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Oct 5, 2005 13:00 ET Former Vietnam POWs Sue John Kerry PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5 -- Sen. John Kerry and a top DNC campaign official have been sued for conspiracy and defamation in Federal District Court in Philadelphia by the Vietnam Veterans Legacy Foundation (VVLF), which is led by a group of former Vietnam combat veterans, including several POWs, and the wife of a POW. The legal action comes just weeks after the group of highly decorated veterans, which includes a Medal of Honor recipient, was itself sued twice by Kerry campaign supporters who were once his fellow antiwar activists. All...

In a few hours, I will deliver a major address at Brown University about what the rage and destruction of Katrina have revealed. I want you to be one of the first to read and reflect upon the text of this speech for a very simple reason. It's time for each and every one of us to say what needs to be said -- with the full force of our convictions, with nothing held back. This speech is my attempt to do exactly that -- and your response to my call to action will define the work of the johnkerry.com...

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According to Fox News, in the Special Report With Brit Hume, Friday, May 27, 2005, while showing audio and video of Dims who defended their unethical action in refusing to allow a vote to confirm John Bolton; a news clip of John Kerry, D-MA., showed Kerry standing tall and speaking firmly; "This is NOT, a fillibuster!" John Kerry said firmly.

Unless you have a copy of his signed SF-180, you're not doing your job. If Kerry hasn't granted their release to the media by putting a reporter's name in Section III of the SF-180, you're not doing your job. If you don't evlaute what Kerry has asked to be released as specified in Section II of the SF-180, you're not doing your job.

Why Democrats Lie Sandy Berger is caught cramming top secret war-time documents down the front of his pants. Dan Rather is caught using forged documents in an effort to try and steal an election. John Kerry slanders one million of his "band of brothers" in bogus testimony before Congress and continues to lie about having been in Cambodia on Christmas eve 1968 sent there by Richard Nixon (who wasn't President yet), hearing the Vietnamese "sing Christmas carols" (the Vietnamese are Buddhists and don't celebrate Christmas) and being fired upon by the Khmer Rouge who didn't become a military force until...

 For everyone, the issue of stem-cell research is deeply personal and fundamentally moral. We each dread getting a call from a doctor with the results of a diagnosis that makes our heart sink, or the day we say goodbye to a loved one.      I'll never forget a woman I met last fall at a town hall meeting on stem-cell research. She stood up, her frail body shaking, and pleaded for her government to embrace stem-cell research. It was the moral clarity of her message that will stay with me forever.      ``It's too late for me,'' she said, ``but we need...

Mickey Kaus and Instapundit both point to a Philadelphia Inquirer analysis of John Kerry's political activities since his loss in last year's elections, which suggests that the Senator may request the complete release of his military records at last: For Kerry, indignities abound. He trails Hillary Rodham Clinton in every 2008 survey. The other day, he was assailed by Clinton aide Ann Lewis for running "an inconsistent campaign." Indeed, in focus groups conducted this winter by Democratic strategists, he was still seen as indecisive; one participant said, "He's the guy that holds up the line at McDonald's." And he's been...

GOING THE DISTANCE Following in her father's footsteps, Vanessa Kerry is training to run in the Boston Marathon. John Kerry's youngest daughter is studying in London on a Fulbright scholarship, but told friends in a recent e-mail that she's training for the April race. (Her father has said he competed in the late 1970s.) In the e-mail, Kerry said she's running as part of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's marathon team and invited friends to visit the Dana-Farber website and make a donation supporting cancer research. (Among those who've responded are famous friends: singer Carole King and Al Gore's middle daughter,...

So now John Kerry has told both Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" and Don Imus on his morning MSNBC-broadcast radio show that he will sign Standard Form 180. But when? Sometime before 2008, when he has to run for re-election in Massachusetts for the Senate? A group has formed to help Kerry out. Called "KerrysTreason.com," the group has created a website on which they have archived Standard Form 180, in PDF format. The group is calling for a campaign to flood Kerry's Senate office with SF180s sent in from all over America. The website gives Kerry's Washington office address...

Sen. John Kerry reiterated his pledge on Monday to sign the form that would allow the government to release all his military records, but said he wanted to know exactly what was in his file before doing so. "I have a stack of different material they sent me," Kerry told radio host Don Imus. "Every time they send me something I want to know what they sent me." "I'll get it done," Kerry insisted in the next breath. Last week the 2008 presidential hopeful suggested he wanted to review his full Navy file to make sure of "what is in...

