FREEREPUBLIC NET LAUNCHES WEB SITE ON “WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION”

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***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]

mileading = misleading

[Salvation]

And then there is this side of Kerry:

The Deadly Dozen

Blood On Their Hands: Exposing Pro-abortion Catholic Politicians

Kerry [Catholic} says he'll filibuster Supreme Court nominees who do not support abortion rights

PETITION TO EX-COMMUNICATE PRO-ABORTION CATHOLIC ELECTED OFFICIALS

Catholics Kerry and Kennedy have a 100% Pro-homosexual Record with the Human Rights Campaign! Page 10,11

Kerry says he alone hasn't 'played games' on abortion

AS KERRY EMERGES, SO DOES CONCERN THAT AS PRESIDENT HE MAY BE DENIED COMMUNION

Archbishop [Raymond Burke] Would Refuse Communion To John Kerry

Kerry raps Pope: Senator fuming over gay marriage order

(re Kerry & Kennedy) Boston Bishop O'Malley Says "It Is Not Our Policy To Deny Communion"

Catholics Attack Kerry on Abortion Stance

KERRY & GAY MARRIAGE

Kerry tells off the Pope

Kerry dodges constitutional ban question (Gay Marriage)

Kerry Signed Letter Endorsing Homosexual Marriage

Kerry Signed Letter Backing Gay Marriage

John Kerry: A Call To Service Excerpt (on being a practicing Catholic)

[BlackElk]

That ear string must have been four years' old at least and must have been very ripe. Is there a problem with strings of ears taken from Viet Cong or NVA? As I understand it the crack White Tiger Division of the Army of the Republic of Korea, took and wore such ear strings to prove their kills in case the ROK soldier was killed so that his fellow soldiers and family would know he had done well.

[cynicom]

Elk...

Any time a person stakes out the moral high ground as his domain, the rest of us should give his remarks their just reward. This gentleman made his statement, loud and clear, and now he has to live with it.

[BlackElk]

If you will not support: Your country, the military, the leadership of the military, military policy and efforts to expunge communism from Vietnam then and Saddamism from Iraq now, you need your silly graphic appended to your eyeballs and, in any event, you leave us to wonder what on earth you are doing at a conservative website. Troll, be gone!

[Interesting Times]

He founded Viet Nam Veterans Against the War to lie about our country, its military and better men than himself and to solicit others to lie with him in the "Winter Soldier" fiasco.

This is inaccurate; Kerry was not a founder of the VVAW.

[BlackElk]

That was no gentleman. That was rebelbase trashing his country and our military.

[Salvation]

[BlackElk]

Who did and who served on the board of directors, particularly at the beginning?

[abner]

Did you notice at the www.wintersoldier.com web site, there is a lot more of the book posted?

[BlackElk]

Also: Check out Salvation's link at #76. VVAW Organizer? VVAW Founder? Very little difference.

[Interesting Times]

The VVAW was founded by a guy named Jan Barry Crumb, who later dropped the "Crumb" part. See the current VVAW web site (which is also linked from the front page of WinterSoldier.com) for details. Note that the VVAW of Kerry's day included not only the modern VVAW, but what became the group "Vietnam Veteran Against the War Anti-Imperialist" (VVAWAI).

Those folks are seriously disturbed.

[Stentor]

Are you related to Henry the Fifth? Great rant.

[The Shrew]

This is from the book "Stolen Valor" by B.G. Burkett:

One of them was John Kerry, Vietnam Navy veteran and aspiring politician who had been among those who organized the protest. Kerry flung a handful of medals -- he had received the Silver Star, a Bronze Star Medal, and three Purple Hearts -- over the fence. Kerry spoke later that week before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, putting a face on the antiwar movement far different from the one seen before -- the scruffy hippie or wild-eyed activist. Kerry represented the All-American boy, mentally twisted by being asked to do terrible things, then abandoned by his government.

From start to finish, the public took Dewey Canyon III at face value, not understanding that they were watching brilliant political theater. Kerry, a Kennedy protege with white-hot political aspirations, ascended center stage as both a war hero and as an antiwar hero throwing away his combat decorations. His speech, apparently off the cuff, was eloquent, impassioned.

This is posted on the website WinterSoldier.com

"during the Vietnam era that atrocities were routinely committed by America's military."

The Senate Investigations brought about by "The Winter Soldier Tribunals" failed to substantiate the claims made by Kerry and the others involved. The site has the information in great detail or links to further sites for research.

If you're concerned about the Vietnam Veteran and how he was portrayed after the war this site is vital to a more complete view than the one given out by the media - during the 1960-70's. The image of the Vietnam Veteran as portrayed by Hollywood, and the mainstream media was hugely influenced by the "Winter Soldier" tribunals. It was an inaccurate impression.

Regards,

TS

[doug from upland]

I have been here from the early stages, but FR never ceases to amaze me. This is outstanding!

[Rebelbase]

Thanks for the link.

[Interesting Times]

Also: Check out Salvation's link at #76. VVAW Organizer? VVAW Founder? Very little difference.

Thank you.

It makes a big difference. Our opponents will seize on any minor mistake to discredit what we're doing -- the way they're using the fake Kerry/Fonda photo to discredit any claim that they worked together on behalf of North Vietnam. If anyone finds factual errors on the site, please let us know.

[Hon]

"The Winter Soldier Investigation was organized by an array of celebrity leftist activists, including Jane Fonda, Dick Gregory, and Donald Sutherland. Musicians Graham Nash, David Crosby and Phil Ochs gave benefit concerts before and during the hearings, but the primary source of funding was Jane Fonda, who had already made multiple visits to Hanoi and was actively working in support of the North Vietnamese regime."

This is not true. Fonda had not gone to Vietnam by this time. This and some of the other claims on that page are not accurate.

It doesn't look like a lot of research has gone into that page. You might want to read some of the books available on the subject, such as those I have cut and pasted excerpts and photos from:

Winter Soldiers, by Richard Stacewicz
Home To War, by Gerald Nicosia

[eyespysomething]

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