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	John Kerry and the Swift Boat Crews-Truth! and Disputed!
		Larry Thurlow commanded a swift boat alongside of Kerry's and is among the Swift Boat Veterans critical of Kerry.
		The Swift Boat veterans say the citation was presented very quickly, a couple of days after the events in battle and with no review, otherwise the Silver Star would have never been granted.
		Swift Boat veteran John O'Neill charges that Kerry lied about Cambodia and that he was never closer than 50-miles to the Cambodian border.
	www.truthorfiction.com /rumors/k/kerry-swiftboats.htm (1616 words)

	Questioning a Swift Boat Veteran for Truth
		For instance, George Elliott was the commander of your swift boat division.
		It says Kerry, "immediately turned his boat around to assist the man in the river, who by this time was receiving sniper fire from the river banks.
		Perry has been a large contributor to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and Spaeth is a public relations consultant for your group.
	www.michnews.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/183/4918/printer (999 words)

	CNN.com - Swift assault - Aug 20, 2004
		The new ad by the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth gets to the heart of their anger at John Kerry: his 1971 Senate testimony on alleged war crimes in Vietnam.
		Veterans who now are critical of Kerry make no bones about the fact that they were outraged by his antiwar activities after returning from Vietnam.
		The Kerry camp continues to press its charge that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is a front for the Bush campaign.
	www.cnn.com /2004/US/08/20/swift.assault/index.html (598 words)

	Rush Limbaugh Swift Boat Veterans for Truth : swiftboat vets
		The Swift Boat Veterans For Truth claim to be a non-partisan organization interested in exposing their "concerns about John Kerry".
		Hoffman is one of the founders of "Swiftboat Veterans For Truth".
		While the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth claim to be a nonpartisan group, the ties of the principles clearly shows otherwise.
	www.rushlimbaughonline.com /articles/swiftboatveterans.htm (790 words)

	Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The group, rebranded as Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, is an advocacy organization formed in 2004 by opponents of John Kerry's U.S. presidential campaign.
		While the SBVT ad and official statements by the group correctly claim only that the speakers "served with" Kerry, not that they were on the same boat, the distinction was lost on others.
		Swift Boat Veterans For Truth's IRS Report of Contributions and Expenditures for April 23-June 30, 2004 (PDF).
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth (3576 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Politics (Swift Justice)
		Tragically, some veterans, scorned by the antiwar movement and their allies, retreated to a life of despair and suicide.
		I signed this letter because I feel that he used Swift boat sailors to proclaim his antiwar statements after the war, and now he uses the same Swift boat sailors to support his claims of being a war hero.
		Navy records, fitness reports by Kerry's commanders and scores of interviews with Swift boat officers and crewmen depict a model officer who fought aggressively in river ambushes and won the respect of many of his crewmates and commanders, even as his doubts about the war grew.
	www.snopes.com /politics/kerry/swift.asp (2458 words)

	●ᾯSwiftboat Vets Bribed To Lie About John Kerry
		A veteran who volunteered for combat, who was brave enough not only to withstand the rigors of battle but then the equally difficult struggle to speak the truth about war's inevitable dark side: savagery, stupidity, recklessness, maiming, and death.
		A private detective retained by "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" -- the Texas-based group seeking to discredit John Kerry's military record -- is contacting veterans who may have information about the incidents that led to Kerry's Vietnam decorations.
		So that another generation of veterans will not be rent by the difficult choice between living with a lie and feeling shamed for telling the truth, we ask you: do not listen to those who would distort a brave man's struggle.
	www.swift-boat-liars.com (1821 words)

	Swift Vets and POWs for Truth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		SBVT asserted that Kerry was "unfit to serve" as president based upon his alleged "willful distortion of the conduct" of American servicemen during that war, and his alleged "withholding and/or distortion of material facts" as to his own conduct during that war.
		On September 29, 2004, SBVT announced that it was joining forces with a group of American prisoners of war who were held captive by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War to form the new group, "Swift Vets and POWs For Truth".
		Since the 2004 election, the term "Swift Boating", or "swiftboating", is a common expression for a campaign attacking opponents by questioning their credibility and patriotism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth (4560 words)

	Swift Vets and POWs for Truth - Swift Boat Veterans Tell Kerry to 'Cease and Desist' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The veterans are all from the unit in which Sen. John Kerry served.
		The veterans said they have sent earlier letters to Kerry headquarters, alerting Kerry staffers about their concerns with his use of the photograph.
		Swift Boat Veterans for Truth also questions Kerry's honesty: "Both then and now, we have concluded that you have deceived the public, and in the process have betrayed honorable men, to further your personal political goals."
	horse.he.net /~swiftpow/article.php?story=20040706120608296 (480 words)

