Still Slandering the Troops

WinterSoldier.com ^ | August 15, 2006 | Scott Swett

[Interesting Times]

Still setting the record straight...

[Interesting Times]

Kerry and the vets ping...

[BW2221]

If the media covered WWII the way they have covered recent military actions, we would all be speaking German or Japanese now.

[deport]

Could you please remove my name from your ping list?.... I appreciate your consieration. Thanks.

[jmaroneps37]

So that's 320 incidents over 4015 days, that's one every 12days from over one million war fighters in country. What American city has a better crime rate?

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[Stultis]

So, MAYBE one (1) "Winter Soldier" wasn't lying out his ass. But even if he was, John Kerry's still proud of leading the enemy proganda effort stateside.

[Interesting Times]

Could you please remove my name from your ping list?.... I appreciate your consieration. Thanks.

Done.

[Interesting Times]

So, MAYBE one (1) "Winter Soldier" wasn't lying out his ass. But even if he was, John Kerry's still proud of leading the enemy proganda effort stateside.

It's also worth noting that Henry went public well before the Winter Soldier event, unlike most of the VVAW "witnesses" Kerry was so eager to quote...

[laconic]

As I recall, one of the key actual "vets" touted by Kerry during this "Winter Soldier" business last year recanted everything he said in 1970 about the supposed "atrocities" he'd witnessed in Vietnam and said he'd been haunted by his well-publicized lies (pushed into it by Kerry and his allies in the left movement) ever since. At least he was an actual veteran of the war, and not like the bozo/jerk whom Kerry supported who had NEVER SERVED in Vietnam yet claimed he witnessed all sorts of horrible things there in Winter Soldier testimony and in an appearance before Scuba Kennedy in Congress.

[Interesting Times]

If the media covered WWII the way they have covered recent military actions, we would all be speaking German or Japanese now.

The U.S. of the early 1940s was fairly intolerant of sedition. I suspect that coverage of WWII similar to what we read today would have led to the trials of a number of journalists and editors...

[Interesting Times]

As I recall, one of the key actual "vets" touted by Kerry during this "Winter Soldier" business last year recanted everything he said in 1970 about the supposed "atrocities" he'd witnessed in Vietnam and said he'd been haunted by his well-publicized lies (pushed into it by Kerry and his allies in the left movement) ever since.

You're thinking of Steve Pitkin, whose story and affidavit were published by WinterSoldier.com in September 2004.

[TYVets]

The old saying "keep your friends close and the enemies of your country even closer" is the only reason to see and hear with what propaganda the MSM is selling.

[zot]

Excellent! Thank you. I'm glad that you and others are setting the record straight.

[My2Cents]

Precisely. I made the comment last week as the UN was hurrying to finalize a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbos that it's a good thing the UN wasn't around to try to impose a ceasefire between the Allies and Germany in 1944.

Wars should be fought to win, not to implement a status quo stalemate. I'm not going to suggest that I know anything about international affairs and diplomacy, but Israel should have told the UN that it's objective was to eliminate Hezbollah, and that it would "cease fire" as soon as all the Hezbos were dead.

[The Shrew]

This article reminds me of the "combat axiom"; "You can tell how important an enemy position is by how desperately he defends it."

These are leftist memes that help hold their coalition together:

"The United States lost the Vietnam War of Independence. The U.S. was the aggressor. It was the anti-war faction that won. The U.S. killed tens of thousands of civilian non-combatants. The Viet-Cong were the good guys merely fighting for their freedom."

Your excellent article attacks these premises on their face and refutes them. Outstanding!

TS

[Interesting Times]

Well, like they say, those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it...

[cricket]

Too bad we do not have a 'blockbuster' film. . .telling the truth of John Kerry; his life before. . .during and post war.

The truth. . .flashed up, of course, just enough to get past the dullness of the man himself.

[R. Scott]

Unlike the largely imaginary stories of the VVAW, the Hue Massacre, by far the most horrific war crime committed during the Vietnam War, was never reported on American television.

I returned to CONUS at the end of April, 1968 – and was shocked to find out that no one here knew about that massacre - or other atrocities committed by VC/NVA forces. All they knew about was some of the fabricated incidents involving US Troops.

[stand watie]

and you were SHOCKED by the FACT that the "mainstream media" KNOWINGLY & routinely LIES????

it was not/IS not any surprise to me, as i've "caught them" in TOO MANY lies.

imVho, LYING for political purposes OR "to make a better story" is the "stock in trade" of American mass media. period. end of story.

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