Re: Nice Planet, Part 2: A-holes on parade
MilBloggers and the new media are
calling BS on the Esquire story about the supposed SEAL that offed UBL and that he has
no benefits after supposedly leaving the Navy.
Thanks for the links. I confess my radar must need some adjusting, I wasn't particularly suspicious of the story at all. And should have been. This "winter soldier" barnyard excrement is, of course, a proud contribution of our new Secretary of State to the national conversation on military matters. H*ll, if I'd just paid any attention, and realized this outfit was from
berkeley I would have realized something was going on.
The Winter Soldier Investigation
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"On January 31, 1971, members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) met in a Detroit hotel to discuss war crimes they claimed to have participated in or witnessed during their combat tours in Vietnam. During the next three days, more than 100 Vietnam veterans and 16 civilians gave anguished, emotional testimony describing hundreds of atrocities against innocent civilians in South Vietnam, including rape, arson, torture, murder, and the shelling or napalming of entire villages. The witnesses stated that these acts were being committed casually and routinely, under orders, as a matter of policy.
In April, the VVAW stormed Washington in a week-long protest. At its height, spokesman John Kerry* went before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to accuse the United States military of committing massive numbers of war crimes in Vietnam. The appearance launched Kerry's political career. The charges he made shocked and sickened a nation, changed the course of a war and stained the reputation of the American military for decades.
But the mass murder of civilians was never American policy in Vietnam. War crimes were the exception, not the rule. And the Winter Soldier tribunal itself -- which John Kerry had helped moderate -- turned out to be "packed with pretenders and liars." "
*Kerry testified out of uniform, wearing ribbons on his class C uniform. Subsequently he claimed to have thrown away his medals (during a photo-op) but admitted later that he had only thrown away the ribbons. John Kerry is a liar by the clock. And the worst sort of opportunist. Furthermore, he inflicted on an innocent America the official Yalie pronunciation of Genghis Khan's name: "jen jis." Before or since, have you ever heard anyone pronounce it that way?
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