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User: "Yang, AthD h.c"
Date: 01 Sep 2004 08:24:00 PM
Object: Vietnam Vet To Smearboat Liars: "Stop Using My Name in Your Petition!"
How many smearboat lies have these clowns been caught in now?
Seriously, how incompetent and dishonest can you be?
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/09/01/build/state/25-swift-boat.inc
COLUMBUS - Swift boat veteran Bob Anderson of Columbus is ticked.
It bothers him that Sen. John Kerry's swift boat history has become
such a political hot potato. But he's even more irritated that his
name was included - without his permission - on a letter used to
discredit Kerry.
"I'm pretty nonpolitical," the 56-year-old Anderson said Tuesday. So,
when he found out last week that his name was one of about 300 signed
on a letter questioning Kerry's service, he was "flabbergasted."


"It's kind of like stealing my identity," said Anderson, who spent a
year on a swift boat as an engine man and gunner.
-----
Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
Proudly plonked by Lani Girl and Crazyalec
The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: -3 million jobs and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -977 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
.

User: "Jake M"

Title: Re: Vietnam Vet To Smearboat Liars: "Stop Using My Name in YourPetition!" 01 Sep 2004 09:43:47 PM
"Yang, AthD (h.c)" wrote:


How many smearboat lies have these clowns been caught in now?
Seriously, how incompetent and dishonest can you be?

They lie, even incompetently, because sometimes it works. They expect
honest victims to be taken aback and to just expect the truth to
eventually emerge. But often by the time the truth emerges, the damned
lie has done its damage. Even before the age of electronic
communication, there was the old saying "a lie travels halfway around
the world while the truth is still putting its boots on." Fortunately,
thanks in no small part to the Internet, the truth has become almost as
fast as the lie.
Unfortunately the 24-hour cable news channels will gladly focus on lies
in a way the traditional press wouldn't because the cables have lower
standards and also have that 24 hours to fill. When they aren't feeding
us Laci Peterson and Kobe Bryant, they're feeding us Swift Boat Lies and
similar nonsense. No telling if or when things will get any better.
Kerry needs a new campaign director. Whoever advised him not hit back
hard and fast needs to be shitcanned yesterday. Where the hell is James
Carville when we need him?


http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/09/01/build/state/25-swift-boat.inc

COLUMBUS - Swift boat veteran Bob Anderson of Columbus is ticked.

It bothers him that Sen. John Kerry's swift boat history has become
such a political hot potato. But he's even more irritated that his
name was included - without his permission - on a letter used to
discredit Kerry.

"I'm pretty nonpolitical," the 56-year-old Anderson said Tuesday. So,
when he found out last week that his name was one of about 300 signed
on a letter questioning Kerry's service, he was "flabbergasted."



"It's kind of like stealing my identity," said Anderson, who spent a
year on a swift boat as an engine man and gunner.

-----

Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
Proudly plonked by Lani Girl and Crazyalec

The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: -3 million jobs and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -977 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting

Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless

.
User: "Buck"

Title: Re: Vietnam Vet To Smearboat Liars: "Stop Using My Name in Your Petition!" 01 Sep 2004 10:52:48 PM
Hi Jake!
Bye Jake!!
PLONK!!
"Jake M" <jamal@funvt.calm> wrote in message
news:413688E3.1077F55A@funvt.calm...

"Yang, AthD (h.c)" wrote:


How many smearboat lies have these clowns been caught in now?
Seriously, how incompetent and dishonest can you be?


They lie, even incompetently, because sometimes it works. They expect
honest victims to be taken aback and to just expect the truth to
eventually emerge. But often by the time the truth emerges, the damned
lie has done its damage. Even before the age of electronic
communication, there was the old saying "a lie travels halfway around
the world while the truth is still putting its boots on." Fortunately,
thanks in no small part to the Internet, the truth has become almost as
fast as the lie.

Unfortunately the 24-hour cable news channels will gladly focus on lies
in a way the traditional press wouldn't because the cables have lower
standards and also have that 24 hours to fill. When they aren't feeding
us Laci Peterson and Kobe Bryant, they're feeding us Swift Boat Lies and
similar nonsense. No telling if or when things will get any better.

Kerry needs a new campaign director. Whoever advised him not hit back
hard and fast needs to be shitcanned yesterday. Where the hell is James
Carville when we need him?



http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/09/01/build/state/25-swift-boat.inc


COLUMBUS - Swift boat veteran Bob Anderson of Columbus is ticked.

It bothers him that Sen. John Kerry's swift boat history has become
such a political hot potato. But he's even more irritated that his
name was included - without his permission - on a letter used to
discredit Kerry.

"I'm pretty nonpolitical," the 56-year-old Anderson said Tuesday. So,
when he found out last week that his name was one of about 300 signed
on a letter questioning Kerry's service, he was "flabbergasted."



"It's kind of like stealing my identity," said Anderson, who spent a
year on a swift boat as an engine man and gunner.

-----

Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
Proudly plonked by Lani Girl and Crazyalec

The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: -3 million jobs and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -977 GIs, one friend's

co-worker's son and mounting


Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless

.

User: "Dave Cook"

Title: Re: Vietnam Vet To Smearboat Liars: "Stop Using My Name in Your Petition!" 02 Sep 2004 06:11:25 AM
Jake M <jamal@funvt.calm> wrote in message news:<413688E3.1077F55A@funvt.calm>...

"Yang, AthD (h.c)" wrote:


How many smearboat lies have these clowns been caught in now?
Seriously, how incompetent and dishonest can you be?


They lie, even incompetently, because sometimes it works.

Kerry dishonored himself with lies about medals he didn't deserve and
lies about the military. Kerry supporters like moveon.org claim that
the SBV lied, but like you, they offer no proof of any lies. I haven't
seen anything from them of any substance. On the other hand, here is
what I see from the book, "Unfit for Command" that they cannot
disprove. it is interesting that it only took a few good men to start
us all looking at what he had been claiming. It is a real show of the
power of the 1st Amendment when combined with the power of Internet.
With this, a biased media has no match for the power of free people.
There are a lot of problems with Kerry's Vietnam stories of heroism.
Regarding his Bronze Star, Kerry claimed that he got the medal for
actions on the night of 13 March 1969. It was then, he said, after a
mine explosion and while under fire, that three swift boats in the
patrol team fled the area while he kept his boat back to rescue Lt.
James Rassmann. Kerry's campaign now admits that (against SOP) he fled
leaving the injured crew of SBF-3 to whatever fate awaited, while the
other boats remained on station. Kerry returned later to pull the
Green Beret Rassmann out of the water -- the same Rassmann who'd been
dumped into the water when Kerry's boat sped off. The other boats
stayed to defend the injured men.
Kerry put in for three Purple Hearts so he could get out of Vietnam.
Two of the three are bogus.