SEN. KERRY: I lost, Tim, to an incumbent president by a closer margin than an incumbent president has ever won re-election before in the history of the country, and if you add up the popular vote in the battleground states, I won the popular vote in the battleground states by two percentage points. We just didn't distribute it correctly in Ohio.

...SEN. KERRY: We were right on the border, Tim. What I explained to people and I told this any number of times, did I go into Cambodia on a mission? Yes, I did go into Cambodia on a mission. Was it on that night? No, it was not on that night. But we were right on the Cambodian border that night. We were ambushed there, as a matter of fact. And that is a matter of record, and we went into the rec-- you know, it's part of the Navy records. It's been documented by the other guys who were...

John F. Kerry’s traitorous association with communist organizations seems to go back farther than we suspected. He just reaffirmed on Meet the Press that he was not only in Cambodia in December 1968 but that he went there to deliver weapons to the Khmer Rouge. As we all know, the Khmer Rouge was the communist insurgency in Cambodia that eventually overthrew the legitimate government and murdered millions of Cambodian civilians. Of course, Kerry was never in Cambodia in 1968, and every time he tells that lie he digs himself in just a little bit deeper.

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This is the story of a military veteran whistleblower. He spoke out against someone he thought was dangerous for the nation, talked to local newspapers, and appeared on talk shows. In return, he was vilified by reporters, threatened by a political operative, fired by his company, and now he's broke.His name is Steve Gardner. He's also known as "The 10th Brother," as in Band of Brothers. He's one of two members of Sen. John Kerry's 12 Vietnam swift boat crew members who refused to stand with Kerry at the Democratic Convention. The other man remained silent. "They said I had...

KERRY FIT TO SUE 'UNFIT' AUTHOR November 18, 2004 -- LIBERAL loser John Kerry might be planning to strike back at John O'Neill, the "Unfit for Command" author who claims some of the credit for Kerry's defeat, sources say. In the book, published by Regnery not long before the election, O'Neill — who, like Kerry, commanded swift boats in Vietnam — attacked Kerry's war record and branded him a traitor. O'Neill sold over 800,000 copies and his group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, raised $25 million to battle the Kerry campaign and ran TV ads trashing the candidate. Former Sen....

To The Citizens Of Free Republic: We will never ever forget your support and help. Your threads not only encouraged us but kept the truth alive in a period when Big Media sought to suppress the story. Your e-mails and phone calls to Big Media at least shamed them. The thousands of contributions we got from you helped us to organize our website, produce our earliest ads, and keep the light flickering in the darkest of times. The English at Agincourt would have executed Kerry for meeting with the enemy and betraying them. In contrast, we found a true band...

Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth achieved its primary goal yesterday with Sen. John Kerry's concession to President Bush, but the deeply divisive issues the group has raised and the activists it has spawned might not fade with the closing of the 2004 election. "The whole group was oriented to beating Kerry; now that that's been accomplished, there is a formative discussion to say, 'Where do we go from here?'" said Jerome Corsi, co-author of the group's influential New York Times No. 1 best seller "Unfit for Command." Corsi believes current discussions indicate there will be post-election follow...

Today, America’s middle class is in danger because if Kerry is elected he won't share their values and won’t fight for their way of life. This campaign is about more than a set of policies; it is about a set of ideals: national defense and not pandering to the middle class and the poor. As president, John Kerry will put the liberal elite in front of the middle class families and those struggling to join them ahead. It's time to prevent middle-class families from working harder while paying more and more in taxes.

Today, the silent majority in this country will have their chance to tell the MSM that john Kerry is a Liar. Depsite all the BS from the MSM, the American public who work hard for a living will go to the polls had have their voices heard. We are the aMERICANS who make this country work. We are the Americans that do not spend their productive lives at leftist rallies and movies. We are the Americans they do our work quitely. We are the Americans that come out in droves when the country is in need. We are the Americans...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Some Michigan voters have received phone calls falsely claiming that Sen. John Kerry would make gay marriage legal. In New Jersey, some voters have heard a man claiming to be former Army Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf backing the Democrat. Elderly voters in Pennsylvania have been called and told they are ineligible to vote. Republicans and Democrats were furious Monday about the blatantly false, 11th-hour political calls to voters and demanded an end to the messages. Schwarzkopf has endorsed President Bush, but in a recording of a phone call played for The Associated Press, a man identifying himself...

