[Marxism] How the "Swift Boat Veterans" Organized Against Kerry

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

THE LAST MISSION
The Swift Boat Veterans gather to assess their impact on the campaign.

Monday, November 15, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST

BOCA RATON, Fla.--"The last mission of Vietnam War veterans ended on
Nov. 3, at 2:08 p.m. Eastern Time, when John Kerry conceded the
presidential race to George W. Bush," announced James Warner, a lawyer
who was a Marine pilot in Vietnam and spent five years and five months
in Hanoi as a prisoner of war. On Saturday night, Mr. Warner gave a
"debriefing" on the role that two controversial groups of veterans
played in raising doubts about John Kerry's fitness to serve as
commander in chief. His audience consisted of attendees at Restoration
Weekend, an annual gathering of political activists organized by David
Horowitz, a former left-wing radical who fought to undermine the
Vietnam War effort as an editor of Ramparts magazine, but who has now
changed sides and become a leading conservative writer.
As the evening proceeded and one Vietnam veteran after another shared
the story of how veterans felt compelled to attack Mr. Kerry for his
1971 testimony branding fellow veterans as war criminals, former CBS
News correspondent Bernard Goldberg leaned back in his chair in
amazement. "I think some of them are too intense," he told me. "But
screwing with these guys by accusing them of atrocities was one of the
biggest mistakes John Kerry ever made. Thirty years later he woke a
sleeping giant."

http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110005894
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Now about Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib and the Marines shooting 4 wounded
prisoners in Iraq. The Iraq occupation may not need a "Winter Soldier"
presentation.


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