McCain Condemns Anti-Kerry Ad

[Zorra]

WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, called an ad criticizing John Kerry (news - web sites)'s military service "dishonest and dishonorable" and urged the White House on Thursday to condemn it as well.

The White House declined.
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The Kerry campaign has denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, saying none of the men in the ad served on the boat that Kerry commanded. Three veterans on Kerry's boat that day — Jim Rassmann, who says Kerry saved his life, Gene Thorson and Del Sandusky, the driver on Kerry's boat, said the group was lying.
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Hoffmann said none of the 13 veterans in the commercial served on Kerry's boat but rather were in other swiftboats within 50 yards of Kerry's. The group claims that there was no gunfire on the day Kerry pulled Rassmann from a muddy river in the Mekong Delta and that Kerry's arm was not wounded, as he has claimed.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=3&u=/ap/20040805/ap_on_el_pr/kerry_mccain

Let's get the names of these 13 veterans in the bogus commercial and do some researching to find out if any of them are criminals.

[Zorra]

1. Here are the names of the guys in the commercial:

Al French
Bob Elder
George Elliot
Louis Letson
Van O’Dell
Jack Chenoweth
Admiral Hoffman
Adrian Lonsdale
Larry Thurlow
Grant Hibbard
Shelton White
Joe Ponder
Bob Hildreth

[VolcanoJen]

2. Dupe... locking

Please continue discussion within the original LBN thread on this topic, which can be found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=730024

Thanks!
VolcanoJen
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