Debunking SBVT

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Debunking SBVT(Swift Boat Veterans for Truth)

• John Kerry’s official naval records
• Unit's report supports Kerrey's version
• eriposte, a comprehensive rebuttal of the SBVT
• Chicago Tribune: Swift boat skipper: Kerry critics wrong. William Rood's eyewitness account
• NY Times: Friendly Fire: Birth of an Anti-Kerry Ad
• WaPo: Records counter a critic of Kerry
• WaPo: Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete. Critics fail to disprove Kerry’s Version of Vietnam War Episode. Contains Langhofer’s eyewitness account.
• Wapo: Some veterans still bitter at talk of crimes.Most of them are in it because they feel bitter about Kerry’s anti-war activism not because they doubt his war record.
• The Nation: New evidence undermines Swift Vets attack on Kerry
• Patrick Runyon’s eyewitness account
• Slate.com: Holiday in Cambodia. The “Christmas Eve attack on Kerry is cheap and almost certainly wrong.
• Nixon targeted Kerry for anti-war views. White House tapes reveal then-president’s attempt to discredit Kerry during 1971 war protests, Senate testimony. Nixon recruited John O’Neill.
• WaPo: Kerry team lines up Vietnam witnesses. Three more Swift Boat officers, Rich McCann, Jim Russell and Rich Baker, come forward to defend Kerry. Former POW Phil Butler, who lived with two other POWs in the SBVT group, says Kerry’s anti-war efforts did not cause prisoners to be treated badly.
• Robert Lambert backs Kerry. Lambert was the third vet awarded the bronze star along with Kerry and Thurlow in the incident disputed by SBVT.
• Columbia Journalism Review gives the smackdown to media coverage of SBVT
• Truth and Unfit for Command: A Review is a detailed and careful debunking of the book. Includes Navy documents not available elsewhere.
• Can conservative bloggers tell the truth?, by Eric Boehlert, Media Matters, April 18, 2007.