Busted... John Kerry Finally Confronted On His Vietnam Lies
WAFFLES IS BUSTED---
Jason Mattera from the Young America's Foundation confronted Senator John F. Kerry about his unsubstantiated, troop-smearing testimony back on April 22, 1971.
It may have taken 36 years to see this despicable man get confronted for slandering the troops in Vietnam-- but it was worth it.
This video is posted at HotAir and Michelle Malkin's blog:
Link: sevenload.com
HotAir has the transcript.
Here John Kerry and phony soldier Al Hubbard bash the troops during Vietnam. John Kerry's mentor, Al Hubbard, lied about being an officer, Vietnam Veteran, and sustaining war injuries. Kerry lied about everything else.
There were never any criminal charges filed as a result of any of the investigations into Winter Soldier... the testimony that was heard during the three days could not be corroborated by the Free Press. (Free Republic)
Best line from the video:
MATTERA: Does it bother you that the North Vietnamese created a memorial dedicated to you?An antiwar Leftist group known as Winter Soldiers II will shamelessly try to recreate the America hatred from the 1960's and 1970's this Friday and Saturday.
KERRY: It’s not dedicated to me.
The Truth: At the Communists War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, John Kerry’s picture hangs in a section dedicated to the anti-war activists who helped the Vietnamese Communists win the Vietnam War.
Democracy Project has much more on the assault on the troops scheduled for this weekend.
posted by Gateway Pundit at 3/12/2008 08:56:00 PM
12 Comments:
Halleluiah... good for YAF. Young minds like this give me hope.
Gathering of Eagles are shining light on the pro-Tyrants pro-terrorist, pro-surrender, pro-hate-America garbage as well...
http://gatheringofeagles.org/2008/03/10/action-alert-march-15th/
Great group of people that deserve all our support. They will be there to face off against Winter II lies and keep them honest and give a different face to any media, plus let us know if the media is honest with the public.
Help them if you can.
Joshua
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Joshua @ 10:58 PM.. (thumbsup)
Gathering of Eagles quick link..
re: media..
Vietnam and the Media
excerpt:
[Ignorance of military and Southeast Asia matters, of communist revolutionary warfare, fueled by potential for lucrative career advancement, unwilling or unable to report on South Vietnamese or Laotian troops except in cases of failure, apparently enthused by the visual impact of war and the destruction it causes, sometimes disdainful of South Vietnamese if not American troops while ignoring Australian, Korean, Thai, and New Zeland forces, the news media proved incapable of depicting Vietnam, and Hanoi's War, in its entirety . The American public saw the same "bang-bang" every year, and were misled into assuming nothing had changed, nothing was accomplished. Allied temporary defeats were portrayed as permanent setbacks, while victories and accomplishments went unreported, or were, with smug theatrics, cast aside as government propaganda.
News media misrepresentation not only misled and uninformed the American public, but also prohibited its ability to think and make logical inferences on its own.
In the final analysis, Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Hanoi's war, and American involvement could not be, and cannot be, understood, in good part because of media failings, moral, intellectual, and otherwise. Without recognizing this, and knowing that what was reported was not the all-comprehensive truth of the matter, the subject itself cannot be understood. Overall, and efforts of responsible reporters notwithstanding, the nature and extent of news media failure in Vietnam exceeds that of allied military forces who were attempting to and succeeding, despite documented lies and bumbling, to stop Hanoi's War. Many people died and millions more have greatly suffered simply because the whole story was never told. And because what was portrayed in media reporting was demonstrably not, to use the famous Cronkite phrase, "the way it is."
This bitter judgment is itself based on beliefs articulated by Robert Elegant, himself a journalist:
"Illusionary events reported by the press as well as real events within the press corps were more decisive than the clash of arms or the contention of ideologies. For the first time in modern history, the outcome of a war was determined not on the battlefield but on the printed page, and above all, on the television screen. "
Looking back coolly, I believe it can be said that South Vietnam and American forces actually won the limited military struggle. They virtually crushed the Viet Cong in the South, the "native" guerillas who were directed, reinforced, and equipped from Hanoi, and thereafter they threw back the invasion by regular North Vietnamese divisions. Nonetheless, the war was finally lost to the invaders after the U.S. disengagement because the political pressures built up by the media had made it quite impossible for Washington to maintain even the minimal material and moral support that would have enabled the Saigon regime to continue effective resistance."
Elegant, a highly acclaimed British reporter on Vietnam, later added these terrible words:
"Never before Vietnam had the collective policy of the media sought by graphic and unremitting distortion, the victory of the enemies of the correspondents own side."
Could this possibly be the truth about the performance of the U.S. media in Vietnam? In ending this series, from my extended observation and study of the media while on the home front during the war, this is certainly the way it looked to me. And many others. Said Senator Margaret Chase Smith, "The press has become more sympathetic to the enemy than to our own national interest." (Congressional Record, June 16, 1971)]
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For those who haven't read it, the Confessions of a BBC liberal provides great insight into the world-view and motives of media antis: "...we were antiindustry, anti-capitalism, antiadvertising, antiselling, antiprofit, antipatriotism, antimonarchy, antiempire, antipolice, antiarmed forces, antibomb, antiauthority. Almost anything that made the world a freer, safer and more prosperous place – you name it, we were anti it." The effect is to mistake the Stone Age for the Edenic State of Nature, and do everything possible to get back to it.