John Kerry's first Purple Heart was for action on December 2, 1968.
According to the Military Order of the Purple Heart, if enemy fire is
not involved in the incident, no medal should be awarded. "The Purple
Heart is awarded to members of the armed forces of the U.S. who are
wounded by an instrument of war in the hands of the enemy," according
to the organization chartered by Congress.
From Kerry's own diary, they had not been shot at as late as December
11, 1968, so he was not eligible. Kerry has now backed off of his
first medal claim that he was hit by hostile fire on December 2.
Indeed, the injury in question (a small abrasion on his arm which was
treated with the equivalent of Neosporin and a Band-Aid) was most
likely self-inflicted. Kerry's request for a Purple Heart was flatly
rejected by his treating physician, and by his command, until he
reapplied through an alternate chain of command some weeks later.
Retired Rear Adm. William L. Schachte Jr. said Thursday in his first
on-the-record interview about the swift boat veterans dispute that "I
was absolutely in the skimmer" in the early morning on Dec. 2, 1968,
when Lt. (j.g.) John Kerry was involved in an incident that led to his
first Purple Heart. "Kerry nicked himself with a M-79 [grenade
launcher]," Schachte said in a telephone interview from his home in
Charleston, S.C.
The Doctor that treated the wound recalled:
According to Kerry, they had been engaged in a fire fight, receiving
small arms fire from on shore. He said that his injury resulted from
this enemy action. Some of his crew confided that they did not
receive any fire from shore, but that Kerry had fired a mortar round
at close range to some rocks on shore. The crewman thought that the
injury was caused by a fragment ricocheting from that mortar round
when it struck the rocks. That seemed to fit the injury which I
treated. The wound was covered with a bandaid. No [sic] other injuries
were reported and I do not recall that there was any reported damage
to the boat.
The third Purple Heart, obtained at the same time as his Bronze Star,
is very questionable for similar reasons. For this one, there are
conflicting reports about the presence of VC and gunfire directed at
the Swift Boats. One fact that tells us a lot. The records show that
there was no damage to Kerry's Swift Boat in the March 13,1969
"ambush" that got Kerry the bronze star and got him out of Vietnam.
(One of the other boats had three bullet holes from the previous day,
but only the boat that hit the mine was damaged on the 13th.) That
seems a little strange, in fact, impossible. There is no way that VC
could have fired at a 50 foot long boat from less than 50 yards away
(half the length of a football field) and never hit it. Clearly, this
data infers that there was NO GUNFIRE FROM THE RIVER BANK, and Kerry
lied. His lie added a Bronze Star to his collection. His "wound" from
that "battle" got him out of Vietnam. Two injuries - a small bruise on
his right arm and a minor injury to his buttocks - won Kerry his Third
Purple Heart and a trip home. According to those present, Kerry
injured himself earlier in the day while trying to destroy a VC rice
cache from an unsafe distance.
Kerry's "Christmas in Cambodia" story is not supported by anything,
and his crew of that time says it didn't happen, and Kerry
acknowledges that it didn't happen:
Posted: August 12, 2004, Days after charges were first made public,
John Kerry's campaign is beginning to respond to allegations the
senator has lied for decades about being in Cambodia for Christmas in
1968, saying he was at or near the border but not actually in the
country for the holiday.
Look, Kerry wanted to get out of there in the worst way, and he
apparently believed that it was a war that we shouldn't be in. I am
sure he was looking for the quickest way out. If a lie would get him
out of there, then he would not hesitate to lie. I think the SBV and
"Unfit for Command" has it right.
His anti-war activities after he came home are the really rotten part
of Kerry's past. Kerry returned from his 4 month "Tour of Duty", and
told the world that we in the United States were terrible people. We
supported corruption in Vietnam, and that the war was racial. (The
percentage of African Americans killed in Vietnam was actually a
little less than the percentage in the US population.) He said our
military were as bad as the VC for the people, destroying their
villages, and that our troops shot anything and destroyed anything. He
said we accepted the My Lai massacre, and didn't value the lives of
Orientals.
Kerry became the voice of the Vietnam Veterans Against War. Along with
radical chic royalty like Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, and supported by
Sen. Eugene McCarthy and Fr. Daniel Berrigan, VVAW members met in
Detroit and testified to atrocities they had committed or been witness
to in Vietnam. Allegations included torture, intentional
dismemberment, and gang rape (some excerpts are included in "The New
Soldier"). The project operated under the thesis that American
atrocities like the one at My Lai weren't highly unusual but reflected
the routinely criminal exploits of American military leadership and
soldiers. Later, even with immunity offered, those quoted "could not
remember" and did not verify any of the stories.
As one POW put it,
"John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in
North Viet Nam prison camps took torture to avoid saying." -- Paul
Galanti POW Jan. 1966 - Feb. 1973
They expect

honest victims to be taken aback and to just expect the truth to
eventually emerge. But often by the time the truth emerges, the damned
lie has done its damage. Even before the age of electronic
communication, there was the old saying "a lie travels halfway around
the world while the truth is still putting its boots on." Fortunately,
thanks in no small part to the Internet, the truth has become almost as
fast as the lie.

Unfortunately the 24-hour cable news channels will gladly focus on lies
in a way the traditional press wouldn't because the cables have lower
standards and also have that 24 hours to fill. When they aren't feeding
us Laci Peterson and Kobe Bryant, they're feeding us Swift Boat Lies and
similar nonsense. No telling if or when things will get any better.

Kerry needs a new campaign director. Whoever advised him not hit back
hard and fast needs to be shitcanned yesterday. Where the hell is James
Carville when we need him?


http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/09/01/build/state/25-swift-boat.inc

COLUMBUS - Swift boat veteran Bob Anderson of Columbus is ticked.

It bothers him that Sen. John Kerry's swift boat history has become
such a political hot potato. But he's even more irritated that his
name was included - without his permission - on a letter used to
discredit Kerry.

"I'm pretty nonpolitical," the 56-year-old Anderson said Tuesday. So,
when he found out last week that his name was one of about 300 signed
on a letter questioning Kerry's service, he was "flabbergasted."



"It's kind of like stealing my identity," said Anderson, who spent a
year on a swift boat as an engine man and gunner.

-----

Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
Proudly plonked by Lani Girl and Crazyalec

The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: -3 million jobs and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -977 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting

Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless

.
User: "Jake M"

Title: Re: Vietnam Vet To Smearboat Liars: "Stop Using My Name in YourPetition!" 02 Sep 2004 08:18:33 AM
Dave Cook wrote:


Jake M <jamal@funvt.calm> wrote in message news:<413688E3.1077F55A@funvt.calm>...

"Yang, AthD (h.c)" wrote:


How many smearboat lies have these clowns been caught in now?
Seriously, how incompetent and dishonest can you be?


They lie, even incompetently, because sometimes it works.


Kerry dishonored himself with lies about medals he didn't deserve and
lies about the military.

Kerry supporters like moveon.org claim that
the SBV lied, but like you, they offer no proof of any lies.

You're as big a liar as the SBVFTs. Proof has been given repeatedly.

I haven't seen anything from them of any substance.

There are none so blind as those who refuse to see, none so deaf as
those who refuse to hear.
How can you see or hear anything, reichtard, with your eyes closed tight
shut and you chanting "lalalalalalalala" at the top of your voice?
You are a know-nothing, undisciplined child. And a complete waste of
time.
*plonk*
<snip Dave Cook's stupid lies repeatedly endlessly like the energizer
bunny on crack>
.

User: "Lloyd Parker"

Title: Re: Vietnam Vet To Smearboat Liars: "Stop Using My Name in Your Petition!" 02 Sep 2004 05:06:29 AM
In article <c687e307.0409020311.37c1b6a@posting.google.com>,
(Dave Cook) wrote:

Jake M <jamal@funvt.calm> wrote in message

news:<413688E3.1077F55A@funvt.calm>...

"Yang, AthD (h.c)" wrote:


How many smearboat lies have these clowns been caught in now?
Seriously, how incompetent and dishonest can you be?


They lie, even incompetently, because sometimes it works.


Kerry dishonored himself with lies about medals he didn't deserve

OK, you're lying.

and
lies about the military.

Such as?

Kerry supporters like moveon.org claim that
the SBV lied, but like you, they offer no proof of any lies.

www.factcheck.org
www.nytimes.com

I haven't
seen anything from them of any substance.

We're sorry you're such an idiot.

On the other hand, here is
what I see from the book, "Unfit for Command" that they cannot
disprove.

See above references

it is interesting that it only took a few good men to start
us all looking at what he had been claiming. It is a real show of the
power of the 1st Amendment when combined with the power of Internet.
With this, a biased media has no match for the power of free people.

Biased media? Yes, you are an idiot.


There are a lot of problems with Kerry's Vietnam stories of heroism.

Liar.

Regarding his Bronze Star, Kerry claimed that he got the medal for
actions on the night of 13 March 1969. It was then, he said, after a
mine explosion and while under fire, that three swift boats in the
patrol team fled the area while he kept his boat back to rescue Lt.
James Rassmann. Kerry's campaign now admits that (against SOP) he fled
leaving the injured crew of SBF-3 to whatever fate awaited, while the
other boats remained on station. Kerry returned later to pull the
Green Beret Rassmann out of the water -- the same Rassmann who'd been
dumped into the water when Kerry's boat sped off. The other boats
stayed to defend the injured men.

See above references

Kerry put in for three Purple Hearts so he could get out of Vietnam.
Two of the three are bogus.

Liar.


John Kerry's first Purple Heart was for action on December 2, 1968.
According to the Military Order of the Purple Heart, if enemy fire is
not involved in the incident, no medal should be awarded. "The Purple
Heart is awarded to members of the armed forces of the U.S. who are
wounded by an instrument of war in the hands of the enemy," according
to the organization chartered by Congress.

From Kerry's own diary, they had not been shot at as late as December
11, 1968, so he was not eligible. Kerry has now backed off of his
first medal claim that he was hit by hostile fire on December 2.
Indeed, the injury in question (a small abrasion on his arm which was
treated with the equivalent of Neosporin and a Band-Aid) was most
likely self-inflicted. Kerry's request for a Purple Heart was flatly
rejected by his treating physician, and by his command, until he
reapplied through an alternate chain of command some weeks later.

