Get a clue, assholes -- 9/11 was an inside job!!!!
"No counterparts to the young Kerry at war hearing; Senator's panel to call Afghanistan veterans" by Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | April 22, 2009
WASHINGTON - .... Afghanistan -- a conflict that a small but growing number of Americans are beginning to question, even as President Obama increases troops....
At this point, we all want the wars over. That's why we "elected" DemocraPs in 2006 and Obama in 2008. Stop lying, MSM!
Kerry's committee did not invite any witness from the Iraq Veterans Against the War, the modern-day analog of the antiwar group he represented when he testified in 1971. That group, which includes Afghanistan war veterans, has called for an end to the Afghan war. At least three out of the four Afghan war veterans who will testify tomorrow oppose a US withdrawal. Kerry himself, now an elder statesman and key ally of the president, has resisted drawing parallels with Vietnam....
"The exact opposite is true in Afghanistan with Al Qaeda. The threat is very real."
I really can't take this stuff anymore, folks.
Still, the witness list has frustrated those who believe Afghanistan is on its way to becoming the next Vietnam. "I was a little disappointed that there wasn't any outreach made to hear from veterans who are against the war in Afghanistan, given that he played a similar role in Vietnam," said Perry O'Brien, a medic who served in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and belongs to Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Back in the '60s, veterans who opposed the Vietnam war tried for more than four years to testify about their experiences, but the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called "everybody except soldiers," recalled Jan Barry, founder of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
In January 1971, the group conducted their own hearings, interviewing over 100 soldiers about alleged crimes against Vietnamese civilians and other dark aspects of the war. But the hearings, known as the Winter Soldier investigation, got little media coverage. So Kerry, an articulate Yale graduate who had recently returned from combat, suggested the group take its message to Washington. Weeks later, they camped on the national mall and began contacting members of Congress. It worked.
How far we have fallen, 'eh, America?
The State Department invited Kerry and Barry to brief officials and, at the last minute, the Foreign Relations Committee asked Kerry, whom Barry considered the veterans' most articulate spokesman, to testify. Kerry stayed up all night writing what would become the most famous speech of his life....
Before television cameras, Kerry accused senior US officials of forcing soldiers to continue an unwinnable war. He said it was the height of "criminal hypocrisy" to say that America's freedom was threatened by what happened in the rice paddies of Vietnam. He recounted testimony from the Winter Soldier investigation, saying that crimes such as rape, beheadings, and random shootings at civilians occurred "on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command."
How far the senator has fallen. Years later he is nothing but a tool of the War party.
Also see:
Occupation Iraq: Winter Soldiers Speak
Memorial Day Special...Winter Soldier on the Hill: War Vets Testify Before CongressOccupation Iraq: Winter Soldiers Work
Surprise!: Boston Globe Discovers Anti-War Protests
The televised hearings changed the way many Americans saw the war.... But much has changed since Kerry delivered his call to conscience four decades ago. Anger over the Iraq war has been muted by Obama's pledge to withdraw most combat troops by the middle of next year. Afghanistan remains an escalating conflict, but many still support it as a necessary response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
I'm really tired right now, and sick of the MSM lies, folks.
With military deaths in the thousands, rather than tens of thousands, the two wars have not generated the same public clamor that consumed the country in 1971.
That's the ANTIWAR-INSULTING, WAR-PROMOTING MSM's version of it, anyway.
Tomorrow, at least three of the four Afghan war veterans invited to testify will say that the United States should stay in Afghanistan, even though there is no guarantee of success....
Fine. Stay then, and I'll stop complaining. It's not doing any good anyway because these occupations and wars are escalating if anything.
A fourth Afghan war vet could not be reached for comment. But Kerry did not invite O'Brien, who opposes both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, even though Kerry invited O'Brien to stay at his Nantucket home in 2006 during a film festival featuring an antiwar documentary that O'Brien was in.
Last year, O'Brien organized his own Winter Soldier hearings featuring testimony from soldiers about how "extremely loose rules of engagement" and air strikes in Afghanistan kill civilians and alienate the population. "I think we presented clear evidence that soldiers were being ordered to do terrible things," he said. "But there wasn't much of a response."
Members of the group testified before the Congressional Progressive Caucus, but have never been invited to an official hearing. A spokesman for Kerry's office said he is "looking for perspectives from troops who have spent time on the ground, without regard to their opinions about the war overall."
What a lying s***er!!
In an interview, Kerry said it is important "to let democracy work, in terms of airing differences and options."
What CHUTZPAH!!!!
