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Suitable for mass mailings. I took the liberty to recompile it with the thread suggestions...
What you have to believe to believe the Swift Boat smears:
1. You have to believe the Navy was wrong about a bronze star, a silver star, and two of three purple hearts. 2. You have to believe it's sheer coincidence that the Swift Boat vets against Kerry have records of supporting and contributing to Republicans. 3. You have to believe Bob Perry, a major Bush contributor from Texas, who's financed the group as part of the five million he has given to Republicans and conservative causes in the last three years, is just interested in the truth. 4.You would have to believe that Harlan Crow, a major financer of the group, a trustee of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation, and a man who served with Dick Cheney on the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (a conservative think tank that funds research promoting conservative business and political interests) is only interested in the truth. 5. You would have to believe that Lt. Col. James Zumwalt, who never served with Kerry, is a better source of information than his father, the late Admiral Zumwalt, who signed Kerry's silver star recommendation and defended John Kerry in the midst of a close political campaign in 1996. 6. You have to believe George Elliott changed his mind and his memory from what he said in 1969 and 1996 and in August of 2004 7. You have to believe Admiral Hyland, James Rassmann, David Alston, and all the other crewmates of PCF-44 and PCF-94 are either liars, amnesiacs, brainwashed victims or partisan hacks (even though several, including Rassmann, are Republicans). 8. You have to believe Purple Hearts are awarded based on the severity of wounds, thus disqualifying thousands if not millions of Purple Hearts that have been given. 9. You have to believe that Kerry threw a grenade into a rice pile to cause his own injuries, and everyone who saw and treated the wounds mistook rice pellets for shrapnel. 10. You have to believe Louis Letson treated Kerry's injury for the first purple heart, and suddenly remembered this one man's injury decades later, even though there's no documentation to support this assertion, he didn't sign the sick call sheet, and he wasn't a crewmate of Kerry's and he got the location of the wound wrong. 11. You have to believe the Navy's after action reports and medal citations are false, indicating it's very easy to get medals by making up stories. 12. You have to believe Roy Hoffman was lying when he said just last year that he had no first-hand knowledge to discredit Kerry's record; and that he actually saw his boss, Admiral Zumwalt, award Kerry undeservedly, but didn't bother to tell Hoffman at the time. 13. You have to believe Jim Rassmann, a Special Forces officer, doesn't know gunfire when it's being shot at him. 14. You have to believe Larry Thurlow, cited in Navy after action reports as having returned fire on the day Kerry saved Rassmann, actually either didn't return fire, or fired at nothing, since the new claim is that there was no enemy fire; and that PCF-3, the boat he reportedly assisted, fell apart by itself, and was towed away by some other boat besides Kerry's, as reported, since Kerry supposedly left, making the Navy liars here again even in their reports on Thurlow himself. 15. You have to believe Shelton White, who says Kerry "betrayed the men and women he served with in Vietnam," considers saving lives "betrayal" or doesn't believe Rassmann could have died when he fell overboard. 16. You have to believe that President Nixon, on a vendetta against Kerry that enlisted John O'Neill himself, although the most powerful man in the world, was incapable of uncovering the deceit that merely scratching the surface has brought out today 17. You have to believe that when John O'Neill debated John Kerry on the Dick Cavett show in June 1971, he decided to keep Kerry's supposed cowardice, lies, and undeserved medals out of the discussion, despite hurling a range of other personal attacks and accusations far less serious. 18. You have to believe Jerome Corsi, a man who when cornered, admitted and apologized for writing vicious screeds about Catholics, the Pope, Muslims, Jews and Gays on a virulent right wing website, is a man of nonpartisan credibility.
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