Monday, August 23, 2004
Operation Truth to launch this Wednesday
Former Navy SEALer/pro-wrestler/Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura will join founder Paul Rieckhoff at a press conference via phone to launch Operation Truth.
Operation Truth seeks to
educate the American public about the truth of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the perspective of the soldiers who have experienced them first-hand. We will provide returning veterans with national, regional, and local podiums from which they will expose the preventable hardships that they endured as a result of failures at the top levels of leadership. We intend to publicize how poorly-planned policies and approaches have manifested themselves as problems on the front lines and back at home. We will act domestically to protect our troops and to aid them in their fight to protect us.
The organization says it considers itself nonpartisan but declares itself at odds with the current administration.
Rieckhoff is an infantry platoon leader in Iraq. The conference will also include Bobby Muller of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation.
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Operation Truth seeks to
educate the American public about the truth of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from the perspective of the soldiers who have experienced them first-hand. We will provide returning veterans with national, regional, and local podiums from which they will expose the preventable hardships that they endured as a result of failures at the top levels of leadership. We intend to publicize how poorly-planned policies and approaches have manifested themselves as problems on the front lines and back at home. We will act domestically to protect our troops and to aid them in their fight to protect us.
The organization says it considers itself nonpartisan but declares itself at odds with the current administration.
Rieckhoff is an infantry platoon leader in Iraq. The conference will also include Bobby Muller of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation.
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