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Originally Posted by Alex
Funny, but I have yet to see any refutation of the Swift Boat Veterans claims. T Boone Pickens even offered a $1 million challenge to anyone who could prove even one allegation was false - no takers. NONE.
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You're not looking very hard for refutation then. There was a LOT of refutation when they started their smears.
Washington Post
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But a new assault on Mr. Kerry -- in an ad by a group calling itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and in a new book -- crosses the line in branding Mr. Kerry a coward and a liar. This smear is contradicted by Mr. Kerry's crew mates, undercut by the previous statements of some of those now making the charges and tainted by the chief source of its funding: Republican activists dedicated to defeating Mr. Kerry in November.
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The Seattle Times
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry yesterday picked up support in the controversy over his Bronze Star during the Vietnam War.
Wayne Langhofer told The Washington Post that he was manning a machine gun in a Swift boat behind Kerry's and saw gunfire from both banks of the Bay Hap River as Kerry reached over the bow to pull Special Forces soldier James Rassmann into the boat, the basis for Kerry's Bronze Star.
"Unfit for Command," a book by John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi, and a television ad by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, an anti-Kerry group, have questioned circumstances under which Kerry won several medals, including the Bronze Star. They maintain that Kerry was not under fire when he pulled Rassmann from the water.
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That's just a couple of the many links I have. I'm using a cranky laptop tonight so I don't have the time.
But my favorite story (
from USA Today) is:
Anti-Kerry book author sorry for slurs
WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the authors of a new anti-John Kerry book frequently posted comments on a conservative Web site describing Muslims and Catholics as pedophiles and Pope John Paul II as senile.
But as he prepared to launch the book, "Unfit for Command," Jerry Corsi apologized for the remarks in an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday, saying they were meant as a joke and he never intended to offend anyone.
In chat room entry last year on freerepublic.com, Corsi writes: "Islam is a peaceful religion — just as long as the women are beaten, the boys buggered and the infidels are killed."
In another entry, he says: "So this is what the last days of the Catholic Church are going to look like. Buggering boys undermines the moral base and the lawyers rip the gold off the Vatican altars. We may get one more Pope, when this senile one dies, but that's probably about it."
Corsi, who described himself as a "devout Catholic," said the comments are being taken out of context. "I considered them a joke," said Corsi, who owns a financial services company and has written extensively on the anti-war movement.
In a March posting, Corsi discussed Kerry's faith, writing: "After he married TerRAHsa, didn't John Kerry begin practicing Judaism? He also has paternal grandparents that were Jewish. What religion is John Kerry?"
Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, are Catholic.
"I don't stand by any of those comments and I apologize if they offended anybody," Corsi said.