Swift photo
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has posted a photo on its Web site, www.swiftvets.com, that shows just how little support Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry has among swift boat officers who knew him in Vietnam.
Twenty officers, including Mr. Kerry, are shown in the photo, but the Web site urges viewers to touch it with their cursor to see just how many support the Massachusetts Democrat's White House bid. Suddenly, only one man is standing near Mr. Kerry.
Until earlier this week, there were two, but one of them said he, too, was no supporter of Mr. Kerry.
"Sen. John Kerry has made his four-month combat tour in Vietnam the centerpiece of his bid for the Presidency," the Web site says. "His campaign jets a handful of veterans around the country, and trots them out at public appearances to sing his praises. John Kerry wants us to believe that these men represent all those he calls his 'band of brothers.'
"But most combat veterans who served with John Kerry in Vietnam see him in a very different light."
The group said the purpose of the photo "is to correct the misleading use of our images — against our will — to further John Kerry's campaign."
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth added, "John Kerry has been able to convince about 13 men who served on Swift boats in the Mekong Delta to support him, seven or eight of whom were at various times crew members on his own six-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." |