Retired Rear Adm. William L. Schachte Jr. said Thursday in his first
on-the-record interview about the swift boat veterans dispute that "I
was absolutely in the skimmer" in the early morning on Dec. 2, 1968,
when Lt. (j.g.) John Kerry was involved in an incident that led to his
first Purple Heart. "Kerry nicked himself with a M-79 [grenade
launcher]," Schachte said in a telephone interview from his home in
Charleston, S.C.

The Doctor that treated the wound recalled:

The one whose name doesn't appear on the report?

According to Kerry, they had been engaged in a fire fight, receiving
small arms fire from on shore. He said that his injury resulted from
this enemy action. Some of his crew confided that they did not
receive any fire from shore, but that Kerry had fired a mortar round
at close range to some rocks on shore. The crewman thought that the
injury was caused by a fragment ricocheting from that mortar round
when it struck the rocks. That seemed to fit the injury which I
treated. The wound was covered with a bandaid. No [sic] other injuries
were reported and I do not recall that there was any reported damage
to the boat.

The third Purple Heart, obtained at the same time as his Bronze Star,
is very questionable for similar reasons. For this one, there are
conflicting reports about the presence of VC and gunfire directed at
the Swift Boats. One fact that tells us a lot. The records show that
there was no damage to Kerry's Swift Boat in the March 13,1969
"ambush" that got Kerry the bronze star and got him out of Vietnam.
(One of the other boats had three bullet holes from the previous day,
but only the boat that hit the mine was damaged on the 13th.) That
seems a little strange, in fact, impossible. There is no way that VC
could have fired at a 50 foot long boat from less than 50 yards away
(half the length of a football field) and never hit it. Clearly, this
data infers that there was NO GUNFIRE FROM THE RIVER BANK, and Kerry
lied. His lie added a Bronze Star to his collection. His "wound" from
that "battle" got him out of Vietnam. Two injuries - a small bruise on
his right arm and a minor injury to his buttocks - won Kerry his Third
Purple Heart and a trip home. According to those present, Kerry
injured himself earlier in the day while trying to destroy a VC rice
cache from an unsafe distance.

Kerry's "Christmas in Cambodia" story is not supported by anything,

Only his biographer's book.

and his crew of that time says it didn't happen, and Kerry
acknowledges that it didn't happen:
Posted: August 12, 2004, Days after charges were first made public,
John Kerry's campaign is beginning to respond to allegations the
senator has lied for decades about being in Cambodia for Christmas in
1968, saying he was at or near the border but not actually in the
country for the holiday.

Look, Kerry wanted to get out of there in the worst way, and he
apparently believed that it was a war that we shouldn't be in. I am
sure he was looking for the quickest way out. If a lie would get him
out of there, then he would not hesitate to lie. I think the SBV and
"Unfit for Command" has it right.

As I said, you're an idiot.


His anti-war activities after he came home are the really rotten part
of Kerry's past.

Because dissent and free speech are so not what this nation stands for.

Kerry returned from his 4 month "Tour of Duty",

Two tours of duty, liar.

and
told the world that we in the United States were terrible people. We
supported corruption in Vietnam, and that the war was racial. (The
percentage of African Americans killed in Vietnam was actually a
little less than the percentage in the US population.) He said our
military were as bad as the VC for the people, destroying their
villages, and that our troops shot anything and destroyed anything. He
said we accepted the My Lai massacre, and didn't value the lives of
Orientals.

Read what he actually said, idiot.
.
User: "Buck"

Title: Re: Vietnam Vet To Smearboat Liars: "Stop Using My Name in Your Petition!" 02 Sep 2004 07:53:45 PM
PLONK!!
"Lloyd Parker" <lparker@NOSPAMemory.edu> wrote in message
news:ch79am$hse$24@puck.cc.emory.edu...

In article <c687e307.0409020311.37c1b6a@posting.google.com>,
saguaro@surfbest.net (Dave Cook) wrote:

Jake M <jamal@funvt.calm> wrote in message

news:<413688E3.1077F55A@funvt.calm>...

"Yang, AthD (h.c)" wrote:


How many smearboat lies have these clowns been caught in now?
Seriously, how incompetent and dishonest can you be?


They lie, even incompetently, because sometimes it works.


Kerry dishonored himself with lies about medals he didn't deserve


OK, you're lying.


and
lies about the military.


Such as?


Kerry supporters like moveon.org claim that
the SBV lied, but like you, they offer no proof of any lies.


www.factcheck.org
www.nytimes.com


I haven't
seen anything from them of any substance.


We're sorry you're such an idiot.


On the other hand, here is
what I see from the book, "Unfit for Command" that they cannot
disprove.


See above references


it is interesting that it only took a few good men to start
us all looking at what he had been claiming. It is a real show of the
power of the 1st Amendment when combined with the power of Internet.
With this, a biased media has no match for the power of free people.


Biased media? Yes, you are an idiot.


There are a lot of problems with Kerry's Vietnam stories of heroism.


Liar.

Regarding his Bronze Star, Kerry claimed that he got the medal for
actions on the night of 13 March 1969. It was then, he said, after a
mine explosion and while under fire, that three swift boats in the
patrol team fled the area while he kept his boat back to rescue Lt.
James Rassmann. Kerry's campaign now admits that (against SOP) he fled
leaving the injured crew of SBF-3 to whatever fate awaited, while the
other boats remained on station. Kerry returned later to pull the
Green Beret Rassmann out of the water -- the same Rassmann who'd been
dumped into the water when Kerry's boat sped off. The other boats
stayed to defend the injured men.


See above references

Kerry put in for three Purple Hearts so he could get out of Vietnam.
Two of the three are bogus.


Liar.


John Kerry's first Purple Heart was for action on December 2, 1968.
According to the Military Order of the Purple Heart, if enemy fire is
not involved in the incident, no medal should be awarded. "The Purple
Heart is awarded to members of the armed forces of the U.S. who are
wounded by an instrument of war in the hands of the enemy," according
to the organization chartered by Congress.

From Kerry's own diary, they had not been shot at as late as December
11, 1968, so he was not eligible. Kerry has now backed off of his
first medal claim that he was hit by hostile fire on December 2.
Indeed, the injury in question (a small abrasion on his arm which was
treated with the equivalent of Neosporin and a Band-Aid) was most
likely self-inflicted. Kerry's request for a Purple Heart was flatly
rejected by his treating physician, and by his command, until he
reapplied through an alternate chain of command some weeks later.

Retired Rear Adm. William L. Schachte Jr. said Thursday in his first
on-the-record interview about the swift boat veterans dispute that "I
was absolutely in the skimmer" in the early morning on Dec. 2, 1968,
when Lt. (j.g.) John Kerry was involved in an incident that led to his
first Purple Heart. "Kerry nicked himself with a M-79 [grenade
launcher]," Schachte said in a telephone interview from his home in
Charleston, S.C.

The Doctor that treated the wound recalled:


The one whose name doesn't appear on the report?

According to Kerry, they had been engaged in a fire fight, receiving
small arms fire from on shore. He said that his injury resulted from
this enemy action. Some of his crew confided that they did not
receive any fire from shore, but that Kerry had fired a mortar round
at close range to some rocks on shore. The crewman thought that the
injury was caused by a fragment ricocheting from that mortar round
when it struck the rocks. That seemed to fit the injury which I
treated. The wound was covered with a bandaid. No [sic] other injuries
were reported and I do not recall that there was any reported damage
to the boat.

The third Purple Heart, obtained at the same time as his Bronze Star,
is very questionable for similar reasons. For this one, there are
conflicting reports about the presence of VC and gunfire directed at
the Swift Boats. One fact that tells us a lot. The records show that
there was no damage to Kerry's Swift Boat in the March 13,1969
"ambush" that got Kerry the bronze star and got him out of Vietnam.
(One of the other boats had three bullet holes from the previous day,
but only the boat that hit the mine was damaged on the 13th.) That
seems a little strange, in fact, impossible. There is no way that VC
could have fired at a 50 foot long boat from less than 50 yards away
(half the length of a football field) and never hit it. Clearly, this
data infers that there was NO GUNFIRE FROM THE RIVER BANK, and Kerry
lied. His lie added a Bronze Star to his collection. His "wound" from
that "battle" got him out of Vietnam. Two injuries - a small bruise on
his right arm and a minor injury to his buttocks - won Kerry his Third
Purple Heart and a trip home. According to those present, Kerry
injured himself earlier in the day while trying to destroy a VC rice
cache from an unsafe distance.

