August 10, 2004

DEMOCRAT columnist Novak got ahold of an advance copy of the new book "Unfit for Command" and finds the testimony of 200 Swift Boat Vets pretty damning in regards to disputing Kerry's account of his own "heroism" in Vietnam.
Here's a taste, but I encourage you to read the column:
Deconstructing Kerry's war record

The book's strength is the vehemence of testimony by swift boat veterans, alleging that Kerry ''gamed'' the system to win decorations and later betrayed comrades by charging war crimes. Typical is the quote by Bob Hildreth, commanding an accompanying boat: ''I would never want Kerry behind me. I wouldn't want him in front of me either. And I sure wouldn't want him commanding our kids in Iraq and Afghanistan.'' Some 200 ''Swiftees'' on May 4 signed a letter to Kerry demanding full release of his service records.

Of course, I've pre-ordered a copy of the book from Amazon, where the book's back to the Number One slot!
sKeery has one lone vet supporting him--Jim Rassman--who has an op-ed in the WSJ today entitled "Shame on the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush" but these outraged vets aren't speaking out against Kerry "for Bush!"
(Nor are they being paid by anyone on Team Bush to do this!)
They're doing it for themselves, because their service was honorable, because they know guys killed or hurt in Vietnam who earned their medals or didn't get medals because they're quiet heroes who don't want to laud their own sacrifices, because they've had to live with the nightmare of being called "babykillers" and "war criminals" when they came home from Vietnam because Kerry and his anti-war pals like Jane Fonda branded them as such in the American press and in Senate hearings.
Also, visit the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth website to view their commercial and find out more about what Kerry was really up to in the Navy:
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
Instead of releasing his records and addressing the charges head on, which would be the easiest and most effective way to handle this, Kerry has had lawyers (led by Trial Lawyer King Edwards?) threaten TV stations not to run the Swifties' ad and his minions hacked the Barnes and Noble site, where the book is at the #2 slot, to make the book's cover more Kerry-friendly.
Kerry's people even tried to assert that one of the Swifties had "recanted" his charges against JFK until it was revealed that the Boston Globe reporter, Michael Kranash, was a paid Kerry operative and official biographer!
I see that these 200 men-whom I'd like to thank for their service to our country!--who've come forward with the truth about Kerry have nothing to gain and a lot to lose.
For almost all of them, it's extremely painful for them to talk about their Vietnam experiences and most of them haven't spoken of them until now when their love of country has impelled them to speak out against this lying, immoral man Kerry who is trying to be our next Commander-in-Chief.
It has been their way not to boast of their own service, courage and sacrifice.
More painful even than that was dealing with the charges from their own family and friends that by serving in Vietnam, they had been "babykillers" and "criminals" who put their lives on the line for what the Left considered an "unjust" war.
God bless them--they deserve to have the record set straight!
And if Kerry's lying and "worked the system" dishonestly to get medals and make himself look like a "war hero" while consequently claiming to Congress that he was party to military war crimes, too, the American people need to know that, too.
Kerry comes across to me as not only a liar and a horrible Leftist Liberal, but as completely crazy and schizophrenic, too.
The closest he should get to the Oval Office is a White House tour and even then the Secret Service should watch him like a hawk!