On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 15:41:23 -0400, "Vito" wrote:

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), a
former prisoner of war in Vietnam, called an ad criticizing John Kerry
(news - web sites)'s military service "dishonest and dishonorable" and urged
the White House on Thursday to condemn it as well.
The White House declined.


"It was the same kind of deal that was pulled on me," McCain said in an
interview .....

"When the chips were down, you could not count on John Kerry," one of the
veterans, Larry Thurlow, says in the ad. Thurlow didn't serve on Kerry's
swiftboat, but says he witnessed the events that led to Kerry winning a
Bronze Star and the last of his three Purple Hearts. Kerry's crewmates
support the candidate and call him a hero.


It is disgusting. As I mentioned in a previous post, these are the
same sorts of attacks that were unleashed on John McCain last time
around. I guess the only reason they do them is because they work
among the weak minded and unprincipled.

The Swiftboats attack group is the same guy that the Nixon Whitehouse
recruited for the task back in 1971 with the "Viet Nam Veterans for a
Just Peace." John O'Neill, the strawman for this ongoing smear group,
wasn't even in Viet Nam when Kerry was and didn't meet him until they
appeared on the Dick Cavett Show after the war.

Now they want us to disregard Kerry's fitness reports and the
experiences of those who actually served *with* him and put great
weight in the opinions of those who never met him. No thanks.

Kerry enlisted, volunteered and went. Enough said.