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Kerry Involved in 1971 Plot to Kill Senators

Video of Kerry calling Vietnam Vets “Baby Killers”

Kerry Confesses to War Crimes

Kerry is one of the prime examples of someone who’s created propaganda to trash our country and two generations (at least) of veterans. And that’s probably the very reason that leftists are so weirded out over the growing Kerry 180 blogburst and say things like “who cares? there are more important things going on.” “don’t you know? The election is over.”

Take the facts into consideration. They’re very much as important today as they were then. There is another generation of boys at war, and the same faces have shown up using the same exact tactics against our boys in uniform.

When they say “we support the troops” they MEAN “we support the troops when they shoot their officers.”

Like it or not, there are a lot of people who care, and that list is growing, as we keep the focus on what the guy is saying and his ACTIONS that don’t reflect that he’s an honorable man that tells the truth–the facts paint a picture that’s quite the contrary. The fact that his words are the same rhetoric that come out of the Sheehan camp and out of Howard Dean’s camp, and they’re all connected, makes it just as relevent to today as then.

Did you know that part of the anti-war extremists are the organization Code Pink? Did you know they gave $600,000 to the terrorists in Fallujah? Did you know that the anti-war people have stooped so low as to demonstrate against our military outside of Walter Reed Hospital where they’re recovering from injuries sustained in Iraq? Here’s one of the signs they’re displaying outside of Walter Reed:

Did you know that they’ve defaced military recruiting centers?

This is the same kind of extremism Kerry represented after he returned from Vietnam on his 4-month “tour”.

Kerry defends what he heard at Winter Soldier as “highly documented and very disturbing.” None of the testimony was ever corroborated and many of the “veterans” were eventually exposed as pretenders and liars. VVAW members John Laboon, Elton Mazione, Kenneth Van Lesser, and Eddie Swetz all claimed to have been a part of the “Phoenix program” in Viet Nam where they routinely killed children and removed body parts as a part of their duty. In truth, they never were in the Phoenix program nor had they ever been in Viet Nam. And the list of more frauds later found within the organization is mind-boggling.

Kerry’s “impassioned” and “impromptu” testimony wasn’t even written by him and certainly, as he claimed, NOT ‘impromptu’. As Guenter Lewey pointed out in his book “America in Vietnam”…

And Kerry’s emotional, from-the-heart speech had been carefully crafted by a speech writer for Robert Kennedy named Adam Walinsky, who also tutored him on how to present it.

The Naval Investigative Service eventually concluded that the grisly and shocking testimony was given by fraudulent “witnesses:” who had never served in Vietnam-who had simply lied for effect. Some of them not only lied but appropriated the names of true veterans. None would sign an affidavit or help the military investigate the atrocity claims.

Burkett (who wrote Stolen Valor) is critical of Kerry and his opportunistic use of imposters in the antiwar effort. “[Kerry] presented this ragtag bunch of bums as your standard honorably discharged Vietnam vet, and I think nothing could be further from the truth. They weren’t.”

In early April of 1971, antiwar senator Mark Hatfield asked for the Winter Soldier transcripts to be entered into the congressional record and called for an official investigation into American war crimes in Vietnam.

A documentary film of the Winter Soldier was produced, winning awards at the Cannes and Berlin film festivals, further perpetuating myths about Vietnam “war crimes” and helping to poison public opinion against a generation of American soldiers.

One of Kerry’s colleagues was Al Hubbard, the executive director of VVAW. Hubbard claimed to be an Air Force officer who had spent two years in Vietnam and was wounded in combat. But the truth is, Hubbard was a fake. While he had served in the military, he was never promoted beyond the rank of staff sergeant, and had never served in Vietnam, and was never even wounded. Kerry and Hubbard, though, went on NBC’s Meet the Press, side by side, to denounce the war.

A lot of the kids that are serving in Iraq are the legitimate progeny of these honorable veterans who served over generations–not of the lying Kerry ilk. This is one of the reasons America is rising up to defy these forces; this is a complete repeat of what played itself out then.

August 9, 2005 – The New York Times reports that the 1971 documentary of the Winter Soldier Investigation will be shown in theaters in several cities, including at the Lincoln Center in New York. The distributors openly state that their reason for re-releasing the film is to undermine public support for the U.S. military and its mission in Iraq. The Times’ fawning coverage makes it clear that the flagship leftist newspaper heartily shares these goals. The Times article doesn’t even suggest that the atrocity claims in Winter Soldier might have been exaggerated. Instead, it fawns over the “gentle-sounding, Jesus-like Scott Camil” without bothering to mention Camil’s repeated efforts to persuade the VVAW to murder pro-war U.S. Senators. It also overlooks the exposure of VVAW Executive Secretary Al Hubbard as a fraud who was never assigned to Vietnam, the failure of any VVAW members to file legal affidavits supporting their claims, and Winter Soldier Steve Pitkin’s own affidavit-backed statement that VVAW leaders pressured him to give false testimony about war crimes.

There are supposed “veterans against the war” travelling with Cindy Sheehan. I wonder how many of THEM actually served.

The only difference between then and now is–now these extremist commie sympathizers are running the democratic party.

From April 18 to April 23, 1971, more than one thousand “veterans” in shabby, mismatched uniforms “invaded” Washington, D.C. The event was called “Dewey Canyon III,” “a limited incursion into the country of Congress.” The “vets” marched on the National Mall carrying Viet Cong Flags and placards supporting China, Cuba, and the “Soviet Union, and North Korea, clenched fists rising high in the air. The demostrators conducted simulated “search and destroy” missions and skits, during which they dramatized the killing of innocent civilians. They splattered red paint, symbolizing blod, on the steps of the Capitol building. The brightest star rising agbove this boorish group was John Forbes Kerry.

What he claimed they were doing was sleeping on the Mall and talking to their Congressmen. But while his “band of brothers” camped out in the park, Kerry enjoyed conditions more in keeping with his silver spoon lifestyle, staying in a Georgetown townhouse owned by the family of George Butler, a college friend and a former veteran. It was there that Kerry worked out the speech of his political lifetime, during which he would revel in his moment in the sun. In this speech, the opportunistic Kerry seized his opportunity to launch a career.

On April 22, 1971, Kerry addressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by Senator J.W. Fulbright and attended by Senators Stuart Stymington, Claiborne Pell, George Aikin, Clifford Case, and Jacob Javits. Television cameras lined the walls and self-professed veterans of all sizes, shapes and uniform combinations filled the seats.

Kerry sat at the table across from the congressmen. Under oath, Kerry claimed that US soldiers had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turnd up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminescent of Ghenghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam.”

According to Kerry, every day was a My Lai Massacre. Leutienant William Calley had been prosecuted and sentence to life improsonment only three weeks earlier. The press was replete with tales of Calley’s atrocities and rampant speculation that more such crimes would soon be exposed.

But as Kerry later admitted, he hadn’t actually witness any of the events to which he testified under oath. they were based on lies, rumor, and innuendo. “I personally didn’t see personal atrocities in the sense I saw somebody cut a head off or something like that,” he later said.

So…considering that he paraded around guys who claimed they were vets and didn’t serve, that claimed they were in Vietnam and hadn’t ever been there, it’s time for Kerry to pony up and fully release his records.

The time is now.

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