Wade Sanders is a Swift Boat veteran of Vietnam. He did not serve with John Kerry, but they have a strong friendship. Sanders was a surrogate for Kerry during the 2004 campaign. The Oakland Tribune of September 11, 2004 (not available online, except at Free Republic) reports Sanders’ intemperance:
O'Neill "needs to be confronted with the lies he's fomenting," Sanders said. He likened O'Neill and Karl Rove to Nazi propaganda master Joseph Goebbels, saying they "studied at that man's knee."
Sanders continues to be fond of calling Swiftees, or in this case their defenders who document the media’s efforts to squelch the Swiftees, as apostles of Goebbels. In 2008, Sanders writes: “The authors of this book apparently channelled the former Reich Minister of Information…”
Sanders has written virtually the same column over and over, wherever he can get it published, bashing the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. For example, even at Military.com in 2006, Sanders is still beating his dead horse. Sanders cites the Klein article as evidence that John O’Neill was “ ‘the centerpiece of the Nixon White House strategy to undermine Kerry’ per authoritative reporting on the matter.”
I, and law professor Maimon Schwarzschild, wrote about Wade Sanders in December 2004. Schwarzschild commented on a TV appearance with Sanders earlier in the year:
The odd thing about the fellow, it seemed to me, was his ingrained leftism, coexisting with a perfectly conventional (trial-lawyer) personal style. It wasn't just what he said on the air, which veered into conspiracy theory territory about Bush knowing and approving in advance of ("pervasive") torture and war crimes. Off the air, he was even more revealing. As we chatted with the program host, he reverted repeatedly to the idea that the Iraq war is "racist". (An odd idea, surely?) His eyes lit up almost worshipfully though, when he reported meeting Daniel Ellsberg at some Kerry campaign stop. It was all very much in the spirit of the 60s and 70s anti-war left."
Here's an example: Sanders' "review" of Tim Ziegler and my book on the 2004 anti-Kerry effort: Amazon link.