I can't include the URL directly to the ad. Go to the site to see it. I was most impressed by the vet saying, " We were tortured to make us say what Kerry was testifing to."
New SwiftVets ad
By Beldar on SwiftVets
The new SwiftVets ad, entitled "Sellout," is now available (Windows media version).
Its focus is on young Kerry's 1971 testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and it intersperses Kerry's own sonorous, condemning voice with reactions from former American POWs.
I personally found this ad less powerful than the first one, but I suspect that is because I'd already read Kerry's testimony so many times, and even heard his recorded words. If one hasn't heard his distinctive voice mouthing these words before, however — and I suspect that the vast majority of the American electorate hasn't — the ad may be quite shocking. The ex-POWs' comments seem almost unsurprising — how could they not be outraged that Kerry, as one of them put it, "gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam, in the prison camps, took torture to avoid saying."
I'll be curious to see Sen. McCain's reaction to this ad. One can argue that it's ancient history, that it's irrelevant to today; one can argue that Kerry himself has subsequently distanced himself (slightly) from these words (although he's never made a genuine apology). But while one can argue over its significance, no one can argue about the truth of this ad. And I suspect that in the eyes of most who are encountering Kerry's 1971 testimony in his own voice for the first time, it is a very ugly truth.
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