Sen. John Kerry confronted about Winter Soldier II
Here’s the transcript:
Opening slate: On January 31, 1971, John Kerry organized the Winter Soldier Investigations, a media event that falsely accused American soldiers of routinely raping, torturing, and murdering innocent Vietnamese civilians.
Second slate: From March 13-16, 2008, Iraq Veterans Against the War has coordinated a second Winter Soldier Investigations in an effort to assail the U.S. Military in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Third slate: On March 11, 2008, Jason Mattera of Young America’s Foundation confronted Senator Kerry (D-MA) about Winter Soldier II and the Senator’s shady past.
MATTERA: Hey, Sen. Kerry! Jason Mattera with Young America’s Foundation. How are you?
KERRY: Jason. How are you?
MATTERA: I was wondering: Do you have any advice for the new group of activists who are organizing Winter Soldier II?
KERRY: I haven’t [unintelligble] what they’re doing or where they’re at. I just don’t…
MATTERA: Do you think this crop of anti-war activists, do you there’ll be any frauds like Al Hubbard?
KERRY: I have no idea. I hope not.
MATTERA: Do you think that they will make slanderous accusations–accusing the troops of raping women, pillaging villaging, just like you did to the Fulbright committee?
KERRY: Uh, I didn’t make those.
MATTERA: You didn’t?
Audio clip, John Kerry, 4/22/71: [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.
Kerry claims Winter Soldier Investigations were substantiated by further investigation.
MATTERA: Did you ever verify those –
KERRY (crosstalk): I’ve been misquoted about that hundreds of times.
MATTERA: So you never substantiated those charges before you–
KERRY: I proposed–I gave them to the committee because I felt that they ought to be investigated and that’s exactly what I said. These are the–many of those charges, incidentally, were subsequently verified by different entities.
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Wild Thing’s comment……..
I am thrilled to see this, I love how Kerry got rattled and into the interview asked who Jason was ( Jason had already told him. hahaha) and who he was with. LMAO Kerry is lucky he lives in a politically correct USA, because if it was a Wild Thing USA he would be in jail for what he did, or worse. Because of Kerry soldiers died and I will never forgive him.
Never Forget!
John Kerry – Traitor.
And he’s a liar.
Why do we keep voting in rich trailer trash?
I remember reading this and thinking WTF,is this guy talking about. At that time I thought we, meaning the Vietnam Veterans were in this alone then I heard about the VVAW and couldn’t believe how these guys were lying about what had and was happening.
Then the media was claiming all these “Veterans’ were telling all of these stories about atrocities against the people of South Vietnam.
I remember VC attrocities, where they would take a leader of a villiage out with his family and kill the youngest child right in front of the family and the whole community, to warn them from working with the Americans. I didn’t see it but the Leader told us about it when we had returned and we were shown the grave where she was buried. His help and advice was always correct and accurate so we had no reason to doubt him.
But dispite this, the leader of that Villiage continued to help the Marines in the area. This is what, courage is, guts, to go ahead and do something you believe in and continue to do it regardless of the consequences. Something the democrat can never hope to accomplish in 10 lifetimes.
This is what Kerry never learned. His agenda and all of his bluster is nothing more than a sham.
He claims No-named entities proved he was right, why can’t he name any names so the rest of us can see who it was that verified the claims he and his traitor brothers made/claimed, when half of them weren’t even in the service.
Then there is that Millionare in Texas who funded the ‘Swift-baot Vets for truth’ ads during the campaign and is still waiting to give Kerry 1 million dollars to disprove one item of the Swift Boat Vets. Only one item and neither Kerry nor his phony buddies can do it. Because the Swifties told the Gods honest truth.
It just amazes me how this total scumbag keeps getting re-elected but the most bizaare of all is he almost became President.
Tom, he sure is and extremely stupid to think he can lie like this on camera. What a horrible vile being he is.
Lynn, I wish someone would run against him sometime and win and kick him the heck out of politics for good.
Mark, your so right, Kerry will never know about courage or guts. I hold all those who voted for him responsible for his crimes right along with him. They know what he said and did and they voted for him and keep him in office.
Comrade John Lurch Kerry? Ho-Chi Kerry? Thank GOD Lt. O’Neill and the Swift Boat patriots sank this treasonous scum-bag in 2004!
I was too busy to post this morning WT, being a non com in Vietnam and a working one at that, my time on the road didn’t equal that of most of my outfit, nevertheless I did get out. We covered the length and breadth of I Corp and into II Corp. As a result we often were ahead of minesweep details, armed military escorts and organized convoys. We’d roll into a village often at or before daybreak on the way to some outpost in need of supplies, you can’t miss seeing the atrocities perpetrated on the civilians from the previous night or even minutes earlier as they pulled out.
None were perpetrated by our troops or our allies, all were perpetrated by the VC and NVA. What Mark has stated is the God awful truth and worse, that is as far as I want to elaborate.
The Communists and their sympathizers, Kerry is one, all want to blame all the war crimes committed against civilian, ARVN and Americans on the American soldier. There were very few American incidences of war crimes and the perps were caught and punished.
The Communists were then and are still held unaccountable.
This past week I heard some idiot blathering that tens of thousands of Americans have died in this war, Bullshit!!!
The war in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, and the war in Iraq began on March 20, 2003.
Afghanistan to date has 775 total coalition deaths. Iraq to date has 4295 total coalition deaths. Compare that to the monthly death tolls of Vietnam.
During the battle at Dong AP Bia in the western A Shau Valley, we stripped the refrigeration units and used them as portable morgues for our dead, men who died so that lying son of a bitch Kerry could come back home and tell outrageous lies about my fellow soldiers and Marines.
Every life is precious, be that an American’s life or one of our allies, we honor and revere life, unlike the death cultists that we are fighting. I refuse everything that John F. Kerry and his ilk stand for. Be it 40 years or a lifetime, I will never forgive or forget.
Darth, your so right, we really have been blessed to have the Swift Boats vets and the stand they took.
Jack thank you so much. The experiences you have shared and Mark and Tom and others are blazing truth to Kerry’s hellish lies and deaths he caused of our soldiers. I cannot be in the presense of anyone that does not get what Kerry did,he is pure evil.
Kerry will have a special hell when he dies I would bet my life on it.