Swift boat group weighs next step

The Hill.com ^ | 11/24/04 | Peter Savodnik

[rocksblues]

Their post card of thanks for a nominal contribution is a prized possession

Their cheap post card sent to everybody that donated will be worth big bucks 30 years from now. After all the antiwar correspondents have died or retired.

I hope that I am still here to cash in!

[NYTexan]

Seen this?

[pickrell]

Some good points have been made here. I think a number of people get an uncomfortable feeling when a champion prizefighter doesn't realize that he's just won the most important fight of his life. Since we love them, we are nervous that they will try to match a political performance that can't be matched, and fall short. They were there when they were most needed, but we don't want them to get overexposed and maybe devalued as a result. They are cast in bronze now.

It may be that their best contribution in the future will be to simply continue to draw the fire of the David Wades and the Simon Rosenbergs. I can see no better anti-advertsiement for the Democratic reputation that attacks upon a block of true heroes.
The more the Democrats try to disparage, the more pathetic they look.

[ridesthemiles]

I would like to see them push for an indictment of Treason against sKerry. Tie him to the 1971 meeting in Kansas City where he and others discussed killing US Senators.

[Eastbound]

Kudos, Tonk.

[Rightfootforward]

May the Swiftvets expand their horizons and remain in the public eye. I'm convinced their efforts did an immeasurable amount of harm to skerry's campaign -- and for that I will always be greatful.
Long live John O'Neill, and long live the Swiftvets!

[Rightfootforward]

Pardon me. Meant to write, "...and for that I will always be GRATEFUL." Not, greatful. Sheesh!

[niteowl77]

Until John Kerry retires from office, I see no reason why these men should not keep holding his feet to the fire, should they wish to do so. If he sailed off into the sunset on the Scaramouche, then maybe I'd feel different. But not only hasn't JF-in'K sailed off, he still hasn't resolved questions about medals, discharges, Paris, Kansas City, POW/MIAs...

If those men want to help to get all the aforementioned cleared up, more power to them. If not, it is their call.

[jackbill]

They were “scorned by real heroes like Max Cleland and John McCain,” Wade added.

First, McCain should have kept his mouth shut. He wasn't on Kerry's boat and he wasn't on any of the boats run by the Swifties.

Second, McCain said that the Swifties' charges of Kerry's 1971 testimony before the Senate were "fair game". The RATs and their media accomplises don't like to remember that.

[Mad Mammoth]

The Swiftees staying in business would be great news.

Indeed it would. And one way they could stay in business would be to continue to pursue the truth regarding John F'in Kerry's collaboration with the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong via Madame Binh on his liddle "honeymoon" (yeah, right) visit to Paris after he returned from his four month tour of Vietnam.

Kerry went to Paris, met with the Communists, and he returned to the U.S. parroting the so-called 'Peoples Peace Plan' which was nothing but Viet Cong propaganda calling for a unilateral U.S. pullout.

Kerry proceeded to incite rebellion and sedition with the subversive group VVAW, of which one member (Scott Camill) had advocated the assassination of pro-Vietnam war effort Senators. Upon learning of the scheme, Kerry did nothing whatsoever, didn't even notify the authorities of such a grotesque plot. But Kerry didn't forget about Camill, who worked for the Kerry campaign in Florida during the DemocRAT primary season.

There is still plenty of work for the Swifties to do, and I hope they'll get to do it.

[mylife]

ping if you arent already here

[Gibtx]

ping

[Jim_Curtis]

I would like to see them push for an indictment of Treason against sKerry. Tie him to the 1971 meeting in Kansas City where he and others discussed killing US Senators.

The DOJ needs to either try Kerry for treason or we need to repeal those parts of the Constitution that Kerry was in clear violation of or the US Constitution means nothing if it can simply be ignored to create the appearance of get-alongedness, you don't create unity be trashing these foundations.

This traitor sits on the Senate intelligence committee and he has a fetish for conspiring with enemies against the USA. Even the fact that he didn't show up for meetings too often makes me suspect that he was creating plausible deniability.

[dalereed]

"prevent his next senate re-election"

Uncover his discharge records and get him disqualified for office and tossed out of the Senate NOW!!!!!!

[freekitty]

We need these guys to remind of our heritage.

[dalight]

There needs to be another Vietnam War Memorial, a museum that tells the true story, not just black wall of the dead. This is what they should do. They can tell Kerry's story there as part of a larger picture. I reckon back to the rally on the Mall that was on CSpan. This story needs to be put in context and one place in Washington for folks to learn and visit.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

David Wade, national press secretary in the Kerry campaign, characterized the Swiftvets as
“a discredited and despicable Republican smear group caught doing George Bush’s dirty work.”

Just as I predicted.

Hanoi Kerry lost so Dims now attack Viet Nam Vets, once again.

While 99 US Senators support Hanoi Kerry.

Come on Hanoi Kerry BRING IT ON!

EXPOSE HANOI KERRY!

Distribute these url's!

http://tonkin.spymac.net/hanoikerry1.html

There is a backup site
if the 1st url is unavailable.

http://stophanoikerry.150m.com/

[xzins]

I don't think they should quit. They should continue research.

Then they should decommission this guy in Massachusetts.

He shouldn't be involved in any national decision making.

[Darksheare]

Kerry said he was 'weighing the option of litigation' against the Swiftvets.
Any intel on his current plans, or has he changed his mind on that?

[proudmilitarymrs]

I am alone is sensing an anti-SBVT bias in this piece?

Not at all, I feel it too.