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 ...
Kerry traitor ping
I'd welcome letting the SWBV have their day in court. Let's see who's facts stand up. Of course, FULL disclosure of Kerry's war records would need to be requested by the defense which he was unwilling to provide during the campaign.
The key to him still not signing SF-180 is "Mr. Kerry has signed forms". SF-180 would release all records! But I believe that this was lie before in the campaign. That he had signed for the navy to release "some" of his records, but refused to sign SF-180 because the whole story would be known! Also by hiring a personal researcher instead of letting the public see all the records, he's still trying to whitewash his lies and possible atrocities committed!
Kerry sign his DOD-180 yet?
I sent them money a month ago. That POS Kerry is trying to bankrupt them in courts.
This nut case is going to run again.
Anyone have this?
No matter what one might think of the WaPo, if they had it, I am sure that some enterprising reporter would get it out. Does not pass the smeel test, imo.
American Quisling... sadly, one of many.
skerry's a grade A #1 skunk.
I really think the man lives in his own reality and doesn't know a lie from the truth anymore.
Kerry is running in 2008. We are going to get more revisionist history. Let's see the paperwork for the first PH. Why did you meet twice with the Vietnamese Communists in Paris during the war? As a member of the VVAW, did you know about plans to assassinate USG officials? Etcetera, etcetera, ...
from http://smalltownveteran.typepad.com/posts/2004/12/ho_ho_ho_chi_mi.html
The Night Before Christmas (Cambodian Version)
Twas the night before Christmas and we were afloat
Somewhere in Cambodia in our little boat.
While the river was lightened by rockets red glare
No one but the President knew we were there.
The crew was all nestled deep down in their bunks,
While the Spook and I watched the sampans and junks.
Our mission was secret, so secret in fact,
No one else would remember it when we got back.
When out on the water there arose such a clatter
I leaped down from the bridge to see what was the matter.
The incoming friendly was starting to flash
And I knew that the ARVN's were having a bash.
The snap of friendly fire on the warm tropic air
Convinced me for sure no one knew we were there,
On a clandestine mission so secret it's true
That I'm still convinced only Tricky Dick knew.
While I huddled for safety in the tub on the bow,
I thought of a title, "Apocalypse Now."
To give to the films I was I making each day
To show all the voters when I made my big play.
As I sat there sweating in my lucky flight jacket,
Spook said, "Merry Christmas!" and tossed me a packet.
And what to my wondering eyes did appear,
But a new lucky cap, which I still have right here.
I keep it tucked here, in this leather brief case,
Just sharing with the press its secretive place
As I regale them again with my senate refrain,
That Christmas in Cambodia is seared into my brain.
Don't bother to quibble with history my friend,
By pointing out Johnson was President then.
Don't listen to Swiftees who try to explain,
For I tell you that night is seared into my brain.
Down Hibbard, down Lonsdale, and you too O'Neill,
So you don't remember? Well it's something I feel.
I don't need all you Swiftvets to support my campaign,
Cause Christmas in Cambodia is seared into my brain,
Into my brain, into my brain, into my brain...
Russ Vaughn
2d Bn, 327th Parachute Infantry Regiment
101st Airborne Division
Vietnam 65-66
You wanna ping this? Kerry getting busy
Yes, but she no longer uses his name.
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