Bush asked to pull ad
The U.S. Olympic Committee had asked the Bush election "campaign to
withdraw the advertisement they are running," International Olympic
Committee spokeswoman Giselle Davies told reporters.
Bush’s campaign ad features the fact that at "this Olympics there will
be two more free nations." The ad points out the fact that U.S.-led
invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq under Bush's presidency have created
two more democracies and crushed two brutal dictatorships.
Bush to sue FEC
President Bush after a phone call with Sen. John McCain, who was
co-sponsor of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Law, stated
that he was going to file a law suite in federal court against the
Federal Election Commission.
President Bush called Sen. John McCain. After the phone call, McCain
stated, "I'm very appreciative of the president's effort to do that,"
McCain said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I want to
emphasize if I could that we're not saying that 527s should be
abolished. We're just saying they should live under the same campaign
finance restrictions (as hard money groups) because they are engaged
in partisan activity."
Scott McClellan, White House spokesman said, "There have been previous
complaints filed against the FEC. The FEC had an opportunity to act...
They did not act. So that allows those who had filed those complaints
to pursue action against the FEC."
McClellan did not say when legal action would be taken by the
campaign, and he would not single out the Swift Boat group for
condemnation. "The president condemns all the ads and activity by
these shadowy groups," McClellan said.
Eddy's Response to
Editor Jim Boyd
Iowa PresidentialWatch’s political cartoonist Linda Eddy heard back
from Minneapolis Star Tribune editor Jim Boyd. The following is the
latest email exchange between Eddy and Boyd:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Boyd" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: the silencing has got to stop!
I've read that; in fact it's on our op-ed page tomorrow. Kerry accuses
no one of anything, and he certainly doesn't condemn anyone. He
repeats what individuals said at the winter soldiers meeting.
And just how is asking to be taken off your email list an act of
censorship? I simply don't want to get your stuff.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Eddy" <>
To: "Jim Boyd" <>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: the silencing has got to stop!
Mr. Boyd,
So, now you're going to parse the verb "accuse?" Thirty-three years
after his Senate testimony you're going to say Kerry didn't accuse
anyone of anything? Somehow, the North Vietnamese interrogators of our
POW's held at the Hanoi Hilton must have missed your nuanced and
understated assessment of Kerry's Testimony.
Are you not the editor to whom the public is invited to send their
editorials and comments? Regarding your previous words, "I simply
don't want to get your stuff" ... you are an editor not wishing to
receive editorial comment?
I simply see that as not being... an editor.
Linda Eddy
Over dued Due Process
by Linda Eddy
 John
Kerry’s 1971 Senate testimony put into the American public’s mind
stories of war crimes being done by American troops serving in
Vietnam. These stories Kerry told to the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee and to the American people were based on lies by men falsely
claiming to be Vietnam veterans. Here is what Kerry said:
“I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that
several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over
150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans
testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated
incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full
awareness of officers at all levels of command.
It is impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in
Detroit, the emotions in the room, the feelings of the men who were
reliving their experiences in Vietnam, but they did. They relived the
absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do.
They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off
ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human
genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies,
randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of
Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and
generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the
normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging
which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.”
A group of men, posing as bonafide Vietnam veterans,
got together in Detroit, told their tall tales. Kerry then went before
the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the American people and
repeated their tales.
Can anybody say “hear-say”?
And what about those American soldiers, still back on
the ground in Vietnam? The ones Kerry and his fake Vietnam veteran
friends said were committing these crimes “on a day-to-day
basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command”?
What did they get to say to the Senate Committee and the American
public?
Nothing. Silence.
Can anybody say “due process”?
Generally, “due process” guarantees the following
(this list is not exhaustive):
·
Right to a fair and public trial
conducted in a competent manner
·
Right to be present at the trial
·
Right to an impartial jury
·
Right to be heard in one's own defense
John Kerry’s 1971 Senate Testimony, based on hearsay
evidence from witnesses proven to be impersonating Vietnam veterans,
became “seared—seared” into the American memory. A socialization
process of silencing of American Vietnam Veterans began, which
continues to this day. No due process, just plain denial of being
heard in one’s own defense.
John O’Neill has challenged John Kerry to sue him.
O’Neill has been a practicing attorney for 30 years now. That’s a
serious challenge, coming from an attorney. But O’Neill knows that in
a REAL court of law – rather than the court of public opinion or a
court of the press’ own bias – he will finally recieve the due process
owed to him and all the Vietnam veterans.
