Swift Vets and POWs for Truth

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Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, formerly known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT), was an American political organization (527 organization) of United States Swift boat veterans; former prisoners of war of the Vietnam War, formed during the 2004 presidential election campaign, for the purpose of opposing John Kerry's candidacy for the presidency. The campaign inspired the widely used political pejorative "swiftboating", to describe an unfair or untrue political attack; they disbanded and ceased operations on May 31, 2008. SBVT asserted that Kerry was "unfit to serve" as president, based upon his alleged "willful distortion of the conduct" of American servicemen during that war, and his alleged "withholding and/or distortion of material facts" as to his own conduct during that war. SBVT stated that "Kerry's phony war crimes charges, his exaggerated claims about his own service in Vietnam, and his deliberate misrepresentation of the nature and effectiveness of Swift boat operations...

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