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	<title><![CDATA[Behind The Front: The Pro-War "Freedom's Watch"]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson-and-james-boyce/behind-the-front-the-prow_1_b_61481.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>In the early 1970s, the Nixon Administration took a page out of the <a href="http://www.seeingtheforest.com/archives/2007/07/oped_or_oplie.htm">tobacco industry's playbook</a> and actively organized front groups to counter the anti-war efforts of Vietnam veterans like John Kerry and Bobby Muller. Men like John O'Neill -- later to re-appear as one of the Swift Boat Veterans -- were hired to create what Watergate felon Charles Colson called "counter-foils."</p>

<p>Today with the <a href="http://blog.washingtonpost.com/channel-08/2007/08/ad_wars_heat_up_ahead_of_surge.html?hpid=topnews">launch of "Freedoms Watch</a>" our politics are further poisoned by the appearance of another...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:47:00-04:00</date_published>
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