Kerry still fighting Swift Boat Veterans about wartime service

RAW STORYPublished: Saturday May 27, 2006

Senator John Kerry is still battling the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth about his wartime service during the Vietnam conflict, according to a front page story in Sunday's New York Times.
The Times reports that Kerry's supporters have compiled 'new evidence' to back the accounts contested by critics from the right.

One photograph posted by The Times online at this link shows Kerry sporting a bandaged arm shortly after being injured in a battle which earned him a Bronze Star, when - according to the Swift Boat Veterans - Kerry was "never wounded or bleeding from his arm."

"They lied and lied and lied about everything," Senator Kerry tells The Times. "How many lies do you get to tell before someone calls you a liar? How many times can you be exposed in America today?"

Excerpts from the article written by Kate Zernike:
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Three decades after the Vietnam War and nearly two years after Mr. Kerry's failed presidential bid, most Americans have probably forgotten why it ever mattered whether he went to Cambodia or that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth accused him of making it all up, saying he was dishonest and lacked patriotism.

But among those who were on the frontlines of the 2004 campaign, the battle over Mr. Kerry's wartime service continues, out of the limelight but in some ways more heatedly — because unlike then, Mr. Kerry has fully engaged in the fight. Only those on Mr. Kerry's side, however, have gathered new evidence to prove their case.

The Swift boat group continues to spend money on Washington consultants, according to public records, and last fall it gave $100,000 to a group that promptly sued Mr. Kerry, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, for allegedly interfering with the release of a film that was critical of him.
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His supporters are compiling a dossier that they say will expose every one of the Swift boat group's charges as a lie and put to rest any question about Mr. Kerry's valor in combat. While it would be easy to see this as part of Mr. Kerry's exploration of another presidential run, his friends say the Swift boat charges struck at an experience so central to his identity that he would want to correct the record even if he were retiring from public life.
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FULL ARTICLE HERE