Two Of The Swift Boat Jerks Were BUSH APPOINTEES!!!

[DrFunkenstein]

WASHINGTON - Two former Vietnam prisoners of war who appear in ads attacking Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry were appointed by the Bush administration to a panel advising the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The former POWs in the ad, Kenneth Cordier and Paul Galanti, serve on the VA's 12-member Former POW Advisory Committee. VA Secretary Anthony Principi appointed Cordier in 2002 and Galanti in 2003.

Cordier and Galanti appear in an anti-Kerry ad saying their Vietnamese captors used news of anti-war protests, such as ones Kerry organized, to taunt the prisoners. Cordier also was a member of a Bush campaign veterans' committee but quit earlier this month after that role was revealed.

Cordier said he doesn't remember his Vietnamese captors specifically mentioning Kerry but he does remember them playing a tape of an address by anti-war activist Jane Fonda.

Cordier and Galanti are longtime friends and prominent former Vietnam POWs with long-standing Republican ties. Cordier said he suggested Galanti contact O'Neill.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=6&u=/ap/anti_kerry_veterans

[Arkana]

1. Interesting

Kenneth Cordier...his name was scrubbed from the campaign website immediately after it dawned on *'s boys that someone might actually do a little poking around. It's part of the Top Ten List for that week, isn't it?

[A_Possum]

2. OK, Cordier wants us to believe...

That working to end a war and bring the POW's home ASAP is demoralizing to POWS.

Well, maybe it is if they're being lied to about it by their captors, but if it brings em home faster, that seems like a pretty backwards complaint, ya know?

[rsmith6621]

3. I hope this one Blows Up on Shrub

Lets Let the next Vice President take this on to the public..

...I wonder when the rightwing SCUM finally see the CONFLICT OF INTEREST written all over the matter.....

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. They see it....they're just going to pretend it doesn't exist.

Just like everything else. Swifties have sunk anyway. :hi: