Open Letter to the NYTimes

Subject: Why is the Times covering up Kerry's lies?

Senator Kerry has been telling people for years that he spent Christimas Eve 1968 in Cambodia illegally. Now he admits that he wasn't in Cambodia but near it. He claims that he took CIA or SEALs into Cambodia. Others who operated Swift Boats alongside his are saying that taking Swift boats into Cambodia was physically impossible due to obstructions at the border.

250 Swift Boat veterans who served in the same operations as Kerry are disturbed enough by these claims and Kerry's use of his service in Vietnam to claim that he is qualified to be Commander in Chief that they have appeared in television ads not associated with the Bush Campaign. A new book is about to be published that shows a different view of Kerry's time in Vietnam. Yet major papers like the Times have ignored the story.

Considering the coverage you gave Bush's National Guard service and charges that he was AWOL or a deserter, I think you owe your readers as thorough an investigation of Kerry's service instead of acting like part of his campaign organization. Maybe you would prefer to wait until Bush is safely defeated to start covering this story, but that would make you cynical, dishonest and an unreliable reporter of news. You aren't that are you?