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O'Grady: Kerry's actions after Vietnam constituted treason ASHLEY H. GRANT Associated Press ST. PAUL - Scott O'Grady, the Air Force pilot who captured headlines in 1995 when he survived being shot down over Bosnia, on Friday said Sen. John Kerry committed "treason" during the Vietnam War. O'Grady, in an appearance with other military veterans coordinated by President Bush's re-election campaign, said Kerry helped push North Vietnam's proposals for the United States to withdraw at a time when the two countries were still officially at war. "I see that as treason," said O'Grady, who lives in Texas and has been speaking...

A reader recently complained that I had written seven columns in a row about John Kerry. This will be my eighth. Just consider me John Kerry's other biographer--the one who doesn't change his story. The Kerry campaign accidentally gave the Swift Boat Veterans a good deal of credibility by admitting that at least one of their accounts of Kerry's Vietnam service is accurate. Now, the Kerry camp concedes that he never was in Cambodia on Christmas Eve, as the Swift boaters claimed, despite Kerry having stated in the Congressional Record that it was a moment that was ''seared -- seared...

Kerry's Cambodia account challenged by ex-commander By Scott Canon Knight Ridder Newspapers KANSAS CITY, Mo. — John Kerry's repeated claim that he spent Christmas Eve of 1968 upriver in Cambodia — against official United States policy — has drawn harsh criticism from anti-Kerry veterans. Roy Hoffmann, a retired admiral who was a Navy captain in command of Kerry's unit at the time, said the candidate's Cambodia statements can't be true. "I think he just outright lied," said Hoffman, a founder of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. "He never was there." Over the years, Kerry has referred to spending Christmas...

____: Our executive editor, Susan Goldberg, asked me to respond to your recent e-mail about Sen. Kerry's wartime claims. This is a topic we have devoted several stories to during this presidential campaign. As early as January 2004, we wrote a story that touched on how Kerry's wartime experience shaped him. In February, Mercury News Washington Bureau reporter Jim Puzzanghera wrote a profile of Kerry that detailed the actions that led to his military honors. In April, after the Boston Globe began questioning the circumstances of Kerry's first Purple Heart, we ran a New York Times article saying the campaign...

Book, ads assail Kerry's military record By The Dallas Morning News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch DALLAS — Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's much-vaunted military record is under attack in a controversial television ad and a newly released book. The group behind the television attacks, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, has accused Kerry of exaggerating claims in order to earn medals and Purple Hearts during his tour in Vietnam almost 35 years ago. Many members date their anger at Kerry to his anti-war activities after he returned from Vietnam, saying he slandered veterans. The group has come under fierce counterattack...

MIDI - GREEN BERET John had served in Vietnam...he sent letters home to mom What was real is hard to say...from SwiftVets, help is on the way Scratches get a Purple Heart...his report was a work of art What had been real is hard to say...from the SwiftVets, help is on the way Where was he on Christmas Eve...what he says, we can't believe What was real is hard to say...from SwiftVets, help is on the way Vietnam's his centerpiece...it looks like we've all been fleeced 'Cause what was real is hard to say...from the SwiftVets, help is on...

It was hard not to chuckle at the piece of pantomime as John Kerry appeared on stage at the Democratic National Convention, gave a mock salute, and said, "My name is John Kerry, and I am reporting for duty." This, I thought, is the start of the man's undoing. It was all just too theatrical. Something of a charade. Kerry has painted himself both as a Vietnam war hero and as an anti-Vietnam war demonstrator. Well, you can likely be one of the two, but hardly both. Now a sensational new book is hitting the bookshelves and it paints a...

I was just told by someone who heard a blurb on KRLA 870 in Los Angeles, that the station will have 3 hours today about the SwiftVets from 4-8 pm Pacific. Listen live on the Internet -- KRLA.

'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...

