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	washingtonpost.com: POWs Shown in Film Join Swift Boat Group's Anti-Kerry Efforts
		At the same time, the Swift Vets group yesterday purchased $3 million in airtime for two new ads in New Mexico, Ohio and Colorado, according to William E. Franke, a decorated Vietnam War veteran and spokesman for the group.
		The Swift Vets group and the POWs in the film are represented by Creative Response Concepts, a public relations firm that also works for Progress for America, a group that will announce its own $12 million-plus anti-Kerry ad buy next week.
		The Swift boat group is widely credited by Republicans and Democrats alike for damaging Kerry's credibility this summer, when it aired statements from veterans who had served in the same naval unit as Kerry in which they contended that he did not deserve many of the war medals he was awarded.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A30914-2004Oct13?language=printer (964 words)

	Stolen Honor: News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Several POWs and their wives will also be featured in a satellite media tour Thursday morning that reaches out to local television stations.
		Swift Vets and POWs For Truth is also launching a direct mail campaign that will reach 1.2 million people.
		Swift Vets and POWs For Truth now has over 63,000 online financial contributors to their campaign to get the truth out about John Kerry.
	www.stolenhonor.com /news/view.asp?id=14&page= (538 words)

	Swift Boat Veterans for Truth - SourceWatch
		Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT) "registered their group under Section 527 of the U.S. tax code and went public at a news conference held in the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on May 4, 2004." [1]
		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.
		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)

	●ᾯSwiftboat Vets Bribed To Lie About John Kerry
		Among the other leaders featured on the Swift Boat Vets' site are Alvin A. "Andy" Horne; Weymouth D. Symmes, also listed as the group's contact on its IRS filings; and Bill Lannom.
		A spokesman for the Swift boat veterans said the organization decided to hire the agency after a member saw one of its partners speaking on television.
		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.
	www.swift-boat-liars.com (1830 words)

	Swift Vets and POWs for Truth - Most decorated U.S. vet Kerry a 'Benedict Arnold'
		He is one of several former POWs featured in some of the latest Swift Boat Veterans for Truth TV ads.
		Those secret meetings with the enemy were the subject of a WorldNetDaily exclusive yesterday revealing the first documentary evidence that Vietnamese communists were directly steering John Kerry's anti-war group Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
		Corsi, co-author of the Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth best-seller "Unfit for Command," and Scott Swett, who maintains the group's website, have posted a summary of the discovery on the website of Wintersoldier.com.
	horse.he.net /~swiftpow/article.php?story=20041027075323715 (959 words)

	Swift Vets and POWs for Truth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Of the 3,500 Swift boat sailors who served in Vietnam, the names of some 250 appeared on the group's initial statement against Kerry; most did not serve at the same time or in the same place as Kerry.
		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.
		Harvard MBAs for Truth -- A parody of the SBVFT, with slight Republican bias.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swift_Vets_and_POWs_for_Truth (4693 words)

	Swift Vets and POWS for Truth: one year after knockout blow to Kerry - Sean Hannity Discussion
		Swift Vets and POWS for Truth: one year after knockout blow to Kerry
		It's now been one year since the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth delivered their knockout blow to the Kerry campaign.
		Far from being a pep talk for officers distressed by their butchery of civilians, the purpose of this conference with the two highest-ranking American officers in Vietnam was to announce a new Swift boat mission: to drive the Vietcong out of the Ca Mau Peninsula.
	www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=37611 (1175 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.
		If you undertake these steps we will be satisfied that the American public has been sufficiently apprised as to these aspects of your career, and we will discontinue the media advertisements you have sought so fervently to silence.
	www.swiftvets.com (331 words)

	Swift Vets and POWs for Truth - Self-inflicted wounds
		In July, a Senate intelligence committee and an official British investigation both concluded that President Bush had been on firm ground when he spoke the famous 16 words in his 2003 State of the Union message (that the British had learned Saddam Hussein had sought to acquire uranium in Africa).
		Media handling of the charges by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was even more peculiar.
		In the New York Times, Kerry's imaginary Christmas-in-Cambodia yarn was pushed way to the back of an endless story, along with the news that Kerry had told the Senate in 1986 that he had entered Cambodia on his swift boat.
	horse.he.net /~swiftpow/article.php?story=20041008072250226 (964 words)

	Jeff Quinton - Backcountry Conservative: "Swift Vets and POWs for Truth" 10-12-04 Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The POWs of "Stolen Honor" recently joined ranks with the Swift Boat Veterans to spread the truth about John Kerry's record during and after Vietnam.
		Of the Swift boat veterans, a Port Clinton native says he served the most time in Vietnam with presidential candidate John Kerry.
		Gardner said he became involved with Swift Vets after the writer of "Tour of Duty: John Kerry and The Vietnam War" contacted him.
	www.jquinton.com /archives/001984.html (734 words)

