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6.30.06 @ 12:01AM

RUN, FRENCHIE, RUN
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s The Kerry Brigade:

Leave it to R. Emmett Tyrrell to introduce an underused word. Shall we expect Kerry's military record to be repristinated about the same time that Madonna is revirginated?
-- GnuCarSmell
Jacksonville, Texas

Reading the article on Jean-Francois Kerry's desire to run for the Presidency again leaves me hopeful. I cannot wait. I sit here in East Texas, the proud owner of a full size cardboard cutout of Mr. Kerry. It was given to my husband as a birthday gift the year Kerry lost. My husband, a Vietnam Veteran, felt his service to his country was vindicated when Kerry lost.

Attached to Mr. Kerry's Frankenstein pose is a bumper sticker I had printed up. It reads, "John Kerry is an idiot." I had several printed last election and look forward to handing them out to my friends, should he run. I think his nomination will bring back all the comedic double-talk speeches and foolish statements. We can look forward to many jokes at his expense.

As for the attack on the Swift Boat Veterans, they have been through worse and because they walk with integrity, unlike Mr. Kerry, they will stand firm and truth will be told. Justice will be served once more for the generation who came home from war to be dishonored by the scoundrels like Kerry and Jane Fonda.
-- Beverly Gunn
East Texas Rancher, Military wife and mother

Perhaps one reason that members of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are having trouble getting officials to believe their stories of harassment (by HuffPost?), is that it is so well known that Swift Vets traffic exclusively in LIES.

Remember the story of the little boy who cried wolf so many times (told lies), that when he REALLY did have a problem, no one believed him, no matter how loud he shouted? Sounds like karma to me. Peace. No threat from me here, let's leave that to the Divine Power you so facilely profess to believe in.
-- unsigned
P.S. Is that Spectator, as in "advocate that others are sent to die while I sit in safety at home as a spectator"?

It is very sad when people indulge in hate speech and threats, as against the Swift Boat veterans. I spent two years in Vietnam. In the military as in any organization there are ways of doing things. Standard operating procedures. One thing you do not do in the corporate world or in the military is put in charge some newly hired clerk with no experience. Matters not if his father is admiral, general or candlestick maker.

With John Kerry's rank and experience the only thing he would have been in charge of would have been the details of men burning human waste from the latrines. No ferrying CIA agents on secret missions.

I believe Kerry to be a liar. I spent eight times longer in Vietnam than him. So if he or his gaggle of spokespeople wish to talk about it, call me. I will set them straight.
-- Gaylord Cooper

Mr. Tyrrell writes, "Well, I for one shall delight in reviewing the Swifties' corpus delicti once again. There are his Purple Hearts that his officers deny authorizing."

I am a Vietnam veteran. I have to say that a leader that gets three purple hearts in four months, is scary. Either he takes extremely dangerous risks for himself and his men, or he is extraordinarily unlucky. Either way, I would be reluctant, not to mention fearful, to follow such a "leader."
-- John Christopher
Sunland, California

Thank you for aptly describing Kerry's bizarre ongoing campaign. It is indeed a comedy routine. If only he had a unicycle and a seltzer bottle it might actually be funny.

But don't work against him too diligently as he does have the potential to deliver some hilarious one-liners (i.e. "…I married up..."). Meanwhile his competition in the adjacent Vaudevillian theater, Madam Jezebel and her House of Horrors, is nothing but scary.
-- R. Trotter

Having seen two articles in two days about Senator Kerry's renewed efforts at polishing his Vietnam record, I find myself confused. I know that the Senator promised to release his service records and signed something, but for some reason all the pertinent information has not become available. He is thus able to go on making self-serving statements and have leftist web-sites disparage the Swift Boat veterans.

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