Swiftboat Veterans Ad on John Kerry - Any Questions (2004)

[ChadronMike]

Forgot how full of shit republicans are, 

[WilliamDRowlett]

Powerful. And as far as the conspiracy geeks go who claim that Karl Rove paid these guys off, I doubt you can find that MANY former Navy people who were with Kerry in Vietnam that could be bought. One or two, maybe three might be bribable but this was a big number. And had Kerry won, would they have been willing to risk the retribution that would come their way?

[Vertigo2903]

Rove did this

[Currymastuh]

I wonder how much money all these guys got paid.

[StraightFashionMan]

It's no wonder America lost the Vietnam war if they had pussies like the swift boat veterans fighting in it!

[Mikey77B]

I LOVED this ad!!!

[ProphetofDP]

Don't you al find it funny that the one guy Kerry could get to say nice things about him is now going to Prison as a pedo.. Those are just the type of folks John Kerry rolls with when he chooses his friends,

[teamcorporate24]

To all these folks who say these ads are "false" - exactly what part is false?

[THEINVENTABLETHREAT]

@teamcorporate24 They came out after the election and said they were given hacked up pieces of his anti war speech and were given pamphlets full of allegations and lied saying that they served with and knew John Kerry. None of the Swift Boaters For Truth were on the same boat as Kerry and they now say none of them had ever even heard of John Kerry while in Vietnam.

[capucchan8]

well his support for the "humanitarian intervention" in Libya that was supposed to last only days shows that he was unfit for command

[1019079]

These are effective ads. They got bush a 2nd term. It doesn't matter that they were later demonstrated as false. They came and did the damage and that was that.

[Ozone89]

John Kerry should of been jailed for his war crimes and glad he lost the election. But yet this country elects a communist with ties to terrorists (Bill Ayers) and who hates the Constitution of the United States. Kerry faced the swiftboaters...Obama will now face the Tea party!

[chica476]

@Ozone89

I'm guessing you don't realize that this political advertisement was completely false.

[zenmachinefilms]

One of the most effective smear campaigns ever along with Willy Horton.

But Kerry was almost at fault here for not immediately and loudly calling them out and challenging them to show evidence to their claims and put up or shut up.

[capucchan8]

@zenmachinefilms he even had the same campaign manager as his old boss Dukakis

[Eaglesfaninca]

Well atleast he served, in Nam

Unlike George W., Dick Cheney, Bill O'Reilly, Limbaugh...

You get me?

[danboone143]

I hear you.

I also hear the accusations given with NO PROOF. The men who made these claims were not actually with him and their testimony does not match up with the eyewitnesses.

As a Soldier and combat veteran, I know how the awards process works, these men from Swiftboat are LIARS and I will tell it to their face, in person if offered the opportunity.

[breaks0]

Yeah I have questions, who paid em to lie like that for the thief in chief, georgey? I didn't vote kerry since I always opposed the war, but this is another bushism of shifting the blame to someone who did what he said he did when in order to remove responsibility from the liar/thief in chief we have in office now. How many more elections is this family gonna steal before they're locked up?!

[kaysguy]

Who paid for it? Vietnam vets, especially those who served with and were betrayed by John Kerry. These ads were not done by or paid for by the Bush campaign.

Kerry promised to release his military records...he still hasn't three years later.

[8G00SE8]

This was done by themselves, its got nothing todo with GW, this is somthing they've wanted to do since kerry came out with his lies that cost lives.