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Originally posted by pulque
Bad for Bush's campaign. He has probably been advised as such, as he condemed the ads after finding out that one of his advisors on veterans issues (Kenneth Cordier) was participating in the ads. KC was subsequently dismissed as advisor.
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I am fast approaching real anger on this and similar issues. Please endeavor to ascertain the facts before regurgitating someone's spin.
The guy who's "one of his advisors on veterans issues" is Col. Kenneth Cordier, USAF, Ret'd. When Kerry was flitting to Paris to meet with North Vietnamese and VC negotiators and joining up with Vietnam Veterans Against the War, where he helped push the fraudulent Winter Soldier Investigation, the source of much of his Congressional testimony calling US soldiers war criminals, Cordier was moving from camp to camp, including his second stint in the Hanoi Hilton. Cordier was released in 1973. One of Kerry's antiwar comrades had this to say:"Tortured men do not march smartly off planes, salute the flag, and kiss their wives. They are liars. I also want to say that these men are not heroes."
Cordier was appointed to the Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners of War by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs pursuant to 38 US Code 541 in 2002. He was also recently named a member of Bush-Cheney ‘04's National Steering Committee for veterans issues. It was the latter post from which he was asked to leave, because of fears that the Democrats would use that connection to continue the smear of SVFT as a Bush-Cheney front.
For Col. Cordier's reputation to have been tarnished by this smear campaign, while scum like Moore live it up at the Democratic convention, is disgusting. I have much more to say on this topic, but I will refrain until my BP goes down.