[USMCVet]

He's been lucky so far: everyone's focusing on his rather strange 4 months in Vietnam - nobody's saying very much about his activities to support the enemy just after the war.

Why did he make those fictitious claims about our activities in Vietnam with his Winter Soldier show in Chicago?

Who wrote the propaganda speech he made before Congress?

Why did he meet with the enemy in Paris?

If anybody really wants to know John Kerry, that's where they'll find him.

[MEG33]

I agree as outrageous as some of Kerry's tales about his action and adventure in Vietnam..what he said, who he slimed, defamed and who he associated with when he came home is far worse...His record in the Senate is scary,too.

[Dane]

- nobody's saying very much about his activities to support the enemy just after the war

I'm guessing the spin on this will be. I was defending the people who were trying to live peacefully under the writings of karl marx.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

John Kerry testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by William Fulbright, in April 1971. Photo UPI

THESE ARE THE WORDS OF JOHN KERRY...

[Captain Rhino]

>>He's been lucky so far: everyone's focusing on his rather strange 4 months in Vietnam - nobody's saying very much about his activities to support the enemy just after the war.<<

You can bet that those ads are already in the can, waiting to be used.

Now, if we can just get the anti-Bush protesters to go completely out of control in NYC, marry that footage up with the Vietnam ant-war footage and marry both to John F*'n Kerry images from both eras...sweet.

(From one USMC vet to Another) Semper Fi!!

[massatoosits]

Speech was written by Adam Walinsky, USMC reserve, former legislative aide to Robert Kennedy.

[YaYa123]

Kerry's post-Viet Nam activities will be covered in the new Swifties ad that comes out today.

[Big E]

You got that right. I read on another thread the next Swift Boat ad will cover these topics. I hope so, because what he did when he got back to the States is much more damaging than what's being debated right now.

[reformedliberal]

The Swiftees have just begun. I heard that a 2nd ad is due out today and someone posted that it will feature a POW and what he endured because of Kerry's actions after he came home.

All this is just hearsay...I haven't gone to the Swiftee site yet today.

Kerry will not overcome 61 years of habit. I just started *Unfit* and his commanders say that from the git-go in VN he argued about his assignments, criticized his commanders' mission plans and said that all the missions were calculated to inflate the commanders' records. Kerry's main goal in joining the Swift Boats was to escape combat and when ordered into canals and creeks, he refused and demanded to be assigned to coastal operations because they were safer.

O'Neill recounts Kerry's response in the debate on the Cavett show as *Oh, wow. There are so many things....." after O'Neill took him to task for his anti-war rhetoric. O'Neill was shocked that Kerry wasn't emotionally moved at all, pointing out that this was just a political calculation for F'n.

Letting Kerry be Kerry will sink him even faster, IMO. The media is going to have a rough time spiking or spinning this more than they have. I do not believe the CBS poll that says the race has just tightened nationally. I think W has been ahead up til now and his lead is widening. CBS cites veteran support for W as 58%. I have not met more than one vet who supported F'n prior to the Swift vets' ad/book. Vet friends tell me that Dem vets have changed their support in droves once shown the inconsistencies in Kerry's records and this was 6 weeks ago.

I think vets tended to stick together in support of Kerry the vet just because so much trash has been thrown at VN Vets in the past 30 years. Now, it isn't just that he was a *hero* who turned against the war after coming home, it is that he was a cowardly goldbrick whiner even during his 3 months of actual combat in a relatively safe unit. It is just recently that the fact that 1 month out of his *4* months in combat was spent in training. As a civilian, I was not impressed to learn that Cam Rahn was a former French resort and not the site of heavy fighting when Kerry was there, either.

[FireTrack]

"He's been lucky so far: everyone's focusing on his rather strange 4 months in Vietnam - nobody's saying very much about his activities to support the enemy just after the war.

How right you are! If not for Ted Kennedy covering his Ass, he would have been imprisoned. America is still hurting from this guy's Vietnam lies. Below is someone else who didn't hold him in very high regard.

Major General George S. Patton, the son and namesake of the World War II armored commander was a veteran of combat in the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

He was wounded in one of his three Vietnam tours and was awarded a Purple Heart. He was twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest decoration for bravery in combat.

General Patton charged that he had experienced proof in the field that John F. Kerry's antiwar actions had given aid and comfort to the enemy, just as had those of Ramsey Clark and Jane Fonda.

Mr. Kerry, said George Patton, probably caused some of my guys to get killed. And I don t like that. There is no soap ever invented that can wash that blood off his hands

[hobson]

He lied to his diary too! Kerry's autobiography has been picked apart by his fellow shipmates on the USS Gridley.

Tour of Duty - Debunked (my title)