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We haven't forgotten Jeb Bush's 2005 letter of support for Swiftboaters' disparaging of John Kerry.
At Jeb Bush's Twitter feed:
Enough with the slanderous attacks. @SenJohnMcCain and all our veterans - particularly POWs have earned our respect and admiration.
And a sampling of responses:
@JebBush then please explain your participation in the swiftboat smears of Secy John Kerry.
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain @ericjtanenblatt Yeah. Just like the respect that John Kerry got in ’04?
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain maybe you should've spoken up when your brother's campaign went after a true hero John Kerry.
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain and when a GOP debate audience booed a gay soldier serving in Iraq.Crickets fr @GOP
@JebBush @GOP Sorry but these folks jumping to @SenJohnMcCain defense invented the art of swiftboating, so enjoy
@JebBush @Lawrence @SenJohnMcCain But if they are gay then you can stand by and watch them be booed at a gop debate, right???
@JebBush @Lawrence @SenJohnMcCain Loved the way you all stood up for John Kerry against attacks from, what was his name, GEORGE BUSH!!!
@Greytdog @brontyman @JebBush @SenJohnMcCain Please apologize to John Kerry!
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain Agree Apologize for the smears on John Kerry
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain With the exception of 2000 & 2004 though, right Jeb ?
@jebbush @senjohnmccain Both of you refused to condemn the lies and smears against John Kerry and his service in Vietnam.
@JebBush Asshole.
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain Did you ever speak up for John Kerry or nah?
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain Or how about Tammy Duckworth? Did you ever speak up for her?
@JebBush said nothing when his brother smeared john kerry's service
@owillis but @JebBush said nothing when his brother smeared John McCain far worse all over South Carolina in 2000
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain @Popehat where were you when your brother and party did this in ‘04 sir.
@JebBush @JRDarius1 @SenJohnMcCain What about when GOP smeared our great Secretary of State #JohnKerry swift boaters!
@NYCG8TR Indeed, particulary when Trump was running around talking about how Obama was not born here. Jeb! was quiet as a mouse @JebBush
@JebBush @mrskurantowicz @SenJohnMcCain When Florida Get an “A” Grade from Jeb Bush ALEC It Means They Deserve an “F” http://dianeravitch.net/2015/07/18/when-florida-legislators-get-an-a-grade-from-jeb-bush-and-alec-it-means-they-deserve-an-f …
@JebBush Yeah, right, @SenJohnMcCain "earned our respect and admiration" by posturing as 'war hero' while DEFUNDING veterans at every turn.
@JebBush No sir! No! You have no standing to speak on this. Your brother swift-boated Kerry and accused McCain of fathering a black child.
@JebBush @Lawrence @SenJohnMcCain Except for John Kerry, who your brother slandered.
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain STFU Jeb! Jackass you will never get the nomination.
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain Would you like to apologize now for your brother's attacks on @JohnKerry's courageous military service?
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain do you more prefer under the radar smears like your brothers in SC in 2000?
@JebBush i agree entirely! you should tell your brother, though. http://www.thenation.com/article/dirty-tricks-south-carolina-and-john-mccain/ …
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain <---- All hat no cattle Jebbie!
@JebBush Remind us again of all the respect your family showered on @SenJohnMcCain when he was running against your idiot brother.
@JebBush @Lawrence @SenJohnMcCain Hey Jeb remember your brother's slanderous attacks on McCain and Kerry?
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain In a former presidential campaign they coined a new word for that. It's called "swiftboating". Ring a Bell, Jeb?
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain but going after John Kerry's service, totally awesome right?
@JebBush But it was OK when your brother and his camp slandered John Kerry though, right? @SenJohnMcCain
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain A lot of us Avg Veterans R getting tired of U big govt, career politician A-holes, pretending U have our backs
@Southrngirl77 @JebBush @SenJohnMcCain Remember the VA scandal that originated in his State?Veterans died. Instead he went on about Ukraine
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain You could almost call it swift-boating McCain.
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain It would be nice is GOP said this when it came to paying for their wounds mental & physical post combat. #hypocrite?
@JebBush Was McCain - who lost his election - calling 15,000 who heard Trump in Phoenix "crazies" a "slanderous attack"?
@JebBush @BraveLad @SenJohnMcCain Oh Jeb...when have you EVER been in the military? Yea, didn't think so.
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain Except John Kerry, right?
@JebBush You're a hypocrite, Jeb.
@JebBush You keep talking like that, you’ll have no chance of being @realDonaldTrump ‘s running mate!
.@JebBush You can't seriously expect anyone to believe your rhetoric when you wrote a 2015 letter praising Swifties for attacking @JohnKerry
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain If you respect all our veterans then please address RNC purple band aids and RNC swift boating of John Kerry.
