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Nov. 20, 2006
THE WAY IT WAS…
…AIN’T WHAT IT’S GONNA BE!
Folks, the outcome on November 7th hasn’t been any more pleasant to me
than it has to you. We well and truly got our derrieres handed
to us. We can rationalize and philosophize and whine and complain
till the cows come home, but it won’t change the fact that a corrupt
old man and his corrupt organization whupped us.
I hate that.
And judging by the passion I’ve heard from many of you, y’all hate
that, too.
So I’ve been thinking about how best to avoid sinking into political
torpor and how to make sure that what we’ve done during this election
season does not go to waste.
The first thing that comes to mind is the recent stories in the
Washington Post and the Washington Times. They are coming a little
late, but they’re essentially saying the same things we’ve said for
four months—that Murtha doesn’t DESERVE to be in the US Congress!
And the “new” ABSCAM tape that the Times refers to was obtained by one
of our folks down in Texas, so we see a direct result of our efforts
already. There is more to come, and that’s what I want to tell you
about.
A number of you have sent e-mails or called and asked if we’re going
to stand down; quite honestly, that’s what I had intended to do.
However, the folks I’ve talked with were unanimous in asking that we
remain in the fray with our objective being to deny election to ANY
politician who is not a friend to the military.
How this effort takes shape will depend on a number of
developments—most notably what YOU think we should do. And,
specifically, what you think we should be doing prior to 2008.
Here are some things for you to think about:
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Should we continue to tell the truth about John Murtha?
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How aggressively should we pursue that mission?
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Should we look to identify an unabashedly pro-military
presidential candidate to support in 2008, or is that premature?
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Are you willing to be involved, both personally and
financially?
I am asking you to send me your thoughts at
lbailey@bootmurtha.com, and I promise that I will read every
word as we decide which way to go from here.
FYI, we are keeping
www.bootmurtha.com as a vehicle for whatever involvement we
decide on.
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you did for the Boot
Murtha campaign. It was hard work, but 60,000 voters in
Pennsylvania’s 12th District “got the message.” Al-Jazeera
Jack knows that he has opposition.
We have nothing to be ashamed of. We did our best on a shoestring
budget, and we did better than ANY campaign against Murtha in
decades. And we had an effect that is still being measured.
If you agree that we should continue operating as Vets for the Truth,
let me know. And, of course, we will need your financial assistance.
Let me tell you once again that there are now NO paid staff, and any
payments we make or accept will be for out-of-pocket expenditures
only.
I invite you to continue helping us. You may do it via PayPal [
HERE ] or
by sending your check (payable to VFTT) to Box 291, Chocowinity, NC
27817.
Allbest,
Larry Bailey
President
Vets for the Truth
lbailey@bootmurtha.com
October 31, 2006
THE LAST FULL MEASURE…
Murtha-Booters!
We have come to
the last few days of our campaign, and what a campaign it has been!
With your help, John Murtha’s chances of being elected to a 17th
term in the US Congress have diminished more than anyone thought
possible. And now we are on the verge of accomplishing the
impossible!
In the next few
days we are making our final push to deny John Murtha the votes of
reasonable people who have supported him in the past. Toward that
end, we have begun running our own TV ad within the district. We will
also continue to place newspaper ads pointing up Murtha’s connection
with un-American political elements—like:
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Code Pink,
those putrid, pathetic people who harass injured Iraq War troops
outside Walter Reed Army Hospital each Friday evening;
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George Soros,
the America-hating multi-billionaire currency speculator who throws
his bank account behind any left-wing cause that comes to his
attention; and
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Michael Moore,
the darling of the American left, who blames all our nation’s ills
on gun owners, Christians, and conservative politicians.
These are Murtha’s
people. They have big money behind them. And they have passion—the
problem with THEIR passion, however, is that it’s pure, undisguised
hatred for people like us. You should SEE some of the hate mail we
get. It’s so vile I can’t even quote it, but suffice it to say that
the “F” word shows up frequently.
Who
are our people? Well, they certainly aren’t billionaires and movie
moguls and international financiers, but they have passion—a passion
that is focused on saving their country, not destroying it. Some ask
how we think we can overcome the millions of dollars that the radical
left has available to counter our bare-bones campaign.
Easy—we have
the kind of passion that translates into ACTION, the
action that sees our Operation Street Corner volunteers braving the
harassment of Murtha goons and foul weather in order to acquaint 12th
District voters with “The REAL John Murtha.” We have the kind of
passion that motivates literally HUNDREDS of letter-writers to
saturate the in-boxes of district newspapers.
You are part of
that.
Your passion
has made and is making the difference.
