RebelKev Wrote:

Schadenfreude Wrote:You cavemen should quit while you are behind.

You've been owned in this thread.

:ownd:

How?????


<a href='http://swiftvets.com' target='_blank'>http://swiftvets.com</a>


These guys did serve with him. Don't confuse other organizations.

There is some confusion -- which is part of the goal of this ad.

Kerry led between twelve and twenty men (I'm not sure of the number off hand) into battle as an officer.

Now, more than thirty years later, all but one of the surviving members of his Swift Boat crews still support Kerry like a brother.

That's a fact. And these are the guys who knew Kerry best. These are the guys who were, so to speak, in the foxhole with Kerry.

As for these other guys taking a hatchet to Kerry's reputation?

Some apparently knew him in 'Nam. But it is a stretch to say they served "with" him. Yeah, they were there at the same time. But they weren't with him like Kerry's Band of Brothers.

In fact, it isn't even clear all these Swift Boat guys even knew Kerry.

Now, consider all the problems with this ad:

-- One of the guys who did know Kerry (a supervisor) recanted his attack on Kerry in an interview published in the Boston Globe this morning. Then, even stranger, he recanted his recantation less than 24 hours later.

Does it get any fisher than that? Who in the world leaned on him today?

-- Meanwhile, it turns out this other guy who claims he knows Kerry is lying about one of his war wounds because he treated him ... did not sign the official physicians report.

-- And most of the rest is just innuendo and crap.

-- Meanwhile, John McCain is tearing the **** out of Bush over this. He says it is a totally unfair ad -- and he's on the Bush campaign and he's one of the ultimate Vietnam warriors.

(Incidentally, McCain knows a thing or two about unfair Bush tactics. During the 2000 South Carolina primary, the Bush campaign quietly told voters that McCain had fathered an illegitimate black child.

(The child's name is Bridget, and she was adopted from Mother Teresa's orphanage in Bangladesh. )

<a href='http://www.boston.com/news/politics/president/articles/2004/03/21/the_anatomy_of_a_smear_campaign/' target='_blank'>http://www.boston.com/news/politics/presid...smear_campaign/</a>

-- Meanwhile, Bush is refusing to call on the ad's sponsors to call it off. And, as it turns out, the guy financing the campaign is not only a huge Republican from TEXAS, he has quite a few ties to Karl Rove.

This won't end well for Bush.

How can it?

Despite all this nonsense, Kerry served in Nam. In fact, he *volunteered* put his *** on the line for our country.

There is no way Americans are going to stay obsessed about whether or not Kerry was wounded *enough* in war -- when the alternative is a statewide chickenhawk who curiously disappeared in Alabama curiously close to the time when the military began routine drug testing.

(That's going to make a great TV ad, by the way. And Bush and his supporters have just left themselves wide open for it.)