John Kerry's Smear Machine
By David Allen Jared
Aug 19, 2004
As I predicted in an earlier column, the DNC's smear machine is working overtime trying to dig up the dirt and discredit the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group. Moveon.org has started running an ad that calls these 254 brave men "liars" and "traitors." A bad case of projection, perhaps?
The Kerry campaign is calling for President Bush to demand that the Swift Boat Veterans' ad be removed from circulation immediately. One supposes it never occurred to anyone (except, perhaps the DNC) that by doing so, the Bush campaign would be tacitly admitting that they have "coordinated" with Swift Boats Veterans for Truth in the running of this ad. Certainly, if the Swift Boat Veterans group were to comply with the President's request, THEY'd be "coordinating" their efforts with the Bush campaign. The next thing out of the DNC's collective mouthpieces would be that Swift Boat Veterans must lose its 527 status BECAUSE of a now-provable "coordination" with the Bush campaign. No one should fall for this ploy. The ad is not libelous if it's truthful and certainly no such ad has been more thoroughly documented and backed up by sworn statements.
There's already one absolutely provable lie that Kerry told the country in his resume--that he spent Christmas of 1968 inside Cambodia at the behest of "President Nixon." One would think that those repeating that claim verbatim and without verification would have AT LEAST known that President Nixon wasn't President during Christmas of 1968, but this is another example of how the "mainstream press" uncritically accepts what it's told by the DNC or the Kerry campaign without bothering to check even the most obviously false claims. Now, Kerry has changed his story to having been "near" Cambodia during Christmas of 1968, but that's NOT what he's claimed in the past--even having that patently false claim entered into the Congressional Record at one point. The THIRD tale he's now telling is that his "mission" into Cambodia was so "secret" that no one but him even knew about it. One lie piled upon another, it seems.
Didn't we have enough of lie after lie after lie- -self-aggrandizing lies, at that--come out of our "leader" during the previous administration? Aren't we prepared to do whatever's necessary to avoid a repeat of THAT mistake? President Bush has been almost daily accused of lying for 3 years now, but, as more and more information becomes available, we're seeing that he did NOT lie in order to get us involved in Iraq and he did NOT lie about the reasons for our becoming so involved. Anyone with half a functioning brain cell knows that Iraq DID have WMD's and never accounted for all of 'em. Saddam USED 'em, for Pete's sake-- against the Kurds and Iranians. Almost daily now, more and more information is coming out that Saddam did, in fact, remove those remaining WMD's to Syria prior to the start of the current war. Remember, that tactic is NOT unprecedented. During the Gulf War in 1991, he sent many of his remaining, undamaged air force to Iran. Whether or not that was done at the behest of Saddam remains to be seen, but they DID go to Iran. A number were found buried in the sands of Iraq and only a fortuitous sandstorm uncovered their vertical stabilizers or they'd STILL be hidden there--presumably for later use once the Americans were gone.
In summary, the Swift Boats ad and their book "Unfit for Command" are MUST reads before anyone makes a decision for whom to vote in November. If you STILL, after reading this information, insist that Kerry should be elected, I'd suggest that your motivations are merely to remove President Bush and NOT about who is the better candidate based on his individual merit and record. The accusations of AWOL during his ANG term against the President are patently false as anyone seeing his record can discern. Ever wonder why John Kerry has seen fit NOT to release all of his active duty records? |