John Murtha is
going to lose; he’s beginning to understand that, and you can be sure
that he will pull out all the stops to save his bacon. He has already
resorted to the use of foul language in referring to us as
“scumbags.” And, addressing our efforts to bring the truth to his
district, he said, “Screw them.”
This will be
the last time I will ask for your financial support. It is also the
most critical time, as we have made a dynamite little TV spot that is
demonstrating to voters exactly what Murtha’s association with Code
Pink signifies, and that is a selling out of American servicemen and
servicewomen. You can view it online now:
CLICK HERE
We will run this
ad as many times as your contributions enable us to run it. In an
ideal situation, we would run it hundreds of times in various TV
markets. In addition, we have a series of newspaper ads that we will
be running, and we plan to take our bank account down to zero in
getting the word out about Code Pink, Brother Kit, and ABSCAM.
One last time—HELP US!
This is America’s fight, and we owe it to those brave souls in the 12th
District of Pennsylvania to help them get rid of this monster who
thinks he owns that district. By defeating John (al-Jazeera Jack)
Murtha, we will deprive the America-haters of one of their most
visible spokesman, and we will be sending a strong message of support
to the men and women who are fighting on battlefields around the
world.
You may donate by PayPal or credit card:
CLICK HERE
or
you may send your check (payable to VFTT) to:
Vets for the
Truth
P.O. Box 291
Chocowinity, NC 27817
If you prefer to
send funds by bank-to-bank transfer, please e-mail us for details on
how to do that:
lbailey@bootmurtha.com
.
Thank you
for your past support, and I will see you at our victory party as soon
after the election as we can organize it!
Yours for a
Congress without John Murtha!
Larry Bailey
President, Vets
for the Truth
PS: Please pass
this along to everyone in your address book and give them a chance to
get involved!
October 2, 2006
 CRUNCH
TIME, FOLKS!
Ladies and gentlemen, we’re well and truly “booting Murtha!” If
there’s any doubt in your minds, read the “Tale
of Three Rallies” article here on BootMurtha.com.
A telling statistic:
BEFORE the Boot Murtha Rally and BEFORE the
release of the “full-monty” ABSCAM tape, Murtha was leading his
opponent by a mere 55% to 45%. That’s not just “telling;” it’s
phenomenal! And it’s largely because of what you and we have done on
a mere $38,000!
And we’ve just begun to carry the fight to Murtha. We knew where we’d
be, pretty much, at this point in the campaign, and that’s WAY behind
where we should be if we were going to carry the gospel to the voters
in the 12th District. Believe it or not, we planned our
campaign with this in mind!
Having said that, hear me out:
we have to raise
a quarter-million dollars
between now and November 1st
With that money, we will be able to carry out the detailed (and, I
must confess, Top Secret) plan redeploy that corrupt old politician.
DO NOT THINK that your ten-, twenty-five-,
and hundred-dollar contributions do not add up, because they
most certainly do. They provide us with the day-to-day funds we need
to purchase campaign materials and flyers and to keep our campaign
before the public.
More importantly, they give us the credibility we need to persuade
potential “deep-pockets” donors that we have a real shot at sending
Murtha home. PLEASE do what you can and pass
on this appeal!
Folks, the rally showed how numerous, how animated, and how motivated
the anti-Murtha community is. If you weren’t there, check out the
photos at the website to get
an idea of what I’m talking about. You can also check out
4
short video clips of speakers David Beamer, Craig
Minnick, Harry Beam and co-emcees Quinn & Rose.
If we were talking about wartime language (and we ARE in a war), we
would now be recognized as a “belligerent power.” That means that we
are recognized as a major player in this year’s congressional
campaign. Murtha ignored us for too long. He knows who we are now.
We are so close to defeating Murtha that I can smell the champagne and
hear the shouting at our victory party, and what a party that will
be! The only question is where we will have it…
Of course, we still need that quarter-million, and I’m asking you to
give us one more “hit” and to get like-minded Americans stirred up
enough to get involved in our campaign.
Do what you can. We’re doing what we can;
as you know, every nickel of your donations goes into the program.
Not a single member of our little “Vets for the Truth” organization
draws any compensation at all.
When folks are motivated by passion, however, compensation is not a
consideration, and it’s that passion that impels me to ask for your
continued support. Please help us…
Click here to donate online now:
CLICK
Or you can send a check via snail mail:
Vets for the Truth / P.O. Box 291 / Chocowinity, NC 27817
Allbest,
Larry Bailey, President, Vets for the Truth
September 10, 2006
Fellow BootMurthaites,
There comes a time in most political campaigns when ambition outstrips
means, and we at Vets for the Truth are at such a point right now.
It might be useful to lay out for you to see just what we have going
on at the moment:
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Operation Street Corner (www.operationstreetcorner.com)
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Leaflet drops in parking lots
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Displays in public places
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Acquisition of placards, billboards, leaflets, etc.
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Salaries of two full-time area directors
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Purchase of tents, signage, clamps, etc.
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Vehicle expenses
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Boot Murtha Rally
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Funding speaker travel and lodging
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Hiring entertainment
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Renting War Memorial Arena
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Hiring security personnel
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Scores of miscellaneous expenses
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Payment of emcees (Quinn and Rose)
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Advertising
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Newspaper ads
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TV and radio spots
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Billboards (four at the moment)
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Leaflets
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Travel expenses of volunteers (me included!)
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Office rental in Johnstown
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Furniture
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Computer
o
Copier
o
Phone
Folks, through your generosity we have taken in almost $24,000, and I
am deeply grateful for that. However, we need at least four times
that much to execute a MINIMAL effort to redeploy John Murtha. Think
about it: Murtha has raised over $3 million for his campaign. His
opponent has raised just a bit over $400 thousand! Add in our
$24,000, and the anti-Murtha forces are still badly outspent.
HELP! Send this appeal to your entire address book, please! And if
you can spare some small change, do so, by all means! You can
donate now online here:
We are truly a
bare-bones effort, having only two employees, both of whom are paid
starvation wages.
When we beat John Murtha, political pundits all over the country will
be writing about how a bunch of political neophytes with very little
money out-organized and out-worked the city slickers of “al-Jazeera
Jack” Murtha’s campaign! You’ll want to be a part of that effort,
which will be unprecedented in American political history!
Imagine! A few hundred District 12 folks and a few hundred concerned
veterans and their supporters from across the nation sending John
Murtha his marching orders home after 32 years of prancing across The
Big Stage in Washington, DC. No more Code Pink. No more bad-mouthing
his fellow Marines. No more acting as stalking horse for John Kerry
and the America-hating wing of the Democrat Party.
Let’s send the sucker home, ladies and gentlemen. Money being what it
is, “the mother’s milk of politics,” we must have it, and we need it
soon if we are to be totally effective in our somewhat quixotic
crusade against this me-first politician.
I’ve stated our case for your help. If you can afford to help us
again, please do so. If you can’t, that’s all right—but you CAN get
the word out about our need by asking your friends to go to
www.bootmurtha.com and see what we’re doing. If they don’t have
computers, ask them to mail a check to VFTT at Box 291; Chocowinity,
NC 27817.
Thank you for all you’re doing and continue to do.
Allbest,
Larry Bailey
President, Vets for the Truth
P.S. Here are photos of our Boot Murtha Rally billboard up now in
Johnstown, PA:
click on each to enlarge
September 2, 2006
Well, it seems that my briefing have gotten a little behind schedule,
and I apologize for that! In self-defense, however, I have to say
that things have been hectic.
Since the last update, a lot of things have happened, most of which
Linda Eddy has already put up on the website. But let me just mention
a few things that have happened and are still happening; we are on the
MOVE!
First, we have confirmed that the Oct. 1st rally will be indoors in a
climate-controlled environment—in the
Cambria County War Memorial
Arena.
Next, we have lined up four speakers who will, as a group, present a
realistic view of where America stands in the War on Terror. We will
have a survivor of the collapse of the World Trade Center; the father
of the hero of Flight 93; the fathers of a Marine and a soldier who
gave their lives in Iraq; and the father of a Marine currently being
held in the brig at Camp Pendleton, CA. These men represent a
transition from near-victim to first-sacrifice to national commitment
to political opportunism in the War on Terror.
We have also signed a great country-rock band from western PA called
“Whiskey Grin.” When I heard them at the Rolling Thunder Support the
Troops Rally in Beaver last week, I realized that we had to have them
at the rally. They have promised me that they will develop a
repertoire appropriate for the occasion.
The most significant accomplishment the rally committee has achieved
has been to secure the services of Quinn and Rose, two of the top
talk-show hosts in the country, to be co-emcees of the rally! I am
tickled pink (no relation to Code Pink) about this stroke of good
fortune! You can check out their "War Room with Quinn & Rose" website
here.
I can’t reveal any names, but suffice it to say that we think we are
close to having a really BIG name come to Johnstown to be our keynote
speaker! Stay tuned…
We’re going to have one tremendous rally, folks, and it’ll be fun to
go head-to-head with the Murtha rally that is being held the day
before. Those people claimed victory by having a canned,
bought-and-paid-for “rallyette” that was put on at the same time we
held our dignified little press conference on August 3rd.
To read some of the media reports, you would think that they had had a
cast of thousands!
I personally counted EVERY head (plus a couple pairs of toes on the
edge of the frame) in an overhead photo taken at the height of their
“rally.” There were 193 people there, including sound technicians,
platform dignitaries, media, and sound technicians. Big deal, huh?
And our little press conference down the road was blithely going its
merry way doing what it was designed to do—announce our rally!
John Murtha is going to lose this election, and YOU are the reason!
Your financial and personal support continues to amaze me, and I ask
you to keep it up. I should tell you that EVERY DOLLAR you donate
goes into the program. This is truly a no-frills campaign. And the
two full-time, starvation-wages employees we have are really going
all-out to organize our Operation Street Corner effort. You’ll soon
see the fruits of their hard work. [read
more about OSC here]
And if you live in or near the 12th District, PLEASE get
involved in OSC; it will make a critical difference in the vote count
on Nov. 7th!
Contact us
through the website for details, or send me an e-mail at
osc@bootmurtha.com .
Finally, please send our URL (http://www.bootmurtha.com/
)
to everyone you know who has e-mail; we want to have more people at
the rally than Johnstown can handle!
Boot Murtha!
Larry Bailey
President, Vets for the Truth
August 9, 2006
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your fearless leader has just returned from six days in southwestern
Pennsylvania, and I have to tell you that I am mightily encouraged by
what I saw and experienced. To say that there’s an undercurrent of
anti-Murtha sentiment in his district is to grossly understate the
case—there’s a veritable RIPTIDE of disgust at what the man has become
and what he has done, and we’re going to ride that tide until he is
well and truly redeployed!
I arrived in Pittsburgh on Aug. 2nd and immediately drove
to Johnstown (via a rather circuitous route—27 years as a SEAL
apparently did not improve my overland navigation skills). I hit the
ground running and immediately got involved in our first “crisis
management” scenario.
Our folks in Johnstown had learned that the Murtha bully-boys had
planned to ambush our long-planned press conference by holding what
they called a “rally” in the very same spot where the police had given
us permission to hold our “presser” (as it’s called in the business).
It was scheduled to start a half-hour ahead of the presser and last
for 1 ½ hours.
We thought and talked long and hard about how to deal with this
situation, and we didn’t really decide on our course of action until
the morning of the presser.
What we did was simply move one block down the street into a shaded
parking lot and set up our little karaoke machine and portable
lectern! The juxtaposition of our humble and tasteful event against
the Murtha “rally” worked entirely to our advantage!
As it turned out, the Murtha crowd (excluding the media) consisted of
fewer than 100 souls (see the photo posted on the ‘site), and it
hardly justified his campaign’s spending what must have been several
thousand dollars in building a large speaker stage AND a media
platform and in assembling a gazillion-decibel public address system!
As you can see on this website, we did what we intended to do—announce
our October 1st rally and answer media questions. The
generally favorable response of both the printed and electronic media
clearly indicates that our purposes were served. Even the Johnstown
“Tribune-Democrat,” no enemy of Murtha’s, published a very objective
comparison of the two events. Check it out below. We “done good!”
Accompanying me for the first three days of the trip was my old
sidekick Mike Bradley, my favorite “Florida Cracker,” who continued to
provide sound bites to those of us who were interviewed by the media
in the following days. Mike has a knack for identifying those themes
that resonate most with voters—like that of Murtha’s acceptance of an
award from “Code Pink,” that ultra-left-wing spawn of the George Soros-Michael
Moore crowd! We’re going to ride that pony all the way to election
day.
Mike and I linked up with some local veterans and bikers organizations
that have a lot of potential for supporting our effort in District 12.
Hang with me!
Larry Bailey
President,
Vets for the Truth
July 26, 2006
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I never thought for a moment that we would be where we are right
now—on the verge of creating a political explosion unprecedented in
modern political life. Our vision a couple of months ago was
extremely limited in scope—we just wanted to “do our part” in making
life uncomfortable for “al-Jazeera Jack” Murtha, but things have
totally changed that vision.
What has happened is amazing! So many people from across the country
have contacted us and encouraged us and contributed to our efforts
that it appears like a true groundswell has emerged and is growing in
size.
We are now cooperating with several other organizations as we labor to
ensure Murtha’s defeat, and numerous 12th District
(Murtha’s own) activists have come aboard.
Mind you, we did not invite ANYBODY to cooperate with us; these folks
found out about us and asked how they could help. We are in the
process of working out the details of how they can become involved,
and they WILL be involved, as will (we hope) thousands more.
What can you do? First and foremost, copy our URL (www.bootmurtha.com)
onto an introductory e-mail that you send to your entire conservative
mailing list, asking your friends to check it out. The best weapon
that we have in our arsenal right now is that website, thanks to the
incredible efforts and creativity of our “webmistress,” Linda Eddy.
PLEASE get the message out!
I am tickled to announce that
www.operationstreetcorner.com is up and running. This is due to
the phenomenal efforts of our other “webmistress,” Amanda Prewett
Doss, who is the life force behind OSC. Thank you, Amanda, for all
you’ve done to resurrect that important effort.
Finally, I have a continuing request: HELP US! We MUST respond to the
“puff piece” the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review recently ran on Murtha. We
just have to reply to such unmitigated propaganda, but it will cost a
bundle--$12,500, to be precise. We’ve already raised over $3000 of
that amount; PLEASE help us with the remaining $9000 or so.
You can best do that not by sending us your last political dime but by
getting like-minded folks to help. Again, PLEASE forward the URLs of
both our websites; once our natural allies see what we’re doing, they
WILL help!
We have traction, as they say; we’re on the verge of a breakthrough
that could shake up American politics as it has been shaken up few
times in recent memory. I invite you to become part of that process.
By booting “Jihad Jack” Murtha, you will send a seismic message to
patriotic Americans that they CAN make a difference.
These times require that a difference be made; I think it will be made
by right-thinking folks like us. Let’s help each other.
Larry Bailey
President,
Vets for the Truth
July 17, 2006
A bit of a confession first off: I neglected to give credit to my
friend Ted Sampley for composing the definition of “swiftboating” (in
my last update). Sorry, Theodore!
And Ted’s “swiftboating”-definition tee shirts are great, too! Check
‘em out on the website…
What a week! I’m pleased to report that we have surpassed our $7750
goal for the recent drive to raise funds to prepare and mail 17,000 or
so packets of “Murtha stuff” to all the voting veterans in the 12th
District.
I’m also happy to tell you that we are having volunteers coming out of
the woodwork, both in the 12th District and elsewhere. The
level of animosity against “al-Jazeera Jack” Murtha is at an
incredibly high level; similarly, the level of animosity against “Boot
Murtha” is ALSO high, judging by the hate mail that I get every single
day. That tells me that we’re effective.
Back-channel information indicates that Murtha now knows that we
exist. The largest paper in Pittsburgh just ran a major puff-piece on
him (and the publisher of the paper (the Tribune-Review) is supposed
to be a conservative!). We’re going to investigate the feasibility of
buying a full-page ad countering that obvious propaganda piece. If we
had enough money, we could do a lot of things!
Lady Linda Eddy continues to produce her fantastic cartoons for
the website, in addition to being our webmistress.
Speaking of webmistresses, Amanda Doss in Texarkana is working
diligently on developing a 2006 revision of our
www.operationstreetcorner.com website.
Thanks to all of you who sent contributions to our recent drive; I can
assure you that you will get a lot of bang for your buck!
Have a great week!
Larry Bailey
President,
Vets for the Truth
July 2, 2006...
A Modest Essay on Swiftboating
Since the 2004 election, in which John Kerry’s spurious claims about
his valor and sacrifices in the Vietnam War were publicly questioned
by a group of American patriots calling themselves “Swift Boat
Veterans for the Truth,” the left has introduced a new term into the
lexicon of American political jargon: “swiftboating.”
Those traffickers in hate intended it to be a pejorative term, but it
has turned out to be something rather different—thanks to
conservatives who have appropriated it for their own honorable use!
I, for one, am proud to participate in the process of “swiftboating,”
since, to me, it means the marshaling of veterans to oppose those
whose respect for the truth is something less than American voters
deserve from their political candidates.
I am thankful for the example set by John O’Neill, Admiral Roy “Latch”
Hoffmann, Bill Franke, and hundreds of other Swift Boat veterans of
the Vietnam War. As far as I’m concerned, they set the standard for
organizations such as “Vets for the Truth” (VFTT) to demonstrate that
the claims of certain politicians fall short of being “the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
The Swiftees, as they are known, are, first and foremost, American
patriots of the highest caliber, and we at VFTT are honored to be
accused of following in their footsteps.
Larry Bailey
President,
Vets for the Truth
Proud to be Swiftboating!
Swiftboating: – Exposing the lies, deceit, and fraud of
self-glorifying public officials or candidates for public office who
exaggerate their military service by lying about their feats of
heroism and combat wounds. |
