http://www.swiftvets.com/index.php?topic=SwiftPhoto
This photograph of John Kerry and 19 other Coastal Division 11 Swift
boat officers was taken at Ton Sun Nuht Air Base on January 22, 1969,
immediately following a meeting with General Abrams and Admiral
Zumwalt.
LIAR & NO SUPPORT:
The Kerry campaign featured the photograph in an advertisement
released in May titled Lifetime. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
contacted surviving members of this group to find out how many
actually support John Kerry, and discovered that of 19 Swift boat
skippers pictured other than Kerry, 11 consider him unfit, 4 are
neutral, two have died, and 2 are working with the Kerry campaign.
Four other officers were not present for the photo session; all oppose
Kerry.
Only 2 of John Kerry's 23 fellow Swift boat commanders from Coastal
Division 11 support his candidacy today.
Click here for a morphing video of the "before" and "after" images
above.
On June 1, 2004, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth sent a cease and desist
letter to John Kerry for President, Inc. on behalf of 11 officers
shown in the photograph, pointing out that using their images in a
campaign advertisement "wrongfully and incorrectly suggests their
present endorsement of his candidacy."
DRUDGE:
KERRY WAR COMRADES PREPARE BATTLE -- AGAINST KERRY
Capped by Kerry's primetime speech to accept the Democratic Party's
nomination, Thursday's program will include appearances and remarks by
Kerry's Swift Boat crewmates, the Kerry-Edwards campaign announced in
a press release this morning.
But a group of veterans will soon try to convince a nation how what is
presented on the convention stage tonight -- may not be the full
story: "Only 2 of John Kerry's 23 fellow Swift boat commanders from
Coastal Division 11 support his candidacy today."
A new bombshell book written by the man who took over John Kerry's
Swift Boat charges: Two of John Kerry's three Purple Heart decorations
(#1 and #3) resulted from self-inflicted wounds, not suffered under
enemy fire.
The startling Purple Heart accusations, outlined in detail for the
first time, are found in UNFIT FOR COMMAND, Swift Boat Veterans Speak
Out Against John Kerry.
And that's just the beginning.
The book, previewed by the DRUDGE REPORT, will be unleashed next month
by REGNERY.
The book hit #2 on the AMAZON sales chart on the eve of the Kerry
acceptance speech in Boston.
Swift Boat Veterans began to fume after Kerry's campaign used a
photograph of John Kerry and 19 other Coastal Division 11 Swift boat
officers [taken at Ton Sun Nuht Air Base on January 22, 1969] in a
pro-Kerry advertisement.
William Shumadine, a member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
pictured in the photograph, explains in UNFIT: "John Kerry's use of a
photograph with his nineteen comrades, with knowledge that eleven of
them comdemn him and six who cannot or do not want to be involved, is
a complete misreprentation to the public and a total fraud."
[A major campaign is being planned, beginning next week, over 200
anti-Kerry vets involved, with news conferences in battleground
states.]
http://www.drudgereport.com/dnc82.htm
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