Senator Kerry: Tell the Truth and We'll Stop the Ads (Swiftboat Vets)

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[Grampa Dave]

Senator Kerry: Tell the Truth and We'll Stop the Ads

Dated: Tuesday, August 31 2004 @ 02:00 PM PDT

August 31, 2004 Senator John Kerry 901 15th Street NW Washington, DC 20005

Dear Senator Kerry:

As you prepare for your address before the American Legion in Nashville, Tennessee, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth encourages you to use this opportunity to clarify your actions in Vietnam and your statements about your fellow Veterans and shipmates when you returned home. Since you have made your four-month tour in Vietnam the centerpiece of your campaign, we respectfully insist that you be truthful. The public is owed a full and honest accounting of your actions. Veterans are owed an apology from you and an acknowledgement that there was no basis in fact for the accusations you made against them.

We urge you to:

1. Apologize for your conduct once you returned from Vietnam. Your exaggerated testimony before the US Senate; the blanket indictment of your fellow veterans; throwing away medals and ribbons; all of these actions dishonored America and the armed forces. Your rhetoric and actions were not only wrong, they aided the enemy and brought great pain to POW's, veterans and their families.

2. Clarify the conflicting accounts involving the Bay Hap River incident of March 13, 1969 (Bronze Star and 3rd Purple Heart). You have now described three different versions of this incident. In the first version of this incident presented during the Democrat National Convention, you stated: "No man left behind," suggesting to the American people that you alone stayed on the river to rescue Mr. Rassmann. Later, when forced to acknowledge conflicting eyewitness testimony from fellow swift boat veterans, you said that your boat left the scene to return moments later to retrieve Jim Rassmann from the water. Yet, in another version of the same incident discovered in the Congressional Record, you reported that your boat struck a mine and Rassmann fell off the boat. Mr. Kerry, please explain to your fellow veterans and the American people which version is the truth.

3. Affirm that the injuries for which you received your purple hearts never required any medical treatment beyond perhaps a bandage and that, in all instances, these injuries were self-inflicted and came from your own weapon. Further, that if any of these purple hearts were falsely awarded, that you would not have been eligible to leave Vietnam after serving only four months.

4. Acknowledge what your own biographer is now saying, that the Christmas in Cambodia claim is "obviously wrong,” that you were never in Cambodia over Christmas or any other time during your brief, four-month tour in Vietnam and that your statements before the United States Senate in 1986 were false.

If you undertake these steps we will be satisfied that the American public has been sufficiently apprised as to these aspects of your career, and we will discontinue the media advertisements you have sought so fervently to silence.

Please know that Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are eager to close our own personal chapters on Vietnam and instead focus on the war we're currently fighting—the ongoing war on terrorism. In the absence of full public disclosure and a public apology, we will continue efforts to carry our message to an ever-expanding base of grassroots supporters.

Senator Kerry, we want to get Vietnam behind us. But, we can only do so if the truth is told.

We respectfully await your reply.

Sincerely,

Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

[Grampa Dave]

Isn't this an absolute riot!:)

[kingattax]

BREAKING NEWS:JOHN KERRY ISSUES STATEMENT....."I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN....."---- developing

[P-Marlowe]

I don't think the Swift Vets are going far enough. I think they should request that he turn himself in for prosecution for treason for giving aid and comfort to the North Vietnamese Government after his return and especially when he met privately with NVA representatives in Paris.

[Grampa Dave]

If Effin told the truth, he'd get thrown out of the rat Party.

Yep, and it would bring down the current Rat Party which is based on the lies about Nam and their hatred of America which they have justified via their Nam lies. if Effin tells the truth, the elite rat mediots and politicians will go into the tank with Effin.

[Grampa Dave]

BREAKING NEWS:JOHN KERRY ISSUES STATEMENT....."I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN....."---- developing and define IS.

[mountaineer]

tomorrow in St. Louis, he's going to trumpet his "wonderful" Senate service on POWs

That should be interesting. Even the liberal Village Voice has exposed his lies on that issue.
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Senator covered up evidence of P.O.W.'s left behind; When John Kerry's Courage Went M.I.A.:

Senator John Kerry, a decorated battle veteran, was courageous as a navy lieutenant in the Vietnam War. But he was not so courageous more than two decades later, when he covered up voluminous evidence that a significant number of live American prisoners—perhaps hundreds—were never acknowledged or returned after the war-ending treaty was signed in January 1973.

The Massachusetts senator, now seeking the presidency, carried out this subterfuge a little over a decade ago— shredding documents, suppressing testimony, and sanitizing the committee's final report—when he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W./ M.I.A. Affairs. ...

Click on the link for the whole disgusting story of yet another Kerry betrayal of his "brothers."

