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Swift Vet John O'Neill Responds to ABC's
Nightline
"While
I have a tremendous amount of respect for Ted Koppel and ABC News I was
appalled to learn that ABC News would go to the lengths of traveling to
Vietnam to interview three Viet Cong communists in yet a third
attempt by ABC to corroborate John Kerry's version of the events that took
place on February 28th, 1969.
"I
would only ask the American people: 'Who do you trust more, three members
of a communist regime that tortured and killed our American troops or a
group of more than 280 highly decorated American veterans, who proudly
served their country and are now responsible members of their respective
communities?'
"The
number of veterans who support John Kerry's accounts of his military
service would not fill one Swift Boat. But instead of sitting down to
interview some of the 280 plus members of our Swift Boat organization, ABC
News chose to travel to Vietnam taking extraordinary and highly suspect
steps to find someone to corroborate John Kerry's story."
John
O'Neill commanded John Kerry's Swift Boat after Kerry left Vietnam and is
a member of Swift Vets and POWs for Truth.
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Swift Vets Air Two Ads With Largest-to-Date $3 Million Ad
Buy
Swift
Vets and POWs for Truth released two new ads yesterday, which will run in
the final weeks of the presidential campaign. This $3.14 million ad buy on
national cable stations and in the states of Ohio, Colorado and New Mexico
is the largest in the Swift Vets' history. In Ohio alone, $2 million of
the advertising dollars will be spent in the coming weeks.
The two
latest ads feature more than 75 Swift Vets united in their battle to know
the truth about John Kerry. The first ad entitled, They Served, portrays
the men who banded together to tell the whole story about John Kerry. The
second ad entitled, Why?, features Swift Boat Veterans and POWs posing
questions about John Kerry's record.
In
Why?, former POW and recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor Bud
Day, addresses a critical question to Senator John Kerry: "How can you
expect our sons and daughters to follow you, when you condemned their
fathers and grandfathers?"
These
commercials raise the question of John Kerry's fitness for office. He
betrayed us once, what will keep him from doing it again?
Check
out both of the new commercials at: www.swiftvets.com.
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Kerry Supporters Try to
Silence "Stolen Honor"
The
Kerry camp is at it again. After trying -- unsuccessfully -- to block the
publication of "Unfit for Command," his supporters are now working to
force Sinclair Broadcasting Group to pull back from plans to air the
documentary film "Stolen Honor" on its 62 nationwide affiliates later this
month.
Swift
Vets and POWs for Truth needs you to respond to this effort to silence the
voice of the POWs. Please contact a Sinclair affiliate in your area to
support their to get the truth out about John Kerry by airing this
important film.
You can
find a list of Sinclair stations on their website at www.sbgi.net/business/television.shtml.
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| Progress
Update |
Swift Vets and POWs Surpass $5 million in Online
Contributions!
Earlier this week, we received the contribution that pushed us
over $5 million from our website! To date, 72,478 donors have given
$5,072,527.
In addition, more than 60,000 people are now receiving our
newsletters and action alerts.
Great
job, but let's make one final push down the homestretch!
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| Recent
Coverage |
Delaware County Times
Veterans Kerry dishonored need to be heard (Oct.
13)
The
Comfort Inn in Philadelphia is no Four Seasons, but it's a whole lot
better than the Hanoi Hilton where Mike Cronin spent six years of his
life. The Hanoi Hilton is the name American prisoners of war in Vietnam
gave the prison where they were held, interrogated and tortured by their
jailers.
Cronin,
a Navy pilot, was one of those prisoners. So were Jim Warner and Ken
Cordier. They all came in to Philadelphia Sunday night to get ready for a
press conference they had planned for the next morning to talk about their
beef with John Kerry.
Why is
the mainstream press downplaying if not ignoring this outraged group of
veterans? These guys have a theory. It's because the old media was
complicit in the same anti-Vietnam War movement that John Kerry helped
lead when he returned from his four-month tour of duty. Papers like the
New York Times and networks like CBS bought and perpetuated the myth of
Vietnam veterans as drug-addled and crazed losers. And they continue to
have a stake in sustaining that myth. The media's version of that war is
now the country's official version and they don't want it
changed.
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Associated Press
Henderson Veteran featured in latest Swift Boat ad
(Oct. 14)
Vietnam
veteran from Henderson is featured in a new Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
television ad set for release this week.
James
Thomas can be seen in the commercial which will begin airing Thursday in
New Mexico and Ohio.
Thomas
and about ninety of his fellow swift boat veterans met this weekend in
Washington, DC, to shoot the new commercial.
Thomas
and members of the controversial group formed early this year say they
want to know why Senator John Kerry criticized US soldiers when he
returned from the war.
The
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has polarized veterans by criticizing the
Democratic candidate for his comments about the Vietnam War.
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TownHall.com
Few
members of military support Kerry (Oct.
14)
The
survey may say greatly more about the effects of efforts by Kerry and his
enthusiasts to garner support in this important segment of a broadly
conservative electorate. Such as:
- Vietnam, as John McCain advised Kerry last spring, remains a
third rail in American politics: touch it and you get a potentially
fatal jolt. A vast segment of the electorate still regards peacenik
activities then - including Kerry's - as repulsive, even anti-American,
now.
- The
Swift Boat veterans raised troubling questions about the very activities
Kerry made central to his convention and campaign. The sheer numbers of
Swiftees who oppose Kerry's performance in Vietnam and on the barricades
with Jane Fonda thereafter overwhelm the "band of brothers" Kerry
regularly trots out as campaign props.
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