We're not going to stop. We'd be doing this if John Kerry was a Republican

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129838,00.html

Swift Boat Vets Vow to Press On

WASHINGTON — Despite President Bush's call to stop airing television ads blasting John Kerry's war record, a spokesman for a group of Vietnam veterans said Tuesday it would continue its controversial campaign.

"We're not going to stop. We'd be doing this if John Kerry was a Republican," Van Odell, a Vietnam veteran and one of the leaders of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, told "FOX and Friends."

Odell said he and others in the group were exercising their free speech rights. "I don't know how freedom of speech could be bad for the system," Odell said. "We paid for that through our blood and service in Vietnam."

Early in the day, former Democratic candidate Howard Dean said that Bush "broke the law" by having a member of his veterans advisory panel appear in an ad attacking Kerry. Dean said the veteran who appeared in the second Swift boat ad, Ken Cordier, was "part of the Bush campaign," even though the White House has described him as a volunteer member of a panel on veterans policy unconnected to the president's campaign. Dean said Bush should "apologize" to the country for the attack ad and breaking the law.

[MrBenchley]

1. Yeah, but would Bob Perry be paying them for it then?

Funny how this was such a burning issue for these fuckwits that they sat around with their thumbs up their asses for 30 years....

[Junkdrawer]

8. More importantly, would FOX, CNN, or MSNBC cover it...

Look at the 24x7 coverage they DON'T give to MoveOn...

[Bandit]

2. Just one lie after another rolls off their lips

If they were so concerned about the welfare of our troops they would question why Bush* could get away with disobeying orders and defying military procedure. How does that look to our current crop of soldiers? If the very top man doesn't have to follow orders why should they? Talk about a morale buster. This is way more demoralizing than someone testifying to the horrors of war.

[CO Liberal]

3. "Freedom of Speech" DOes NOT Mean "Freedom to Slander"

The Swift Boat Veterans For "Truth" can all go to Hell, as far as I'm concerned.

[giant_robot]

4. Strange how they defend

freedom of speech when they want to slander a democrat and deem it unpatriotic when one speaks out against Dubya or the war.

I

[zbdent]

5. Did they edit out part of a line?

"We'd be doing this if John Kerry was a Republican," - notice the comma, not a period. That could indicate that there was more to say.

What they really meant was this line:

"We'd be doing this if John Kerry was a Republican and running against Bush."

[blm]

6. Then where is their book attacking Colin Powell who agreed that atrocities

were committed in Vietnam?

Did they tell Bush that Powell was Unfit to Serve?

Do the SV want to declare that their RESEARCH into Bush's service during that time convinced them that Bush is Fit to Command?

Can they please give us the details?

[LisaL]

7. I seriously think they should be sued.

They have collected a lot of money.
They could pay the victims whose reputation they slandered with their vicious lies.