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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-04 10:42 PM
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New Vets Come Forward – Shows SBVT Criminal Fraud
Vet States 25% of Names on SBVT List Against Kerry Could be Bogus

NOTE: THIS STORY HAS NOT BEEN PICKED UP BY THE NATIONAL MEDIA WIRE OR THE PRESS. PLEASE EMAIL TO ALL MAJOR MEDIA OUTLETS. – THANK YOU - BRaBC04, Inc.
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Swift Boat Vets Angry About Anti-Kerry Letter
By LINDA HALSTEAD-ACHARYA, Of The Gazette Staff
Full Story:
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&tts=1&display=rednews/2004/09/01/build/state/25-swift-boat.inc

COLUMBUS – Swift boat veteran Bob Anderson of Columbus is ticked. It bothers him that Sen. John Kerry's swift boat history has become such a political hot potato. But he's even more irritated that his name was included - without his permission - on a letter used to discredit Kerry. "I'm pretty nonpolitical," the 56-year-old Anderson said Tuesday. So, when he found out last week that his name was one of about 300 signed on a letter questioning Kerry's service, he was "flabbergasted." "It's kind of like stealing my identity," said Anderson, who spent a year on a swift boat as an engine man and gunner.

Fellow swift boat sailor Bob Wedge, 60, of Mesquite, Nev., said his name, too, was on the list - and he's mad. "This is the fourth or fifth time someone has called me or e-mailed me in regard to signing this damn letter," he wrote in an e-mail to Anderson. "I don't agree with it and want no part of it and especially don't want my name on it."

Both men have tried to contact the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to have their names removed from the list. Neither have had any success. "I can't seem to get a response when I reply to their e-mail," Wedge said. "They come back undeliverable."

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.

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Beltway and Texas Republicans
Against Bush-Cheney ’04, Inc.
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hang a left Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-04 10:45 PM
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1. Well good.
You should post this over in GD04 and let them do that media blaster thingy.
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-04 11:28 PM
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11. I agree -- this is EXTREMELY important
Please post it over there too.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-04 10:46 PM
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2. Gee, and all it took was a few phone calls.
I guess the 'mainstream' presstitutes were too busy getting their talking points to bother.

The wrong people are in prison in this country!
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mbperrin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-04 10:46 PM
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3. That is pretty bold, using someone's name like that.
Here in West Texas, something like that could get you a good ass-kicking.

(In many ways, we're not particulary sensitive here.)
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r_u_stuck2 Donating Member (232 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-04 10:47 PM
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4. DUPE
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-04 11:06 PM
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8. Thanks didn't see it
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EST Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-04 10:47 PM
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5. If a rethug says it, its a lie.
The great unraveling
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-04 10:51 PM
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6. I have a question about the swift boaters for bush...
If they dislike Kerry so much, why didn't they come out against him when he ran for the US Senate? Is it because he wasn't running against Bush for the Senate? Why have they just organized now, 35 years later? Why not immediately or five years later of ten years later? Why has it taken them 35 years to get their act together?
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-04 10:59 PM
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7. Cause this time they're making money
with it.
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-04 11:07 PM
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9. Nothing More Than The Bush-GOP-Texas Mafia Attack Machine
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Merlin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-04 11:24 PM
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10. Just sent it to NYT's Rutenberg, Zernike, Halbfinger & Stout
They did the story last week about the vet who spoke out after 35 years to support JK.

JIM RUTENBERG, KATE ZERNIKE; DAVID M. HALBFINGER AND DAVID STOUT

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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-01-04 11:58 PM
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12. EXCELLENT THANKS!!!!!!
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DeepModem Mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 02:49 AM
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13. kick
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July Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 06:15 AM
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14. kick nt
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 06:41 AM
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15. as many as 25%? this guy doesn't know much about statistical sampling.
it could be over 50%, with the error introduced by such a small sample!

wow, what a blow to the smearboaters. they turn out to be both liars AND frauds!
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 07:17 AM
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16. Yelp we shot the SBVT List to the DNC to confirm every name on it!
We think a lot of those names on the Support Bashing Kerry SBVT list are only members of SVBT's Forum or are Bush-Cheney-Defense Department or Defense contractor "plants". On the later we have already found three such names.

Interesting that Paracletes Armour and Equipment, Inc. in North Carolina is a major donor to the SBVT organization. We have already had two licensed private investigators investigate Paraclete, and they found BIG PAY-DIRT.

I will posted the key parts of our investigation on Paracletes early next week.

We have three moles and Vietnam Vets at SBVT' site and in their vet members only Forum. We also know they read this site daily and I could care less.

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Beltway and Texas Republicans
Against Bush-Cheney ’04, Inc.
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cthrumatrix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 07:27 AM
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17. shocking...start the lawsuits
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yelladawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-02-04 07:28 AM
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18. The number will go higher
This 25% figure is low and it will get higher.
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