Will John Kerry take up O’Neill’s challenge and sue
him? No. Kerry would be laughed out of court with the flimsy hearsay
‘evidence’ he presented to that Senate Committee back in 1971. And
Kerry would be forced to submitt ALL his medical and military records
to the court – UNSANITIZED – as part of the discovery process leading
up to a trial. That means trouble for Kerry as well, in that he has
already admitted his records contain a falsely awarded purple heart
(for a wound accidentially self-inflicted) and a false claim of a 1968
Christmas in Cambodia.
Due process is owed to America’s Vietnam Veterans.
Playing touchy-feely with John Kerry and the American Press has worn
thin with the American public. Sales of O’Neill’s book, “Unfit for
Command” show an America ready to give these veterans their due
process. They are buying and reading the book in record numbers. They
are “listening” – finally -- to these Vietnam veterans.
The fear of John Kerry and the fear of the American
Press is that one day these Vietnam veterans would be given due
process and heard. Their fears are becoming reality with each page
turned in “Unfit for Command.” And it’s turning into their worst
nightmare...
America’s Vietnam veterans are over-dued Due Process.
And to John Kerry and the American Press, I say, “It’s over... dude.”
Rove heard from
Karl Rove -- President Bush’s political director -- appeared on Fox
News to answer questions about President Bush’s campaign connections
to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a 527 uncoordinated PAC.
Rove said that Ben Ginsberg, was "a great friend of this president,"
and that he resigned "in order to remove any possibility of being a
distraction to his friend."
When Rove was pressed on his relationship with Bob J. Perry, the Texas
house builder who gave the Swift group most of its initial funding,
Rove said: "I've known him for 25 years. When I moved to Texas, you
can count the wealthy Republicans who are willing to write checks to
support Republican candidates on the hand - on the fingers of one
hand. It would be unusual if I didn't know him, having been active for
25 years in Texas."
Describing Perry as "a good friend," Rove said he had seen Perry
within the last year but that the two had only exchanged pleasantries
and "certainly did not discuss with him or anybody else in the Swift
boat leadership what they're doing."
Kerry source of Official report?
The Associated Press has been digging in the Naval archives and has
come up with the weekly report of the Navy task force overseeing John
Kerry's Swift boat squadron. The report states that his group of boats
was fired on in the March 13, 1969, mission. Several swift boat
veterans who were on other boats that day, say there was no enemy
gunfire in the incident, for which Kerry won a Bronze Star and his
third Purple Heart.
The March 18, 1969, report from Task Force 115, which was located by
The Associated Press in a search of Navy archives, is the latest
document to surface that supports Kerry's description of the event.
However, neither the Associated Press nor any other news organization
is yet to confirm who submitted the original report on which
this report is based.
Crew members on Mr. Kerry's boat and a Special Forces soldier Mr.
Kerry pulled from the water that day insist there was enemy fire. The
task force report twice mentions the incident and both times calls it
"an enemy-initiated firefight" that included automatic weapons fire
and underwater mines.
Task Force 115 was commanded at the time by Roy Hoffmann, the founder
of the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which has been running
advertisements challenging Kerry's account of the episode.
A member of the group, Larry Thurlow, said he stood by his assertion
that there was no enemy fire that day. Thurlow, the commander of
another boat who also won a Bronze Star, said task force commanders
probably relied on the initial report of the incident. Thurlow says
Kerry is the author of that report.
The Associated Press may have found a document whose footnote is John
Kerry supporting his own story.
Dems defend illegal 527 coordination
A Democrat aide told the Washington Times that what makes their
intricate exchange of advisors between the Democrat National Committee
and the Kerry campaign with the 527 organizations blasting Bush is the
fact that they have told individuals that they are doing it.
"We've been upfront from the get-go about what role Bob Bauer played,"
he said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "And when Zach Exley
came over here, it was no secret. It wasn't like he snuck in the
middle of the night and popped up at a desk," the anonymous aide said.
It is illegal to coordinate between a 527 and the party or candidate’s
committee.
Poll watching, 8/26
A survey taken Saturday through Tuesday by the LA Times showed that 49
percent of registered voters favored Bush, while 46 percent preferred
Kerry. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage
points.
The Times Poll interviewed 1,597 adults nationwide, including 1,352
registered voters.
Press continues smearing O’Neill
In the latest Kerry-liberal media smear campaign, they have gone to
the secret recording tapes of President Richard Nixon’s conversation
with John O’Neill. The headlines, “Swift Boat Author Addresses
Contradiction,” used by the media infers that O’Neill was in Cambodia.
However, the Nixon secret tapes do not bear out their headline.
"I was in Cambodia, sir. I worked along the border," O'Neill is heard
telling Nixon in a conversation that was taped by the former
president's secret recording system. The tape is stored at the
National Archives in College Park, Md.
