The fact is, we are in deep trouble in Iraq...and I think we are going to have to look at some recalibration of policy.
- Senator Chuck Hagel (R) Nebraska, on CBS Face The Nation.

We made serious mistakes.
- Senator John McCain (R) Arizona, on Fox News Sunday

This is the incompetence in the administration.
- Senator Richard Lugar (R) Indiana, on ABC This Week

...the danger is that we will get hit again, and we will be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States.

In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington. Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so. John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment.

• NONE of the people in the ad served with John Kerry. ZERO.


• Louis Letson, who says he treated Kerry and his injury for his first
  Purple Heart is a bald-faced LIAR. The injury was treated by J. C. Carreon, whose signature is on the record.


• Bush campaign top lawyer Benjamin Ginsberg resigned after having given legal advice to the SBVFT even though the Bush administration denied any links to the group.


• Al French may have to resign his job because he signed an affidavit saying he saw what he actually heard from his friends.


• As many as 25% of the names of veterans used by these liars were used WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION and they were not told their names would be used in the list of veterans against Kerry.


• Swift Boat Veterans for Truth members Lt. Commander Grant Hibbard and Lt. Commander George Elliott previously had spoken favorably of Kerry and his service in the past and had campaigned with Kerry in 1996.


• Hoffman had no firsthand knowledge to discredit Kerry and his claims to valor and said that although while Kerry was under his command, he really did not know Kerry much personally.


• John ONeill, the founder of SBVFT, was initially hired by the Nixon administration to counter Vietnam protesters and to go after Kerry back during the war. He is also a heavy contributor to the Republican Party. He denies any link to the Republican party, although he had given $40,000 worth of contributions to the GOP. Additionally, he has been caught up in a LIE about how he accused Kerry of not being in Cambodia around Christmas 1968. However, the Ghost of Richard Nixon reared his head via a tape recording where ONeil said when asked that he was in Cambodia and worked along the border. So ONeil was caught in yet another lie.


• Larry Thurlow received a Bronze Star for being under fire in the exact conflict that Kerry was in, yet he lied that Kerry did not deserve his medals because there was no fire.


• The US Navy awards military medals go through a series of approval processes and do not take awarding soldiers with medals lightly. So by this fact, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are showing their utter disrespect for our military and defame all the medals awarded to those that heroically served our country. Perhaps these people and those that say that Kerry also only spent time on a carrier want to explain to those now on carriers that their service to this country is sub-heroic and not a big deal.


• These Band of Liars prove that they are not friends of the same Constitution and First Amendment they fought for by finding dissent to be seen as an unpatriotic act that America and democracy stands for.


• By targeting Kerry for making a stand against the evils of the Vietnam War (and having Nixon appoint fundraiser John ONeil, who DID NOT SERVE with Kerry), they prove they are enemies of democracy and the freedom to dissent. ONeil, who openly lies that he is not a Republican, has been a major contributor to ONLY Republican candidates. Perhaps liars like ONeil cannot keep track of the trail of lies he has spewed over the years.


• Many of the same vets in the ad praised Kerry back when their memory was fresh of Kerry and his service. One of the disgusting liars in the ad, George Elliot, who dared to be in the ad and then retract his attack (and then retract his retraction) said in 1969:
  In a combat environment often requiring independent, decisive action, LTJG Kerry was unsurpassed. He constantly reviewed tactics and lessons learned in river operations and applied his experience at every opportunity.


• Bob Perry, a major supporter of President Bush and the Republican Party and fellow Texan, gave $100,000 to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Other major Republican donors have funded this little charade as well. Any illusions that this is an independent group is another pitiful lie.

Q: On Ridge and his security warnings, can the President today guarantee Americans that no terrorist attack can upset the U.S. elections this November, that they will go ahead as planned?

MR. McCLELLAN: Ann, I do not think anyone can make guarantees. But the full intention is to move forward and hold those elections. I do not know specific information related to election day or any other of the high profile events that we have coming up. What we can guarantee to the American people is that we will continue to take strong steps to make sure that we are doing a better job every day of protecting the homeland and enhancing protective measures in certain areas of the country. And we will continue waging the war on terrorism, on the offensive, to defeat the terrorists. That is what we will continue to do.

Irregular, loose-fitting clothing not appropriate for warm weather, possibly with protruding bulges or exposed wires or a noticeable chemical odor.

Sweating, mumbling (prayers) or unusually calm and detached behavior. In addition, people who refuse to show their hands, possibly to conceal a detonator.

Disguises, including military, police, medical or firefighter uniforms or someone posing as a pregnant woman.

Large or heavy baggage not appropriate for the location, such as a big duffel bag carried into a restaurant.

The fact that George Bush thinks it’s appropriate to use images of Adolph Hitler in his campaign raises serious questions about his fitness to spend another four years in the White House. Adolph Hitler slaughtered millions of innocent people and has no place in a campaign that is supposed to be about the future and hope of this nation. The President’s use of these images during a month that evoked the memory of World War II is remarkably insensitive to the sacrifices of the millions of people who lost their lives during Hitler’s reign of terror.

The Bush Campaign should immediately remove these hateful images from its website and apologize for using them. The use of Adolph Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong.