Posted on 05/27/2006 10:22:00 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Kerry Pressing Swiftboat Case, Long After Loss By KATE ZERNIKE
John Kerry starts by showing the entry in a log he kept from 1969: "Feb 12: 0800 run to Cambodia."
He moves on to the photographs: his boat leaving the base at Ha Tien, Vietnam; the harbor; the mountains fading frame by frame as the boat heads north; the special operations team the boat was ferrying across the border; the men reading maps and setting off flares.
"They gave me a hat," Mr. Kerry says. "I have the hat to this day," he declares, rising to pull it from his briefcase. "I have the hat."
Three decades after the Vietnam War and nearly two years after Mr. Kerry's failed presidential bid, most Americans have probably forgotten why it ever mattered whether he went to Cambodia or that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth accused him of making it all up, saying he was dishonest and lacked patriotism.
But among those who were on the frontlines of the 2004 campaign, the battle over Mr. Kerry's wartime service continues, out of the limelight but in some ways more heatedly — because unlike then, Mr. Kerry has fully engaged in the fight. Only those on Mr. Kerry's side, however, have gathered new evidence to prove their case.
The Swift boat group continues to spend money on Washington consultants, according to public records, and last fall it gave $100,000 to a group that promptly sued Mr. Kerry, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, for allegedly interfering with the release of a film that was critical of him.
Some of the principals behind the Swift boat group continue to press their claims.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
pigarooney
What do you mean Dem media outlets (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NPR, PBS, NYTs, WaPo) rarely cover their treason and corruption? THEY NEVER COVER IT.
Still waiting for Sixty Minutes to look into Congressman Jefferson. Oh, that case is ALL about separation of powers?
Nothing to see here, move along.
Well Frenchy maybe it's time you brought those liars to court.
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You won't get the discharge papers...they just beg more questions. He can't admit to whatever he did.
"I forgot that was the year Christmas was celebrated on Lincoln's birthday"
With drunk, non-Christian Cambodians doing the celebrating.
I think I remember reading that he had only released the records to the Washington Post, which in turn, promised not to print anything they discovered.
Parts of this article read like a campaign press release. The NY Times is really going to bat for Kerry -- hopefully this will encourage him to run again.
How many times can you call someone a liar without ending up in court, where records can be subpoenaed? You can call a politician a liar without much worry, it comes with the territory, but calling private citizens liars is grounds for a defamation lawsuit.
Is Kerry still married to Mrs. Heinz?
Until then, you are a fraud in the eyes of all of us that served in Viet Nam.
You can bet this was timed for release on memorial day weekend precisely because he intends to run for the presidency again.
He is attemping pre emtive Damage control for 08
So, they gave him a hat. Big deal. Not highly significant. We just had a baby shower for a new supervisor and his wife. The fact that we bought gifts for them doesn't mean we like him professionally. [We don't.] We do it for everyone on staff.
He has released a form 180. He even signed it. It's just a form allowing realease of one's military records. Of course he only allowed release to his pet writer from a Boston newspaper, IIRC. He did not allow a release to the public.
Mr. O'Neill said he "would be thrilled to look at anything he wants to send." Still, he added, "I'm sorry he never apologized for his 1971 speech," referring to Mr. Kerry's testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, in which he told other soldiers' accounts of ravaging Vietnamese villages and citizens. "I think it would have been a very positive thing to do in terms of the many thousands of people who survived Vietnam and felt that was very hurtful."
Great news!
Feb 13: 1700 Emailed friends in N.Y.
We have seen his type before.
Oooorah.
tet.
He only authorized release to his pet writer, not to the general public, not even to the news media in general.
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