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Kerry under fire again: War record faces new assaults

NEW YORK - Vietnam-era controversies continue to dog John Kerry [related, bio] and define the combustible race for president, helping give President Bush [related, bio] a new head of steam as his renominating convention opens here Monday.

The ragtag Swift Boat Veterans for Truth launched another new Internet ad yesterday, piling new criticism on Kerry - even as Democrats began to hope the three-week dust-up was fading from the headlines.

And a retired admiral came forward, alleging Kerry's first Purple Heart was a self-inflicted wound - and therefore undeserved.

Even Bush couldn't slow the firestorm by saying he believes Kerry.

``I think Sen. Kerry should be proud of his record,'' Bush told the New York Times. ``No, I don't think he lied (about his service record).''

The president's team has been fighting to distance itself from the veterans who knocked Kerry off stride since his convention last month.

Yesterday, Republicans gathering in Manhattan said they hope the issue fades, worried it might undercut Bush's convention.

Still, the anti-Kerry vets seem bound to carry their campaign through the RNC - releasing a new low-budget ad that questions Kerry's assertion that he was on patrol in Cambodia on Christmas Eve 1968.

``John Kerry claims that he spent Christmas in 1968 in Cambodia and that is categorically a lie,'' Stephen Gardner, who served under Kerry, says in the ad.

``We were never in Cambodia on a secret mission, ever.''

Kerry wrote in a letter to the Herald in 1979 that he was five miles across the border in Cambodia at a time when the U.S. denied there was any military presence in the country.

It followed comments by retired Rear Adm. William Schachte Jr., who told conservative columnist Robert Novak he was ``astonished'' to hear Kerry's version of the firefight on Dec. 2, 1968, when Schachte commanded Kerry on a skimmer boat.

Schachte said Kerry wasn't wounded by hostile fire, but ``nicked'' himself with a grenade launcher and ``requested a Purple Heart.'' But helping Kerry were new comments from a swift boat crewman decorated in the 1969 Vietnam incident where Kerry won a Bronze Star.Robert E. Lambert said not only did both men come under enemy fire, but also that his own boat commander, who has challenged the official account, was too distracted to notice the gunfire.

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[Voice]

What could POSSIBLY be so distracting that GUNFIRE ISN'T NOTICED?

Pure bovine scatology!
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[Jeffs1234321]

Here's a good link
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40188

[cjg]

"The ragtag Swift Boat Veterans for Truth launched another new Internet ad yesterday, piling new criticism on Kerry - even as Democrats began to hope the three-week dust-up was fading from the headlines. "


I really hate the use of the word "ragtag" when speaking of the
Swiftvets, it is used to make people think they are composed of the
people who Kerry described with his lies in 71'

It is so typical of the way the left writes certain words that
are used to describe the vets.

The entire sentence is biased, piling new criticism on Kerry, (poor
baby) and then the saying the "dust-up" was fading, out and out
lie. Dust up? They are running scared as they are being to understand
the Swiftvets are not going to be stopped.

Jerks
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