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THE VETS ATTACK(Viet Nam Vets are exonerated...finally!)
Newsweek ^
| 11/15/2004 Issue
| Newsweek Staff
Posted on 11/06/2004 9:24:53 AM PST by kellynla
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Hard as I try I cannot get this smile off my face. Thanks to the Swiftees, FReepers and Americans everywhere, Viet Nam Veterans are finally exonerated! Welcome home brothers and sisters. Semper Fi, Kelly
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:24:54 AM PST
by
kellynla
To: kellynla
Thank God CSPAN resisted the pressure. I was glad to be able to see Kerry's Senate testimony and the Dick Cavett debate. Those are legitimate info about a candidate, and an objective media should not try to cover up the facts.
To: kellynla
Portions of his sometimes overwrought testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971 could be twisted into an attack ad, the Kerryites feared.Twisting?! Twisting was NOT necessary. Just read a transcript!
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:27:31 AM PST
by
Tallguy
(Don't disturb me with talk of Hillary08!..I'd just like to bask in the afterglow for a while longer!)
To: kellynla
Not many people cared about the status of the medals Kerry won in 1968. But his testimony, falsely accusing his comrades of systematically committing war atrocities, destroyed his crebility with veterans.
To: kellynla
Old Navy Pilot thank you to the Swifties. You saved this country twice.
To: kellynla
I just hope that the Swift Vets and all other VN vets feel some vindication after this, and perhaps that some small justice has been done, though long-delayed.
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:30:27 AM PST
by
Clara Lou
(Hillary Clinton: "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.")
To: Unam Sanctam
Thank God CSPAN resisted the pressure
Absolutely, although I believe FOX would have.
Bottom line, folks need to know the truth about this traitor.
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:31:46 AM PST
by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
To: kellynla
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:31:48 AM PST
by
ALOHA RONNIE
("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
To: Tallguy
Just read a transcript!
Absolutely! Again, the truth was that Kerry betrayed us all!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:32:58 AM PST
by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
To: Unam Sanctam
If only O'Reilly would have resisted the pressure as well. Many times, he outright called these brave men "liars."
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:33:32 AM PST
by
MizSterious
(First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
To: kellynla
The Swift Boat adsa first round charging that Kerry had lied to win his medals, then a second batch accusing him of betraying his mates by calling them war criminalswere misleading, but they were very effective. How were they "misleading"? Newsweek simply states that as a fact, without evidence.
To: kellynla
Historian Douglas Brinkley, author of a wartime biography of Kerry, cautioned that Kerry's diary included mention of a meeting with some North Vietnamese terrorists in Paris. Edwards was flabbergasted. "Let me get this straight," the senator said. "He met with terrorists? Oh, that's good."
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:34:12 AM PST
by
T. Buzzard Trueblood
("He's gone. He's so gone." Nancy Pelosi on George W. Bush, circa May 2004)
To: kellynla
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:34:43 AM PST
by
ALOHA RONNIE
("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
To: Clintonfatigued
Oh Kerry knows he fabricated those commendations, his crewmates knew he lied and his C.O. knew he lied and now the whole world knows he lied!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:35:09 AM PST
by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
To: kellynla
Now that Kerry is beaten, we need to pursue the release of his records. Not to destroy him, but to finally get the facts out that the "Old Media" refused to question. They repeatedly called everyone liars that did not accept everything Kerry told them as truth.
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:36:31 AM PST
by
digger48
To: Clara Lou
I just hope that the Swift Vets and all other VN vets feel some vindication after this, and perhaps that some small justice has been done, though long-delayed.
We absolutely do!!! Now we are determined to run this traitor out of the Senate!
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:36:38 AM PST
by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
To: kellynla
"finally exonerated"
For me, not the point.
For most, military service is unpleasant at best. The only reward is the honor and respect you get for having served your country. Kerry, Fonda, Hayden and the rest stole that from us, to use for their own purpose.
I'm just happy I don't have to look at Kerry's face on the news for the next 8 years and be reminded of it. For that, I'm extremely gratefull to all that made his defeat possible.
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:36:46 AM PST
by
tjg
To: kellynla
> ... the Kerry team suffered from their slow response.
They keep repeating this, as if making it a mantra somehow
makes it true. They problem wasn't the "swiftness" of the
response, it was that there was no credible response. All
they could do was vainly shout "liars" and pretend that UFC
was "debunked". Anyone who checked, knew otherwise.
> The Swift Boat ads ... were misleading, but they were
> very effective.
> ...
> People don't like to admit that they're influenced
> by propaganda.
And this is why the digging on Kerry's history must
continue. The legacy and leftist media is STILL covering
for him.
> Kerry ... "We need to get these guys,"
Then why didn't he sue for libel. If the SBVFT were in
fact lying, their activities easily rose above the bar
set for libel of a "public figure". Kerry and his people
certainly had no reluctance to threaten suits against
the publisher and bookstores, on any grounds except libel.
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:37:02 AM PST
by
Boundless
(Move on Arafat. The US Dems need your life support equipment.)
To: MizSterious
he outright called these brave men "liars."
Yea, well coming from a clown who was M.I.A. during the Viet Nam war,
we don't give much credence to O'Reilly!
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:38:32 AM PST
by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
To: kellynla
What a hit piece on the vets, the lame stream can't get over they were end run, to the American people.
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posted on
11/06/2004 9:38:44 AM PST
by
dts32041
(bortaS bIr jablu'DI' reH QaQqu' nay)
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