Posted on 10/15/2004 6:23:43 PM PDT by Anduril1
Bumping links to Stolen Honor video clips
But it was perfectly fine for CBS to broadcast the forged memos regarding President Bush -
I can’t understand why Hanoi John wants to suppress the film, after all – that despicable, self aggrandizing, lying, backstabbing seditious traitor made Viet Nam the focus of his campaign. Shouldn’t he be proud of his actions both here and overseas (including France) during the war?
Makes you wonder what Kerry is trying to hide...
Everything he did from 1968 – 2004?
He did?????
That sums it up so nicely, I think it bears repeating.
I am sorry ,I meant to say why didn't President Bush get equal time in Moore's movie? I am very sorry for any misunderstandings!My fault.
Check your tv listings.
Its airing in Nashvile Oct 22 at 8pm simultaneously on Fox and UPN.
About "Stolen Honor"
When John Kerry appeared before the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the spring of 1971, his testimony sent shock waves throughout America and the world. Here was a young, articulate Ivy-Leaguer, a highly decorated Naval officer who had seen combat in Vietnam. Now, driven by conscience and lofty ideals, Lt. Kerry said he felt compelled to break his silence and tell the unvarnished truth about the Vietnam War and those who fought it. The war, he said, was a criminal endeavor driven by a “policy of atrocities.” The 2.5 million men who served in Vietnam were akin to “Genghis Khan’s barbaric hordes,” thugs and psychopathic war criminals who wantonly plundered the Vietnam countryside, murdering, raping and bombing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians – old men, women and children -- each and every day.
Lt. Kerry’s widely televised statements were dramatic and persuasive, made all the more credible by the fact he had been there, said he had witnessed many of these same atrocities. His testimony catapulted him to international prominence and the ranks of leadership in the American anti-war movement, launching his once failing political career. It also permanently branded in the American psyche the image of Vietnam veterans as murderous “baby killers” and “drugged out losers,” a perception that persists today, one deeply embedded in our history.
That single act earned for Kerry the lasting enmity of Vietnam veterans, especially those who had borne the brunt of his accusations, that small percentage of soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen who actually served on the frontlines. Many of these combat veterans would carry the scars of their service for life. Kerry’s repudiation of their sacrifice represented yet another war wound, one that would never heal. As compelling as Kerry’s Senate testimony was, these men knew it was lacking in one key element … truth. They knew from their own combat experiences virtually all his allegations were lies; the U.S. military would never countenance such brutality. And, they also knew his actions were a deliberate betrayal of all of them, especially the more than 58,000 who lost their lives in the Vietnam War.
But, perhaps, more than any living group of combat veterans, it was the America ’s POWs who suffered most, forced to endure the immediate consequences of Kerry’s treacherous falsehoods. In 1971, some 700 of these men were reported as captured or missing in action, most presumed held prisoner by the North Vietnamese Communists in such places as the notorious Hanoi Hilton. Already subjected to years of torture, solitary confinement and unspeakable psychological and physical abuse, their lives were literally hanging by a thread when Kerry issued his damning testimony. In mere moments, Kerry had willingly given the Vietnamese Communists what they had spent years of torture and blood-letting to drag out of their American hostages, an unqualified “confession” they were all war criminals.
©2004 Red White and Blue Productions
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Bud Day gives the POW side in the movie. He is just as awesome as you would expect him to be. He speaks in a calm and authoritive manner, and the emotion of what he is talking about comes through loud and clear.
I know, I've watched him in the SBVT commercials. I've known about him since the end of the war (Vietnam). What I was wondering is if the movie gives some of his background so people who didn't follow the war will know who he is and what he did.
Stolen Honor first shows Col. Day with all his medals hanging behind him, in the background they talk about how he survived 67 months as a POW in Vietnam, that he is the most decorated veteran of the last century and that he received this Nation's highest award for valor. It is most impressive.
Col. Day talks about being outraged at how Kerry portrayed his fellow soldiers, that what Kerry said was "sensational and outrageous" propaganda, that Kerry blacked the entire history of the Military, not just for day, or a month, but for three decades, that Kerry lied for his own self interest and finally, he says that what Kerry did was treason.
Cockroaches hate having the lights turned on.
Just substitute the name Kerry for Bush and Bush for Kerry in this story, and change the name of the film to "Farenheit 9/11".
How many here would still be in favor of Sinclair broadcasting this documentary?
I think that during election, information about a major candidate is NEWSWORTHY.
The NEWS stations don't have to give equal time, every time they do a news piece.
End of discussion. (btw, CBS and Rather didn't offer equal time, when they tried to shove forgeries down our throats. They just broadcast it.)
bttt
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