	FOXNews.com - Swift Vets, POWs Launch New Ad - You Decide 2004
		The new ad is by Swift Vets and POWs for Truth (search), an expansion of the earlier Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
		Kevin McManus, and Phyllis Galanti, wife of former POW and retired Navy Cmdr. Paul Galanti, then discuss the internment of their husbands in Vietnam.
		Spokesmen for the Swift Vets say the wives who appear in the ad will also participate in a satellite media tour to talk to local groups of veterans and civic groups to take the anti-Kerry message to markets where the TV ads are not running.
	www.foxnews.com /story/0,2933,133974,00.html (611 words)

	Swift Vets and POWs for Truth "They Served"
		With nothing to gain for themselves, except the satisfaction that comes with telling the truth, they have come forward to talk about the John Kerry they know.
		Swift Vets and POW’s for Truth are responsible for the content of this advertisement.
		On the screen: The camera moves slowly right to left past a group of 150 or more well-dressed men who are standing, three and four men deep, all looking at the camera.
	www.gwu.edu /~action/2004/ads04/sbvft101304ts.html (155 words)

	Capitol Hill Blue: Swiftboaters go after Ford in Tennessee Senate race (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A group funded by a Texan who was also the leading financer of "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" has become the first independent political organization to enter the TV advertising war in Tennessee's U.S. Senate campaign.
		Swift Boat Veterans for Truth was perhaps the most famous of 527s, airing ads nationwide in 2004 that attacked the Vietnam War record of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.
		According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the leading funder of that organization, which subsequently changed its name to Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, was Bob Perry, owner of a Houston home construction company.
	www.capitolhillblue.com /content/2006/10/swiftboaters_go.html (1125 words)

	Swiftly False Revisionism
		Jerome Corsi is the co-author of "Unfit for Command," the John Kerry-bashing book released during the 2004 presidential campaign to boost the allegations of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (now Swift Vets and POWs for Truth), whose attacks on Kerry's Vietnam War record mostly fell somewhere between highly dubious and completely false.
		The same PR firm that was helping the Swift Boat Vets spread their questionable allegations was, at the same time, tearing apart the CBS "60 Minutes" report that raised questions about Bush's military service, a report that included the first TV interview with Barnes regarding his claims about getting Bush into the National Guard.
		The PR firm isn't the only Republican link to the Swift Boat Vets; the group had connections to an entire cadre of conservatives who we can presume were in favor of Bush's re-election.
	conwebwatch.tripod.com /stories/2006/corsi.html (784 words)

	Blog Comments for "Oh my gosh!" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Even here, Swift Boat Vets for Freedom, isn’t it Swift Vets and POWs for Truth.
		Truth or Freedom, a bit of a difference.
		The fact that you are defending the Swift Vets gives me pause to ask if you believe that this group represented an honest point view in a honest manner overall?
	www.qando.net /comments.aspx?Entry=4598 (1058 words)

	20061213murs
		The League of Conservation Voters 527 and 527II, MoveOn.org Voter Fund, and Swiftboat Veterans and POWs for Truth have collectively paid almost $630,000 to settle charges that they failed to register and file disclosure reports as federal political committees, and accepted contributions in violation of federal limits and source prohibitions.
		The organizations also agreed to cease and desist from violating applicable laws and regulations and to file reports with the Commission for the relevant periods containing all of the information that must be disclosed by federal political committees.
		Swiftboat Veterans and POWs for Truth produced advertisements and sent out direct mail that attacked John Kerry and expressly advocated his defeat.
	www.fec.gov /press/press2006/20061213murs.html (2589 words)

	Swift Vets and POWs for Truth - Service to Country
		This photograph of John Kerry and 19 other Coastal Division 11 Swift boat officers was taken at Ton Son Nhut Air Base on January 22, 1969, immediately following a meeting with General Abrams and Admiral Zumwalt.
		Swift Vets and POWs for Truth has contacted surviving members of this group to find out how many actually support John Kerry, and discovered that of 19 Swift boat skippers pictured other than Kerry, 12 consider him unfit, 2 are neutral, two have died, and 3 now support Kerry.
		Only 3 of John Kerry's 23 fellow Swift boat commanders from Coastal Division 11 support his candidacy today.
	www.swiftvets.com /index.php?topic=SwiftPhoto (343 words)

