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A new generation of John Kerry’s - Ex soldiers testifying about “atrocities” in Iraq by U.S troops

May 16, 2008

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Is this where we are going? Again? Are we about to embark on another national disgrace that was like John Kerry’s Vietnam Veterans Against War?

Well, it seems as if we are. Today, ex soldiers were testifying in front of Congress about “atrocities” that American troops were perpetrating against the Iraqis.

Former army sergeant Kristofer Goldsmith told a half-dozen US lawmakers and scores of people who packed into a small hearing room of “lawless murders, looting and the abuse of countless Iraqis.”

This sounds very eerily like John Kerry’s testimony in front of Congress in 1971, which of course later proved to be false or have no merit. Beauties such as:

I would like to talk on behalf of all those veterans and say that several months ago in Detroit we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged, and many very highly decorated, veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia. These were not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command. It is impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in Detroit - the emotions in the room and the feelings of the men who were reliving their experiences in Vietnam. They relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do.

They told stories that 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 Ghengis 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.

We call this investigation the Winter Soldier Investigation.

– John Kerry, testifying before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 22, 1971

In response to that quote, an ex KGB officer, Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest ever to defect to the West, said in an interview in 2004:

The exact sources of that assertion should be tracked down. Kerry also ought to be asked who, exactly, told him any such thing, and what it was, exactly, that they said they did in Vietnam. Statutes of limitation now protect these individuals from prosecution for any such admissions. Or did Senator Kerry merely hear allegations of that sort as hearsay bandied about by members of antiwar groups (much of which has since been discredited)? To me, this assertion sounds exactly like the disinformation line that the Soviets were sowing worldwide throughout the Vietnam era. KGB priority number one at that time was to damage American power, judgment, and credibility. One of its favorite tools was the fabrication of such evidence as photographs and “news reports” about invented American war atrocities. These tales were purveyed in KGB-operated magazines that would then flack them to reputable news organizations. Often enough, they would be picked up. News organizations are notoriously sloppy about verifying their sources. All in all, it was amazingly easy for Soviet-bloc spy organizations to fake many such reports and spread them around the free world.

As a spy chief and a general in the former Soviet satellite of Romania, I produced the very same vitriol Kerry repeated to the U.S. Congress almost word for word and planted it in leftist movements throughout Europe. KGB chairman Yuri Andropov managed our anti-Vietnam War operation. He often bragged about having damaged the U.S. foreign-policy consensus, poisoned domestic debate in the U.S., and built a credibility gap between America and European public opinion through our disinformation operations. Vietnam was, he once told me, “our most significant success.”

There is plenty more from that John Kerry. Enough to make you want to throw up. The point of all of this is: This is all propaganda from the loons on the left. You just know that they are propping these guys up. They will go to any extreme to villify our soldiers, who by the way, are protecting us and the loony left from terrorists. I would love to see any of these wimps walk down a street in Baghdad. Yeah right! They sit behind their little desks with the noses held high in contempt of the very Nation and people who allow them to sit behind their little desks. Pathetic.

And lest we forget, General Giap, the a top North Vietnamese General, in his book said that because of groups like John Kerry’s, North Vietnam did not surrender.

In his 1985 biography “How We Won the War” Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, a top Vietnamese military strategist, wrote: “If it weren’t for organizations like Kerry’s Vietnam Veterans Against War, Hanoi would have surrendered to the U.S.”

Think about how history would be completely different right now if we had “won” in Vietnam. Which we did, but, that’s for another day.

You can say what you want about these ex soldiers. But, none of this helps anyone, especially the troops that are on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan.

American politicians and ex soldiers are giving comfort to the enemy. That is a fact.

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