Swift Boat Controversy

  • Republicans' Dishonorable Charge

    Now even John McCain has condemned the Swift Boat Veterans' outrageous attack on John Kerry's Vietnam record.
  • Aiming for John Kerry's Purple Heart

    How low will the Swift Boat Veterans sink to defame the presidential candidate's Vietnam record?
  • The hunt is on

    The anti-Clinton slime machine is back -- and this time its mud pies are aimed at John Kerry.
  • The Vietnam investor behind the "Swift Boat Vets" attack

    The group attacking Kerry for his antiwar record is backed by a wealthy veteran who's profiting from his business ties to the Communist regime.
  • Smear Boat Veterans for Bush

    The "swift boat" veterans attacking John Kerry's war record are led by veteran right-wing operatives using the same vicious techniques they used against John McCain four years ago.
  • The GOP's not-so-impartial hit man

    Desperate to denigrate John Kerry's war record, Republicans have trotted out a "nonpartisan" Navy Vietnam vet -- who was a protege of Nixon dirty trickster Charles Colson and whose law firm is closely tied to the Bush White House.

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