TAMPA, FL – Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf today issued the following statement: "The Democratic National Committee is making fraudulent phone calls claiming that I have endorsed Senator Kerry. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I demand that they stop immediately. "Senator Kerry opposed the Reagan defense build-up that won the Cold War. Senator Kerry opposed the removal of Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. Senator Kerry proposed billions in intelligence cuts after the first attack on the World Trade Center. Senator Kerry voted against funds to equip our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan with supplies like body armor and ammunition. "I...

LIE, CHEAT, STEAL THE DEMOCRATS WILL DO IT ALL:What is becoming plainly obvious is how badly the leftists in America are adopting the "anything we have to do to win - even if its illegal" approach to tomorrow's voting process. Fred Barnes in this morning's edition of the Weekly Standard  summed it up  best. "We are entitled to do whatever it takes to defeat him (BUSH), to say whatever we want. You see it in the bumper stickers (re-defeat Bush..., in the destruction of Bush yard signs..., in the harrassment at least in the blue states of anyone wearing a Bush...

Kerry is slated over Bin Laden poll By Joe Murphy, Political Editor In Washington, Evening Standard 1 November 2004 John Kerry was hit by an eve-of-election row today when it emerged his team took an opinion poll on the Osama bin Laden terror tape. "It's as though he doesn't know what he believes until he check the polls," claimed vice president Dick Cheney. "I don't think that's a man who is up to the task of being commander in chief. George Bush doesn't need a poll to know what he believes, especially about Osama bin Laden." Mr Kerry's aides initially...

I'm tired of trying to refute liberals' claims against George Bush and the U.S. with discussions based on logic. They don't listen. We need a list of quick and easy one-liners that can get to the core of the issue and silence the liberals, or at least give them something to think about. Here are a few liberalisms (in quotes) with a one-line rebuttal to each. Please add yours to the list. "Bush started this war." No, the terrorists did. "It's like Japan attacked America, and then America attacked Mexico." No, it's like Japan attacked the U.S., and the U.S....

October Surprise? The Truth Behind Kerry's Military Discharge. What's Kerry Hiding?: "I have nothing to hide. I want you to ask me questions." --John Kerry, Reuters, August 3, 2004 The only 180 John Kerry hasn't accomplished in his litany of flip-flops throughout his campaign is Standard Form 180, the paperwork necessary for the complete release of his military records from the Department of Defense repository. The Kerry campaign and website continue to claim he has released all military records. In fact, they've released the few documents painting the senator in a favorable light. There are at least 100 pages, promising...

Kerry: 'Wake Up America' and Choose Fresh Start Fri Oct 29, 2004 01:17 PM ET By Patricia Wilson ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Democratic challenger John Kerry urged Americans on Friday to "wake up" and choose a new start on the economy and Iraq instead of four more years of President Bush's "catastrophic mismanagement." Four days before the United States chooses its next commander in chief, the Massachusetts senator told supporters in Orlando they could not afford to re-elect Bush, "a president who's unwilling to admit the mistakes he's made and says he would do the same thing all over again."...

In a noontime press conference today at the Pentagon, Pentagon spokesman Larry Dirita and Army Maj. Austin Pearson, an ammunition management officer who was at the Iraqi ammunition depot Al Qaqaa in spring, 2003 with the Army 3rd Infantry Division, cast doubt on the New York Times/CBS News report alleging that 377 tons of Iraqi munitions had disappeared from the site, after it had come under American control in April, 2003. Maj. Austin estimated that his unit removed 200-250 tons of munitions, and Mr. Dirita emphasized that reports that 141 tons of RDX explosives were at the facility under IAEA...

WASHINGTON — A U.S. soldier is coming forward Friday to say a team from the 3rd Infantry Division took about 200 tons of explosives from an Iraqi military facility soon after Saddam Hussein's regime fell last year. The soldier will appear before reporters at noon, EDT. The briefing will be shown on the FOX News Channel. The announcement is the latest twist in the mystery over what happened to 377 tons of explosives that the International Atomic Energy Agency said had disappeared. The soldier's story comes as new videotape has surfaced that supports the contention that tons of the explosives...