[Grampa Dave]

That isn't their job.

That will be the job of the ONI, FBI and Justice Department to investigate his lies and acts of treason.

If this goes to trial, they will get to testify under oath.

[Pablo64]

"We respectfully await your reply. Sincerely, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth"

Cue the sound of crickets chirping. The Frenchurian Candidate will never answer this with his own lying lips. He will always have someone else from his campaign offer an "explanation" so that he can always maintain that he "never said that".

I firmly believe that Kerry found out about the the 3-Purple-Hearts-And-You're-Out rule and calculated to do just that as fast as he could and as safely as possible so that he could "legitimize" his stance on Viet Nam as someone who had "Been There, Done That".

He is the lowest form of slime. A true walking waste of protoplasm.

[chainsaw]

you said that your boat left the scene to return moments later to retrieve Jim Rassmann from the water.

Kerry was first a coward before he also became a traitor.

Apologize for your conduct once you returned from Vietnam. Your exaggerated testimony before the US Senate; the blanket indictment of your fellow veterans; throwing away medals and ribbons; all of these actions dishonored America and the armed forces. Your rhetoric and actions were not only wrong, they aided the enemy and brought great pain to POW's, veterans and their families.

[Travis McGee]

I've read that the SBVs have 17 more ads "in the can" and ready to run on a moment's notice.

They can play the right "card" just-in-time to keep Kerry off balance, off his game, and on defense.

The Swifties are NOT playing games. This is a well-laid "military campaign."

They have lots of torpedos ready to fire.

[woofer]

However, we and other Americans will donate again and again to the Swift Vets to buy more ads.

Time to dash off another check. They need HARD money donations after 9/2/2004 so they can continue to get their message to the voters.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for bringing Kerry and his terrible harm to our POW's.

They will be the next group to go after Kerry.\

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"Tomorrow in St. Louis, he's going to trumpet his "wonderful" Senate service on POWs

That should be interesting. Even the liberal Village Voice has exposed his lies on that issue.
________________

Senator covered up evidence of P.O.W.'s left behind; When John Kerry's Courage Went M.I.A.:

Senator John Kerry, a decorated battle veteran, was courageous as a navy lieutenant in the Vietnam War. But he was not so courageous more than two decades later, when he covered up voluminous evidence that a significant number of live American prisoners—perhaps hundreds—were never acknowledged or returned after the war-ending treaty was signed in January 1973.

The Massachusetts senator, now seeking the presidency, carried out this subterfuge a little over a decade ago— shredding documents, suppressing testimony, and sanitizing the committee's final report—when he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W./ M.I.A. Affairs. ...

Click on the link for the whole disgusting story of yet another Kerry betrayal of his "brothers."

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Ouch, the poodle will need another band-aid. That is gonna leave a mark.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Ask him to admit that he chickened out at An Thoi!

[Travis McGee]

Stepping into another bear trap. The POWs have ads ready to run on his POW sellout.

[MeekOneGOP]

This idjit needs to release HIS MILITARY RECORDS!

Help the Kerry Campaign With Its paperwork!
Email Them a Standard Form 180 Now!

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Click here to donate to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth!

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See this group of Swift Boats patrolling together? They are NOT SERVING together!!! Only the ones on the SAME BOAT are serving together! Each group of personnel on each boat know ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the personnel on the other boat, PERIOD !! If they say they do, they are Republican LIARS !! Unless the one talking is a DemocRAT. Then he is telling the truth, of course.

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[Grampa Dave]

A lot of Americans agree with you and more will before this is over:

""We respectfully await your reply. Sincerely, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth"
Cue the sound of crickets chirping. The Frenchurian Candidate will never answer this with his own lying lips. He will always have someone else from his campaign offer an "explanation" so that he can always maintain that he "never said that".

I firmly believe that Kerry found out about the the 3-Purple-Hearts-And-You're-Out rule and calculated to do just that as fast as he could and as safely as possible so that he could "legitimize" his stance on Viet Nam as someone who had "Been There, Done That".

He is the lowest form of slime. A true walking waste of protoplasm."

[guitfiddlist]

"I was over at the Dummies site. It looks like many of them are throwing in the towel. There are a few die hard koolaid drinkers, but they are being chastized by the others. They are even turning on the DU cult board leaders. Very funny stuff.'

You oughtta go back over there and post - "Hey, great show, guys, loving every whiny minute of it....so where do you get some popcorn around here?"

[woodyinscc]

He's been a puppet his entire life.

Right on, he is even a puppet in his marriage. Gigolos have no shame, and consider this a necessary nuisance. This country will never elect this man to the highest office of the land.

[eccl1212]

how?
lie and attack.
it's the only play he has.
knows it too.