FREEREPUBLIC NET LAUNCHES WEB SITE ON “WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION”

JOHNKERRYFORPRESIDENT.INFO ^ | 2/23/03 | Diotima

[diotima]

***NEWS RELEASE***

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, 2004
Contact: Scott Swett (frn@freeper.org) (703) 863-8033

FREE REPUBLIC NETWORK LAUNCHES WEB SITE ON "WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION" AND KERRY SLANDER OF U.S. TROOPS IN VIETNAM

(Washington, DC) The Free Republic Network today announced the unveiling of www.WinterSoldier.com, a new web site to provide news, analysis and research material regarding the false claim by John Kerry and others during the Vietnam era that atrocities were routinely committed by America's military.

In 1971 former Navy Lt. John Kerry testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations about American "war crimes" in Southeast Asia, which he described as "not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command". Free Republic Network Director Scott Swett released the following statement:

"John Kerry played a key role in the leftist disinformation campaign that undermined support for the war by slandering a generation of American soldiers as mass murderers of civilians. Kerry testified before the Senate that the United States committed war crimes in Vietnam as a matter of military policy, citing claims of atrocities made at the discredited 'Winter Soldier Investigation' -- an event primarily funded by Jane Fonda."

"The truth is that atrocities were the exception in Vietnam, not the rule."

"Since Senator Kerry has made the strength of his military record a key issue in his pursuit of the Presidency, it is important for voters to have access to a more complete picture of his actions than is available from the Kerry campaign or the media. WinterSoldier.com will document and analyze the activities in which Kerry and others participated during the Vietnam era."

The site features a section on Kerry's hard-to-find 1971 book "The New Soldier" and covers the activities of the group Vietnam Veterans Against the War and its sponsors. New information will be added as it becomes available. Readers are invited to provide feedback, submit editorial pieces, and provide relevant material. The site will go live on Monday, February 23, 2004.

The Free Republic Network www.FreeRepublic.net is a 501(c)(4) public service corporation whose mission is to organize, train and support conservative activists nationwide. It provides information and organizational services to more than 50 regional and issue-based chapters around the country, and serves as the activism arm of the Free Republic Forum www.FreeRepublic.com.

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[Rebelbase]

"The entire Vietnam Veteran facade that you appear to continue to buy into via your posts was a lie! Calley was the exception!"

"Calley was prosecuted as were 27 Marines and ninety something soldiers over the course of 8 YEARS of war!"

You made my point. The ones I've heard about and photo I've seen were not prosecuted.

At the extreme, which is what I initially reacted to in the first post, its an abomination to consider dredging up war crimes and implicating individuals from 30+ years ago for political gain....which is what you would have to do to prove "war crimes" since the public record says there were none or were accounted for and prosceuted.

You'll do just fine with what you have already.

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

OK!! About 100 e-mails sent out to our VET buddies!!! I hope you can handle the hits! :o)

Great job!!

(Boy.. you guys are on a ROLL!!)

But.. are you prepared for the fall out when Kerry IMPLODES and Hillary steps in at the LAST MINUTE, HAVING NEVER HAD TO CAMPAIGN.. NEVER HAVING HAD TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.. TO RUN??

ARE WE READY FOR HER CANDIDACY??

Because I just talked to someone in DC this am.. and we both fear that is EXACTLY what is going to unfold.

Don't you think that is what is REALLY going to happen?

BOOKMARK MY POST!!

[DoughtyOne]

Very good Diotima. By this evening I'm going to have a link to the Kerry Audio which I've loaded onto my site. People can feel free to link that site for their friends or interested parties.

I will credit the appropriate person for providing this audio.

[diotima]

I don't know if that is going to happen. Surely, nothing is beneath the Clinton Crime Consortium. However there are a few reasons why it may not happen.

First and foremost, the left believes there is a contingent that votes GOP who is unhappy with Bush and will "stay home" or vote "third party." If Hillary ran, those people would instantly come back with a passion. Nothing would unite the right like a Hillary candidacy.

Second, I think she won't make a decision until it gets much closer to election time so she can see how the media's campaign against Bush works out. If it looks like it is working, and Bush is appears weak, then she just might run. But if not, she knows her best opportunity is to wait until 2008.

Third, the woman has such strong negatives. People really HATE HER as opposed to their feelings towards Dean (kooky, unstable) Kerry (run of the mill liberal, "war hero.") Average people who are virtually apolitical, hate Hillary. This also works against her, if she wants to run against a successful war time president, especially if Bin Laden shows up in US possession.

I think she will wait until 2008. But, you never know...

[The Shrew]

Thanks! Just my $.02. Your research over the last few months on Kerry and Vietnam is certainly far more valuable.

Regards,

TS

[buffyt]

You made a GREAT comment on that link...

"Kerry is now one of those who we fought against. He is aleft winger, and nothing short of a Western Communist, waiting for thetime where he and his ilk can take control and let their true leftist feelings out.

It is a known fact that Communists always lie before they are in power. Then, they kill everyone who is an enemy. Anyone who knows anything about Communism knows this. And the aftermath of the 1975 evacuation of Vietnam after we abandoned them knows what I said was right.

I picked up Vietnamese refugees in 1981. If Kerry was right about the war, these people would not have been fleeing for their lives."

[don-o]

bookmark

[abner]

Ping. You can find the book and most of its contents on this wonderful web site www.wintersoldier.com

[Saundra Duffy]

Get 'em!

[RaceBannon]

CT is LIEberman Country, not Kerry Country!

[JustPiper]

Awesome sit dio! Have you mailed the link to important parties to see your research to uncover this , this, Kerry?