Kerry's "Christmas in Cambodia" story is not supported by anything,


Only his biographer's book.

and his crew of that time says it didn't happen, and Kerry
acknowledges that it didn't happen:
Posted: August 12, 2004, Days after charges were first made public,
John Kerry's campaign is beginning to respond to allegations the
senator has lied for decades about being in Cambodia for Christmas in
1968, saying he was at or near the border but not actually in the
country for the holiday.

Look, Kerry wanted to get out of there in the worst way, and he
apparently believed that it was a war that we shouldn't be in. I am
sure he was looking for the quickest way out. If a lie would get him
out of there, then he would not hesitate to lie. I think the SBV and
"Unfit for Command" has it right.


As I said, you're an idiot.


His anti-war activities after he came home are the really rotten part
of Kerry's past.


Because dissent and free speech are so not what this nation stands for.


Kerry returned from his 4 month "Tour of Duty",


Two tours of duty, liar.


and
told the world that we in the United States were terrible people. We
supported corruption in Vietnam, and that the war was racial. (The
percentage of African Americans killed in Vietnam was actually a
little less than the percentage in the US population.) He said our
military were as bad as the VC for the people, destroying their
villages, and that our troops shot anything and destroyed anything. He
said we accepted the My Lai massacre, and didn't value the lives of
Orientals.


Read what he actually said, idiot.

.



User: "Yang, AthD h.c"

Title: Re: Vietnam Vet To Smearboat Liars: "Stop Using My Name in Your Petition!" 02 Sep 2004 04:01:10 AM
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 19:43:47 -0700, Jake M <jamal@funvt.calm> wrote:

"Yang, AthD (h.c)" wrote:


How many smearboat lies have these clowns been caught in now?
Seriously, how incompetent and dishonest can you be?


They lie, even incompetently, because sometimes it works.

Which is why it is important to fight back.

They expect
honest victims to be taken aback and to just expect the truth to
eventually emerge. But often by the time the truth emerges, the damned
lie has done its damage. Even before the age of electronic
communication, there was the old saying "a lie travels halfway around
the world while the truth is still putting its boots on." Fortunately,
thanks in no small part to the Internet, the truth has become almost as
fast as the lie.

Unfortunately the 24-hour cable news channels will gladly focus on lies
in a way the traditional press wouldn't because the cables have lower
standards and also have that 24 hours to fill. When they aren't feeding
us Laci Peterson and Kobe Bryant, they're feeding us Swift Boat Lies and
similar nonsense. No telling if or when things will get any better.

Kerry needs a new campaign director. Whoever advised him not hit back
hard and fast needs to be shitcanned yesterday. Where the hell is James
Carville when we need him?


http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/09/01/build/state/25-swift-boat.inc

COLUMBUS - Swift boat veteran Bob Anderson of Columbus is ticked.

It bothers him that Sen. John Kerry's swift boat history has become
such a political hot potato. But he's even more irritated that his
name was included - without his permission - on a letter used to
discredit Kerry.

"I'm pretty nonpolitical," the 56-year-old Anderson said Tuesday. So,
when he found out last week that his name was one of about 300 signed
on a letter questioning Kerry's service, he was "flabbergasted."



"It's kind of like stealing my identity," said Anderson, who spent a
year on a swift boat as an engine man and gunner.

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The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: -3 million jobs and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -977 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting

Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless

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The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: -3 million jobs and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -977 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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User: "Hanoi Jane Fonda"

Title: Kerry is blaming Bush for Clinton's mess (which Bush, by the way, has fixed). 02 Sep 2004 04:15:05 AM
Kerry is blaming Bush for Clinton's mess (which Bush, by the way, has
fixed).
March 05, 2004, 9:02 a.m.
Recession Politics
Kerry is blaming Bush for Clinton's mess (which Bush, by the way, has
fixed).
By Cesar Conda
NRO
In a recent speech, John Kerry declared, "[President Bush] inherited
the strongest economy in the world - and brought it to its knees."
There is no evidence to support this claim. In fact, the evidence now
suggests that President Bush inherited a recession.
A key issue this election season - one which some observers believe
will determine the outcome of the presidential election - is whether
the recession began in the last quarter of 2000 or during the first
months of the Bush presidency. Granted, even if the truth is that the
recession began in the days after George W. Bush's inauguration, most
reasonable people would conclude that a president cannot on a dime
turn a $10 trillion economy one way or the other. However, data and
supporting analyses from economists indicate that the recession began
well before Bush took office, making political criticism of the
president on the jobs issue even more inappropriate.
According the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the
unofficial arbiter of business cycles, the recession began in March
2001 and ended in November 2001. NBER analyzes four data series from
the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Federal Reserve Board, and other
government sources. While previously NBER indicated the recession
started in March 2001 (it has not formally revised that date),
official revisions of the data indicate that the recession started
earlier than that.
For example, under revised calculations, real disposable income peaked
in October 2000, rather than steadily rising in 2000 and early 2001 as
indicated in the original data. Industrial production/manufacturing
and trade sales both peaked in June of 2000, instead of September and
August, respectively. Non-farm payroll employment peaked in February
2001, not March 2001. And monthly gross domestic product, which the
NBER recently announced will be included in dating recessions, also
peaked in 2000.
According to the Council of Economic Advisers, the median date of
these five data series is October 2000 - at least three months before
George W. Bush took office. We also know that the stock market started
to decline in March of 2000, business investment began to fall in the
third quarter of 2000, and initial jobless claims began to rise at the
end of 2000 - more evidence that the U.S. economy in late 2000 was in
fact "on the front end of a recession," as Vice President-elect *****
Cheney observed on Meet the Press on December 3, 2000.
Senator John Kerry and other Democratic party leaders ignore or gloss
over these facts. However, even professor Joseph Stiglitz, the
chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton,
admits that "the economy was slipping into recession even before Bush
took office, and the corporate scandals that are rocking America began
much earlier."
To be sure, the Federal Reserve's twelve-month tightening cycle that
began in mid-1999 contributed to the economic slowdown. It is also
true that cyclical forces in the economy led to the type of business
retrenchment that we have seen in the past and that will likely always
be seen to some extent in a market economy. But a significant
contributing factor in the slowdown was the policy direction of the
Clinton administration, which included an aggressive use of antitrust
regulation in the high-tech marketplace, a lack of a national energy
policy which resulted in energy-price spikes, and a high and rising
federal tax burden.
A key area in which presidents can have an impact on the economy is
tax policy. President Clinton raised tax rates right after taking
office in 1993, and presided over a massive "stealth tax hike" which
ultimately hurt the economy. Because income taxes were not indexed,
the increase in real incomes during the 1990s pushed people into
higher and higher tax brackets. According to Brian Wesbury of GKST
Economics in Chicago, from 1993 to 2000, the number of people who paid
taxes in one of the top three income-tax brackets almost doubled from
3.4 million to 6.4 million filers. Further, total income taxes paid by
these filers increased from $84.6 billion in 1993 to $245.8 billion,
an increase of 190.5 percent. President Clinton's policies increased
the federal tax burden as a share of our national economy from 17.5
percent in 1992 to 20.9 percent in 2000.
President Bush, however, took the opposite approach of his
predecessor. Upon taking office, George W. Bush took immediate action
to lift the tax burden and strengthen the economy. The first Bush tax
cut put $40 billion immediately back into the economy in mid-2001 and
helped cushion the economic fallout from the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
In March 2002, the president signed a second tax cut that allowed
partial expensing, which began the recovery in business-investment
spending. In May 2003, Bush signed the third tax cut of his
administration, boosting after-tax economic incentives by slashing tax
rates on income, capital gains, and dividends.
Largely as a result of the president's tax-rate cuts, the recovery has
moved into higher gear. The economy grew 6.1 percent in the second
half of 2003, and 4.3 percent over the four quarters of 2003 - well
above potential GDP growth. Business fixed investment in the fourth
quarter of 2003 was revised upward to a 9.6 percent annual rate from
6.9 percent. The stock market has now returned to the level it was at
when President Bush took office, which means that all the losses that
occurred since March 2000 happened under President Clinton. In
January, the economy generated 112,000 new jobs - the largest monthly
increase since December 2000 - and 366,000 jobs have been added over
the last 5 months. The unemployment rate has declined from 6.3 percent
in June 2003 to 5.6 percent in January of this year, the fastest
seven-month decline in nearly a decade.
And its not just supply-siders lauding the Bush tax cuts. Goldman
Sachs economist Edward McKelvey, an early skeptic of Bush tax policy,
now concludes, "they definitely had a stronger impact on spending than
we anticipated." The Wachovia Economics Group reports that the
"economic data provide support for the case that the midyear tax cut
did take the economy up a notch. There is no need to resort to
esoteric data or the torture of innocent economic statistics. The data
are clear in their verdict" [emphasis added]. And International
Monetary Fund economist Magda Kandil says the president's plan "is
directly targeting consumer spending and investment incentives ... The
end of double taxation of dividends and increasing incentives for
small businesses should help sustain momentum in favor of job creation
and long-term growth."
While armchair quarterbacking is fun for politicians, voters
increasingly want to know what John Kerry would do to "create jobs."
His solution, it appears, is to raise income-tax rates on job-creating
small-business owners, roll back the tax cuts on investor capital
gains and dividends, and cancel the scheduled elimination of the death
tax. In the first presidential debate a reporter should ask John
Kerry: "How will increasing taxes on those most likely to save, to
invest, and to employ people create jobs in America?" His answer will
tell Americans much about his own vision of America's economic future.
-- Cesar Conda, formerly assistant for domestic policy under Vice
President ***** Cheney, is a board director at Empower America and a
principal at Navigators LLC, a Washington-based consulting firm.
.

