Reply #10: Bingo!

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http://www.prwatch.org/node/4980/print

"Vets for Freedom," the 2006 Version of Swift Boat Vets

Geoff Gray writes, "what looks to be a 2006 version of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth <1> has formed. The putatively grassroots organization called Vets for Freedom <2> has been offering up decorated, interview-ready soldiers to, as its website puts it <3>, 'promote the unbiased, nonpartisan truth of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, to educate the public and mobilize public support for the Global War on Terror <4>.' Their offensive started in April, when former Bush press secretary Taylor Gross <5> ... tempted newspaper editors ... with inexpensive war coverage—'unbiased perspectives' that 'would not be at any significant cost.' Gross had no takers. Then, over Memorial Day, Owen West <6>, a Goldman Sachs commodities trader, Marine reservist, and adventure-book author published an op-ed in the Times <7> in which he lashed out against war opponents ... . John Stauber <8>, executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy <9>, thought the Vets’ Website looked suspiciously un-grassroots. ... The group’s Website is hosted by Campaign Solutions <10>, a high-profile political consultancy that does Republican-campaign web work. Clients have included Bush-Cheney ’04 and the Swift Boat Vets. 'Vets for Freedom are the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth' of the ’06 cycle, says Stauber."