2008
Winter Soldier II: Hold their feet to the fire.
John Kerry launched his political career with a series of lies for which he was never held accountable. In fact, he benefited greatly from those lies. Tonight Winter Soldier II begins, and this time we need to hold their feet to the fire and force them to prove their allegations or be publicly known as liars. As a nation we cannot afford to allow the far left to turn this into another Vietnam. Anyone who can say with a straight face that the far left supports the troops is delusional or a liar. The sedition in Washington state and in Berkeley are good illustrations of how they “support” our military and there has so far been very little pushback. There certainly have not been any real legal consequences for this behavior. These “peace activists” have waged their own war on recruiters for some time. A whole subset of the population thinks that their right to free speech includes the “right” to destroy property and to block other people’s free speech. We’ve allowed them to believe it by not forcefully reacting.
Winter Soldier II will only egg those radicals on, and it will also bring aid and comfort to our enemies. While this confrontation with John Kerry is satisfying, it’s far too late to matter:
Link: sevenload.com
You can read the transcript at Michelle Malkin’s, but here’s a snippet…
MATTERA: Do you think that they will make slanderous accusations–accusing the troops of raping women, pillaging villaging, just like you did to the Fulbright committee?
KERRY: Uh, I didn’t make those.
MATTERA: You didn’t?
Audio clip, John Kerry, 4/22/71: [They told the stories at times] they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.
Here’s the schedule and where to view Winter Soldier II. Now is the time to challenge them.
March 15th, 2008 at 10:58 am
You’re joking, right? There have been multiple studies done by independent medical journals, and all of them point to extremely high numbers of civilian casualties in Iraq. In addition, the brave men and women who served there do not seem to be the kind who would just make these stories up. These rumours don’t just form in a vacuum.
Based on what I read above, it sounds to me more like the delusional far right doesn’t support the troops much either.
March 15th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Of course I’m not joking. And that Lancet study has been completely debunked, by the way. It’s utter garbage. Our military has caused VERY FEW civilian casualties in Iraq. Conflating terrorist-inflicted civilian casualties with military-inflicted civilian casualties is **completely** dishonest.
And yes, people DO in fact make things up on a regular basis. Did you *read* the post? QED.
March 15th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
You give credibility to rumours… up to where you consider them valid data? It couldn’t be that rumours might start to advance an agenda, right? Like the Palestinian rumours about Isreali blood libels, the desecration of the the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque, the Jenin “massacre”, among many others. Or if you want to talk about Iraq, the “cold-blooded murder” of civilians as espoused by Jack Murtha which wasn’t murder, the total destruction of four famous mosques which didn’t happen, the civilians burned to death, the Scott Beauchamp confabulations, the targeting of journalists which never occured.
Nice to see someone on the left admit they don’t support the troops, even if they’re wrong about their assumptions concerning the right.
Critical Thinker indeed.
Critical Thinker = Fail!
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