More Swiftness

[khaosworks]

From the New York Times:

Friendly Fire: The Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad

Not quoted here because the article is worth reading in full.

The links between Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and the Bush campaign aside - that really shouldn't surprise anyone; that 527 groups have common financial or communal links to the politicians they support also shouldn't surprise anyone; and connection does not equate coordination - what's interesting is the section a bit further down on the Times's checking into Larry Thurlow's story surrounding his and Kerry's Bronze Star and a neat summary of the problems with SBVT's allegations.

Comments

[thespian.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but it really is true. I didn't say "It's all lies!" I said that the story they set up really has collapsed. The stuff they tried to set up about how he didn't deserve his bronze star and such (which if you look back at their ad and press releases was what they were concentrating on for political purposes) has collapsed. The Cambodian Christmas stuff was not mentioned by them until after their other statements started to fall apart, and is one of the more minor issues. The documents at the time, and statements by a number of these people over 30 years say different from what they've started saying in the last 6 months, and there is the evidence that the affidavits were collected a little deceitfully.

If it's not provable, they shouldn't have started yammering about it to begin with, considering what's been on the record for 35 years. Coming up with this now, when he's running for President (and contradicting their own public statements at other times), those are smear tactics.