"I think I made it very clear that I was on the border, which is
exactly where I was for three months," O'Neill said of the
conversation. "I was about 100 yards from Cambodia."
Of course, the Kerry campaign made the absurd assumption that being
next to the border was proof that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
were lying.
Chad Clanton, a spokesman for Kerry, said the tape "is just the latest
in a long line of lies and false statements from a group trying to
smear John Kerry's military service. Again, they're being proven liars
with their own words. It's time for President Bush to stand up and
specifically condemn this smear."
The polls show that the media and Kerry are not able to stem the tide
of the fact that the American public are beginning to believe that
they, not the Swiftees, are the ones who are lying.
Crawford, Texas' Mexican standoff
Max Clelland and Jim Rassmann were given orders by the Kerry campaign
to go and embarrass President Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
However when they arrived with their letter telling President Bush to
take those lying coordinated Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads off the
air, they were met by the Bush-supporting veterans with a letter
telling Kerry to disavow all 527 illegal TV ads.
What transpired was nothing short of a Mexican standoff, North of the
border.
Jerry Patterson, a Vietnam veteran, tried to accept Clelland's letter
on behalf of the president, but Clelland would not relinquish it.
Patterson tried to give Clelland his letter but Clelland dodged
Patterson in his wheelchair and got away. Patterson commented that
Clelland was ‘very mobile.’
Here is a copy of the veterans’ letter to John Kerry (the one Max
Clelland refused):
Senator John Kerry
304 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Kerry,
We are pleased to welcome your campaign representatives to Texas
today. We honor all our veterans, all whom have worn the uniform and
served our country. We also honor the military and National Guard
troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan today. We are very proud of all
of them and believe they deserve our full support.
That's why so many veterans are troubled by your vote AGAINST funding
for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, after you voted FOR sending
them into battle. And that's why we are so concerned about the
comments you made AFTER you came home from Vietnam. You accused your
fellow veterans of terrible atrocities and, to this day, you have
never apologized. Even last night, you claimed to be proud of your
post-war condemnation of our actions.
We're proud of our service in Vietnam. We served honorably in Vietnam,
and we were deeply hurt and offended by your comments when you came
home.
You can't have it both ways. You can't build your convention and much
of your campaign around your service in Vietnam, and then try to say
that only those veterans who agree with you have a right to speak up.
There is no double standard for our right to free speech. We all
earned it.
You said in 1992 "we do not need to divide America over who served and
how." Yet you and your surrogates continue to criticize President Bush
for his service as a fighter pilot in the National Guard.
We are veterans too — and proud to support President Bush. He's been a
strong leader, with a record of outstanding support for our veterans
and for our troops in combat. He's made sure that our troops in combat
have the equipment and support they need to accomplish their mission.
He has increased the VA health care budget more than 40% since 2001—
in fact, during his four years in office, President Bush has increased
veterans funding twice as much as the previous administration did in
eight years ($22 billion over 4 years compared to $10 billion over 8.)
And he's praised the service of all who served our country, including
your service in Vietnam.
We urge you to condemn the double standard that you and your campaign
have enforced regarding a veteran's right to openly express their
feelings about your activities on return from Vietnam.
Sincerely,
Texas State Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson
Rep. Duke Cunningham
Rep. Duncan Hunter
Rep. Sam Johnson
Lt. Gen. David Palmer
Robert O'Malley, Medal of Honor Recipient
James Fleming, Medal of Honor Recipient
Bush-Cheney '04 Communications
Democrats’ conflict of interest
Joseph Sandler, the top outside counsel for the Democratic National
Committee, also represents MoveOn.org Voter Fund, another liberal
independent group backing the Democratic ticket.
A complaints have been filed against Democrats by the Bush campaign
previously alleging that the following have coordinated 527 groups:
·
Harold Ickes, founder of America Coming Together, and a
DNC executive committee member;
·
Jim Jordan, who was Kerry's campaign manager before
forming Thunder Road Group, a media firm that represents America
Coming Together and the Media Fund;
·
Minyon Moore, a member of America Coming Together's
executive committee and a Kerry campaign consultant;
·
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, an officer in another
Democratic 527 who was chairman of the Democratic National Convention.
McCain to Kerry: pull the ad!
In further developments, the Kerry campaign has agreed to pull their
ad using Sen. John McCain.
"We respect John McCain's wishes, and will stop running the ads of him
challenging Bush to denounce the attacks on his service. It's long
past time that George Bush also take John McCain's advice and do the
right thing by putting an end to the smears and lies attacking John
Kerry's military service. George Bush needs to say this is wrong, he
needs to say it must end," said Kerry spokesperson David Wade.
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