Navy Report Backs Kerry - Destroys SBVT’s Credibility

Navy Report Backs Kerry Role in Incident
Navy Task Force Report From 1969 Supports John Kerry's Version of
Disputed Swift Boat Incident

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ABC News – Full Story
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040825_973.html

The Associated Press - WASHINGTON Aug. 25, 2004 — The Navy task force overseeing John Kerry's swift boat squadron in Vietnam reported that his group of boats came under enemy fire during a March 13, 1969, incident that three decades later is being challenged by the Democratic presidential nominee's critics. The March 18, 1969, weekly report from Task Force 115, which was located by The Associated Press during a search of Navy archives, is the latest document to surface that supports Kerry's description of an event for which he won a Bronze Star and a third Purple Heart.

The Task Force report twice mentions the incident five days earlier and both times calls it "an enemy initiated firefight" that included automatic weapons fire and underwater mines used against a group of five boats that included Kerry's. Task Force 115 was commanded at the time by retired Rear Adm. Roy Hoffmann, the founder of the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which has been running ads challenging Kerry's account of the episode.

A member of the group, Larry Thurlow, said Tuesday he stood by his assertion that there was no enemy fire that day. Thurlow, the commander of another boat who also won a Bronze Star, said task force commanders probably relied on the initial report of the incident. Thurlow says Kerry wrote that report.

The document, part of thousands of pages of records housed at the Naval Historical Center, is one of several that say Kerry and other servicemen were shot at from the banks of the Bay Hap River on March 13, 1969. The Associated Press located the document Tuesday during a search of available records. Earlier this month, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth aired a television ad claiming Kerry lied about the circumstances surrounding his medals. Several members of the group who were aboard nearby boats that March 13 said in the ad and in affidavits that there was no enemy gunfire during the incident.

The anti-Kerry group has not produced any official Navy documents supporting that claim, however. The man Kerry rescued, Jim Rassmann, and the crew of Kerry's boat all say there was gunfire from both banks of the river at the time.

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NG records.

Will it have any effect on the continuting promotion of the Swiftboat liars on mainstream media?

We are trying to get to a point of showing a consistent pattern of criminal fraud with the Bush-GOP-SBVT scam, then the media will turn on a dime and go directly against Bush & SBVT, it is already taking place in the mainstream media.

Funny thing is we have been investigating this deal for a month with licensed PI's and a Houston criminal attorney.

We have all the documents to actually convene a criminal grand jury investigation and indict some people.

However, better to feed our info to the media slowly and let them destory Bush and SBVT and give Kerry-Edwards the big swing in public support.

The public needs to see what frauds Bush and Cheney are.