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To: LindyBill who wrote (62370)	8/21/2004 7:49:03 AM
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Carville, Davis, and Other Pests – “Those We Don’t Speak Of” by John Armor - Chron Watch ......We turn now to Carville and Davis. After the ''Swift Boat Vets for Truth'' put out their first TV commercial about dishonesties in John Kerry’s record, and their book, ''Unfit for Command,'' was due to come out, the counterattack came from these two gentlemen. It did not come from Kerry himself. It did not come from any of the much smaller group of Swift Boat Vets who support Kerry. (Those are well-scripted, and kept under wraps. Contact the Rev. Alston at his church in Columbia, SC, and you will be referred to the Kerry press office.) No, it was these two paid verbal assassins who came out to do battle on TV. And their central point, the mantra they repeated incessantly and passed off to the assistant assassins who appeared on the lesser TV, radio, and print media assignments, was this: ''They were not on the same boat.'' Let’s take that statement apart. Not all of the 13 or so Swift Boat Vets who support Kerry WERE on the same boat with him. The story of Rev. David Alston, whose speech I praised three weeks ago when I thought he was telling the truth as he believed it, has unraveled. After his hospitalization for a head injury, which happened the same day as the injury to the lieutenant who Kerry replaced on the 94 Boat, Alston only came back to duty for a single week before Kerry engineered his trip back home. So his magnificent speech on Wednesday night in Boston was fraudulent, and so was John Kerry’s praise for Rev. Alston’s presence on the 94 Boat. And the story of Jim Rassman, the Man-Whose-Life-Was-Saved, is also unraveling. His version of what Boat he initially was on does not match the official records, nor does Kerry’s conduct just before the ''Deliverance.'' On the other side of the equation, one of the Swift Boat Vets who opposes Kerry, Steve Gardner, served as long or longer with Kerry as all those who still support him. Gardner was a few feet away from Kerry the whole time, and deems him an unfit commander. But the whole ''on the same boat'' issue is a fraud. Everyone who has seen John Kerry’s home movies in which he and other sailors took their boats and reenacted missions for his camera, knows that this is a fraud. Those movies, woven into a hagiography by a disciple of Steven Spielberg, clearly showed the fraud. And though only 14 million people saw that glowing film when it was first broadcast in Boston, that Mekong River clip has been run repeatedly. In watching such carefully crafted films, what’s left out is as important as what’s included. There was no mention whatsoever that Kerry’s political career began with election as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts under Michael Dukakis. I suppose that would have resembled a resume item stating that Kerry was First Officer on the Titanic. And Kerry’s 20-year career in the U.S. Senate garnered a whole 27 seconds in that film, if my stopwatch was correct. But I digress. As I describe what you’ve seen in the Mekong footage but perhaps not paid close attention to, you will perceive the fraud. The shot is from the stern of one Swift Boat. Most of the time, it shows a second boat about 100 feet behind. But as the clip continues, for just three seconds a third boat is seen, about 100 feet behind the second boat. Kerry’s own film shows the way these boats operated. For the mutual safety of the boats and their crews, they operated in packs or groups of two to seven. The hulls of these boats were thin, with little protection from attack. They were therefore very easy to sink if damaged at the waterline. The crew of a boat would probably die en masse, if their boat was sunk during a solo mission. Kerry’s own film clip also shows that crew and commanders on accompanying boats had as good or better vantage points to see what happened on another boat, than the crew on that boat – especially if that one was under active attack. Consider what the Carville-Davis same-boat canard really means. On the beach of Normandy, or in the Arden Forest, would accurate descriptions of what happened only be known by members of the same platoon, or would other soldiers not far away have an accurate viewpoint? In the air, would only pilots on the same plane have a view of the action? Or would other pilots in the same squadron have an equal or possibly better vantage point to describe what actually happened? Rest at chronwatch.com