Low Tide For "Swfit Boat Veterans For Truth"


The loudest critic of John Kerry''s service in Vietnam, Larry Thurlow, has been justly hoisted on his own petard. (I'm too lazy to surf to dictionary.com to find out what a "petard" is, so for those of you with a few seconds to spare, feel free to fill me in.) Thurlow is part of the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, an organization funded and run by two wealthy Republican supporters who aparently are interested in winning elections, not in the truth. The book full of lies and innuendo they have published is doing very well, but is provably false.

Thurlow's own Bronze Star citation directly contradicts his central assertion about Kerry's star - that Kerry's boat was at no time under enemy fire. The logical follow on is that any actions Kerry took would not qualify him for a Bronze Star. Unfortunately for Thurlow the US military is almost as fanatical as the Nazis were about record keeping and paper trails. Being part of a character assassination organization that relies on the same sort of Nazi era propaganda (though more ham handed than Himmler's shop), Thurlow should have known these records would come to the surface. Either he and his "organization" are as stupid as they are mean, or they made a major miscalculation concerning the recorded truth.

I vote for option 1.