Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Honored Veterans
The GOP supports our troops and honors our veterans
So long as you agree 100% with their party line, or at least don't speak out against the current party line, then the GOP supports and honors the troops and veterans just fine. If you disagree with them on anything then there is nothing they won't do to smear your good name, including calling you a traitor.
In 2000, when George W. Bush was running in the republican presidential primary against John McCain the Bush campaign used "push polling" to convince voters that McCain had an illegitimate black child. The truth is that McCain does have a black child, an adopted child. However, when faced with the very real possibility of McCain winning the primary the Bush machine had to do something. Lacking anything that was true to use against McCain, they had to resort to this special tid-bit from the Karl Rove book of politics.
In 2002 the GOP put out a television ad that compared the triple-amputee vietnam veteran Max Cleland to Osama bin Laden. In fact GOP pundit Ann Coulter has even gone so far as to claim that Cleland didn't lose his limbs in Vietnam. There is no lie to large for this GOP administration to make against its opponents. Unfortunately there are enough people who don't do their own research out there that these lies influence people.
Now, in 2004, we have "Swiftboat Veterans for Truth" attacking John Kerry. Well, in this group we have some familiar old names. Merrie Spaeth was involved in the 2000 attack on John McCain. John O'Neill, the founder, was a clerk for Justice Rehnquist (who happens to appear in an article that I wrote yesterday on a completely different subject). Political independents don't clerk for justice Rehnquist. Also in O'Neill's lawfirm is Margaret Wilson, General Counsel to Governor George W. Bush. Doesn't sound too politically independent to me.
O'Neill, and the others, claim to have served with Kerry yet O'Neill didn't arrive in Coastal Division 11 until two months after Kerry left Vietnam.
Here are some quotes from CBS News about this latest attack group:
More information:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/04/eveningnews/main615566.shtml
http://www.duckstrap.com/swiftboatveteransfortruth_debunked.php
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/4/21/172634/848
So long as you agree 100% with their party line, or at least don't speak out against the current party line, then the GOP supports and honors the troops and veterans just fine. If you disagree with them on anything then there is nothing they won't do to smear your good name, including calling you a traitor.
In 2000, when George W. Bush was running in the republican presidential primary against John McCain the Bush campaign used "push polling" to convince voters that McCain had an illegitimate black child. The truth is that McCain does have a black child, an adopted child. However, when faced with the very real possibility of McCain winning the primary the Bush machine had to do something. Lacking anything that was true to use against McCain, they had to resort to this special tid-bit from the Karl Rove book of politics.
In 2002 the GOP put out a television ad that compared the triple-amputee vietnam veteran Max Cleland to Osama bin Laden. In fact GOP pundit Ann Coulter has even gone so far as to claim that Cleland didn't lose his limbs in Vietnam. There is no lie to large for this GOP administration to make against its opponents. Unfortunately there are enough people who don't do their own research out there that these lies influence people.
Now, in 2004, we have "Swiftboat Veterans for Truth" attacking John Kerry. Well, in this group we have some familiar old names. Merrie Spaeth was involved in the 2000 attack on John McCain. John O'Neill, the founder, was a clerk for Justice Rehnquist (who happens to appear in an article that I wrote yesterday on a completely different subject). Political independents don't clerk for justice Rehnquist. Also in O'Neill's lawfirm is Margaret Wilson, General Counsel to Governor George W. Bush. Doesn't sound too politically independent to me.
O'Neill, and the others, claim to have served with Kerry yet O'Neill didn't arrive in Coastal Division 11 until two months after Kerry left Vietnam.
Here are some quotes from CBS News about this latest attack group:
"But if you think this just a group of concerned veterans, think again. Some of the organizers have a track record of going after Democrats and Republican opponents of President Bush."
"the same John O'Neill who debated Kerry about Vietnam on "The Dick Cavett Show" in 1971. Back then he was handpicked by the Nixon administration to discredit Kerry."
"The press conference was set up by the same people who tried to discredit John McCain when McCain faced George W. Bush for the Republican nomination in 2000."
"It's the same strategy used to go after Georgia Sen. Max Cleland, who lost three limbs in Vietnam."
More information:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/04/eveningnews/main615566.shtml
http://www.duckstrap.com/swiftboatveteransfortruth_debunked.php
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/4/21/172634/848
All articles in this archive are used under "fair use" as they are important to the national discussion of whether or not the people of this country are being deceived by their government. These articles are used as evidence in that discussion.
