Yawn. So many lies, so little time:
Missing in the Democrats fury and the anti-Bush media frenzy in the US is the fact that Kerry has not released all his military records, as Bush has, or directly addressed the allegations of the Swift Vets.
Kerry’s credibility is also challenged by his own statements. In a 1986 speech on the Senate floor, Kerry said, "I remember Christmas of 1968 sitting on a gunboat in Cambodia. . . . I have that memory which is seared-seared-in me." He restated this story again in several interviews in 1992. Now after decades, Kerry’s favored biographer Douglas Brinkley places Kerry fifty miles from Cambodia that night and says that Kerry was mistaken in his earlier statements.
More troubling for Kerry, a second Swift Boat TV advertisement details Kerry’s activities after the war. A leading anti-war activist upon his return to the US, Kerry appeared before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on April 22, 1971 and accused US military members of widespread war crimes.
Kerry’s charges were based on hearsay from an anti-war conference he attended that was funded primarily by Jane Fonda. None of the witnesses there provided verifiable details or would sign affidavits. The Naval Investigative Service later found that several of the veterans were impostors using the name of real veterans. Kerry stands by his statements today.
LIES:
#1: Kerry's released all his military records in his possession. He, like Bush, have not signed the SF 180. Maybe they can meet and sign it together.
#2: Kerry's has addressed the lies of the Not-So-Swifties. Go to www.johnkerry.com
#3: Christmas in Cambodia story true. NSSs continue to lie about it, though.
#4: Atrocities in Vietnam are now well known and documented.
Hmm, that's a pretty good lie-to-word-count ratio. I guess that makes for efficient neocon reading...get your minimum daily requirement of lies without having to stretch the old brain much... |
