston Comical, and buy this paper if it has such a right-thinking columnist in its pages.

[swilhelm73]

If the claims of one man are enough for the press to spend weeks searching through Bush's National Guard records, why aren't the claims of dozens of vets from the Swift Boat unti enough to trigger a similiar investigation on the part of the press?

Yes I know, attacking Bush's record and not Kerry's meets with their aims politically, but how on earth can the press claim to be unbiased with such an obvious bit of hypocrisy?