Kerry still in denial about his Swift Boat adventures

The NY Times and Kerry are still trying to counter the allegations of the Swift vets by calling those veteralns liers even though Kerry had to admit during the campaign that many of their charges were true such as his Christmas in Cambodia fantasy.

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His supporters are compiling a dossier that they say will expose every one of the Swift boat group's charges as a lie and put to rest any question about Mr. Kerry's valor in combat. While it would be easy to see this as part of Mr. Kerry's exploration of another presidential run, his friends say the Swift boat charges struck at an experience so central to his identity that he would want to correct the record even if he were retiring from public life.

Mr. Kerry portrays himself as a wary participant in his own defense, insisting in the two-hour interview that he does not want to dwell on the accusations or the mistakes of his 2004 campaign. "I'm moving on," he says several times.

But he can also barely resist prosecuting a case against the group that his friends now refer to as "the bad guys." "Bill Schachte was not on that skimmer," Mr. Kerry says firmly. "He was not on that skimmer. It is a lie to suggest that he was out there on that skimmer."

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This was another event where Kerry had to admit during the campaign that he had no proof of his version of the story. He has been living in his own fantasy world about his tour in Vietnam and and his supporters are still not ready to give up that fantasy, because the fantasy is needed to support the lies Kerry told about his fellow vets when he got back home. Kerry has still not admitted that the slander and lies he told about fellow veterans were untrue and were used as props for his anti war agenda at the time. The Democracy Project has more on what the NY Times ommitted and otherwise got wrong in their support of Kerry. Captain's Quarters has a huge roundup of discussion on this article and asks some questions that Kerry is not likely to answer.

1. Why did Kerry appropriate Tedd Peck's battle record into his own record?

2. Why did Kerry allow David Alston to appear at numerous campaign events and misrepresent himself as an eyewitness to Kerry's Silver Star engagement?

3. Why did Alston disappear from the campaign after this became public, and why didn't the Kerry campaign explain his absence?

4. If Kerry came under fire on the December 2, 1968 incident for which he requested and eventually received his first Purple Heart, why then did Kerry write in his journal on December 11 that he had not yet been shot at?

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There is much more with links to several other blogs that contest the story's premise.