User: "Hanoi Jane Fonda"

Title: LIBERALS HATE AMERICA! If old lies work, why tell new ones? (For Black Americans-Liberalism Worst Than Crack) 02 Sep 2004 04:17:23 AM
LIBERALS HATE AMERICA! If old lies work, why tell new ones? (For Black
Americans-Liberalism Worst Than Crack)
I continue to find it interesting that for the bravado, for all the
garrulous talk, for all the race-baiting comments, and certainly for
all of the "Republicans are racist and interested in keeping you
[black] folks down" talk, Democrats are only able to choose white
liberals for national and key party positions.
Kerry seems to have taken this to a whole new level, having to first
be reminded that he had no blacks in key campaign positions, then
selecting the fourth-most-liberal senator in the senate as an
unambiguous example of white privilege and superiority.
Kerry-Edwards is yet another flagrant example of what liberals really
think of blacks. To the Kerry-Edwards liberals, it is sufficient to
show up on the church doorsteps, perform what amounts to a "Saturday
Night Live" rendition of "The Old Rugged Cross" or "We Shall Overcome"
while smiling and preening like Al Jolson without black face (my
apologies to Jolson).
One cannot help but wonder when blacks will realize the only thing
black about white liberals like Kerry and Edwards is their hearts. And
the only thing they view blacks as being good for is a few million
votes in election cycles.
Until their track record for appointing blacks to key national
positions improves dramatically, it would be good for them to stop
attacking conservatives. But we shan't hold our breaths for that one
shall we?
Once again I ask the question I have asked every presidential election
and off-year election cycle since Jimmy Carter: What have liberal
Democrats done for blacks other than raise the misery index?
Once again the answer is zip, nadda, nothing, zilch - unless one
counts delivering pre-packaged messages of inferiority as counting
toward something positive.
I don't hide my contempt for elite liberals as a whole - having pulled
my head out of that place which graces a saddle long ago. And coming
from a lifelong belief (even before I realized it) in meritocracy, I
don't want to hear how bad I have it - I want to hear how good I can
have it.
I don't want a slick, botox-lipped, snake-oil salesman to tell me how
he is my only hope for a better life. But I get ahead of myself.
Kerry believes in a woman's right to choose (read: a woman's right to
murder her unborn child). That notwithstanding, he has recently
claimed to believe life starts at conception, making all the more
deplorable his pro-abortion position.
Yet he claims to have blacks' best interest in mind. Has he not seen
national studies showing abortion as the No. 1 killer of blacks? Has
he not wondered why the majority of abortion clinics are located in or
near black and minority neighborhoods?
Kerry claims 1 million more poor and minority students will graduate
from college if he is elected president. My question to Mr. Kerry is:
Why does it take being president to be concerned about minority
graduation rates? When he loses his presidential bid, will he still be
interested? And where has he been all of the years he has been playing
the liberal playboy, marry-a-rich-widow senator role? Wasn't there a
college-graduation problem for minorities then?
Wasn't he concerned about the abuses to undereducated blacks, thinking
they could punt, pass and kick their way out of the ghetto only to
find themselves without professional contracts and without college
degrees?
Kerry tells black church groups he will encourage their students to
study math, science and technology by spending $100 million more of
taxpayer's money on scholarships for college with large minority
enrollments.
But he offers no insight into his plans to curb black-on-black crime,
disproportionate illegitimacy rates, homes without fathers, etc. He
offers no insight into the phenomena of black students purposefully
failing so as not to be like "whitey."
I submit blaming President Bush is not the answer. Nor is having
Kerry's vice presidential candidate, John Edwards, set his litigation
brothers on the schools for failing to prepare students.
I submit the only evil perpetrated upon blinded blacks greater than
crack cocaine, is liberal Democrats. Instead of treating minorities
with the respect and encouragement they give their own children, they
treat them as handicapped retards. And to their impassioned delight,
it still works.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39391
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America's Enemies.
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User: "Igpay Ipublicanrey _"

Title: Re: LIBERALS HATE AMERICA! If old lies work, why tell new ones? (ForBlack Americans-Liberalism Worst Than Crack) 02 Sep 2004 03:10:39 PM
Hanoi Jane Fonda wrote:

LIBERALS HATE AMERICA! If old lies work, why tell new ones? (For Black
Americans-Liberalism Worst Than Crack)


I continue to find it interesting that for the bravado, for all the
garrulous talk, for all the race-baiting comments, and certainly for
all of the "Republicans are racist and interested in keeping you
[black] folks down" talk, Democrats are only able to choose white
liberals for national and key party positions.

Kerry seems to have taken this to a whole new level, having to first
be reminded that he had no blacks in key campaign positions, then
selecting the fourth-most-liberal senator in the senate as an
unambiguous example of white privilege and superiority.

Kerry-Edwards is yet another flagrant example of what liberals really
think of blacks. To the Kerry-Edwards liberals, it is sufficient to
show up on the church doorsteps, perform what amounts to a "Saturday
Night Live" rendition of "The Old Rugged Cross" or "We Shall Overcome"
while smiling and preening like Al Jolson without black face (my
apologies to Jolson).

One cannot help but wonder when blacks will realize the only thing
black about white liberals like Kerry and Edwards is their hearts. And
the only thing they view blacks as being good for is a few million
votes in election cycles.

Until their track record for appointing blacks to key national
positions improves dramatically, it would be good for them to stop
attacking conservatives. But we shan't hold our breaths for that one
shall we?

Once again I ask the question I have asked every presidential election
and off-year election cycle since Jimmy Carter: What have liberal
Democrats done for blacks other than raise the misery index?

Once again the answer is zip, nadda, nothing, zilch - unless one
counts delivering pre-packaged messages of inferiority as counting
toward something positive.

I don't hide my contempt for elite liberals as a whole - having pulled
my head out of that place which graces a saddle long ago. And coming
from a lifelong belief (even before I realized it) in meritocracy, I
don't want to hear how bad I have it - I want to hear how good I can
have it.

I don't want a slick, botox-lipped, snake-oil salesman to tell me how
he is my only hope for a better life. But I get ahead of myself.

Kerry believes in a woman's right to choose (read: a woman's right to
murder her unborn child). That notwithstanding, he has recently
claimed to believe life starts at conception, making all the more
deplorable his pro-abortion position.

Yet he claims to have blacks' best interest in mind. Has he not seen
national studies showing abortion as the No. 1 killer of blacks? Has
he not wondered why the majority of abortion clinics are located in or
near black and minority neighborhoods?

Kerry claims 1 million more poor and minority students will graduate
from college if he is elected president. My question to Mr. Kerry is:
Why does it take being president to be concerned about minority
graduation rates? When he loses his presidential bid, will he still be
interested? And where has he been all of the years he has been playing
the liberal playboy, marry-a-rich-widow senator role? Wasn't there a
college-graduation problem for minorities then?

Wasn't he concerned about the abuses to undereducated blacks, thinking
they could punt, pass and kick their way out of the ghetto only to
find themselves without professional contracts and without college
degrees?

Kerry tells black church groups he will encourage their students to
study math, science and technology by spending $100 million more of
taxpayer's money on scholarships for college with large minority
enrollments.

