Kerry ''Defends'' Vietnam War Record - (HA HA HA HA) -- US & World Politics from the Christian Perspective

[ Show ]

Support VoyForums

[ Shrink ]

VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

John Kerry 'came out swinging' as the media terms it, in 'defense' (another media choice) of his Vietnam War record. Except that Kerry didn't address any of the charges leveled against him.

Instead, Kerry announced that the SWIFT Boat Veterans had received 'hundreds of thousands of dollars' from a Republican donor in Texas, and that the Swiftees were bought-and-paid-for liars who were doing the White House's 'dirty work'.

Of course, if that were true, then Kerry wouldn't be saying it to an audience, he'd be telling it to the Federal Elections Commission. Because if the White House is connected to the ad in any way, it is a violation of campaign reform laws.

The fact Kerry is making the charges publicly instead of to the FEC is a testimony to the fact Kerry KNOWS what he is saying isn't true, but nobody can prove it's not true, anymore than he can prove it is true. To Kerry, lying is only lying if somebody can prove you are lying.

And just in case you get caught, the best 'defense' is to attack your accusers and hope everybody will forget the substance of the accusation.

Kerry made much of the Swift Boat's funding coming from Republican contributors in Texas.

"They're a front for the Bush campaign. And the fact that the president won't denounce what they're up to tells you everything you need to know: he wants them to do his dirty work," Kerry told a convention of the International Association of Fire Fighters.

Kerry's thundering revelation is more than a bit disingenuous. Of course the Swiftees could expect funding to come from Republican donors. Where else? The Democrats?

Besides, how does George Bush know whether the charges are true or not? As Kerry points out at every available opportunity, Bush wasn't there. But the Swiftees, unfortunately for the Senator, were.

In any case, if the Swiftees got hundreds of thousands from Republican donors, Moveon.org is funded to the tune of millions from the shadowy billionaire Democrat George Soros. So are a number of other anti-Bush advocacy groups.

Soros' first bet, in spring of last year, was to commit $3 million over three years to an anti-Bush policy shop headed by ex-Clintonite John Podesta.

He followed up with a $10 million grant to launch America Coming Together, a get-out-the-vote effort to help the Democratic presidential campaign.

Next he promised $2.5 million to MoveOn.org, which entertains TV viewers in swing states with anti-Bush commercials, like the one showing Bush morphing into Adolf Hitler.

Before Soros came along, there were plenty of people who hated George Bush. But there was nobody willing to back their hatred with that much cash. Enter George Soros.

Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said the president did not support the Swift Boat ads. "John Kerry knows his statements are false. John Kerry knows the president said his service in Vietnam was noble," said Schmidt.

In today's 'rebuttal' of the Swift veterans charges, John Kerry re-issued a challenge to President Bush. ""Well, if he wants to have a debate about our service in Vietnam, here is my answer: 'Bring it on!"'

If Kerry really wanted to debate about his service in Vietnam, then why not sit down with Admiral Hoffman, or John O'Neill? But Kerry has refused every debate offer O'Neill has made since their first one on the Dick Cavett Show in 1971.

But Kerry challenged George Bush to debate about Vietnam, instead. Why is that, Senator? Is it because they were there, living in the same hooches, patrolling the same rivers, participating in the same actions? Bush wasn't there -- what could he possibly bring to a debate about Vietnam thirty years ago? (As I recall, it was you who brought the subject up)

But you refuse to debate the Swift Boat veterans who were actually there, instead accusing them of all being liars.

Why should we take your word and that of a handful of men travelling with your campaign over every single living officer in your chain of command?

You have openly accused virtually all the men you served with in Vietnam as disloyal liars. But you've given no credible reason for why so many of them would lie so despicably, just to ruin your career.

What did you do, Senator, to make that many of your comrades in arms hate you so much they would all abandon their personal honor just to lie about you?