Kerry Says Saddam 'Might Be Gone' Had He Been President Fri Oct 29 2004 10:02:35 ET NBCNEWS Brokaw interviewed John Kerry Thursday evening. Brokaw: "If you had been President, Saddam Hussein would be in power." Kerry: "Not necessarily." Brokaw: "You said you wouldn't go to war against him." Kerry: "That's not true. Because under the inspection process, Saddam Hussein was required to destroy those kinds of materials and weapons." Brokaw: "But he wasn't destroying them." Kerry: "That's what you have inspectors for. That's why I voted for the threat of force, because he only does things when you have a...

<p>Excerpt from Tony Snow's 9-16-04 interview with John Kerry where Kerry essentially said the US brought the attacks on ourselves with our policies and attitudes. This was the first sunday after 911 and Kerry was blaming US attitudes and polcies for provoking, essentially, the attack.</p>

<p>Brit Baer on Fox News just announced. Coming up in 1 hour.</p>

PHOTOS CONFIRM - LARGE TRUCKS AT AL QAQAA: It is the worst of all possibilities for John Kerry. While he is busy blaming the troops for the missing weapons that were never there on their watch. While he is accusing them of being incompetent when it came to securing weapons of mass destruction. While he spit in their face the way he did to the Prisoners of War after he returned from Vietnam. The Pentagon is now providing addtional evidence that further deconstructs the now debunked New York Times story of the missing weapns. This photo as released late yesterday...

WASHINGTON - Russian special forces may have moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the U.S. invasion in 2003, The Washington Times reported today. John A. Shaw, deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, told The Times in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, "almost certainly" removed the 377 tons of heavy ordnance that has been reported missing from a site south of Baghdad. "The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units," Shaw...

ONCE again, John Kerry shows his instinct to go for the capillaries, rather than the jugular. Kerry has embraced the dubious New York Times/CBS accusations about U.S. bungling permitting the theft of explosives from an ammunition dump in Iraq. The senator has chosen to predicate the entire final week of his campaign on the unsolvable mystery of what happened to the bomb-making material in the chaos surrounding the invasion of Iraq. By stepping up to bat and running an ad in which he speaks directly into the camera in an effort to win votes over the issue, Kerry has...

Thursday, October 28, 2004 John Kerry's Dishonorable Discharge Through a very reliable source, I received a copy of the following e-mail to Sean Hannity asking his help in exposing the truth about John Kerry's discharge papers fromteh US Navy. The author is a retired former Navy lawyer and he references the former personal lawyer to then Secretary of the Navy J. William Middleton

TODAY'S WHOOPING OF SENATOR KERRY: Today on the broadcast all of this will be examined. A member of the 101st Airborne who was at Al QaQaa will tell us what he saw. Paul Bremer former head of the Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority (who was actually in Iraq - unlike John Kerry) will weigh in. Charlie Hurt of the Washington Times is on the campaign trail with Kerry will report in on Kerry and the Gertz/Russia piece. Kevin Aylward ofWizbang and Scott Sala of Slantpoint will join me Blogosphere reaction. Former Clinton staffer Dick Morris who hammered Kerry in this morning's New York Post will tell...

A 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS crew in Iraq shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein was in the area where tons of explosives disappeared. The missing explosives are now an issue in the presidential debate. Democratic candidate John Kerry is accusing President Bush of not securing the site they allegedly disappeared from. President Bush says no one knows if the ammunition was taken before or after the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003 when coalition troops moved in to the area. Using GPS technology and talking with members of the 101st Airborne 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS determined our crew embedded with...

I just saw on Fox News that Bush is being blamed for the Hurricanes that hit Florida. The Dem's buddies are running ads and billboards accusing Bush of the hurricanes because he is causing Global Warming. Am I the only one that knows Global Warming actually causes less hurricanes? Does the Dum Liberals know this?

LESS THAN A POUND of the high explosive known as HMX was enough to destroy a Pan Am jumbo jet over Scotland in 1988 in one of the worst terrorist attacks against Americans before Sept. 11, 2001. So it can only be dismaying to learn that nearly 215 tons of the substance -- enough for hundreds of thousands of such bombs -- disappeared from an Iraqi weapons facility sometime after March 2003, when it was last seen by international inspectors. An additional 162 tons of the explosives RDX and PETN also are missing, according to a report to the International...