	Welcome to Swiftvets.eRiposte.Com!
		[via Dailykos and Talkingpointsmemo]: The Swift Boat veterans have evidently formed a new entity "Swift Vets and POWs for Truth", merging with the group ("POWs for Truth") that sponsored the anti-John-Kerry movie "Stolen Honor".
		This website (a sub-domain to eRiposte.com) is dedicated to revealing the real truth behind the so-called "Swift Vets and POWs for Truth" [formerly "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth"] (SBV for short), more appropriately referred to as Swift Boat Veterans (and POWs) Who Have a Major Problem With The Truth.
		What will become clear when you review the material here is that SBV has major ultra-right-wing, partisan, Bush supporters and Kerry haters and GOP slime operators who are merely kicking off Part II of "The Hunting of the President" - while creating the appearance of being an "independent" group.
	swiftvets.eriposte.com /archive_2004_1016.htm (1145 words)

	American Protest
		The primary purpose of our organization was to provide a voice for the courageous and honorable veterans of Vietnam, more than 280 Swift Boat Vets, Coast Guardsmen and POWs who served their country with honor.
		In addition, Swift Boat Veterans and former POW's visited dozens of states to take their message directly to the American people.
		Note from AmericanProtest.net: The efforts of the Swift Boat Veterans and POW's for the Truth are a textbook example of a successful protest, circumventing mainstream media to get the facts out.
	www.americanprotest.net /columns/11052004.php (247 words)

	Compliance Cases Made Public
		The Swift Boat Vets amended all of its electioneering communications reports and changed its designation to an unincorporated organization.
		The Swift Boat Vets response stated that the original designation was inadvertent.
		A search of public records confirms the Swift Boat Vets has not been incorporated, therefore the Commission found there was no reason to believe the respondents violated the Act.
	www.fec.gov /press/press2005/20050414murs.html (573 words)

	Kokonut Pundits - they're nothing like a coconut.
		Swift Vets and POWs for Truth was fined today by the Federal Election Commission for violating campaign finance laws.
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		The global warming alarmists and their friends in the media have attempted to smear scientists who dare question the premise of man-made catastrophic global warming, and as a result some scientists have seen their reputations and research funding dry up.
	kokonutpundits.blogspot.com (5597 words)

	Jeff Quinton - Backcountry Conservative: SWIFT BOAT VETERANS JOIN FORCES WITH POWs, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		From a Swift Vets and POWs for Truth press release dated 29SEP04:
		WASHINGTON, D.C. --- Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a non-partisan, non-profit group representing more than 250 Swift Boat veterans who served with Senator John Kerry in Vietnam, announced today they are joining forces with a group of American prisoners of war who were held captive by the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War.
		The POWs also released a new 40 minute documentary titled Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, produced by Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award winning journalist Carlton Sherwood (www.stolenhonor.com).
	www.jquinton.com /archives/001895.html (592 words)

	Virginian, ex-POW speaks out in anti-Kerry ads - Roanoke.com
		Today, as one of the most prominent ex-POWs in Virginia and the country, he has appeared in two Swift Vets and POWs for Truth television ads, as well as in the documentary âStolen Honor: Wounds that Never Heal.â He said he participated in these projects âto expose the truthâ about presidential candidate John Kerry.
		In one of the Swift Vets TV ads, Galanti says, âJohn Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam, in the prison camps, took torture to avoid saying.
		The Kerry campaign alleged that appointment should have precluded his work with the Swift Vets ads, and was proof of his collusion with the Bush campaign, in violation of federal campaign regulations.
	www.roanoke.com /columnists/gottstein/wb/xp-12879 (1242 words)

	The Raw Story \| Kerry: I'm prepared to kick Swift Boat's ass
		Kerry says the only reason he didn’t compete in more states in 2004 was that he ran out of money.
		He says this was also the reason he did not adequately respond to a series of devastating TV ads by Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth, a group that questioned Kerry’s service in Vietnam and criticized his later opposition to the war.
		Kerry’s tough talk triggers laughter from John O’Neill, a fellow Vietnam veteran who helped found Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth and wrote a blistering 2004 book on Kerry, Unfit for Command.
	www.rawstory.com /news/2006/Kerry_Im_prepared_to_kick_Swift_0914.html (296 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Swift vets launch final 2 ads
		With less than three weeks before election day, Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth has launched two final television ads today, bringing together in a large group Sen. John Kerry's former Navy commanders and fellow officers and the ex-prisoners who contend his is unqualified to be president.
		The 527 organization, producers of a best-seller calling Kerry "Unfit for Command," paid $3 million to run the 60-second ads in the swing states of New Mexico, Ohio and Colorado.
		The swiftboat vets group, which recently changed its name to reflect an alliance with former POWs, says it has spent about $10 million of $17 million raised through a combination of big donors and small contributions, largely via the Internet.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40927 (606 words)

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