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain Funny, you didn't say that about John Kerry.
@JebBush did @SenJohnMcCain help you take out CIA drug runner Barry Seal? Or maybe help you run drugs over AZ border?
@JebBush did John Kerry and Max Cleland deserve respect? If so, why were you silent at the time??
@JebBush Don't remember you defending vet John Kerry in 2004.
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain lol that time the Bush campaign went hard on #McCainsBlackBaby http://vnty.fr/1JpmrSF
@JebBush Then why didn't you serve? You were around 22 when the Vietnam war ended.
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain unless they happen to be in a hotly contested primary in SC. Then it's fuck that guy!
@JebBush Except when it's your brother, George W Bush, smearing John Kerry? @SenJohnMcCain #JebBush
Has @JebBush forgotten the shamed Swift Boat Vets for "Truth" and their "web of connections to the Bush family"? http://tinyurl.com/q8z43t9
@JebBush I agree, Jeb. So does/did Sec Kerry.
Your ltr to Swift Boat Vets is now circulating on soc media.
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain. Does that include
#TammyDuckworthAndJohnKerry????
@JebBush https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Vets_and_POWs_for_Truth … // Where were you and your brother Georgie on this mess? #FOH
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain Gee, Governor.
Where were you when John Kerry's service record was being attacked?
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain funny, you never opened your mouth when your brother did the same thing to McCain....
@JebBush Did you speak up for John Kerry?
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain @how do you say "shut up" in Spanish? We need another Bush like... No, nunca!
@JebBush McCain called Trump's supporters "crazies" & Trump names 1st? Why aren't ppl outraged by McCain's vote to cut pensions 4 vets?
@JebBush Funny you say that now,especially after your Thank You letter to lying Swiftboaters for Slandering John Kerry.
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain Well Bush's send our soldiers to war but Bush's stay home Bush's arm our enemies that kill our troops
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain So what message r u sending Jeb
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain Does POW Bergdahl earn your respect and admiration?
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain service may warrant respect but his politics (like yours) are pandering and pitiful
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain Slander? Tut-tut, governor! Where did you go to law school? Fear the Trump! Fear the Trump! Hilarious!
@JebBush @BuzzFeedAndrew except when it was John Kerry and he was running against your brother
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain You mean like the way your family treated John McCain during the SC Primary in 2000? That was a beauty!
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain John McCain’s daddy “the Admiral” covered up Israel attacking the USS Liberty!!!
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain That's funny. I seem to remember you partaking in a certain "swiftboating" campaign against war veteran John Kerry.
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain But I guess veterans don't deserve our financial, medical, mental support?
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain Typical establishment response.
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain enough with the same two families running the country Jeb. Drop out you're already a loser.
@JebBush @BraveLad @SenJohnMcCain That is why Trump went up so fast, he fought for americans, not illegal law breakers.
@JebBush @BraveLad @SenJohnMcCain The perception is GOP leadership are traitors to American people and cowards.
@JebBush @BraveLad @SenJohnMcCain GOP respects the press and what they say over their own voters , Voters they seem to hate.
@JebBush @BraveLad @SenJohnMcCain We have had enough Bushes.
@JebBush @BraveLad @SenJohnMcCain Why was McCain the one to block this bill?#MIA #Veteran http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/mccain-and-the-pow-cover-up …
@JebBush @BraveLad @SenJohnMcCain Then why is it so hard for our #veterans to get proper #healthcare. Why do they have to wait to be seen?
@JebBush @MichaelMills_DC @SenJohnMcCain did u say that after your brother & Karl Rove smeared McCain? Kerry, Cleland. Duckworth.Hypocrite
@JebBush Really, Jeb? You didn't show that same respect and admiration to John Kerry. #Hypocrite
@blackrepublican Slanderous attacks? @JebBush like against @SenJohnMcCain in the 2000 S.Carolina Republican primary .You mean like that?
@JebBush @ConservativeHQ_ @SenJohnMcCain then take care of them better! They are NOT cared for properly!!!
@JebBush @stephenfhayes @SenJohnMcCain you don't understand how many voters can't stand career politicians like yourselves,pathetic really
@JebBush @SenJohnMcCain Trump tld the truth - McCain called supptrs "Crazies" I served too am I crazy because I support @realDonaldTrump
America, this is your country on Bushes.
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So goddamn right! 
GOP = Gang Of hyPocrites.
The Andover years:
Jeb Bush and his grandfather, Prescott Bush, at Jeb’s graduation from Andover in June 1971. (via Andover yearbook)
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That answer won't cut it, Mr. Bush. Too many men and women laid down their lives for this country, and families were forever changed in the aftermath for the likes of you to skate away from responsibility and ultimately turn around and disparage them.