Iraq Site: Mystery Trucks Eyed Oct. 28, 2004 The Pentagon is studying satellite photographs of the weapons storage facility in Iraq from which a massive amount of high explosives is missing, trying to determine the nature of unusual vehicle activity there before U.S. troops arrived, reports CBS News Correspondent David Martin. The U.N. nuclear watchdog this week alerted the Security Council that up to 377 tons of powerful explosives was missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility. The Iraqi government said the material was lost to looting due to poor security after the U.S. invasion. U.S. commanders acknowledged that when troops visited...

In the final week of the presidential campaign, cheese is becoming one of the key election issues. America's Dairyland, Wisconsin, is one of the "blue" states that President Bush is hoping to pull into the "red" column. Senator Kerry, on the other hand, is tugging back even harder, and he's not fighting fair, hitting Bush below the "farm belt" (as it were) by attacking him in rural Wisconsin with some misleading and bizarre claims. First, Kerry is running a television ad on selected stations in the central and western part of the state, claiming that the Bush administration has...

Thursday, October 28, 2004. 10:50pm (AEST) Documents cast doubt on amount of missing explosives The amount of heavy explosives allegedly missing from the Al-Qaqaa weapons depot south of Baghdad may be considerably less than the 377 tons reported by Iraqi authorities, the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News reports. The news channel says it has obtained a confidential document from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) dated January 14, 2003. It says the document shows that IAEA inspectors reported a little more than three tons of RDX explosives at Al-Qaqaa. That is far below the 141 tons the Iraqi Science Ministry...

The chances that enemy forces moved 377 tons of heavy ordnance out of the Al Qaqaa arms facility after U.S. forces arrived in the area are nearly impossible, said Army Col. David Perkins, who commanded the American troops who took the area during major combat operations in Iraq in 2003. Perkins commanded 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division. A unit under his command, the 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry, entered the depot on April 3, 2003, and defeated the enemy forces there in a two-day battle. The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency had tagged the explosives at the site and...

John Kerry: The Scott Peterson of Politics By Frank Salvato October 28, 2004 There is one thing John Kerry is consistent on: his propensity for manipulating the truth. From Vietnam to the floor of the senate to the halls of the United Nations, Kerry has stretched and exaggerated to create "the truth" and has done so without compunction. His latest "over the top" invention is his "two-hour meeting with the entire UN Security Council." The crafting of this tale should tarnish his image in the eyes of his supporters, if not we should consider their intelligence highly suspect. Throughout his...

Russia Denies Involvement in Iraq Weapons 1 hour, 46 minutes ago By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press Writer MOSCOW - Russia angrily denied allegations Thursday that Russian forces had smuggled a cache of high explosives out of Iraq (news - web sites) prior to the U.S. invasion in March 2003. Defense Ministry spokesman Vyacheslav Sedov dismissed the allegations as "absurd" and "ridiculous." "I can state officially that the Russian Defense Ministry and its structures couldn't have been involved in the disappearance of the explosives, because all Russian military experts left Iraq when the international sanctions were introduced during the 1991 Gulf...

First event is at the Lake Eola Bandshell downtown Orlando, corner East Washington Street and North Rosalind Ave in 32801 17:30 hrs (5:30 PM National Guard time) Movie "Stolen Honor" will be shown there. Bring any undecideds. (Mapquest for directions) Afterparty at Chapters Restaurant, 358 North Park Ave (corner of Canton) Winter Park 32789 About 8-10 minutes from Bandshell. Best route is I-4 east to Fairbanks Ave East, (about 3 miles,) right turn coming off Interstate. Then about 3 miles east on Fairbanks (over RR tracks,) to left at Park Avenue (at small 7/11) About one mile north on Park...

Kerry's Lies Don't Matter by Bob Redman (27 Oct. 2004) Kerry's lies don't matter to the 45 and more millions of people who are going to vote for him on Tuesday. Nor that he lobbied to get a purple heart for a scratch, bugged out early from Vietnam, committed treason afterward, left one heiress and children to marry another heiress, took campaign money from Vietnamese, Chinese, and Iranians, and will stoop to any lie in a debate or on the stump. His supporters know or sense all of this already. In short, these people identify with him. There will, however,...