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HKRockChick No More Peas!
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 11:57 pm Post subject: hmmmmmmm |
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news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=...0805184948
White House repudiates anti-Kerry ad
Quote: COLUMBUS, United States (AFP) - The White House distanced itself from a commercial by a controversial veterans' group that accuses Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry (news - web sites) of lying about his service in Vietnam.
Quote: His former crewmates have aggressively campaigned on his behalf, appearing at his side at political rallies and telling audiences stories about Kerry's exploits during the war.
Quote: Senator John McCain, a former Vietnam prisoner of war who challenged Bush for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000, has denounced the group.
Quote: And the Kerry campaign has branded the allegations as "garbage," noting that none of the men levelling the accusations served on Kerry's boat.
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Galmin The King has spoken!
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 10:54 am Post subject: re |
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Better yet, WHO REALLY CARES?!!! What does any of this have to do with being President of the United States? I'll bet most people had never heard of a "Swift Boat" prior to all this irrellevant brew ha-ha.
The question, I guess, should be: "Did any of these people know/associate with Kerry back then?"...not "Where they on the same boat?" Although they usually patrolled singley, they were organized in squadrons...so there was ample opportunity for many to get to know him without having served on the same boat.
...but again, WHO CARES?
My questions would be "What are their track records and what do they stand for?" Those should be the determining factors, IMHO.
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 3:00 pm Post subject: VETERAN RETRACTS CRITICISM OF KERRY |
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www.boston.com/news/natio..._of_kerry/
A week after Senator John F. Kerry heralded his wartime experience by surrounding himself at the Democratic convention with his Vietnam ''Band of Brothers," a separate group of veterans has launched a television ad campaign and a book that questions the basis for some of Kerry's combat medals.
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But yesterday, a key figure in the anti-Kerry campaign, Kerry's former commanding officer, backed off one of the key contentions. Lieutenant Commander George Elliott said in an interview that he had made a ''terrible mistake" in signing an affidavit that suggests Kerry did not deserve the Silver Star -- one of the main allegations in the book. The affidavit was given to The Boston Globe by the anti-Kerry group to justify assertions in their ad and book.
Elliott is quoted as saying that Kerry ''lied about what occurred in Vietnam . . . for example, in connection with his Silver Star, I was never informed that he had simply shot a wounded, fleeing Viet Cong in the back."
The statement refers to an episode in which Kerry killed a Viet Cong soldier who had been carrying a rocket launcher, part of a chain of events that formed the basis of his Silver Star. Over time, some Kerry critics have questioned whether the soldier posed a danger to Kerry's crew. Crew members have said Kerry's actions saved their lives.
Yesterday, reached at his home, Elliott said he regretted signing the affidavit and said he still thinks Kerry deserved the Silver Star.
''I still don't think he shot the guy in the back," Elliott said. ''It was a terrible mistake probably for me to sign the affidavit with those words. I'm the one in trouble here."
Elliott said he was no under personal or political pressure to sign the statement, but he did feel ''time pressure" from those involved in the book. ''That's no excuse," Elliott said. ''I knew it was wrong . . . In a hurry I signed it and faxed it back. That was a mistake."
The affidavit also contradicted earlier statements by Elliott, who came to Boston during Kerry's 1996 Senate campaign to defend Kerry on similar charges, saying that Kerry acted properly and deserved the Silver Star.
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