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Harold W. Andersen: Swift-boat questions continue because Kerry refuses to reply BY HAROLD W. ANDERSEN WORLD-HERALD CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Published Sunday, September 19, 2004 An attorney friend wrote to complain about "wild-eyed accusations" against John Kerry. His letter said that "most of the assertions by the Texas-funded 'Swift Boat Veterans' regarding John Kerry's actions in Vietnam had been refuted by real facts and undermined by their own contradictory statements." But the truth is that most of the assertions by members of "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" not only have not been refuted - they haven't even been replied to. Most of...

For the past year, and most recently by CBS News, we have been deluged with reports that George W. Bush did not complete his agreed duty in the Texas National Guard. Even the records show that George Bush exceeded his obligations from 1968-1973, and only came into question during the last 18 months of his agreed obligation when he requested and received official permission to transfer to an Alabama unit and then enroll in an MBA program at Harvard. His obligation was for 6 years from May of 1968 to May 1974. He received an educational release from his...

As the ONLY MSM newperson with "guts" we need you to help "US" , the public, force Kerry to sign the Form 180. We need that missing information and we need "YOU" to point to the proof (yes it does exist) that Kerry collaborated with the enermy in 1970 and 71. Two times for sure and maybe a third time. NO reasonable logical American could vote for a person who has committed such acts of treason against the USA. The problem is that voters not born in 1950 or before know nothing about Kerry's cowardly character.

Navy Contradicts Kerry on Release of Military Records By Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer September 16, 2004 (CNSNews.com) - The U.S. Navy released documents Wednesday contradicting claims by Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry that all of his available military records have been released. The Navy, responding to a Freedom of Information Act request from the legal watchdog group Judicial Watch, also referred interested parties to Kerry's campaign web site for government military documents. Navy Personnel Command FOIA Officer Dave German wrote in an e-mail to Judicial Watch that the Navy "withheld thirty-one pages of documents from the responsive military...

With all of the hubbub about President Bush's National Guard service, where is the outcry for Kerry to sign SF-180 to authorize the release of ALL of his records? The news media has given Kerry a pass of incredible proportions. As the prospective Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces, I think that it is high time to really see ALL of Kerry's Official service record. I want to see his OERs (not OETRs). I want to see his complete medical records. I want to know what actions the US military took subsequent to his 1971 testimony - since...

Concerned Americans request that you - Senator Kerry authorize the Department of the Navy to independently release your military records (through your execution of Standard Form 180), complete and unaltered, including your military medical records. That means every page - ALL PAGES. KERRY HAS A "FEW" IRRELEVANT DOCUMENTS AT HIS WEB SITE HANDPICKED BY KERRY TO FOOL THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. The SF 180 can be downloaded at http://www.vba.va.gov/pubs/forms/sf180.pdf or faxed on demand via 301-837-0990 (request document 2255). Concerned Americans can generate form SF 180 and personally hand them to Sen. Kerry as he campaigns. This will give him multiple opportunities...

We are apparently amidst a national conversation between the Kerry campaign and the mainstream media about President Bush’s military records when he served as a fighter pilot in the National Guard. The question of whether he missed a physical or several meetings seems to be asked over and over again. The catalyst for all these questions is the federal records which are kept about each member of the Armed Forces. These documents are the best evidence of what really happened at that time. Of lesser value are the memories of various individuals who served with George W. Bush. Did they...

John Kerry and his campaign flaks have accused the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth of lying and being a shill for the Bush campaign. And yet John Kerry refused to address the many questions that surround his allegedly “heroic” service in Vietnam. We believe Americans deserve to know the truth. Fortunately, the truth is out there … in John Kerry’s military records. We can settle this controversy once and for all by opening those files. All John Kerry needs to do is execute Standard Form 180. Upon doing so, Mr. Kerry will shed light on the subject. He will...

Ed Rogers, a republican strategist was just on Fox Weekend Live (~10:55 am 9-5-04) and he said, “Yesterday it was reported the Kerry's had $5.49 million of income in 2003 they paid $677,000 in taxes. That's 12% - 12% on five and a half million dollars in income. They want American workers, entrepreneurs, making $200,000 to pay 38%. That’s gonna be a big issue.”

