Swift boat vets linked to Bush
 

Does this surprise anyone?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5771731/


Bush, his family have many ties to Swift Boat vets.

The veterans behind the controversial TV ads that question Sen. John Kerry?s Vietnam war record have extensive ties to President Bush and his family, other high-profile Texas politicians and Bush?s chief political aide ? ties that have raised questions about possible illegal coordination between Bush?s re-election campaign and the veterans.

Described as a ?web of connections,? the links between the Bushes and the veterans were detailed in a Friday piece in the New York Times that also listed inconsistencies in the veterans' own public statements on their regard for Kerry.

How the group known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth "came into existence is a story of how veterans with longstanding anger about Mr. Kerry's antiwar statements in the early 1970s allied themselves with Texas Republicans," The Times said.

The group's ads accuse the Democratic presidential nominee of exaggerating his war record to win war medals and say he is unfit to be president.

"A series of interviews and a review of documents show a web of connections to the Bush family, high-profile Texas political figures and President Bush's chief political aide, Karl Rove," the Times reported. "Several of those now declaring Mr. Kerry 'unfit' had lavished praise on him, some as recently as last year.


Any formal ties between the Bush campaign and the veterans group would be against the law. Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth is organized as a non-party, independent political group under section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code, and coordination between a 527 group and a presidential campaign is illegal.

If this really is the case, I'm not surprised one bit.

That doesnt surprise me at all. i figured something like that all along

Nah its not surprising.. I have no doubt this is going to be one of the dirtiest campaigns ever.

Bush thought he could lie for ever ... bust after bust ... I don't beleive a single word of what he's saying anymore

Of course it's not surprising, lol.

How many people believed dubya and the wife when they both said last week that they hadn't even seen the ad? Zero?

This is the same game they used on Al Gore remember Al Gore was made to be this big liar.

surprised? yeah right!

Not suprised. Sadly this will change no ones opinions now. What is done is done he knew they would find out bu the damage is done.

:1orglaugh
Typical dis-information by the left wingers and the press.
These guys have been saying the same thing since 1971.
All kerry has to do is release his records if he is not a liar you know like the press demanded bush release his.

The left wingers have spent 100 million trashing bush these guys spent 150 thousand and they have taken in 100 thousand in the last 12 hours over the internet.

:Graucho

What a war of misinformation and secret deals they like to call politics!