McCain Gets Pissed... I Get Some Questions Answered
An "outside" group of swift boat veterans started to run ads in Ohio, West Virginia and Wisconsin. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are stating that John Kerry is not fit to be our commander-in-chief and is not to be trusted.
Basically, they are attacking the core of Kerry's message that because of his Vietnam experience he is capable of leading our nation, especially during these tense times with the threat of terrorism on the horizon. They are questioning his integrity and are obviously upset by his past Congressional testimonies accusing various Vietnam veterans of war crimes.
If you check out their website, it has a good FAQ section that answered a question I personally had during the DNC Convention:
If most of Kerry's fellow Swift veterans don't support him, then who were all those guys with him at the Democratic Convention? They made it appear that Kerry has the complete support of his "Band of Brothers" from Vietnam.
John Kerry has been able to convince about 13 men who served on Swift boats in the Mekong Delta to support him, 7 or 8 of whom were at various times crew members on his own 6-man boat. Those are the men the Kerry campaign so prominently featured at the Democratic Convention. The photograph we have posted at SwiftVets.com shows Kerry with 19 of his fellow Swift boat OICs (Officers In Charge) in Coastal Division 11. Four OICs were not present for the photograph. Only one of his 23 fellow OICs from Coastal Division 11 supports John Kerry.
Overall, more than 250 Swift boat veterans are on the record questioning Kerry's fitness to serve as Commander-in-Chief. That list includes his entire chain of command -- every single officer Kerry served under in Vietnam. The Kerry game plan is to ignore all this and pretend that the 13 veterans his campaign jets around the country and puts up in 5-star hotels really represent the truth about his short, controversial combat tour.
The Swift boats fought in groups, so the other OICs who fought alongside Kerry know him well and can accurately describe what he did and did not do. In many cases Kerry's fellow OICs had a better perspective than his own crew members, since the latter had no way to determine whether he was following orders and how well he worked with his peers.
Senator McCain condemned this tactic by the Bush camp. I understand this is an issue in his heart, but where was McCain when MoveOn.org was comparing Bush to Hitler? Or the lies in Michael Moore's movie? And I don't know this, but has McCain ever condemn Kerry for the lies he obviously spun decades ago about the "war crimes" he saw during his time in Vietnam? WHERE WERE YOU SENATOR MCCAIN WHEN ALL THIS WAS HAPPENING? You lost some credibility with me this week.
UPDATE: The DNC's attorneys sent out letters to the broadcast stations airing the ads and threatened them with lawsuits. Castle Argghhh! has the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's response.
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