Saturday, August 21, 2004 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette filed a petition yesterday to join two other newspapers that are seeking to open the will of the late U.S. Sen. H. John Heinz III.

Nixon redux Guest View Bruce Kesler Special to The Augusta Free Press If, as is often quoted, the first casualty of war is truth, then the first casualty of truth in this war between the Vietnam veterans is the mainstream press. The "mainstream press" is sometimes also referred to as the old press: The New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, Associated Press, NBC, ABC, CBS. Most of us grew up depending upon them for facts, and even aspiring to be of them. Most of us, whether partisan or not, saw the mainstream press as the civic center that a...

The thickening storm clouds over the fierce dispute between the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the indignant Democratic presidential candidate can be pierced if John Kerry will release all of his records of service in the Vietnam War. Deep in a long front-page Washington Post article by Michael Dobbs, "Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete," there is a smoking gun. In the Aug. 22 piece, Dobbs largely gives credit to Kerry's version of one of the controversies - whether there was enemy fire on March 13, 1969, the day Kerry rescued James Rassmann from the water. But the smoking gun appears...

Before Bill Clinton was impeached back in 1998, liberals everywhere focused almost exclusively on his sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, saying it was nobody's business but his, and that America needed to just ''move on.'' After his impeachment, they turned their attentions to Kenneth Starr, the man who investigated Clinton, excoriating and slandering the good judge relentlessly for simply doing the job he was appointed to do... a job he did quite well and admirably, by the way. The one thing they didn't do at any time surrounding the impeachment scandal is concentrate on the single most important aspect of...

www.suntimes.com Open the records and shut the speculation August 24, 2004 While George Washington seems to have managed to become president without having too many people leaping to impugn his character or questioning his role in the American victory in the Revolutionary War, just about every other candidate who would become president since then has found his military record and character the subject of intense public scrutiny. Sen. John Kerry is no different. Though the past fortnight's debate over just what went on in the four months Kerry saw duty in Vietnam is particularly bitter, even in the rough-and-tumble annals...

Monday, Aug. 23, 2004 12:39 a.m. EDT Hentoff: Kerry in War Record Cover-up Longtime civil libertarian and columnist for the left-wing Village Voice, Nat Hentoff charged Sunday that the Kerry campaign is engaged in a transparent cover-up of the Massachusetts Democrat's war record and an attempt to muzzle freedom of speech. In an interview with WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg, Hentoff noted that the Pentagon has responded to a Washington Post Freedom of Information Act request for Kerry's full military file by turning over just six pages of their 100-plus page Kerry dossier, with a spokesman explaining that Kerry himself wouldn't...

At the White House, press secretary Scott McClellan said he couldn't say specifically whether Mr. Bush signed Standard Form 180, but the president did request and release his own military records in February. "I don't believe he signed any form, but he did authorize making his military records available publicly," Mr. McClellan said. "We have released all the records, and reporters were allowed to look at his medical records as well."

I had an epiphany while watching Bob Dole on CNN earlier today. It became crystal clear why the Ketchup Boy is hiding his records and refuses to sign the SF180...I will bet dollars to doughnuts that there are trails which clearly show that he put himself in for at least that first Purple Heart and was denied. It has to map out how he circumvented the system in order to collect his medals. That is, indeed, the smoking gun in this fiasco. I hate to restate the obvious, but I believe that it cannot be said too much. John Kerry...

From a reliable source: Tony Bennettwill join Courtney Cox, Leonardo DiCaprio, Melanie Griffith, Angelica Huston, Michael Keaton, Viggo Mortensen, Rob Reiner, Mary Steenburgen, Ted Danson, Sharon Stone and othersfor a $5,000/plate "secret" fundraising dinnerforJohn Kerryon Thursday, August 26th 6:30 P.M. VIP Reception and Dinnerat theFairmont Miramar Hotel 101 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica

Campaign '04: John Kerry says he'll fight claims he lied about or exaggerated his service in Vietnam. The best way to fight such charges would be to stop calling people names and start providing some answers. He'll have to show that the charges by a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are false. That's a tall order. The allegations are numerous, well documented and quite serious. In general, they insist that Kerry has consistently overstated his heroism, that many accounts of his service in Vietnam are not true and that he has slandered his fellow veterans by claiming they...