	Smear Boat Veterans for Bush - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The "swift boat" veterans attacking John Kerry's war record are led by veteran right-wing operatives using the same vicious techniques they used against John McCain four years ago.
		campaign to brand the Democrat "unfit to serve as commander in chief." Billing itself as representing the "other 97 percent of veterans" from Kerry's Navy unit who don't support his presidential candidacy, the group insists that all presidential candidates must be "totally honest and forthcoming" about their military service.
		These "swift boat vets" claim still to be furious about Kerry's 1971 Senate testimony against the war in which he spoke about atrocities in Indochina's "free fire zones." More than three decades later, facing the complicated truth about Vietnam remains difficult.
	dir.salon.com /story/opinion/conason/2004/05/04/swift/index_np.html (569 words)

	FactCheck.org Republican-funded Group Attacks Kerry's War Record
		One of the veterans who says Kerry wasn't under fire was himself awarded a Bronze Star for aiding others "in the face of enemy fire" during the same incident.
		Perry gave $100,000 of the $158,750 received by the Swift Boat group through the end of June, according to its disclosure report.
		The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth further says Kerry didn't deserve his third purple heart, which was received for shrapnel wounds in left buttocks and contusions on right forearm.
	www.factcheck.org /article231.html (3889 words)

	www.wintersoldier.com - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was launched on May 4, 2004 at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington.
		More than 250 Swift boat veterans contacted by the group have agreed to sign an open letter to Senator John F. Kerry that challenges his fitness to serve as America's Commander-in-Chief.
		Swift Boat Veterans and the Media Iron Curtain is his behind-the-scenes report.
	ice.he.net /~freepnet/kerry/index.php?topic=SwiftVets (444 words)

	Swift Boat Veterans For Truth Rock The Boat
		In truth, the man is a doctor; he pulled the rose thorn sized bit of metal from Kerry’s arm and applied a band-aid, but left the signing of the paperwork to one of his underlings.
		They even tried to undermine the Swift Boat Veteran’s credibility by claiming that one of them recanted his story — he did not, and has signed a second, notarized affidavit to that effect.
		These 200 veterans served with John Kerry, and have as much of a right to speak as the 7 veterans Kerry found to support him.
	www.conservativemonitor.com /opinion04/103.shtml (869 words)

	SwiftVets.com \| The Real Story on John Kerry's Military Service
		Your rhetoric and actions were not only wrong, they aided the enemy and brought great pain to POW's, veterans and their families.
		Rassmann. Later, when forced to acknowledge conflicting eyewitness testimony from fellow swift boat veterans, you said that your boat left the scene to return moments later to retrieve Jim Rassmann from the water.
		Kerry, please explain to your fellow veterans and the American people which version is the truth.
	www.swiftvets.com (331 words)

	Slow Boat Veterans for Lies by Paul Craig Roberts
		Now it is out: "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" is just a political dirty trick operation financed by multimillionaire supporters of President George W. Bush.
		Former Swift Boat commander Larry Thurlow claims that no boat was under fire when Kerry turned back to rescue Green Beret Jim Rassmann, who was blown into the water.
		SBVT operative John E. O’Neill wasn’t on the scene, but that didn’t stop him from coauthoring a diatribe against Kerry titled "Unfit for Command," a collection of lies on which the TV political ad is based.
	www.lewrockwell.com /roberts/roberts64.html (742 words)

	CNN.com - Bush adviser quits after appearing in swift boat ad - Aug 22, 2004
		As a so-called 527 group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is barred from coordinating efforts with an election campaign.
		A previous ad by the swift boat group accuses Kerry of lying to get his war medals: three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star.
		Instead, a swift boat group member refers to the statements as "accusations" Kerry made against Vietnam veterans.
	www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/21/edwards.swiftboat/index.html (1111 words)

	Boing Boing: Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are identity thieves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Well, it turns out that some of the swift boat veterans whose name appeared at the bottom of that open letter never saw it, never signed it, and don't agree with it.
		The letter, which was posted on the Swift Boat Veter-ans for Truth Web site, claims the Demo-cratic presidential candidate has "grossly and knowingly distorted the conduct of the American soldiers, marines, sailors and airmen of that (Vietnam) war."...
		Anderson does not know how the Swift Boat Vets for Truth got his name, but it appears exactly as it has appeared on rosters at swift boat vet reunions.
	www.boingboing.net /2004/09/03/swift_boat_veterans_.html (347 words)

	Clift: Fighting a Phony War - Newsweek Campaign 2004 - MSNBC.com
		None were on the Swift Boat Kerry commanded, but they had charts to illustrate their contention that Kerry’s boat did not come under fire and that two of his wounds were self-inflicted, one when he hurled a grenade at a rice bin too close to his position.
		The Swift Boat veterans have become the Campaign 2004 version of the Scott Peterson trial, trading charges and regularly appearing on the cable-news networks.
		On Thursday, The Washington Post revealed that the military records of Larry Thurlow, who commanded a boat alongside Kerry, contain several references to enemy fire directed at all five boats in the flotilla, sharply contradicting what Thurlow is saying as a leading member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth group.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5772260/site/newsweek (1120 words)

