Former Gov. Jesse Ventura will participate in a conference call Tuesday to help launch a new group called Operation Truth, an organization being set up ``to give voice to troops who served in Iraq.''
The New York-based group is holding its official launch party and fund-raiser on Wednesday, according to the group's Web site, http://www.paulrieckhoff.com/
The site lists its mission as: ``Operation Truth will 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.''
It also says the group plans to publicize how ``poorly planned policies and approaches have manifested themselves as problems on the front lines and back at home.''