Iraq Veterans Working for Congressional Campaigns

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Iraq Veterans Working for Congressional Campaigns

By Jonathan Springston

10-04-06, 9:08 am

(APN) ATLANTA – Iraq Veterans for Progress (IVFP) is supporting the campaigns of four candidates running for the US House and Senate, and creating jobs for veterans at the same time: by sending veterans of the US Invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan to help the campaigns in any way they can.

Air Force Veteran Tim Goodrich, who also co-founded Iraq Veterans Against the War, is the Executive Director of IVFP, a political action committee that launched a little over one month ago in Los Angeles, California.

Goodrich participated in Operation Southern Watch (enforcement of the southern no-fly zone over Iraq) and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) during his four-year service from 1999 to 2003.

"I've changed 180 degrees," Goodrich told Atlanta Progressive News.. "I used to watch the bombs drop with a smile on my face." Goodrich has a picture of himself while flying over Afghanistan grinning from ear to ear.

Goodrich took part in and witnessed the bombing of Iraq while President Bush was still telling the public diplomacy was the top priority.

These inconsistent and apparently misleading actions did not sit well with Goodrich, and his thinking on certain issues began to change.

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/4191/1/213/