But he offers no insight into his plans to curb black-on-black crime,
disproportionate illegitimacy rates, homes without fathers, etc. He
offers no insight into the phenomena of black students purposefully
failing so as not to be like "whitey."

I submit blaming President Bush is not the answer. Nor is having
Kerry's vice presidential candidate, John Edwards, set his litigation
brothers on the schools for failing to prepare students.

I submit the only evil perpetrated upon blinded blacks greater than
crack cocaine, is liberal Democrats. Instead of treating minorities
with the respect and encouragement they give their own children, they
treat them as handicapped retards. And to their impassioned delight,
it still works.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39391




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The Democratic party-Proudly Celebrating 60 Years of Aid & Comfort for
America's Enemies.



But LHA still sucks right wing cocks in Hell..
***** you and your racism, you NEED something to try to offset
your ***** extreme inferiority to anyone human.
--
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful.
And so are we..
Our enemies never stop thinking about ways to harm our country and our
people.
And neither do we.."
-George W. Bush, August 5, 2002
.




User: "Michael Marxist Moore"

Title: **Vietnam Controversy Costing Kerry, Says Historian 01 Sep 2004 08:53:19 PM
**Vietnam Controversy Costing Kerry, Says Historian
Monday, Aug. 23, 2004
Author and Vietnam historian B. G. Burkett tells in an exclusive
interview that Senator John Kerry is mired in a quagmire worse than
the one he complained about in Vietnam.
The controversy may just cost him the presidency, Burkett says.
“Kerry keeps losing points every day this controversy wears on in the
media,” Burkett told shortly before Kerry’s campaign filed a legal
complaint with the FEC to stop the Swift Boat Veterans ads.
A sign of desperation?
Burkett is no stranger to such controversy and measures. He has been
sued multiple times after exposing phony military records of Vietnam
veterans - many of whom never even served in Vietnam.
Burkett’s book “Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of
Its Heroes and Its History” (Verity Press) was published in 1998 and
has become a must read for those who want to unlock the truth about
Vietnam and its aftermath.
In fact, Burkett’s book has been credited in being among the first to
question John Kerry’s war record. Burkett has interviewed and spoken
with many of the Swift Boaters who served with Kerry and his
commanding officers.
Kerry Responds
As Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth keep ramming away at John Kerry’s
carefully crafted hero image, the beleaguered candidate has finally
turned to a media blitz of his own.
In his new TV ad Kerry defends his actions that led to him receiving
the Bronze Star.
The ad features Jim Rassmann, one of his loyal dozen “band of
brothers,” certifying Kerry’s bravery under fire as the future senator
from Massachusetts and presidential candidate pulled him from the
water under withering fire after a couple of mines exploded during a
South Vietnam river operation.
Or was it just one mine that exploded? And were there small arms
sweeping the area as well as the after-action reports claimed?
The Swift Boat vets that criticize Kerry say only one mine exploded
under a boat not commanded by Kerry and there was no accompanying
enemy fire.
How did Green Beret Rassmann fall off Kerry’s boat only to be rescued
from the drink by Kerry? Burkett says witnesses attest that Rassmann
fell off Kerry’s boat because Kerry engaged the boat in a frantic
maneuver to flee from away from the action around the exploding mine.
Preponderance of Evidence
What will settle the controversy?
“They [the Swift boat group] will go away only if Kerry announces he
has removed himself from the race,” replies a cynical Burkett, who has
been making a study of the growing controversy that has dominated the
TV talk shows and radio pundits.
Although Burkett feels that the fog of war may forever keep the real
truth from emerging from the smoke, he does believe that the vet group
is moving ahead in establishing its less flattering version of the
Kerry exploits by “a preponderance of the evidence.”
“These Swift Boats moved in squadrons and formations,” explains
Burkett. “Sometimes the better vantage point for observing the action
was from another boat.”
And John O’Neil, co-author of the bestseller “Unfit for Command” has
interviewed these other observers, taking dispute with the so-called
“after-action” reports filed by Lt. (j.g.) Kerry.
These reports later provided the basis for Kerry’s now much celebrated
Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Heart decorations - all
earned in an abbreviated and bigger than life four month stint
in-country.
“The people up the chain of command assumed that none of their
officers would cheat,” opines Burkett.
“It’s a back and forth catfight” says Burkett, who thinks that the
tide may break dramatically to the side of the disaffected vets if one
of the loyal Kerry band of brothers turns colors.
How likely is that?
“Well, they [Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth] keep hoping,” says
Burkett. But if O’Neil has done his homework so has Kerry, he
explains. “Kerry long ago called all his men together to settle on one
version of the action.”
Other critics say that Kerry’s campaign has already put on the payroll
one or more of his “band of brothers.”
Veteran Steve Gardner, however, is one of the Kerry crew members who
has never gone along with the Kerry program: “I watched him put his
crew in jeopardy, his indecisive moves…”
So why was Gardner so singular?
“You have to realize that Gardner was an unusual member of the crew,”
explains the author. “Gardner had a previous tour of duty on Swift
Boats. He knew the right way to confront the enemy - not the Kerry way
[steering to open water].”
Kerry’s Navy More Like McHale’s
Burkett goes on to explain that a stalwart, chance-taking Kerry would
be contrary to the historic Kerry, who he describes as “always
belly-aching and whining about how the admirals had decided to send
the Swift Boats up those dangerous jungle-clogged rivers.”
According to Burkett, Kerry had volunteered with the notion that his
tour was going to be a sort of gentlemanly duty of offshore
coast-watching - not close combat with an enemy lurking on the shores.
Burkett has suggested in the past that the way out of the dilemma for
Kerry would be for Kerry to open up all his files by executing a
blanket SF-180 form allowing all the press to have independent access
to his file.
Burkett, however, says the release of Kerry’s full file, which he does
not believe has taken place despite Kerry’s claims otherwise, will
still not stop the Swift Boat Vets who are opposed to Kerry.
“It would have some bearing to the press, but it’s not going to deter
this group,” says Burkett.
“And remember,” adds Burkett, “this is not a bunch of Republicans
going after Kerry. If Kerry were running as a Republican, the attacks
would be just the same.”
Burkett himself has criticized President Bush for his National Guard
duty during the Vietnam War.
Just how worried is the Kerry camp?
“You bet they are worried,” says Burkett. “This election may just turn
on those five percent undecided out there. The bottom line is simple
-- the longer the dispute wears on, the more Kerry loses. They’re
never going to resolve this dispute.”
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Liberals Hate America!
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User: "Rev. 11D Ricardo MadGello"

Title: Re: "Michael Marxist Moore" Moron Of Repub Puke... 02 Sep 2004 12:56:54 AM
An aborted baby has way more stuff than you do, voodoo.
Chicken Robin.
Needle to DUHbya's Grave.
You shot DUH pResident?
Damn, that could cause you all kinds of trouble!
"Michael Marxist Moore", you are so bloisted!
.
User: "Roncy"

Title: Re: "Michael Marxist Moore" Moron Of Repub Puke... 02 Sep 2004 02:34:29 AM
"Rev. 11D Ricardo MadGello" <visualize.whirled.peas@sweet.*****.juice> wrote
in message news:GCyZc.1021$xr1.606@trnddc04...

An aborted baby has way more stuff than you do, voodoo.

Chicken Robin.

Needle to DUHbya's Grave.

You shot DUH pResident?

Damn, that could cause you all kinds of trouble!


"Michael Marxist Moore", you are so bloisted!

Pay no attention to the Kerryslandering Ketchup Kommunist. KKK's just a
pathetic spamtroll that thrives on replies to its senseless drivel.
.
User: "Yang, AthD h.c"

Title: Re: "Michael Marxist Moore" Moron Of Repub Puke... 04 Sep 2004 02:39:20 AM
On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 07:34:29 GMT, "Roncy" <nothpocus@pacbell.net>
wrote:


"Rev. 11D Ricardo MadGello" <visualize.whirled.peas@sweet.*****.juice> wrote
in message news:GCyZc.1021$xr1.606@trnddc04...

An aborted baby has way more stuff than you do, voodoo.

Chicken Robin.

Needle to DUHbya's Grave.

You shot DUH pResident?

Damn, that could cause you all kinds of trouble!


"Michael Marxist Moore", you are so bloisted!


Pay no attention to the Kerryslandering Ketchup Kommunist. KKK's just a
pathetic spamtroll that thrives on replies to its senseless drivel.

