| "They claimed to have "served with him in Viet Nam" - a claim which was fundamentally false."
Those that related their personal interaction with Kerry did indeed serve with him.
I disagree slightly with Bullet in terms of the motivation behind the Swift Boat Veterans for truth. Yes, they had a long-standing grievance about how Kerry threw them under the bus back in the war days. However, I don't think even this was sufficient to push them into activism. The straw that broke the camel's back was that Kerry based his campaign on his war hero status - something that those who served with him on the other Swift Boats knew to be blatantly false. For someone to have been so anti-military to now run for the role of Commander in Chief and base his campaign on false heroism was too much for them to take sitting down. |