To Set The Record Straight
How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and
the
New Media Defeated John Kerry
by Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler
Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential bid
became the catalyst for an unprecedented political movement by Vietnam veterans who had long resented his false 1971 testimony
that U.S. troops were routinely committing war crimes.
Despite the best efforts of the Democratic
Party and its media affiliates, they succeeded in reaching out to the public and turning the presidential campaign upside
down.
Here, for the first time, is the complete
story
of how - and why - they did it.