Political shoals of the swift-boat wars
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New accusations draw out debate over Kerry's service in Vietnam - and may be an acid test of his defenses.
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WASHINGTON - One of the men who helped put Democrat John Kerry on the defensive over his military record during the Vietnam war is answering questions about his own service during that conflict.    During an Oval Office conversation in 1971, John O'Neill tells President Nixon he was in Cambodia in a swift boat during the war - a claim that is at odds with O'Neill's recent statements that he wasn't in the country...
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MADRID, Sep 3 (IPS) - While in other parts of the world, like the Middle   East, the struggle over water sources fuels armed conflicts, a  political war  is being waged in Spain over the same question.
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'Filipino Monkey' strikes again Analysis Those readers who follow the non-IT'n'Paris news will be aware that in recent days a group of US warships almost fired on fast boats operated by Iranian Revolutionary Guards. This was after hearing radio transmissions in which the Iranians appeared to threaten some form of attack.â¦
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John Kerry's former crew mates vouch for his Vietnam war heroics in a documentary being released in the midst of a campaign debate about his actions as a swift boat skipper.
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ohn O&#39;Neill, a leader of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and John Kerry have known, and antagonized, each other for more than 30 years.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. - Arguing over who can best lead the nation in war, Sen...
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The row about John Kerry&#39;s war record has become more heated with the resignation of a Bush campaign adviser after it emerged that he had appeared in a commercial made by the Swift Boat Veterans
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John Kerry&#39;s escalating criticism of George W. Bush&#39;s policy in Iraq raises a question fundamental to democracy: How far can the opposition go in attacking the president in the midst of a war?
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It's a voluntary army vs. a professional force. Button-down Republicans vs. street-wise Democrats. It's the ground war of American politics, with allies of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry spending fortunes to find their supporters and &#151; here's the hard, final part &#151; get them to vote.
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"Kuma War" game lets players re-enact the 1969 Swift boat mission in Vietnam that won Sen. John Kerry a Silver Star.
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Just when he was reeling from weeks of attacks from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, John Kerry has been handed an issue that he can use to hammer President Bush.
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The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group was Sen. John Kerry's albatross in 2004. Now, the Democrat is warning his party about suffering the same fate in a fundraising letter.
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In a military simulation, small speedboats like those used by Iran in an incident last weekend were able to inflict devastating damage on more powerful warships.
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- The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth website now carries a statement from Larry Thurlow, who insists that John Kerry wrote a report &quot;which falsely described the action on the Bay Hap River&quot; (for which Kerry later received the ...
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IT WAS John Kerry, not the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who picked this fight. He was the one who made his long-ago stint in Vietnam the centerpiece of his campaign for president.
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By Mark Knoller. By Dotty Lynch. (CBS/AP) The Kerry campaign filed a complaint Friday with the Federal Election Commission alleging that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group behind