You are a disgrace to this country in your self-appointed campaign of entitlement to the White House.
Get out of our way.
Jeb Bush and his grandfather, Prescott Bush, at Jeb’s graduation from Andover in June 1971. (via Andover yearbook)
The campus during (Jeb) Bush’s senior year seemed on two tracks: sports and antiwar protests.
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But sports faded into the background as new rounds of protests erupted on campus. Tension escalated further in February 1971, when a makeshift bomb was found in the Memorial Bell Tower.
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Amid news of this unnerving event, students took buses to Boston and Washington to participate in antiwar rallies, where they listened to John Kerry, the leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Bush’s father, who had lost his Senate bid, was appointed US ambassador to the United Nations, where he would continue to argue for Nixon’s war policies — a fact that merited a front-page story in The Phillipian, which noted parenthetically that Jeb Bush was a senior.
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But sports faded into the background as new rounds of protests erupted on campus. Tension escalated further in February 1971, when a makeshift bomb was found in the Memorial Bell Tower.
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Amid news of this unnerving event, students took buses to Boston and Washington to participate in antiwar rallies, where they listened to John Kerry, the leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Bush’s father, who had lost his Senate bid, was appointed US ambassador to the United Nations, where he would continue to argue for Nixon’s war policies — a fact that merited a front-page story in The Phillipian, which noted parenthetically that Jeb Bush was a senior.
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As Bush imagined a new life with Columba, the potential grew that he might have to go to Vietnam. Bush’s brother, George, had enlisted in the National Guard and never saw military action.
For years, students entering college could count on getting a deferment from military service until they graduated.
But after complaints that too many college students were able to avoid serving, Nixon signed a law that changed the Selective Service policy so that students entering college in the fall of 1971 — which would include Bush — could not count on getting an educational deferment from the draft. They could be plucked out of college as soon as an academic term was over.
A few weeks after graduation, on July 16, 1971, Bush filled out an index card on which he registered for the draft.
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Bush received a draft number of 26 on a calendar-based scale that went to 365, earning him a “1A” classification that meant he probably would have been drafted if the war continued at full pace.
But he avoided such a fate because the war was winding down — a fact for which some credit was due those of his generation who participated in protests that he had refused to join.
Bush’s mother, Barbara Bush, once told United Press International that Jeb had considered declaring himself a conscientious objector, adding that the family would have backed such a decision.
Bush said in the interview that he was “ambivalent” about the Vietnam War, and stood by a previous comment that he was “probably against” it, a view that he noted was shared by many of his peers. But he said he never considered being a conscientious objector.
“I registered. . . . I would have gone, I got the physical. I was declared 1A, and the draft was eliminated,” Bush said. Asked how voters considering him as a potential commander-in-chief might view his less-than-enthusiastic view of serving in Vietnam, Bush urged that it be seen in the context of that war and that time. “I was 18,” he said. “I’m 61 years old now.”
For years, students entering college could count on getting a deferment from military service until they graduated.
But after complaints that too many college students were able to avoid serving, Nixon signed a law that changed the Selective Service policy so that students entering college in the fall of 1971 — which would include Bush — could not count on getting an educational deferment from the draft. They could be plucked out of college as soon as an academic term was over.
A few weeks after graduation, on July 16, 1971, Bush filled out an index card on which he registered for the draft.
.....
Bush received a draft number of 26 on a calendar-based scale that went to 365, earning him a “1A” classification that meant he probably would have been drafted if the war continued at full pace.
But he avoided such a fate because the war was winding down — a fact for which some credit was due those of his generation who participated in protests that he had refused to join.
Bush’s mother, Barbara Bush, once told United Press International that Jeb had considered declaring himself a conscientious objector, adding that the family would have backed such a decision.
Bush said in the interview that he was “ambivalent” about the Vietnam War, and stood by a previous comment that he was “probably against” it, a view that he noted was shared by many of his peers. But he said he never considered being a conscientious objector.
“I registered. . . . I would have gone, I got the physical. I was declared 1A, and the draft was eliminated,” Bush said. Asked how voters considering him as a potential commander-in-chief might view his less-than-enthusiastic view of serving in Vietnam, Bush urged that it be seen in the context of that war and that time. “I was 18,” he said. “I’m 61 years old now.”
That answer won't cut it, Mr. Bush. Too many men and women laid down their lives for this country, and families were forever changed in the aftermath for the likes of you to skate away from responsibility and ultimately turn around and disparage them.
You are a disgrace to this country in your self-appointed campaign of entitlement to the White House.
Get out of our way.
And, Octafish,
you are an indispensable part of telling it, my friend. It is an honor to have you among us.
Ya know, this internets thing is gonna save us all yet.
