Posted on 08/27/2004 1:56:01 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 08/27/2004 7:57:36 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
In a third television ad by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, one of John Kerry's crew members accuses the presidential candidate of lying, charging he falsely claimed to have spent Christmas in Cambodia in 1968.
Foregunner Steve Gardner, who served on Kerry's PCF [Patrol Craft Fast] - 44 in Vietnam in late 1968 and early 1969, is the only one of 10 former crew members to reject Kerry's plea to campaign for him.
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has 254 of Kerry's former colleagues in Vietnam, including every officer who served in the chain of command above him, contending Kerry is unfit to be commander in chief.
In the ad, Gardner refers to the claim Kerry has made for 35 years, including from the Senate floor in a 1986 speech in which he said, "I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting in a gunboat in Cambodia. I remember what it was like to be shot at by Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge and Cambodians, and have the president of the United States tell the American people I was not there; the troops were not in Cambodia. I have the memory which is seared – seared – in me. … "
Gardner says:
"I spent more time on John Kerry's boat than any other crew member. John Kerry has not been honest. He has been deceitful."John Kerry claims he spent Christmas in Cambodia in 1968, and that is categorically a lie. Not in December, not in January, we were never in Cambodia on a secret mission, ever."
On August 11, Fox News Channel reported the Kerry campaign "has been forced to admit errors" in Kerry's statement to the Senate, and also in a 1979 Boston Herald article.
John Hurley, the national director of Veterans for Kerry, said, "I don't know that anyone can actually say whether or not they were in Cambodia. [It is a] very watery area. It is – there's no sign that says welcome to Cambodia. It is – it is obviously dusk and getting darker, and so they were in those waters."
FNC reported Kerry's campaign also says he was in Cambodia on a different mission with Navy Seals, but can provide no date for that mission.
Stated Hurley: "He was five miles into Cambodia, but what's happened is these two stories have gotten confused."
Hurley says Kerry was simply mistaken about the date of his incursion.
"I think that he knows that he was under fire in Cambodia," he said. "I think the date is what's inaccurate, that it was just not Christmas Eve Day."
The swiftboat vets' second ad, released at the beginning of this week to play in Ohio, West Virginia and Wisconsin, features former POWs charging Kerry with betrayal for accusing them of war atrocities during his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971.
The first TV commercial quoted Kerry's Vietnam comrades calling him a liar, questioning his honor, accusing him of misrepresenting his actions for medals and attacking his character.
As well as all 3 Swiftvets.com ads!
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A link to the third ad.
http://humaneventsonline.com.edgesuite.net/unfit_video3.html
the third ad is not as powerful as the second but gets the messgae across that Kerry cannot be trusted.
And more ads on their way -- God Bless the Swifties.
Heard him on the Rush Limbaugh show. Powerful witness!
Now, who are we going to believe 254 highly credited serviceman or the 9 that Kerry bought.
Me too. And I couldn't agree with you more about Steve Gardner. Powerful witness and genuine war hero.
a JH2 BTTT !!
Thanks for bumping the thread.
You are welcome....gotta get the "morning crew" up to speed....
"I don't know that anyone can actually say whether or not they were in Cambodia."
Um, Mr. Hurley, didn't someone you know "actually say" they were in Cambodia - 'twas seared in his memory.
I am listening to Terry McAulliff on Cspan..accusing Bush piously about Ginsburg giving legal advice to Swift Boat .blah blah..calling him ultra right wing Republican that governs from extreme far right.
Slamming Bush and Cheney for not going to Vietnam..Invoking previous attacks on McCain..More people are exposed for their lies,speaking of swift boat vets"who were not with him"..We will respond in kind!..Kerry who risked his life will not stand for it....!Criticizing Bush for being in cahoots with ads.
Dodging effect the ads are having on Kerry..saying they are in great shape...."Swift Boat ads..others dirtiest, nastiest in his 25 years of politics...They love money,power....Invoking Herbert Hoover/depression...
I am watching the biggest liar in the dem party call the swift boat veterans for truth liars..and I need a Pepcid!
If you are willing to wade through a thousand links, I have a file on Loathsome Terry right here:
-Liars-- and Sleaze, Incorporated... ( my files on the clintons and friends )--
Terry McAuliffe -- wasn't he the locoweed who said 'He's gone!' of Gov. Jeb Bush back in August, 2002? ;-) And who said Election Night, November 2002, was a banner night?
My admiration for the strength to sit and listen to McLowlife for that period of time.I wouldn't take his millions to be reduced to such a double-talking peg of instability.He's led his own party to destruction.
Backhoe..my ears are being soothed with the sounds of Ed Gillespie speaking about Kerry...It is music after Terry the sleaze master...Thanks for the link, but I have only so much I can take!
Regarding the Swifties, Terry McAuliffe ain't fit to wash their feet.
#16..Gillespie is bringin' it to them!..I love it ..Healing.
Amen!...
I agree. They need to hit back on what he said about vets when he got back. Preferably with the POWs who were tortured because of him.
As I see it, the SWBV ad campaign can do a good job of making it look like Kerry was dragged to Nam unwilinglingly (true), chose the swift boats because he thought they'd be safer (also true), started thinking about how he could use the war to his political advantage as soon as he got there (true as well), took three quick purple hearts and bugged out, then came back and tried to use his "heroics" to push a radically leftist agenda that caused us to pull out of Southeast Asia leaving millions to die under communism.
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