Posted on 12/23/2007 8:26:06 AM PST by vietvet67
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana... It may be Providential that a book of history is soon to be released dealing extensively with certain shameful events of nearly four decades ago, just as others are now seeking to shamelessly and eagerly repeat those events.
Scott Swett and Tim Ziegler have co-authored To Set The Record Straight with the apt subtitle How Swift Boat Veterans, POWs and the New Media Defeated John Kerry. The book all but begins with details of the Winter Soldier Investigation (WSI) of 1971, an event I wrote about here at American Thinker last October. The WSI, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Againt the War (VVAW) was pure anti-American and anti-soldier leftist political theater.
Owing to leading Senators and the monolithic liberal big media of the time, WSI was the primary catalyst in legitimizing the longstanding and widely accepted defamation of 2.9 million Americans who served in Vietnam as baby killers, rapists, war criminals, losers, misfits, drug abusers and psychological "time bombs", to use Makubin T. Owens terminology.
Those broad sweeping charges against the Vietnam vets have survived as a part of our established historical narritive for millions and has been all but enshrined in the arts community, particularly film.
The left side of the web is busy spreading the word that next March the ideological descendent of the VVAW, the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) is planning another WSI dealing with Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby intending to smear another generation of over a million and a half Americans who have served to date in those wars and those who will serve.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Too bad somebody can't give Hanoi Jane as effective a treatment. But she's not running for office, has lots of money, and is thus pretty well insulated from any effective public chastisement.
If no one cared, we'd be about to enter the 4th year of the Kerry Administration.
Enough cared.
I consider the money I sent to the Swift Boat Veterans the best donation I ever made.
John Kerry, traitor, defeated with the truth.
Dan Rather, enemy propagandist, defeated with the truth.
Hillary's record is as secreted as Kerry's 180, and when she, too, is defeated, O the wailing and gnashing of teeth. . .
. . .that she was swiftboated.
Swiftboat is merely a recent example that the Left's Stalinist technique is to insist words mean only what it says they mean.
Bring it.
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The truth hurts when we can get it out past the MSM!
Merry Christmas!
Exactly. Drives me bonkers... It’s become part of the lib’s lexicon (don’t swift-boat me, as in “don’t make up lies about me)... Arrrgh... how disgusting.
...and there were no Communists in the State Department, in the 40's and 50's.
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Merry Christmas ma. I am sure a lot of us here shall keep in mind tomorrow all the folks in all the danger zones of this world as well as those in a more comfy position but never the less, serving their country on the high seas, on the land as well as in the air on Christmas day. I salute them all.
Merry Christmas Interesting Times. Hope all is well with you :)
All's well here. Merry Christmas back your way...
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