Presidential hopeful John Kerry has a rather dubious honor. He’s in the Vietnamese War Museum in Ho Cho Minh City (formerly Saigon). John Kerry: Anti-American War Hero.

Here’s the payoff:

We submit that today John Kerry has a choice of a somewhat different nature. An exhibit in the re-named War Remnants Museum—an institution with the identical goals of its predecessor—is devoted to those anti-war activists whose conduct contributed significantly to helping the North Vietnamese Communists win the Vietnam War. Included in the exhibit—a significant propaganda coup—is a photograph taken in July 1993. It shows presidential nominee John F. Kerry meeting with the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. In plain English that even the vacillating Kerry would be hard put to spin, this exhibit in “liberated” Saigon’s foremost propaganda museum is devoted to American traitors. And there hangs a photograph of a potential President of the United States, who carries a lot of antiwar baggage, meeting with the leader of a totalitarian regime that took nearly sixty thousand American lives.

Pretty powerful stuff.

The headline says it all. US factories enter longest stretch of rapid growth in 30 years.

Hopefully this good news will translate into more jobs before the election, which would be a great boost to Bush, especially in Ohio, WV and Pennsylvania.

It is important that you follow this link, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

Kerry published the photo on that web page and implied that all 19 shipmates of Kerry support his presidential bid. Nothing could be farther from the truth. According to the website, 1 supports Kerry, 2 are deceased, 4 take no position and 12 say Kerry is unfit to be president. There are 4 additional officers who weren’t in this photo, all oppose Kerry.

I have to bring this up because I was a member of this part of the Navy during my career. Coastal Divisions are now Special Boat Units. I was a member of Special Boat Unit TWELVE back in the 80′s and I ran SeaFox SWCL’s. You can learn more about them here.