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Propaganda Redux
Take it from this old KGB hand: The left is abetting America's enemies
with its intemperate attacks on President Bush.
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During the Vietnam War we spread vitriolic stories around the world,
pretending that America's presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren't facts. They were our tales, but some seven million Americans ended up being convinced their own president, not communism, was the enemy. As Yuri Andropov, who conceived this dezinformatsiya war against the U.S., used to tell me, people are more willing to believe smut than holiness.
The final goal of our anti-American offensive was to discourage the
U.S. from protecting the world against communist terrorism and expansion. Sadly, we succeeded. After U.S. forces precipitously pulled out of Vietnam, the
victorious communists massacred some two million people in Vietnam, Laos and
Cambodia. Another million tried to escape, but many died in the attempt. This
tragedy also created a credibility gap between America and the rest of the
world, damaged the cohesion of American foreign policy, and poisoned domestic
debate in the U.S.
Unfortunately, partisans today have taken a page from the old Soviet
playbook. At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, for example, Bush critics
continued our mud-slinging at America's commander in chief. One speaker, Martin
O'Malley, now governor of Maryland, had earlier in the summer stated he was more worried about the actions of the Bush administration than about al Qaeda. On another occasion, retired four-star general Wesley Clark gave Michael Moore a platform to denounce the American commander in chief as a "deserter." And
visitors to the national chairman of the Democratic Party had to step across a
doormat depicting the American president surrounded by the words, "Give Bush the Boot."
Statement of Mr. John Kerry
...I am not here as John Kerry. I am here as one member of the group ofIs it a coincidence that the left of the 60-70s to now have used the same words, as if scripted, to tear down the United States of America.
1,000 which is a small representation of a very much larger group of
veterans in this country, and were it possible for all of them to sit at
this table they would be here and have the same kind of testimony....
WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION
I would like to talk, representing 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, not isolated incidents but crimes committed
on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of
command....
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.
We call this investigation the "Winter Soldier Investigation." The term "Winter Soldier" is a play on words of Thomas Paine in 1776 when he spoke of the Sunshine Patriot 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. We could come back to this country; we could
be quiet; we could hold our silence; we could not tell what went on in Vietnam,
but we feel because of what threatens this country, the fact that the crimes
threaten it, not reds, and not redcoats but the crimes which we are committing
that threaten it, that we have to speak out.
Genghis Khan
raped
taped
human genitals
cut off
cut off limbs
blew up
razed
and more
Coincidence? I think not.
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