We know that the Dems are planning to continue to politically attack the president. They are using their 527's to spend in excess of $400 million dollars to attack the President. They are also vigorously attacking the SwiftVets using Legal Terrorism This is the Big Time, Freepers. This is the time when WE must step up and support. This is not yet the march in the streets we did in Florida and outside of Dick Cheney's house in 2000. This is a battle where the mainstream media are taking their marching orders directly from the DNC. They are going to...

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." --Samuel Johnson Whoever could have imagined that four months spent as officer-in-charge of a Navy Swift boat in Vietnam would figure so largely, 36 years later, in Sen. John F. Kerry's campaign for president of the United States? The Lord does indeed move in mysterious ways. Kerry chose to make his Vietnam service, for which he was awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts, an issue in the campaign. On the night he accepted the Democratic Party's nomination at its convention in Boston, he welcomed to the podium...

John Kerry abandoned our husbands, sons, fathers, and brothers in favor of trade and normalization of relations with Vietnam. His actions paved the way for the further abandonment of POWs and MIAs from World War II, the Korean War, and the Cold War. John Kerry, as chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, ordered the destruction of committee documents, blocked avenues of investigation, and misrepresented progress on the POW/MIA issue to justify lifting of the trade embargo against Vietnam.

This is my first post, so bear with me.....long time reader. I just tried to access the Swift Vets site and it appears to be hacked.

I am going to post this here because I need as many eyes to see this as possible in hopes someone will know where I can find the following PDF that was removed from Kerry's web site after only two weeks. I am crossing my fingers someone may have downloaded the following file and kept a local copy of it: Spot Reports for January, 1969 (pdf: 2.4MB)Filename should be: SpotReports_January1969.pdfOh please, someone tell me they have it!

Last Thursday, The Drudge Report touted an exclusive report that John Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley was rushing to publish in The New Yorker a corrected version of Kerry's seared memory of being in Cambodia on Christmas Day, 1968.However, The New Yorker's press release issued today for their next issue, dated August 23, 2004, contains no mention at all of the piece by Brinkley.Hmmm....still in rewrite, perhaps?

Last week John Kerry recanted the detailed and emotional story of his Christmas Eve, 1968 illegal mission into Cambodia that he has been telling for 30 years, most notably in a movie review of Apocalpse Now that he wrote for the Boston Herald on October 14, 1979, in a statement on the floor of the Senate on March 27,1986, and in an AP story from 1992. Faced with mounting evidence that this brazen fabrication was crumbling, Kerry spokesmen acknowledged that Kerry wasn't in Cambodia on Christmas Eve, 1968, but hung tough on Kerry's having been across the border on several...

Remember when Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911, just got released and republicans come out of the woodwork to refute claims made in the movie. The first attack the liberals would use was "HOW CAN YOU ATTACK THIS MOVIE! YOU HAVENT EVEN SEEN IT! HOW CAN YOU JUDGE A MOVIE THAT YOU HAVENT SEEN!" Now a new book has been released by John E. O'Neill that is VERY critical of the way John F. Kerry conducted himself in Vietnam, and the same people that were defending Fahrenheit 911 saying you cant attack it unless you see it first are attacking this book...

LOS ANGELES, CA (PRWEB) June 10, 2004 -- Paperless Archives (www.paperlessarchives.com) has announced the publishing of 20,000 pages of FBI Files related to Senator John Kerry. These FBI files include coverage of John Kerry's activity as a leader of the anti-Vietnam War group, Vietnam Veterans Against the War. These FBI files have been the subject of great discussion and news coverage recently, yet few have actually ever seen a single page of the documents. Paperless Archives (www.paperlessarchives.com) has now made it possible for everyone to obtain and review copies of these files. Most of this material was originally released in...

For those of you who have not been fully following the Swift Vet's story, one of Kerry's traveling entourage (David Alston) claimed he was under Kerry's command on a PBF and found Kerry to be a great leader. He even gave a speech to that effect at the Democratic National Convention, where he said the following: I know him from a small boat in Vietnam, where we fought and bled together, serving our country. There were six of us aboard PCF-94, a 50-foot, twin-engine craft known as a "Swift Boat." We all came from different walks of life, but all...

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