[yawn[
Another ***** NeoCon sockpuppet.
Where's the WMD, *****?
-----
Yang
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User: "Hanoi Jane Fonda"

Title: Liberals HATE Fox News 04 Sep 2004 02:54:59 AM
Liberals HATE Fox News
Liberals just can’t stand hearing conservative or libertarian
positions presented on major television newscasts. For decades the
left had a virtual monopoly with the big three networks. When cable
came along it brought CNN … but CNN was the brainchild of an avowed
socialist who was unlikely to
tolerate anything but a leftist slant to CNN’s coverage. CNN soon
became known as the Clinton News Network.
Now we have Fox News Channel. Fox News certainly can’t be described
as leaning to the left. But can it be described as conservative?
Democrats and their leftist fellow travelers are apoplectic about Fox
News .. they can barely contain their rage. The very idea of
conservative ideas getting a hearing on a major news broadcast! It
just shouldn’t be!
Just what is the problem with Fox News? Does Fox News Channel
actually lean to the right? Do they present a predominantly
conservative view of the day’s news? Or is Fox News merely standing
out because they present both sides, not just the liberal side, of the
important stories? For all the yapping from the hate-filled left-wing,
I've never seen one credible example of Fox not presenting both sides
of an issue. Liberals just hate who's doing the presenting. Liberals
hate everything.
.
User: "Ivan Groznii"

Title: Re: Liberals HATE Fox News 04 Sep 2004 03:07:30 AM


Just what is the problem with Fox News? Does Fox News Channel
actually lean to the right? Do they present a predominantly
conservative view of the day’s news? Or is Fox News merely standing
out because they present both sides, not just the liberal side, of the
important stories? For all the yapping from the hate-filled left-wing,
I've never seen one credible example of Fox not presenting both sides
of an issue. Liberals just hate who's doing the presenting. Liberals
hate everything.


Fox News is supposedly right wing as all get out - but look at some of
their major hosts: Greta van Susteren, Geraldo Rivera and Alan Colmes.
Juan WIlliams regularly shows up, as does Susan Estrich.
The problem with Fox to the liberals is not that it is "right wing", per
se, just that it allows conservative views to be aired at all.
Regards, Ivan
.
User: "Hydroxy"

Title: Re: Liberals HATE Fox News 04 Sep 2004 09:10:39 AM
"Ivan Groznii" <ivan@NOSPAMrightgoths.com> wrote in message
news:chbt3s$mos$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk...


Just what is the problem with Fox News? Does Fox News Channel
actually lean to the right? Do they present a predominantly
conservative view of the day’s news? Or is Fox News merely standing
out because they present both sides, not just the liberal side, of the
important stories? For all the yapping from the hate-filled left-wing,
I've never seen one credible example of Fox not presenting both sides
of an issue. Liberals just hate who's doing the presenting. Liberals
hate everything.



Fox News is supposedly right wing as all get out - but look at some of
their major hosts: Greta van Susteren, Geraldo Rivera and Alan Colmes.
Juan WIlliams regularly shows up, as does Susan Estrich.

The problem with Fox to the liberals is not that it is "right wing", per
se, just that it allows conservative views to be aired at all.

Regards, Ivan

fox news LEANS to the right. it is hardly the rightwing propaganda outlet
that lefties complain of, but it certainly does put a rightwing spin on
thangs.
however, considering CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. all lean to the left (although
the Fox-influence (tm) has weakened some of their bias), it's a lone
countervoice to the long tradition of leftwing media bias, when it comes to
teevee news
whit


.
User: "Four More MONTHS! _"

Title: Re: Liberals HATE Fox News 04 Sep 2004 07:26:47 PM
Hydroxy wrote:

"Ivan Groznii" <ivan@NOSPAMrightgoths.com> wrote in message
news:chbt3s$mos$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk...

Just what is the problem with Fox News? Does Fox News Channel
actually lean to the right? Do they present a predominantly
conservative view of the day’s news? Or is Fox News merely standing
out because they present both sides, not just the liberal side, of the
important stories? For all the yapping from the hate-filled left-wing,
I've never seen one credible example of Fox not presenting both sides
of an issue. Liberals just hate who's doing the presenting. Liberals
hate everything.



Fox News is supposedly right wing as all get out - but look at some of
their major hosts: Greta van Susteren, Geraldo Rivera and Alan Colmes.
Juan WIlliams regularly shows up, as does Susan Estrich.

The problem with Fox to the liberals is not that it is "right wing", per
se, just that it allows conservative views to be aired at all.

Regards, Ivan



fox news LEANS to the right. it is hardly the rightwing propaganda outlet
that lefties complain of, but it certainly does put a rightwing spin on
thangs.

however, considering CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. all lean to the left (although
the Fox-influence (tm) has weakened some of their bias), it's a lone
countervoice to the long tradition of leftwing media bias, when it comes to
teevee news

whit




Keep telling yourself this, repeat it over and over and over
again.. ((vote for Bush, vote for Bush.. Fox News is balanced,
Fox News is balanced..))
Fox News is a major propaganda arm of the Republican Party..
Leans to the right - yeh, what *****!
--
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful.
And so are we..
Our enemies never stop thinking about ways to harm our country and our
people.
And neither do we.."
-George W. Bush, August 5, 2002
.
User: "Phil Trevorrow"

Title: Re: Liberals HATE Fox News 05 Sep 2004 06:25:24 AM
"Four More MONTHS!" <_> wrote in message news:413a5c16@nntp.zianet.com...

Hydroxy wrote:

"Ivan Groznii" <ivan@NOSPAMrightgoths.com> wrote in message
news:chbt3s$mos$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk...

Just what is the problem with Fox News? Does Fox News Channel
actually lean to the right? Do they present a predominantly
conservative view of the day’s news? Or is Fox News merely standing
out because they present both sides, not just the liberal side, of the
important stories? For all the yapping from the hate-filled left-wing,
I've never seen one credible example of Fox not presenting both sides
of an issue. Liberals just hate who's doing the presenting. Liberals
hate everything.



Fox News is supposedly right wing as all get out - but look at some of
their major hosts: Greta van Susteren, Geraldo Rivera and Alan Colmes.
Juan WIlliams regularly shows up, as does Susan Estrich.

The problem with Fox to the liberals is not that it is "right wing", per
se, just that it allows conservative views to be aired at all.

Regards, Ivan



fox news LEANS to the right. it is hardly the rightwing propaganda

outlet

that lefties complain of, but it certainly does put a rightwing spin on
thangs.

however, considering CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. all lean to the left

(although

the Fox-influence (tm) has weakened some of their bias), it's a lone
countervoice to the long tradition of leftwing media bias, when it comes

to

teevee news

whit




Keep telling yourself this, repeat it over and over and over
again.. ((vote for Bush, vote for Bush.. Fox News is balanced,
Fox News is balanced..))

FOX news IS balanced.

Fox News is a major propaganda arm of the Republican Party..

Translated: Any network that doesn't present one-sided views heavily slanted
in favor of Kerry is a propoganda arm of the Republicans.

Leans to the right - yeh, what *****!

I suppose this site is a propaganda site for the Republicans too:
http://www.mrc.org
--
"The trouble with our liberal friends isn't that they're ignorant; its just
that they know so much that isn't so". - Ronald Reagan
"If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they
would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have
"racist," "fascist," "homophobe," "ugly," and a few other highly nuanced
arguments in the quiver. But the loss of "dumb" would nearly cripple
them." - Ann Coulter
.
User: "Four More MONTHS! _"

Title: Re: Liberals HATE Fox News 05 Sep 2004 11:21:52 PM
Phil Trevorrow wrote:

"Four More MONTHS!" <_> wrote in message news:413a5c16@nntp.zianet.com...

Hydroxy wrote:

"Ivan Groznii" <ivan@NOSPAMrightgoths.com> wrote in message
news:chbt3s$mos$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk...


Just what is the problem with Fox News? Does Fox News Channel
actually lean to the right? Do they present a predominantly
conservative view of the day’s news? Or is Fox News merely standing
out because they present both sides, not just the liberal side, of the
important stories? For all the yapping from the hate-filled left-wing,
I've never seen one credible example of Fox not presenting both sides
of an issue. Liberals just hate who's doing the presenting. Liberals
hate everything.



Fox News is supposedly right wing as all get out - but look at some of
their major hosts: Greta van Susteren, Geraldo Rivera and Alan Colmes.
Juan WIlliams regularly shows up, as does Susan Estrich.

