[Vacets-local-dc] Re: [vacets-gen] [A Matter of Honor]

[Tin Le]

Hello anh Hai,

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Hai Tran wrote:

> With regard to the issue of breaching campaign law, I believe Kerry has 
> filed a lawsuit and we must wait for the judgment from the Federal 
> Election Committee. The references Anh Tin included are opinions from 
> newspapers and pundits ... and there are many on both sides!

I am sorry.  The false charges being orchestrated by the Bush campaign and 
their lackeys, "Swift Boat Vets", are opinions, their false opinions.

But saying that the testimonies by a second surviving boat commander, who 
was there, are mere opinions is an insult toward all the veterans.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040821/ap_on_el_pr/kerry_ads

Quote:

Those critics are being challenged by a Chicago Tribune editor who was on 
the Feb. 28, 1969, mission for which Kerry received the Silver Star. 
William Rood, 61, said he decided to break his silence about the mission 
because recent reports of Kerry's actions in that battle are incorrect and 
darken the reputations of veterans who served with Kerry.

"The critics have taken pains to say they're not trying to cast doubts on 
the merit of what others did, but their version of events has splashed 
doubt on all of us," Rood said in a 1,700-word first-person account 
published in Sunday's edition of the Tribune. "It's gotten harder and 
harder for those of us who were there to listen to accounts we know to be 
untrue, especially when they come from people who were not there."

Rood said the allegations that Kerry's accomplishments were overblown are 
untrue and that Kerry came up with an attack strategy that was praised by 
their superiors. According to the Tribune, Rood's recollection of what 
happened that day in South Vietnam was backed by military documents.

Rood wrote that Kerry recently contacted him and other crew members, 
requesting that they go public with their accounts of what happened.

"I can't pretend those calls (from Kerry) had no effect on me, but that is 
not why I am writing this," Rood said. "What matters most to me is that 
this is hurting crewmen who are not public figures and who deserved to be 
honored for what they did. My intent is to tell the story here and to 
never again talk publicly about it."

Here again is the facts, not opinions, as reported by multiple news 
sources.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=1&u=/nm/20040822/pl_nm/campaign_kerry_dc

Quote:

"A veteran who disputed Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news 
- web sites)'s Vietnam war record acknowledged on Sunday he had no proof 
to back his charge that Kerry fabricated the reports of enemy fire that 
won him two medals."

Quote:

  "I do not have a single document," Odell said. "I have the fact that I 
wasn't wounded in that 5,000 meters of fire that he wrote about."

Quote:

"Odell said he had met with Republican strategist Merrie Spaeth, a public 
relations consultant to his group, and once bought a home from Bob Perry, 
a large Republican donor from Texas and close associate of Karl Rove, the 
president's chief political adviser."

Quote:

"The Bush campaign has acknowledged that Ken Cordier, a Vietnam veteran 
who appeared in a Swift Boat Veterans for Truth commercial, had been 
working with the campaign but said he had resigned. (Additional reporting 
by Carol Giacomo and Adam Entous)"

The evidences of collusions and concerted attacks are so damning...  It's 
character assassination all over again, from the Bush campaign.

Cheers,
Tin Le
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