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July 14, 2006 -- Just as the Vietnam Veterans Legacy
Foundation attorneys were preparing to depose key VVAW "winter
soldiers" to ask them about all those war crimes, the VVAW's
Kenneth Campbell has abruptly dropped his twin lawsuits against
the VVLF and Stolen Honor producer Carlton Sherwood. VVLF
attorney Robert Clothier thinks the surprise decision "suggests a
great trepidation about what would come out at the depositions."
No kidding.
Perhaps the VVLF's lawsuit against John Kerry and Anthony
Podesta will prove more successful at getting a few of these
"winter weasels" on the record, under oath.
See
Still Battling by Shannon P. Duffy of The Legal
Intelligencer Online for all the details.
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July 8, 2006 -- Here's a stark look into the lives of
some American troops fighting in Iraq. It appears that they don't
have great regard for the antiwar movement back home. Warning: not
for the easily offended.
Young Americans Trailer and Video Clips by Pat Dollard.
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June 16, 2006 -- Al Qaeda in Iraq planning documents
captured after the U.S. air strike that killed Abu Musab al
Zarqawi provide interesting insights into the thinking of the
terrorist leadership. Though increasingly pessimistic about the
prospects for AQ in Iraq, Zarqawi and company hoped to undermine
support for U.S. efforts by creating false rumors of widespread
American atrocities, backed up by plausible supporting material.
Now, where do you suppose they got that idea?
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June 12, 2006 -- The New York Times recently announced,
nay, endorsed, an effort by John Kerry and his remaining
supporters to discredit the Swift Vet meanies who blew such large
holes in his "war hero" image two years ago. Alas, uncritical
puffery is less convincing than actual investigative journalism.
Tom Lipscomb provides a fine example of the latter in his analysis
of the new Kerry/Times claims. Among other things, Lipscomb shows
how much damage you can do to Kerry's credibility just by
collecting his accounts of a given event and listing them in a
row.
Kerry Pressing Swift Boat Case Long After Loss -- Kate
Zernike, New York Times, May 28, 2006.
The Truth, John Kerry, and The New York Times -- Thomas
Lipscomb, Real Clear Politics, June 5, 2006.
John Kerry's Skimmer Scam -- Thomas Lipscomb, Real Clear
Politics, June 12, 2006.
Current score: Lipscomb 2, Kerry/Times zip...
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June 6, 2006 -- Don't miss
Vietnam, After All? in which noted military historian Victor
Davis Hanson dissects the leftist effort to turn Iraq into
"another Vietnam" and shows where that effort might lead:
So by all means investigate Haditha. Try and convict any who
broke the rules of war, and sullied the honor of the U.S. Marine
Corps.
But please spare us the scripted outrage that is simply cheap
cover for wanting Iraq to end as Vietnam, as there appear ten
stories on Haditha for every one about either an American
victory over terrorists or help for Iraqi civilians. Any true
moralist who cares for the Iraqi people should pray that this
war doesn’t devolve into helicopters on the embassy
roof—followed by the old predictable liberal silence when the
real killing begins.
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June 5, 2006 -- In
Whitewashing North Vietnamese War Crimes, former POW Mike
Benge rejects columnist Georgie Anne Geyer's claim that the Geneva
Accords were "generally observed" by the North Vietnamese and the
Viet Cong.
Updates added to
Incoming, our "letters to the editor" section.
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It
started with Code Pink last January presenting Rep. John Murtha their
Pink Badge of Courage and pink flowers (see left) for his call
to cut and run from Iraq. Then it was the
The
Edmund S. Muskie Distinguished Public Service Award? Edmund Muskie is
most remembered for his 'distinguished' tearful wringing of hands in
New Hampshire (see right)...
