SwiftVets.com

[JK]

This is an attempt to use the old conspiracy excuse many of us remember the Hillary Clinton vast "right wing conspiracy" group she alleged when her husband came under the microscope. Its a deflection that the liberal media run with and as we see they are showing swift boat veterans for truth have had contacts/positions with the Republican Party. Likewise I assume the vets have links with the DNC as well. And so what vets can have contacts with any political parties and work on their behalf I believe we still have all of our rights even though Kerry calls on Bush to stop the press on printing Unfit for Command. Kerry of course avoids the issues raised in the book by using many tactics we are seeing including this conspiracy!!!!

JK


NY Times Claims Conspiracy in Swift Boat Vets' Anti-Kerry Ad
NewsMax.com
Friday, Aug. 20, 2004 In a front page report on Friday, the New York Times lends support to Sen. John Kerry's claim that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVFT)are a front for the Bush-Cheney campaign.

According to the newspaper, "A series of interviews and a review of documents show a web of connections to the Bush family, high-profile Texas political figures, and President Bush's chief political aide, Karl Rove."

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The New York Times says the accounts given by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth "prove to be riddled with inconsistencies," and it then details those inconsistencies - basically dismissing the Swift Boat vets' charges against Kerry without pressing Kerry himself for answers.

The Times charges:

# Many of the vets criticizing Kerry now have praised him in the past, calling him a "good man," his silver star action "an act of courage," and saying Kerry was "beyond reproach" and "among the finest of those Swift Boat drivers."

# Bob Perry, top donor to Republicans in the state of Texas, has given $200,000 to SBVFT. Perry is a close friend of Bush adviser Karl Rove.

# Several other Bush associates are affiliated with the SBVFT group, including Harlan Crow (trustee of Bush Library), Margaret Wilson (former Bush General Counsel) and Tex Lexar (ran as Lt. Gov. on ticket with Bush in 1994).

# SBVFT investigators misled interviewees when researching Kerry Biographer Douglas Brinkley's book.

# One of the authors of "Unfit for Command", Jerome Corsi, should be discredited because he has said anti-Catholic, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic things, for which he has apologized, on a "right-wing" Website.

# The Times says the SBVFT's argument "founders" because of Corsi and other contradictions, including a Dr. Letson's claim that he treated Kerry for his Purple Heart wound the SBVFT says was self-inflicted. The Times reports that the then-medic does not appear on Kerry's medical records.

# SBVFT haven't been able to satisfy questions about their accusation regarding Kerry, so they are "focused primarily on the one allegation in the book that Mr. Kerry's campaign has not been able to put to rest: that he was not in Cambodia at Christmas in 1968, as he declared in a statement to the Senate in 1986," the Times writes.

The Swift Boat Veterans' Lonsdale responded to the Times by telling the Old Grey Lady, " Mr. Lonsdale explained it: "We won the battle. Kerry went home and lost the war for us."

[Steve02C5]

The real conspiracy is the Liberal mainstream media's ongoing deceit and dishonest reporting.
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[Bostonian]

When a whole bunch of people tell a consistent story, that is often because THEY'RE TELLING THE TRUTH!!!

The NYT is unacquainted with the truth. I can understand how they might be confused by the way that the SBVT claims have held up; to them, this is a high-class manufacturing job.