Columbus
Swift Boat Veteran Angry About Letter ~ Billings (MT)
Gazette~ 9-01-04
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...More |
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Swift Shift in Stories ~
Washington Post ~ 8-31-04
Four days ago, retired naval Rear
Adm. William L. Schachte Jr. seconded accusations made by the group Swift
Boat Veterans for Truth seeking to discredit Democratic presidential
nominee John F. Kerry's record in Vietnam. But since then, Democrats have
discovered that Schachte is also a long-standing supporter of President
Bush and a lobbyist whose client FastShip Inc. recently won a $40 million
grant from the federal government ... More
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Columnist
Has Ties to Anti-Kerry Book ~ New York Times ~ 8-30-04
Among the stoutest defenders of "Unfit for
Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against
John Kerry," the best-selling book arguing that Mr. Kerry lied about
his record of service in Vietnam, is the columnist Robert Novak.
In his syndicated columns and on the CNN program "Crossfire,"
Mr. Novak has lauded the book and referred to veterans who criticize Mr.
Kerry - most notably John E. O'Neill, the book's co-author - as "real
patriots."
Unmentioned in Mr. Novak's columns and television appearances, however, is
a personal connection he has to the book: his son, Alex Novak, is the
director of marketing for its publisher, the conservative publishing house
Regnery... More |
Eagle
Point vet backs up Swift boat story ~ The Oregonian ~ 8-30-04
A Vietnam War veteran from Eagle Point
challenged a battlefield account of his former commanding officer on
Thursday, saying bullets were flying on the March 1969 day Sen. John Kerry
earned two medals on the banks of the Bay Hap River... More
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Bush-Cheney
lawyer resigns over veterans flap ~ CNN ~ 8-25-04
A legal adviser to the Bush-Cheney campaign resigned Wednesday after
revealing that he had also advised the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth,
the 527 group that has launched a campaign to discredit Democratic
presidential candidate John Kerry's military record... More
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Vets
call for resignation of Clackamas prosecutor in Swift Boat ad
~ KGW-TV (Portland, OR) ~ 8-24-04
...Alfred French, 58, a senior deputy district attorney,
appeared in the recent ad by the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth and said:
"I served with John Kerry. . . . He is lying about his record."
French also signed a legal affidavit attesting to the claim. But
French, in an interview with The Oregonian newspaper last week, said he
was relying on the accounts of three other veterans when he said Kerry
lied. "I was not a witness to these events but my friends
were," said French, who was awarded two Bronze Stars during the
war. That acknowledgement fueled Monday's protest, where the
veterans contended French is unfit to serve as a prosecutor after swearing
to facts that he never personally witnessed ... More |
Swift
Boat Vets Leader Adds More Lies to His Resume
~ Capitol Hill Blue ~ 8-19-04
...O'Neill, appearing on Tuesday's Fox News with Brit
Hume, claimed that half of $15,000 in contributions to Republicans listed
in Federal Election Commission records actually were made by a law partner
with a "similar name." "My law partner has almost the
same name, Edward J. O'Neill," claims O'Neill, who practices law in
Houston...More |
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