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09-05-2004 09:19 AM |
LOL: Pair of anti-Kerry vets appointed by BUSH
to VA panel ....
Payback is so sweet .....
Quote:
Pair of anti-Kerry vets serve on VA panel
By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press
Last Updated 6:18 am PDT Sunday, September 5, 2004
WASHINGTON (AP) - 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.
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Cordier also was a member of a Bush campaign veterans' committee but quit earlier this month after that role was revealed.
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Navy records also show most of the anti-Kerry group's members were not in Vietnam at the same time as Kerry. The group has not released a membership list but did criticize Kerry in a May letter signed by 238 members.
Only 101 names on the letter match names of officers or enlisted men on the rolls of Kerry's units in Vietnam when he was there, from November 1968 through March 1969.
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At least 30 men on the list, including one who appears in an anti-Kerry ad, served in Kerry's former Swift boat unit a year after Kerry left Vietnam, the records show.
Shelton White appears in the group's first ad, which claims it is quoting those who served with Kerry. In the ad, White says "John Kerry betrayed the men and women he served with in Vietnam." Navy records show White served in Kerry's former unit, Coastal Division 11, from November 1969 to March 1970 - a full year after Kerry left.
http://www.sacbee.com/24hour/politic...-9319075c.html
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Even if lies, they were powerfull ads... Normal that Dubya pays his dues.... |