There was a time when a man such as John Kerry would have been taken out and shot for treason and the would have gone for Jane 'Hanoi' Fonda.
sorry....
" and 'that' would have gone for Jane 'Hanoi' Fonda 'too.'
"There was a time when a man such as John Kerry would have been taken out and shot for treason and the would have gone for Jane 'Hanoi' Fonda."
Yeah, because nothing says 'Liberty' like shooting people who oppose government policy. Nut job.
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[Yeah, because nothing says 'Liberty' like shooting people who oppose government policy.]
Treason
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Matterra busted on his distortion is more like it. Look at his video of Kerry in 1971 and ask why does he start when Kerry is in the middle of a sentence. Read John Kerry's testimony to the Senate and you will see that he starts by explaining what the Winter Soldier hearings were. The sentence on the video tape starts:
"They told the stories at times they had personally" Here is where their quote starts to intentionally mislead a viewer who did not see the entire thing -
Kerry was called to relate what he heard at the hearing for which the Senate had a full transcript. They, not a 27 year old vet, had the authority and the responsibility to investigate these accounts - that included the names and military information of those testifying - the only things the people holding the hearing could have checked. (Kerry incidently was not one of the organizers.)
Kerry used his time to
- also make a plea that they give the veterans the medical and other help they needed and weren't satisfactorily getting.
- make the case that the war was continuing to save politicians' face - MacNamara said in "FOG oF War" that he knew they couldn't win in 1968.
Oh, for vets here - I was a college student then and your claim that Kerry hurt the reputation of soldiers is absurd. This was after My Lai - Lt Calley hurt that reputation. It was redeemed by Lt Kerry's thoughtful words. As he said in 1971 and since - you can't confuse the war with the warrior.
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Kerry’s Testimony
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Anonymous @ 9:28 AM..
reality or revisionism??
John Kerry’s America
excerpt:
[The morale in the armed services was low, reflecting the impasse and progressive demoralization in Vietnam, and especially the trial of Lieutenant William Calley for the massacre at Mylai. A drastic charge, flamboyantly made by decorated veteran John Kerry (now a United States senator from Massachusetts), had been rapturously received. Kerry ascribed to our soldiers in Vietnam uncivilized, barbarous practices. I devoted my talk to asking about Mr. Kerry's charges and reflecting on their implications.]
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William Calley
excerpt:
[Ultimately, Calley served 3.5 years of house arrest in his quarters at Fort Benning. He petitioned the federal district court for habeas corpus on February 11, 1974, which was granted on September 25, 1974, along with immediate release, by federal judge J. Robert Elliott. Judge Elliott found that Calley's trial had been prejudiced by pretrial publicity, denial of subpoenas of certain defense witnesses, refusal of the House of Representatives to release testimony taken in executive session of its My Lai investigation, and inadequate notice of the charges. (The judge had released Calley on bail on February 27, 1974, but an appeals court reversed that and returned Calley to Army custody June 13, 1974.)]
VIETNAM VETERANS FOR ACADEMIC REFORM
ARCHIVED ARTICLES
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How North Vietnam Won The War
excerpt:
[Q: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi's victory?
A: It was essential to our strategy. Support of the war from our rear was completely secure while the American rear was vulnerable. Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us.]
Timeline of Defeat
excerpts:
[Here's a pop quiz about Vietnam. When the 94th United States Congress finally pulled the plug on American support, how many of our GIs were still fighting in Vietnam? The question was posed to us the other evening by Secretary of State Kissinger, full of sagacity and wisdom 30 years after the events in question. We guessed somewhere on the order of 100,000, down from the more than half a million American military personnel who had been in Vietnam at the height of the fighting. But Mr. Kissinger had us.
It turns out that when the Congress pulled the plug on Vietnam, the number of our U.S. troops in Vietnam was zero. When, in the 1974 elections, the Democrats widened their majority in the Congress and then, in the spring of 1975, finally defied President Ford and ended support for the free Vietnamese government in the South, the number of GIs was something on the order of two or three dozen, mostly embassy guards.
This is something to think about as the Democrats maneuver against a war-time president over funding for our GIs and our ally in a free Iraq. It turns out that when one looks at the time-line of the betrayal of South Vietnam, one of the lessons is that, in the end, it was not about our GIs and the loss of American lives, great though that treasure was. Our GIs had long since been drawn down, as President Nixon fulfilled his campaign promise of Vietnamization of the war.]
[The Congress, however, wasn't prepared to stake them, despite the fact that South Vietnam was our ally in the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. In October 1974, the 93rd Congress voted to end foreign aid to Vietnam. President Ford vetoed the measure. Congress, after an election that expanded the Democratic majority by 48 seats in the House and five in the Senate, overrode the veto. In the Spring, the 94th Congress blocked military appropriations for the South Vietnamese. It was not about our GIs. They had long since gone. A country of 50 million individuals who had sided with America and yearned for freedom was cast into the dark night of communist tyranny.]
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