What Price Swift Veterans? $40 Million apiece!
The cost of scaring up a single Swift Boat Veteran to oppose John Kerry's war record has revealed itself -- and it's a Billionaire bargain!

Retired naval Rear Adm. William L. Schachte Jr., the latest of the anti-Kerry Swift Boaters, says he agnonized for months over whether to come forward and dispute Kerry's first Purple Heart. Was he moved by conscience? By a quest for truth? Nay, by the mighty hand of Cold Cash: turns out Schachte is a long-time Bush supporter, big-ticket Bush donor, and a lobbyist who recently scored a $40 million federal contract for his client. Clearly he knows which side his bread is buttered on! If you ask me, $40 million is a small price to pay for another chink in Kerry's armor, especially when the Feds are footing the bill!

Meanwhile, Karl Rove has joined the throng of privileged Republicans chiding Kerry's criticism of the Vietnam War. Thank goodness Rove, Cheney, Rice, Wolfie, and our beloved W. never slummed it in Vietnam themselves! Otherwise, who would be starting these incredibly profitable wars?

Get the message, John Kerry: Wars are planned by the rich, and fought by the poor. That's tantamount to natural law. Whose side are you on, anyway?


- posted by Colin A. Faver @ 5:02:58 PM