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Here's the text of an email a friend in Florida received from the Obama campaign. Note how the Obamatons didn't even get the rank of the Command Sergeant Major right. This Saturday, September 13th, please join the Florida Campaign for Change at the grand opening of the Spring Hill office, where we will be celebrating America's veterans. Joining us will be General Claudia Kennedy, Commander Sergeant Major Michele Jones, Sergeant Major Jon Estrada, and Staff Sergeant and Iraq War Veteran Mike Wilson. Meet the staff, learn more about Senator Obama's plans for Veterans, and learn how you can get involved....

WSII Testifiers have their panties all bunched up over this video.Thank you, Jason Mattera, YAF, Michelle Malkin and HotAir, for asking the question that the MSM should have asked.WSII is further falling apart...

As I said at the GOE rally, the Iraq Veterans Against The War are out to smear this generation of military as "babykillers" the way their mentors the Vietnam Veterans Against the War did during the Vietnam era. But I never expected that they'd give away their intent by calling it "Winter Soldier" just like their mentors. Winter Soldier was a series of 109 interviews that were turned into a book and film. According to B.G. Burkett's investigation of Winter Soldier in his book Stolen Valor, many were phony soldiers that never served, others like VVAW leader Al Hubbard served...

It's being called ‘Winter Soldier Syndrome.' The phrase refers to slanders of American soldiers and Marines made by people who also make fraudulent claims about their own military experiences. Michelle Malkin writes: "Winter Soldier Syndrome will only be cured when the costs of slandering the troops outweigh the benefits." She is right up to a point, but it is more serious than that. It is not just the perpetrators who are causing the problem. A large and sometimes influential part of our society has been enabling and protecting these attacks on those who risk their lives to defend ours. This...

July 25, 2007, 7:00 a.m. Stephen Glass Meets the Winter SoldiersThe tendency to believe the worst. By Mackubin Thomas Owens As everyone knows by now, bloggers (including on National Review Online’s “The Tank” and “The Corner”) have begun to question the veracity of several The New Republic articles purportedly authored by an active-duty soldier serving in Iraq. The three articles by the pseudonymous “Scott Thomas” describe behavior by American soldiers that, while not rising to the level of atrocities, is nonetheless troubling. TNR’s “Baghdad Diarist” describes his mates mocking a woman horribly scarred by an IED, portrays another wearing...

Give GIs support, not accusations (http://www.suntimes.com/news/huntley/480703,CST-EDT-hunt24.article) July 24, 2007 STEVE HUNTLEY shuntley@suntimes.com Early in the awarding-winning movie "Saving Private Ryan," American troops are portrayed killing German soldiers trying to surrender. The message is clear: Even in the "good war" the brutalizing experience of combat made decent men on the right side do things that were wrong. Now the campaign against the war in Iraq is coming up with stories alleging routine cruelty, brutality and atrocities committed by U.S. forces against Iraqi civilians. The New Republic published in its July 23 edition a "Baghdad Diarist" in which the author, described as...

On August 8th, the Los Angeles Times published a long article in which Nick Turse and Deborah Nelson reported that Army investigators had substantiated 320 U.S. atrocities during the Vietnam War. It is not clear what the Times meant by "substantiated," since many of these investigations did not lead to criminal charges. It is also difficult to determine how many of the events, if confirmed, would qualify as war crimes, since Turse and Nelson did not distinguish between ordinary crimes by soldiers and military atrocities. The only "news" presented in the Times article was that documents on file in the...

On March 17, Media Life Magazine published an article about the difficulties facing the Washington Post, which recently announced that it would have to eliminate some eighty positions over the next year, or nearly 10% of its editors and reporters. The key reason for the Post’s decline is a relentless drop in paying customers – daily subscriptions have fallen 17% in the last ten years, from 816,474 in 1995 to 678,779 in 2005. Media Life was careful not to suggest that the paper bears any responsibility for its own problems, describing the Post as "one of America’s most celebrated newspapers,...

Winter Soldier is a documentary which one experiences, instead of simply viewing. Over three days in January and February 1971, just a couple months before Lieutenant William Calley would be sentenced to life in prison for the My Lai Massacre (he would eventually serve less than four years), a group of Vietnam War veterans convened at a Howard Johnson in Detroit to testify about the atrocities they had witnessed or partaken in while serving in Vietnam. The conference was titled “The Winter Soldier Investigation,” after Thomas Paine: “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summertime soldier and the...

In 1971, John Kerry appeared before Congress and testified that among other things, his fellow soldiers had committed war crimes. Before this The Vietnam Veterans Against the War sponsored a public forum called Winter Soldiers, in order to meet and discuss these supposed atrocities in front of members of the Press. Almost all of those claiming to have witness or committed these atrocities were later discovered to be lying, most of whom were never soldiers, and never served in Vietnam. Further, and most important, John Kerry went to France to meet with representatives of the North Vietnamese to denounce the...

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As I posted on a thread a couple of weeks ago, Kerry's group the VVAW had discussing the assassination of pro-war US Senators. Kerry's Group The VVAW Discussed Assassinating Seven Pro-War Senators In December 1971 The following is an excerpt from a book, "Winter Soldiers," by Richard Staciewicz, pp 294-295:In the fall of 1971, tensions over the direction in which the organization was heading, as it spread out into various community activities and took on a more consciously anti-imperialist position, were becoming more evident. In November, an emergency meeting of the steering committee was held in Kansas City. This meeting...

Please note that the following is an excerpt from a book called Winter Soldiers--but it is NOT the book authored by John Kerry, which is called "The Winter Soldiers." This excerpt is taken from Chapter 4 "Left Face" pages 293-295. Also note that the "JK" quoted is not John Kerry, but John Kniffin. [Begin excerpt] Winter Soldiers - Richard Staciewicz JOHN KNIFFEN, TERRY DuBOSE, SHELDON RAMSDELL, LINDA ALBAND, BARRY ROMO In the fall of 1971, tensions over the direction in which the organization was heading, as it spread out into various community activities and took on a more consciously anti-imperialist...

"We call this investigation the Winter Soldier Investigation. The term "winter soldier" is a play on words of Thomas Paine's in 1776, when he spoke of the "sunshine patriots," and "summertime soldiers" who deserted at Valley Forge because the going was rough. We who have come here to Washington have come here because we feel we have to be winter soldiers now."