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To: Sully- who wrote (4326)	8/26/2004 6:05:25 AM
From: Sully-	of 35834

Hat tip to R. D. Buschman <font size=4>The AJC ran an editorial yesterday dismissing SwiftVets on the grounds that 35 year old memories are unreliable and, therefore, only the <font color=blue>"official record"<font color=black> is credible in evaluating Kerry's Vietnam service. Here are a couple very good replies from today's paper: <font color=purple> Coverage shows slant toward Kerry President Bush serves in the Alabama National Guard 35 years ago and some veterans cannot remember him. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, along with Democratic <font color=blue>"527"<font color=purple> groups, repeatedly report this lack of memory as a real possibility that Bush did not do what he said he did. Sen. John Kerry serves in Vietnam 35 years ago and more than 200 veterans can remember him. More than 50 chronicle eyewitness accounts that dispute Kerry's heroic accounts, but their story receives virtually no coverage except in your editorial sanctimoniously attacking their poor memories. If Bush had two eyewitnesses writing a book detailing and disputing his military service, the AJC would have a three-part series in the Sunday paper, reprinting entire chapters. <font color=black> GARY MESCHER Lawrenceville <font color=purple> 'Official story' far from verified You allege that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth contradict <font color=blue>"established records."<font color=purple> Untrue. The records in question have yet to be released by John Kerry. You recast the claim as <font color=blue>"every bit of available documentary evidence."<font color=purple> Clever, but misleading. True deceptions follow when you declare that the assessments of Kerry's superiors don't disagree with his claims. You repeat this assertion by stating, <font color=blue>"Every single contemporary account from eyewitnesses and participants in the battles in question confirm the official story." <font color=purple> Swift Boat Veterans for Truth consists of many eyewitnesses who question what you call the <font color=blue>"official story."<font color=purple> Either this editorial wasn't well researched or you accept whatever Kerry says as the <font color=blue>"official story."<font color=black> PAUL THORSEN Roswell<font size=3> ajc.com

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