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Politics : John Kerrys Crimes & Lies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Captain Jack who wrote (699)	10/14/2004 8:57:01 AM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 1905

As John Kerry tells it, Tora Bora is the place where President Bush let Osama bin Laden get away.... Well, that's not the way the battle's commanders remember it. The Afghanistan war was led by Gen. Tommy Franks, commander of U.S. Central Command, and his deputy, Lt. Gen. Michael "Rifle" DeLong.... To them, Mr. Kerry's version of the battle of Tora Bora is revisionist history. ...Gen. Franks, on the campaign... for George W. Bush,... said it's wrong to assume that bin Laden was hiding out in Tora Bora. Some intelligence reports put him there, he says, but others placed him in Pakistan, Kashmir or Iran.... [A]l Qaeda leaders had fled to Tora Bora, where they holed up in the mountains' vast network of caves. The cave complex was built in the 1980s as a sanctuary for the mujahedeen fighting the Soviets and was equipped with food, water, weapons, electricity and a ventilation system. Bin Laden used it as his headquarters in the mid-1990s. There were hundreds of tunnels, some many miles long, with exits over the border in Pakistan. Afghanistan is full of rough country, and the jagged peaks of the Tora Bora area are about as rough as it gets -- up to 13,000 feet and covered in snow and ice. "Surrounding" the area... was impossible.... The U.S. commanders made the decision to embed a team of U.S. special forces and CIA agents into every Afghan unit. Like the Afghans, the Americans rode horses or, in the higher altitudes, walked. The special forces carried communications equipment that allowed them to talk to their commanders and to call in air power. Which they did with stunning effect -- demolishing cave-openings and skipping bombs with delayed fuses deep inside. Hundreds of al Qaeda fighters died. No American life was lost.... (Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...

To: Captain Jack who wrote (699)	10/14/2004 1:51:35 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1905

FCC GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO SINCLAIR BROADCAST FCC won't prevent airing of anti-Kerry film, chairman says By Jennifer C. Kerr, Associated Press, 10/14/2004 13:46 WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Communications Commission won't intervene to stop a broadcast company's plans to air a critical documentary about John Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activities on dozens of TV stations, the agency's chairman said Thursday. ''Don't look to us to block the airing of a program,'' Michael Powell told reporters. ''I don't know of any precedent in which the commission could do that.'' Eighteen senators, all Democrats, wrote to Powell this week and asked him to investigate Sinclair Broadcast Group's plan to run the program, ''Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal,'' two weeks before the Nov. 2 election. Powell said there are no federal rules that would allow the agency to prevent the program. ''I think that would be an absolute disservice to the First Amendment and I think it would be unconstitutional if we attempted to do so,'' he said. He said he would consider the senators' concerns but added that they may not amount to a formal complaint, which could trigger an investigation. FCC rules require that a program air before a formal complaint can be considered. Sinclair, based outside Baltimore, has asked its 62 television stations many of them in competitive states in the presidential election to pre-empt regular programming to run the documentary. It chronicles Kerry's 1971 testimony before Congress and links him to activist and actress Jane Fonda. It includes interviews with Vietnam prisoners of war and their wives who claim Kerry's testimony demeaned them and led their captors to hold them longer. In the letter to Powell, the senators led by Dianne Feinstein of California asked the FCC to determine whether the airing of the anti-Kerry program is a ''proper use of public airwaves'' and to investigate whether it would violate rules requiring equal air time for candidates. Separately, the Democratic National Committee filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday contending that Sinclair's airing of the film should be considered an illegal in-kind contribution to President Bush's campaign. boston.com GZ