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Eagle Point vet who was there backs Kerry’s assertion that bullets were flying the day he won two medals on a river in VietnamBy PAUL FATTIG Robert E. Lambert doesn’t plan to vote for John Kerry. But the Eagle Point man challenges claims by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that there was no enemy fire aimed at the five swift boats, including the one commanded by Kerry, on March 13, 1969 on the Bay Hap River in the southern tip of what was then South Vietnam. Lambert, now 64, was a crew member on swift boat PCF-51...

You Can Report, but We Will Decide The conservative media's handling of the Swift boat dispute is a case study in bias. By Ben Wasserstein Ben Wasserstein is a writer in New York. August 24, 2004 Last Thursday, the Washington Post reported that the military records of Larry Thurlow, one of John Kerry's major accusers among the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, contradicted Thurlow's version of events and confirmed Kerry's. At the very least, this cast severe doubt on the charge that Kerry fabricated the events that earned him one of his Vietnam War medals. The conservative media had been...

"bombastic ass" is not the antidote to "boorish ass" (or why Keith Olbermann Cannot Do Cleanup for Chris Matthews)   by Mia T, 8.20.04   perating under the false assumption, (a curious, 20th-century cable conceit), that "bombastic ass" is the antidote to "boorish ass," MSNBC schedulers have Keith Olbermann doing cleanup for Chris Matthews. Last night, Michelle Malkin easily dispensed with that silly notion. (See below.)   SOME POINTS TO PONDER, SWIFTLY Is Matthews a witless waterboy D who doesn't understand that 'self-inflicted' doesn't imply 'intentional'... or is he a colluding waterboy D who does? (A distinction without a...

August 19, 2004 -- Posted Swift Veteran statements in response to today's Washington Post article by Michael Dobbs, Records Counter a Critic of Kerry. Dobbs attempts to make a case that there was enemy small-arms fire during the Rassmann incident for which John Kerry obtained a Bronze Star, based on the writeup for Larry Thurlow's own Bronze Star. But who wrote the action report for the event? And why no bullet holes in any of the boats? Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth member Larry Thurlow Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth member Van Odell Statement By Swift...

Swiftvet John O'Neill will appear on Hannity & Colmes on Fox News at 9 PM EDT and Swiftvet Larry Thurlow will appear on Hardball on MSNBC at 7 PM EDT.

For Immediate Release August 19, 2004 Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Member Larry Thurlow I am convinced that the language used in my citation for a Bronze Star was language taken directly from John Kerry's report which falsely described the action on the Bay Hap River as action that saw small arms fire and automatic weapons fire from both banks of the river. To this day, I can say without a doubt in my mind, along with other accounts from my shipmates-there was no hostile enemy fire directed at my boat or at any of the five boats...

Statement by Navy Veteran Van Odell, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, in Rebuttal to Michael Dobbs, Washington Post, August 19, 2004 A courageous, soft spoken man of the Midwest, Larry Thurlow has a heart bigger than the great plains and a commitment to truth and honesty that is boundless. He is under attack, because John Kerry is feeling the heat of truth at the hands of this honest man and others like him. The Kerry Campaign is attacking the truthfulness of this man and the Bronze Star he so richly deserves for his actions on March 13, 1969. I was...

ELECTION 2004 Kerry's 'fraudulent' report basis for military records Officer at scene of Bronze Star event insists they didn't receive 'enemy fire' Posted: August 19, 20041:51 p.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Responding to a Washington Post article questioning his veracity, a critic of John Kerry's war record insists military records cited in the story are based on a fraudulent after-action report by Kerry himself. The Post reported today that newly obtained military records of Larry Thurlow, who commanded a Navy swift boat alongside Kerry in Vietnam, contradict Thurlow's claim that Kerry was not under enemy fire when he pulled...

For Immediate Release August 19, 2004 Statement By Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Member Larry Thurlow I am convinced that the language used in my citation for a Bronze Star was language taken directly from John Kerry's report which falsely described the action on the Bay Hap River as action that saw small arms fire and automatic weapons fire from both banks of the river. To this day, I can say without a doubt in my mind, along with other accounts from my shipmates-there was no hostile enemy fire directed at my boat or at any of the five boats...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Military records appear to contradict claims by a vocal critic of Sen. John Kerry that the Democratic presidential candidate lied about coming under gunfire during a mission in Vietnam, according to The Washington Post. The newly obtained records of Larry Thurlow show that he, like Kerry, won a Bronze Star for the same engagement and that Thurlow's citation said he came under "constant small arms fire,'' the newspaper reported Thursday. Thurlow, also like Kerry, commanded a Navy Swift boat during the war. Thurlow swore in an affidavit last month that Kerry was "not under fire'' when he...

The media is having a hay day over the newly discovered proof that there was enemy fire on the day Kerry won his Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Apparently Larry Thurlow who claimed Kerry was not under enemy fire, also won a Bronze Star that day and claimed that he was under enemy fire that day. Thus Thurlow is a liar according to the ‘fact checkers’ in the media. But a simple reading of what Thurlow said shows otherwise. No one ever denied there was enemy fire that day, what was denied is when Kerry returned, the enemy fire had...

Newly obtained military records of one of Sen. John F. Kerry's most vocal critics, who has accused the Democratic presidential candidate of lying about his wartime record to win medals, contradict his own version of events. In newspaper interviews and a best-selling book, Larry Thurlow, who commanded a Navy Swift boat alongside Kerry in Vietnam, has strongly disputed Kerry's claim that the Massachusetts Democrat's boat came under fire during a mission in Viet Cong-controlled territory on March 13, 1969. Kerry won a Bronze Star for his actions that day. But Thurlow's military records, portions of which were released yesterday to...

A startling new book charges that John Kerry accidentally "wounded himself in the buttocks" in Vietnam with a grenade he exploded, then lied to get a medal by saying he had received the injury rescuing one of his crewmen. The book, "Unfit for Command," was released yesterday by Regnery publishers and presents the biggest challenge yet to Kerry's decorated war-record. Based on the accounts of numerous vets, the explosive book claims Kerry's rescue under fire of Jim Rassman — an action that earned Kerry his third Purple Heart and a Bronze Star — didn't happen the way the Democratic nominee...