To: Bill who wrote (726672 ) 2/18/2006 3:23:32 PM From: American Spirit Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 769670 Wrong. the smearvets are not real vets except for a few extreme rightwinger types. The operation was run by rightwing GOP operatives. Some of them were paid to lie and contracted themselves. Many were caught int outright fabrications. The co-leader was exposed as a racist bigot extremist. None of the smearvets in the ads ever actually fought with Kerry. 98% of them never even met him in Vietnam. O'Neill himself is a longtime GOP operative. O'Neill openly lied the first day he introduced the smear campaign, claiming he had served with John Kerry (never met him in Nam) and that he had nothing to do with the GOP and Bush campaign (even though every single behind the scenes puppeteer in this scam was from the RNC's dirty tricks basement) If you believe one word those dirty bastards said you're either stupid or very dishonest with yourself. Not a single accusation they made about Kerry was true, and even the facts that they used were spun upside down to try and make things mean the opposite of what they really did.swiftvets.eriposte.com This site rips every charge of the smedarvets apart and exposes who was really behind them. Also note Tom DElay's phony foundation recently paid smearvet funder Perry 26 million dollars. That's called a reimbursement for dirty tricks well-funded. The Vietnam War, especially by 1971, was wrong, immoral, hopeless, extremely self-destructive for the US, insane and was all based on a lie to begin with. If you don't believe me, seee the film FOG OF WAR where war architect McNamara confesses this. Like in Iraq, only Halliburton won. (then Brown and Root, now part of Halliburton, it's war profiteering business)