And News that is out there you should pay attention to

Well I am looking at the News pages this morning and I am depressed.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=749&e=1&u=/nm/20040806/bs_nm/energy_halliburton_lawsuit_dc

A defense contractor conducted FRAUD

oh sorry, that would be sarcasim. The problem is in the 90s ( and possibly the 80s i am not that familiar with defense issues as i should be) The DOD decided to start going to certain contractos alot

Haliburton is a company thats been in dirty deals for decades

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=696&e=8&u=/ap/20040806/ap_on_el_pr/fec_press_exemption

Right leaning group tries to run ads for the many faces of John Kerry ( really a sub par book in my opinion)

So, just how ugly will the media be this election. Michael Moore with his propaganda film set the bar pretty low, and america seems to be these days a country if you set the bar low people will meet the challenge of going lower-if it's about politicians-

Intresting that Yahoo News doesn't seem to be covering the story of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ( Hmmm... gee allegations a major presidential canidate did what he said he did ... Commit War crimes Isn't getting covered

gee lets go over and see what google news has that you probably won't be seeing much about

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=2140636

thumbs up england will get her side of the story very soon on the prison abuse scandal.

I was shocked to find out not only was she having a illicit sexual relationship -contrary to military protocol- but that she Didn't even have a duty assignment in the prison

Kinda blows the whole "We were just following orders" line doesn't it?

http://news.bostonherald.com/election/view.bg?articleid=38733

``I deplore this kind of politics,'' McCain said. ``I think the ad is dishonest
and dishonorable. It reopens all the old wounds of the Vietnam War, which I
spent the last 35 years trying to heal.''

Well senator, Isn't John Kerry by subtly ( and through proxies) attacking the President and Key republicans for NOT serving opening himself up to this?

McCain noted none of the veterans in the ad served on Kerry's boat during the war.
The Arizona senator was savaged during his 2000 South Carolina primary battle against Bush by a covert campaign - also not officially sanctioned by Bush - questioning his mental stability following his years as a Vietnam POW.
All Kerry's crewmates support the Bay State senator. Jim Rassmann, the Green Beret whose life Kerry saved by pulling him from a river during a firefight, branded the ad ``pure fabrication.''

Well, **ACCORDING TO THE AD** and people who were in the ad in many of the Anti John Kerry books out there, many of these people witnessed the events in question.

Some of the people standing up are Kerry's former commanding officers.

Why would so many people who were there all lie? so many people who -unlike former Kerry Subordinates- Lie?

and not all his former Crewmates support him, Kerry's former Machine gunner sites at least one of his purple heart wounds as self inflicted (an shell from a gun he was firing hitting him) because he was there.

I know tons of Vets who served in vietnam who told me about Medals being awarded on dubious grounds, so Kerry getting medals under sketchy circumstances is fully plausable

I will be going more into this later.

http://http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0806fri2-06.html

We cannot say with certainty whether the ads are either dishonest or
dishonorable. Many of the anti-Kerry vets have been arguing against his claims
since before the war even ended, and many of them are highly decorated veterans
themselves.

Keep that in mind for my later posts on this issue, but i will say its good some one is standing up to John Mccain attacking free speech again. Just because you served in wart, and just because it was a painful national experience does not give you a pass if your war stories are BUNK

http://http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1170215.htm

JIM RASSMANN: If Mr Thurlow feels that what his story is purported to be was the
case, he had ample opportunity 35 years ago to deal with it. He never did, nor
did anyone else. John Kerry did not tell this story. I told this story when I
put him in for his silver star for coming back to rescue me. The navy saw fit to
reduce it to a bronze star for valour. That's okay with me. But if Mr Thurlow
had a problem with that, he should have dealt with it long, long ago. To bring
it up now, I think is very disingenuous. I think that this is partisan
motivation on his part, and for the part of his whole organisation.

Again, people questioning the legitimacy of speech.

Now, the man who was saved and another man who questioned the incident both have differing recollections.

Did they both go into reports that the brass had access to? Do charges i have heard about inflation of valor in vietnam have a real basis? these are valid questions but not the one the Green Berret asked.

The reason is obvious, assume its true that John Kerry has built his life on bogus claims from Vietnam, and suppose these claims have not been covered by the major media -they haven't- what would you do?

Exactlly what these men have done. Stand up and run an ad to try and force the media to pay attention.

but those are the only stories i feel will be under-covered

and i will go more into the Anti-Kerry stuff later, but since it is hot news i decided to ad in now