[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

My friend and I were talking about how she ran against Rick Lazio.. and how she loves to "NOT ~RUN~ then runs".

Remember her words..and how she laughed how "she wasn't running for Senator of anything" when she was First Lady! (Ughhh now that we have a "First Lady" who *dignifies* the title.. I can't stand to use that title on Hitlery). She stated she had NO intentions of being a Senator! Tell that to Anita Loey (sp) The woman who Hillary stepped in and took over the seat she WAS going to run for!

This way she will NEVER really have to campaign... never have to debate..and never have to answer the HARD questions. NEVER have to RAISE TONS of money to counter President Bush's campaign chest.. it's a BRILLIANT move!

No one has time to REALLY dig up anything on her, to EXPOSE who she REALLY IS, or get her RECORD out there, and yeah, we know there are tons of things.. but the public doesn't! Try to saturate the public in such a short time!! She simply walks in!! BRILLIANT STRATEGY!

NO ONE is prepared. They are REALLY good at this!!

She is the "BLINDSIDE em' QUEEN"!! McCauliffe knows the game plan too!! TRUST ME!!

Why else do you think HE IS IGNORING KERRY'S request that they drop the National Guard issue regarding the President? They even **want** Kerry's military issues exposed.. how else do they destroy Kerry?

Hillary is LYING!! She is saying she is NOT RUNNING..but she will look like the party SAVIOR when it looks like the DEMS could lose. Then she can say she "had too for the good of the Party!".

I just saw where there are silk screen "T" shirts on sale in NY. In Andy Warhol (sp?) style. She is building a following. I heard she is an "icon".

It "IS" becoming a behind the scenes buzz in DC that this is a "theory".

I pray I'm wrong. I do.

I'm just saying.. we are all going to be caught with our pants down if she does run.

We aren't ready. I'm getting a really sick feeling in my stomach, to be quite honest.

I Hope I'm wrong.

I'm saving what I can on her.. but I'm no great wiz at this like you guy's are, that's for sure.

Right now they are part of this effort to discredit President Bush's military record.. and they don't mind this all happening to Kerry either. Let "us", conservatives, slowly but surely get rid of her opponents, (we have no choice but to do that) and to counter Kerry!! As Veterans we sure have no other choice considering what he did!

Next.. they will allow us to do the "work" on Edwards.

Then in steps HILLARY to save the day!

With no time left to expose her and all her dirty little deeds!! By then the electorate is EXHAUSTED from ALL the candidates.. "ELECTION FATIGUE".. and guess who wins?

PRAYING I'm wrong.

But the voices of Hitlery and Bill sure have been deafening in their support of a candidate!

[Humidston]

I got this email today (and haven't reviewed this thread yet - so sorry if it's a repeat):

-Consider this hypothetical situation.

In September 2005, the president is informed by his CIA director that they have concluded that there is a one in two chance that North Korea will transfer five nuclear bombs to Osama bin Laden within the next month, and that, after the transfer, despite our best efforts, the CIA judges that it is more likely than not that bin Laden will succeed in detonating at least one of them in a major American city, resulting in 1 million to 3 million deaths.

Should the president consider taking pre-emptive military action?

And let's assume that the president is named John Kerry."

-Columnist Tony Blankley

[diotima]

Yes we have. I expect to see this information floating around the op/ed pages.

[M1Tanker]

From the Website under http://ice.he.net/~freepnet/kerry/index.php?topic=Quotes

There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages. All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions and all of this is ordered as a matter of written established policy by the government of the United States from the top down. And I believe that the men who designed these, the men who designed the free fire zone, the men who ordered us, the men who signed off the air raid strike areas, I think these men, by the letter of the law, the same letter of the law that tried Lieutenant Calley, are war criminals. -- John Kerry, on NBC's "Meet the Press" April 18, 1971

Mr Kerry... You do NOT ever want to meet me, I am a US Army Officer and I will be forced to ask for your arrest and detention for War Crimes. You violated several articles of UCMJ for your admitted to acts.

If you had ANY decency, which you obvioulsy don't, you'd turn yourself in for prosecution (for the admitted to acts, or for pergery before Congress, your choice).

[GeronL]

johnkerryforpresident.info

oh thats is great. Someone should send this to all of the conservative talk radio hosts!!

[VMI70]

bump for later

[The Shrew]

I thought you might like this. I shoulda' pinged you to it!

Regards,

TS

[PhilDragoo]

I recommend the seminal book about Fonda's antiwar activities by Henry and Erika Hollzer, "Aid and Comfort" Jane Fonda in North Vietnam. It is a well-documented book with hundreds of footnotes. The Holzers make a compelling case that Fonda should have been tried for treason using legal precedent and the Constitution. The VVAW association is also included.

AID AND COMFORT: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam

On page 80, the Holzers use an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal interview with Bui Tin, "How North Vietnam Won the War", August 3, 1995:

Q: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi's Victory?

A: It was essential to our strategy.

Author of the important Following Ho Chi Minh: The Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel, Bui enlisted at age 18 in the Vietnamese People's Army. He worked as a journalist and editor for the Communist army newspaper in Hanoi during the Vietnam War. In this position, Bui worked in close proximity to Ho Chi Minh -- and the American POWs.

Kerry's slandering of all American fighting men as "war criminals, murderers and rapists" reversed the defeat of the Communist Tet Offensive.

Kerry and VVAW won the Vietnam War and defeated America.

Kerry: anti-defense, anti-intelligence, anti-American.

[GeronL]

and I do so love the Url

johnkerryforpresident.info