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McTavish
SBVT: Sinking in Their Own Sea of Lies
By WILLIAM D. McTAVISH
Aug 20, 2004, 08:15
That gurgling sound you hear is the ever-increasing number of leaks in the credibility of the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
Yes, the Swift Boats are sinking in their own sea of lies, sunk by a fusillade of reality that exposed the bitter old Vietnam Veterans as just another Republican led and funded shill operation for the Presidential campaign of George W. Bush.
Those who know how politics really work in Washington saw SBVT for what they really were but that didn�t stop them from getting gobs of play from the right-wing ring of the media circus and the ultra-conservative bulletin boards where lonely Midwestern housewives and gullible retirees post hate-filled screeds against anything that doesn�t fit into their narrow view of the world.
SBVT�s public leader is John E. O�Neill, a longtime GOP operative but he�s been in the middle of these things before. Back in 1971, O�Neill claimed to have formed a group called Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, a bunch of pro-war veterans sent out to counter the antiwar activities of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, led by one John F. Kerry.
But, like SBVT, Vietnam Veterans for Just Peace was a shill, a creation of President Richard M. Nixon�s chief counsel (and hatchet man) Charles Colson.
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