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Skriven 2004-08-07 08:01:12 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
    Kommentar till text 823 av RICHARD JOHNSON (1:10/345)
Ärende: The lie bgins to collapse
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06 Aug 04 06:32, RICHARD JOHNSON wrote to ALL:

 RJ> From The Boston Globe.

 RJ> Veteran retracts criticism of Kerry

 RJ> By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff  |  August 6, 2004

 RJ> WASHINGTON -- A week after Senator John F. Kerry heralded his 
 RJ> wartime
 RJ> experience by surrounding himself at the Democratic convention 
 RJ> with his Vietnam
 RJ> ''Band of Brothers," a separate group of veterans has launched a 
 RJ> television ad
 RJ> campaign and a book that questions the basis for some of Kerry's 
 RJ> combat medals.


 RJ> But yesterday, a key figure in the anti-Kerry campaign, Kerry's 
 RJ> former
 RJ> commanding officer, backed off one of the key contentions. 
 RJ> Lieutenant Commander
 RJ> George Elliott said in an interview that he had made a ''terrible 
 RJ> mistake" in
 RJ> signing an affidavit that suggests Kerry did not deserve the 
 RJ> Silver Star -- one
 RJ> of the main allegations in the book. The affidavit was given to 
 RJ> The Boston
 RJ> Globe by the anti-Kerry group to justify assertions in their ad 
 RJ> and book.

 RJ> Elliott is quoted as saying that Kerry ''lied about what occurred 
 RJ> in Vietnam .
 RJ> . . for example, in connection with his Silver Star, I was never 
 RJ> informed that
 RJ> he had simply shot a wounded, fleeing Viet Cong in the back."

 RJ> The statement refers to an episode in which Kerry killed a Viet 
 RJ> Cong soldier
 RJ> who had been carrying a rocket launcher, part of a chain of events 
 RJ> that formed
 RJ> the basis of his Silver Star. Over time, some Kerry critics have 
 RJ> questioned
 RJ> whether the soldier posed a danger to Kerry's crew. Crew members 
 RJ> have said
 RJ> Kerry's actions saved their lives.

 RJ> Yesterday, reached at his home, Elliott said he regretted signing 
 RJ> the affidavit
 RJ> and said he still thinks Kerry deserved the Silver Star.

 RJ> ''I still don't think he shot the guy in the back," Elliott said. 
 RJ> ''It was a
 RJ> terrible mistake probably for me to sign the affidavit with those 
 RJ> words. I'm
 RJ> the one in trouble here."
 RJ> ...

This is an outright lie.  The gentleman in question has stated clearly, on the
record, that he stands behind the ad by Swift Boat.  The Boston Globe printed a
retraction of sorts, which I will post.

John 

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