Sean Hannity is reporting the the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth have offered to end their media campaign, if Senator Kerry meets a few criteria.
The main point is that Kerry apologize to the nation and veterans for his 1971 Senate testimony.
The Swift Boat Vets press release site doesn’t have it yet, but you can catch the audio on the Sean Hannity online broadcast.
Update: The official letter is now available. For your convenience, the text of the letter is shown below.
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If Kerry does decide to apologize, I have a wakizashi that I’d be happy to give him.
According to the news earlier (6 pm on Fox if I recall correctly – just saw the screen without volume) they want him to 1. apologize for his statements about men still fighting in Vietnam and throwing his medals away; 2. Explain the actions around his Bronze Star and the rescue of Rassman; 3. Tell the truth about the Cambodia thing and 1 more that I forget.
The person running the smartest campaign, by far, is John O’Neill. The man continually boxes Kerry in. Impressive, if for nothing more than the sheer tactical brilliance of the issues, content of ads, sequence and timing of ads, the way he challenged Kerry to bring a defamation suit if he thinks it’s a lie, etc. Powerful. .
Is there anything to a rumor that Gardner is supposedly hinting at about an even MORE devastating release yet to come?
How about they apologize for being so dishonest first?
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&tts=1&display=rednews/2004/09/01/build/state/25-swift-boat.inc
“Anderson said he first learned about the situation last week when he received an e-mail from a third party. The e-mail, from a Tom Pyle, said Pyle had contacted a dozen men whose names showed up on the list. Of the dozen, three said they had not given permission, Anderson said.
“That leads me to believe that as many as 25 percent of the names are fictitious supporters of that group,” he said. “
those freaking swift boat liars for falsehood.
“those freaking swift boat liars for falsehood.”
Nitroburn, I didn’t realize Kerry had a swiftboat group.
I don’t think they should give up their ads. Their site has been hacked so many times, it’s ridiculous! Sure if you find one you can hear a commercial but they finally found a temporary home on US Paratroupers site. When they first started, they had many pages but Hackers (Kerry’s people maybe?) and if you go to vietnamveteransagainstjohnkerry you might also find some info on them. Kerry/Edwards has tried to shut them down so many times and there is only one reason for that – you can’t get that many people to lie.
We are in serious trouble if Kerry wins this election.
Since he does not show up for work in the Senate, I wonder how often he’ll show up for work in the White House? And to think we’d have to listen to his monotone voice whenever he gives a speech makes me want to gag. God help us all.
~C
I’m sorry, did a Bush supporter just bash Kerry for not showing up to work? Seriously? Your boy goes on month-long vacations when the world is falling apart, and you want to criticize KERRY?
You’re really scrambling now. Bravo on alerting everyone to his voice, that’s certainly the first thing on my list of requirements for geopolitical heavyweights. We’ll put “be able to name at least 5 foreign countries” far enough down the list that W can still qualify.
Classic, really. “If I think it, no matter how completely nutjob it is (Kerry employs hackers now), it must be relevant!” Keep it up.
“Sam” — Kerry campaign may not be able to be found to “employ” hackers but the Left certainly has hackers and they’re very busy…Indymedia even has a dedicated site for hackers of the Demo kind (let’s see, Soris and TIDES fund Indymedia, so there’s wiggle room to try to continue to persist in the “Kerry isn’t related to the 527’s” bit, despite the fact that no one believes that anymore).
I’ve yet to read about hackers who are conservatives. Mostly because, I’m thinking, the two are contrary characteristics, at least as to the damaging sort of activities that the Indymedia permuation of hacking for the DNC (that’d be the “not Kerry campaign” DNC hackers, I guess if you are to be believed) is responsible for.
In my own experience, I can simply tell you that the hacking experiences I’m familiar with were left wing criminal sorts, all of whom, I am sure, will not be voting for Bush’s re-election, and I’d be really surprised if they weren’t voting for Kerry.
It’s a foolish argument based upon speculation, however, but I do know that Indymedia has an organized effort to “hack” conservative websites and sources. And, the worst of the noticed hacking activities of late have alll been by “Liberals” about…let’s see, nearly anything and anyone who supports President Bush.
This stuff is utterly shameful. As many of the vets who actually served on Kerry’s boat (unlike these guys) have said, this sort of rhetoric dishonors all of them. Kerry has ALREADY admitted he said some things as a young guy that were less than tactful, and HE ALREADY HAS apologized (though he stands by his political assertions). However, while Kerry has matured in his perspective and learned to try to let old wounds heal, these guys have drastically regressed. They are more bitter, cynical, manipulative, and in my opinion shameful and unpatriotic, than anyone. No one seriously believes they are just running ads out of the blue. We all know they are politically motivated. And they are doing to Kerry far worse than Kerry every did. He never singled anyone out specifically and ran down exactly why they did or did not deserve their medals. If there was a partisan investigation into every medal awarded, you could probably come up with a perfectly good reason that virtually none of them were deserved. But this really should not be considered a priority for our nation. It does no one any good.
William Rood: “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. 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.”
John McCain said the ads are “completely nauseating.”
“If they question Kerry