	Swift Boat Accounts Incomplete (washingtonpost.com)
		U.S. Navy Swift boat skippers John F. Kerry, left, and William B. Rood at their base in An Thoi, South Vietnam, in late February 1969 after military action for which Kerry was awarded the Silver Star and Rood the Bronze Star.
		Members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have challenged several aspects of John F. Kerry’s military record in addition to his account of the March 13, 1969, mission for which he was awarded the Bronze Star; Kerry’s campaign has vigorously defended his record.
		Many Swift boat veterans opposed to Kerry acknowledge that their disgust with him was fueled by his involvement in the antiwar movement.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A21239-2004Aug21.html (4608 words)

	The Media vs. Swift Boat Veterans for Truth -- Tell the Truth! 2004 -- Media Research Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But most of their scrutiny was reserved for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, not the candidate seeking the highest office in the land.
		Laura Bush was hit on the swift boat ads by both ABC's Peter Jennings and CBS's Dan Rather during a round of interviews on the last night of the Republican convention.
		ABC and NBC ignored the May 4 press conference by a group of Vietnam veterans who say John Kerry is unfit for the presidency, but the CBS Evening News that night tried to smear the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth by impugning them as partisan activists tied to the Bush campaign.
	www.mrc.org /campaign/04/swiftboat.asp (1224 words)

	CJR Daily: Ambush!
		Instead of acting as filters for the truth, reporters nodded and attentively transcribed both sides of the story, invariably failing to provide context, background, or any sense of which claims held up and which were misleading.
		The New York Times and Washington Post published articles highly critical of the SBVFT earlier this week, and the Times today meticulously laid out the connections between the swift boat vets on the one hand and lawyers, political strategists and donors to the Bush campaign on the other.
		When Kerry called on Bush to condemn the Swift Boat ads, the White House pointed out that the president had himself been the target of harsh attack ads run by independent "527" groups supporting Kerry, and repeated its months-old contention that all such outside advertising should be banned.
	www.cjrdaily.org /politics/ambush.php (1830 words)

	Swift Boat Veterans for Truth go National (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Veterans are owed an apology from you and an acknowledgement that there was no basis in fact for the accusations you made against them.
		Please know that Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are eager to close our own personal chapters on Vietnam and instead focus on the war we're currently fighting—the ongoing war on terrorism.
		Rear Adm. Schachte is not a member of the Swift Boat Veterans, he did not sign the original letter to Kerry from the group and he has never appeared in any of the ads being run.
	www.washingtondispatch.com /page2/archives/000530.html (2949 words)

	Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
		If he were to speak out against the war and the lost cause of the whole affair and someone were to react like the swift boat vets have reacted, I would punch that person right in the face.
		As noted in VVAW records, each veteran's authenticity and testimony were checked after the hearings by Nixon's 'plumbers.' Charles Colson was assigned the task.
		The issue being discussed is the VVAW, Swift Boat Veterans claims and John Kerry.
	www.jimgilliam.com /2004/10/swift_boat_veterans_for_truth.php (4852 words)

	The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and all that...
		August 22, 2004 - The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and all that...
		Flanked by firefighters in Boston, Kerry stripped the mask of patriotic valor from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth by pointing out the source of their funding: a Texas Republican who wrote two checks for $100,000 to the group.
		He spoke of some vast Swift Boat Conspiracy in which Kerry steered not a crew of soldiers through hell, but rather, steered history.
	www.justabovesunset.com /id329.html (2556 words)

	Swift Boat Controversy - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Now even John McCain has condemned the Swift Boat Veterans' outrageous attack on John Kerry's Vietnam record.
		The group attacking Kerry for his antiwar record is backed by a wealthy veteran who's profiting from his business ties to the Communist regime.
		The "swift boat" veterans attacking John Kerry's war record are led byveteran right-wing operatives using the same vicious techniques they used against John McCain four years ago.
	dir.salon.com /topics/swift_boat_controversy (214 words)

	Kerry Is No War Hero, Vietnam Comrades Say (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Members of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were quick to dismiss the effort, which they said amounted to a public relations push by Kerry's campaign to remake the candidate into a war hero despite lingering questions about his actions in Vietnam.
		One veteran who served alongside Kerry in another swift boat said the story of his rescue of Rassmann was exaggerated.
		But each of the veterans interviewed by CNSNews.com Tuesday were adamant that their disapproval of Kerry was driven solely by personal knowledge of him and his actions.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2004/7/14/91211.shtml (856 words)

	SWIFT BOAT VETERANS FOR TRUTH PRESS CONFERENCE (Audio)
		I have placed the audio from the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth news conference online (Windows Media format for dial-up or better connections - right click to download) for anyone who has not yet heard the moving testimonies of those who commanded and/or fought along side John Kerry.
		On top of voicing your opinion with ABC News, let the Associated Press know what you think of their move to spike the story concerning the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth by calling the AP's Washington, D.C. bureau at (202) 776-9400 and the AP's New York City headquarters at (212) 621-1500.
		Further, please provide some input to CBS news for their grossly slanted coverage of the Swift Boat Veterans news conference by FAXing them.
	www.spiritoftruth.org /swiftvets.htm (1347 words)

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