The problem with Fox to the liberals is not that it is "right wing", per
se, just that it allows conservative views to be aired at all.

Regards, Ivan



fox news LEANS to the right. it is hardly the rightwing propaganda


outlet

that lefties complain of, but it certainly does put a rightwing spin on
thangs.

however, considering CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. all lean to the left


(although

the Fox-influence (tm) has weakened some of their bias), it's a lone
countervoice to the long tradition of leftwing media bias, when it comes


to

teevee news

whit





Keep telling yourself this, repeat it over and over and over
again.. ((vote for Bush, vote for Bush.. Fox News is balanced,
Fox News is balanced..))



FOX news IS balanced.


Fox News is a major propaganda arm of the Republican Party..



Translated: Any network that doesn't present one-sided views heavily slanted
in favor of Kerry is a propoganda arm of the Republicans.


Leans to the right - yeh, what *****!



I suppose this site is a propaganda site for the Republicans too:
http://www.mrc.org


WHO says? A right wing fuckwit like YOU?
Translated: like all mind numbed Limbeciles you think anyone
not broadcasting continuous right wing lies and propaganda isn't
"balanced"..
Keep watching. You're one of the dumb fucks who believed that Saddam
had nuclear weapons or would shortly, pointed at American cities,
a massive ***** LIE propagated by.. FOX FUCKING NEWS, *****!
You have to be one ignorant ***** to think Fox News is balanced.
Clearly, you meet those requirements.
--
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful.
And so are we..
Our enemies never stop thinking about ways to harm our country and our
people.
And neither do we.."
-George W. Bush, August 5, 2002
.
User: "Phil Trevorrow"

Title: Re: Liberals HATE Fox News 06 Sep 2004 07:00:13 AM
"Four More MONTHS!" <_> wrote in message news:413be4af@nntp.zianet.com...

Phil Trevorrow wrote:

"Four More MONTHS!" <_> wrote in message

news:413a5c16@nntp.zianet.com...


Hydroxy wrote:

"Ivan Groznii" <ivan@NOSPAMrightgoths.com> wrote in message
news:chbt3s$mos$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk...


Just what is the problem with Fox News? Does Fox News Channel
actually lean to the right? Do they present a predominantly
conservative view of the day’s news? Or is Fox News merely standing
out because they present both sides, not just the liberal side, of

the

important stories? For all the yapping from the hate-filled

left-wing,

I've never seen one credible example of Fox not presenting both sides
of an issue. Liberals just hate who's doing the presenting. Liberals
hate everything.

Fox News is a major propaganda arm of the Republican Party..



Translated: Any network that doesn't present one-sided views heavily

slanted

in favor of Kerry is a propoganda arm of the Republicans.


Leans to the right - yeh, what *****!



I suppose this site is a propaganda site for the Republicans too:
http://www.mrc.org


WHO says? A right wing fuckwit like YOU?

Why do you feel compelled to insult me and use vulgarity? Does that make you
feel you've made a compelling arguement?

Translated: like all mind numbed Limbeciles you think anyone
not broadcasting continuous right wing lies and propaganda isn't
"balanced"..

Versus the left wing media that ONLY spews out liberal propaganda? I have y
et to see any major media network say anything balanced. The website link I
posted clearly shows the mainstream media is liberal yet all you can do is
call me names? Where's your proof it isn't?

Keep watching. You're one of the dumb fucks who believed that Saddam
had nuclear weapons or would shortly, pointed at American cities,
a massive ***** LIE propagated by.. FOX FUCKING NEWS, *****!

Do you see me cussing and insulting you just because I disagree with your
views? FOX news never said Saddam had nuclear weapons pointed at the US.
Where do you get your news, moveon.org?

You have to be one ignorant ***** to think Fox News is balanced.
Clearly, you meet those requirements.

Clearly you think the only way to convince anyone of your views is to call
anyone who disagrees with you names and hurl insults. That's a real
compelling argument.
--
"The trouble with our liberal friends isn't that they're ignorant; its just
that they know so much that isn't so". - Ronald Reagan
"If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they
would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have
"racist," "fascist," "homophobe," "ugly," and a few other highly nuanced
arguments in the quiver. But the loss of "dumb" would nearly cripple
them." - Ann Coulter
.
User: "Dan Kimmel"

Title: Re: Liberals LOVE the truth 06 Sep 2004 07:26:34 AM
"Phil Trevorrow" <philtrev@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:hjY_c.4071$AB6.2529@trndny04...

"Four More MONTHS!" <_> wrote in message news:413be4af@nntp.zianet.com...

Phil Trevorrow wrote:

"Four More MONTHS!" <_> wrote in message

news:413a5c16@nntp.zianet.com...


Hydroxy wrote:

"Ivan Groznii" <ivan@NOSPAMrightgoths.com> wrote in message
news:chbt3s$mos$1@news5.svr.pol.co.uk...


Just what is the problem with Fox News? Does Fox News Channel
actually lean to the right? Do they present a predominantly
conservative view of the day's news? Or is Fox News merely

standing

out because they present both sides, not just the liberal side, of

the

important stories? For all the yapping from the hate-filled

left-wing,

I've never seen one credible example of Fox not presenting both

sides

of an issue. Liberals just hate who's doing the presenting.

Liberals

hate everything.

Fox News is a major propaganda arm of the Republican Party..



Translated: Any network that doesn't present one-sided views heavily

slanted

in favor of Kerry is a propoganda arm of the Republicans.


Leans to the right - yeh, what *****!



I suppose this site is a propaganda site for the Republicans too:
http://www.mrc.org


WHO says? A right wing fuckwit like YOU?


Why do you feel compelled to insult me and use vulgarity? Does that make

you

feel you've made a compelling arguement?

There are some very abusive posters on BOTH sides, and it really doesn't
make it better to point out that the rightwing not only started it but
perfected it (as with the current vilification campaign against Kerry).


Translated: like all mind numbed Limbeciles you think anyone
not broadcasting continuous right wing lies and propaganda isn't
"balanced"..


Versus the left wing media that ONLY spews out liberal propaganda? I have

y

et to see any major media network say anything balanced. The website link

I

posted clearly shows the mainstream media is liberal yet all you can do is
call me names? Where's your proof it isn't?

The "left wing media?" Are you talking about the Nation or Mother Jones?
Because the mainstream media -- the New York Times, the three networks, CNN,
etc. -- are anything BUT "left wing" if the phrase is to have any meaning.
Perhaps you meant to say "runs stories telling me things I don't want to
hear."
But given the free ride Bush has had for the last four years, one can hardly
call the subservient corporate media "left wing" except for propaganda
purposes.

Keep watching. You're one of the dumb fucks who believed that Saddam
had nuclear weapons or would shortly, pointed at American cities,
a massive ***** LIE propagated by.. FOX FUCKING NEWS, *****!


Do you see me cussing and insulting you just because I disagree with your
views? FOX news never said Saddam had nuclear weapons pointed at the US.
Where do you get your news, moveon.org?

Condoleeza Rice said the reason to take out Saddam was to prevent nuclear
mushroom clouds over the US. Did that go down the memory hole after it
turned out he didn't have any nukes and all of Bush's other reasons for
invading Iraq evaporated as well?


You have to be one ignorant ***** to think Fox News is balanced.
Clearly, you meet those requirements.


Clearly you think the only way to convince anyone of your views is to call
anyone who disagrees with you names and hurl insults. That's a real
compelling argument.


--
"The trouble with our liberal friends isn't that they're ignorant; its

just

that they know so much that isn't so". - Ronald Reagan

"If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb, they
would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would still have
"racist," "fascist," "homophobe," "ugly," and a few other highly nuanced
arguments in the quiver. But the loss of "dumb" would nearly cripple
them." - Ann Coulter

Pretending to be a delicate flower wilting under a barrage of insults while
quoting an ignorant harridan like Ann Coulter speaks volumes about your
actual agenda.
.
User: "Phil Trevorrow"

Title: Re: Liberals LOVE the truth 06 Sep 2004 08:25:13 AM
"Dan Kimmel" <dan.kimmel@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:_HY_c.316718$OB3.146281@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...


"Phil Trevorrow" <philtrev@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:hjY_c.4071$AB6.2529@trndny04...

"Four More MONTHS!" <_> wrote in message

news:413be4af@nntp.zianet.com...

Phil Trevorrow wrote:


Translated: Any network that doesn't present one-sided views heavily

slanted

in favor of Kerry is a propoganda arm of the Republicans.


Leans to the right - yeh, what *****!