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From the article:selfAdjoint said:Back on the thread topic, see this article in today's NYT. Connections of the swift boat funders to Bush and Rove, and inconsistencies and lies of the swift boat partisans are richly documented.
I can certainly understand their hostility. IMO, Kerry rolled the dice here and lost: he's trying to play both sides on this one (as he often does) and he should have seen the backlash coming. He should not have made this issue the centerpiece of his campaign.How the group came into existence is a story of how veterans with longstanding anger about Mr. Kerry's antiwar statements in the early 1970's allied themselves with Texas Republicans.
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