Bring it on, John Kerry

[Spartacus]

Pulitzer winner behind
Kerry POW film
Decorated Marine's TV documentary portrays 'betrayal' of vets

Posted: August 28, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and highly decorated Vietnam veteran is behind a new television documentary that features devastating testimony by former POWs of the demoralizing impact of John Kerry's war-crimes accusations more than 30 years ago.
As WorldNetDaily first reported, the film will be released in September on the heels of a television ad by Swift Boat Veterans for the Truth, which charges Kerry with betrayal for accusing them of war atrocities during his testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1971.

But producer Carlton Sherwood says his Red, White and Blue Productions was planning the documentary even before the first ad by the swiftboat vets.

Sherwood also has won a Peabody Award, and The Carlton Sherwood Media Award is named in his honor.
The documentary, titled "Stolen Honor," now has its own website, which includes sample interviews.
Currently in the final stages of production, it will be available for broadcast and on DVD and VHS video, according to Red, White and Blue Productions.

The film, according to the website, "investigates how John Kerry's actions during the Vietnam era impacted the treatment of American soldiers and POWs. Using John Kerry's own words, the documentary juxtaposes John Kerry's actions with the words of veterans who were still in Vietnam when John Kerry was leading the anti-war movement."
In a March 12 story by Fox News, Sherwood was noted as being among the veterans who consider Kerry's 1971 testimony slanderous and concocted to push a political agenda.
"He knew as an officer that those were lies. It never happened," said Sherwood. "He was principally responsible for cementing the image of Vietnam veterans as drugged-out psychopaths who were totally unrestrained and who were a murderous hoard."
Among the POWs whose voices are heard in the film are two who spent seven years in prison, Ralph Gaither, a two-time Navy Silver Star winner, and Gen. Robinson Risner.

The film's narration includes:
"In other wars, captured Americans subjected to the hell of an enemy prison were considered heroes. In other wars, they were not abandoned. In Vietnam , they were betrayed."
"Little did the American prisoners of war imagine that half a world away events were conspiring to make their precarious situation even more desperate. That an American Naval lieutenant after a four-month tour of duty in Vietnam was meeting secretly in an undisclosed location in Paris with a top enemy diplomat. That this same lieutenant would later join forces with Jane Fonda to form an antiwar group of so-called Vietnam veterans, some of whom would be later discovered as frauds who never set foot on a battlefield. All this culminating in John Kerry's Senate testimony that would be blared over loud speakers to convince our prisoners that back home they were being accused and abandoned. Enemy propagandists had found a new and willing accomplice."

 

[hooch]

heh,saw combat
he video tpaed his "combat"
dressed up in army fatiques to make it appear as if he was more involved in fornt line fightin'
BTW,Kerry also asked for a deferment,but only when that was declined did he volunteer,and then it was for the navy,to avoid the army,and he opted for the swift boats,because thier duty at the time was out of harm's way
Stupid comment's?
read up
stupid was using his nam service as a centerpoint for his campaign
traitorious fuck
I imagine you're unawares of what he did upon his return from "combat"?
care to listen?

The first 3/4 of this post was written by a retard. I guess he surgically implanted the shrapnel in his leg too. I know he spoke out against the war after he returned. Why don't you stick to attacking his post Nam actions rather than writing idiotic stuff like he faked his combat and just played dress up. Stop listening to the "Swift Boat Vets" who rather you believe that official Navy records are for shit but the "Drudge Report" and FOX news are right on....

 

[Spartacus]

he hasn't signed the 180 releasing all his records
94 pages missing
why?
retard?
pulitzer prize winner retard too?
he most certainly did fake his combat
I've been posting anecdotes from true combat veterans
besides the swifties admirals and whatnot are now speaking out
you'll find out
he's toast

 

[p0ink]

How you people can bash Kerry, who at least served, saw combat, was wounded, and decorated in Nam',(and admittingly made some stupid comments) and not mention Bush at all, who took the easy way out, is beyond me.

bush never disgraced the uniform, the military, or the country, unlike john kerry. that's why.

 

[ChefWide]

bush never disgraced the uniform, the military, or the country, unlike john kerry. that's why.

President McAsshole disgraces our country on an almost daily basis, he disgraces the military by sending them into harms way not to protect our country but to further a political agenda and he disgraces 'the uniform' by engaging us in an unwinable war with no disengagement plan: we will continue to shovel the bodies of our boys into the hole he dug without question. Sickening.

 

[Spartacus]

President McAsshole disgraces our country on an almost daily basis, he disgraces the military by sending them into harms way not to protect our country but to further a political agenda and he disgraces 'the uniform' by engaging us in an unwinable war with no disengagement plan: we will continue to shovel the bodies of our boys into the hole he dug without question. Sickening.

poll the active vets,they're the one's doing the fighting and dying

 

[ChefWide]

poll the active vets,they're the one's doing the fighting and dying

Poll them? What about?

 

[jerseyart]

President McAsshole disgraces our country on an almost daily basis, he disgraces the military by sending them into harms way not to protect our country but to further a political agenda and he disgraces 'the uniform' by engaging us in an unwinable war with no disengagement plan: we will continue to shovel the bodies of our boys into the hole he dug without question. Sickening.

Chef, that's a load of crap.

Removing the Iraqi regime was the only tenable way of changing the paradigm of the middle east. Without such a move we would have been stuck in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for decades. With it we are in a position to remove the US presence from those countries after perhaps 5-10 years of stabilizing a new Iraqi regime.

The immediate dividends are the Libyan surrender of their fasr advanced nuclear program, as well as an end to Saddam's documented (read Kay report) continuing efforts at acquiring and devloping womd.

We can argue timing of events, but I have a harder time crediting statements that they were altogether unnecessary. The fact remains that a Saddam in possession of nuclear weapons would have been a worldwide disater. We would not have been able to "contain" him once in possession of such a destructive force. Whether he would have had them in a year, or seven years, it is clear that he was aggressively pursuing their acquisition. And as events in Libya demonstrate, their acquisition was far more readily attainable than anyone had imagined prior to the conflict.

Equally inane is the exit strategy argument, which is nothing more than a disingenous attempt at linking this conflict with Vietnam and subsequently creating the impression that it is a losing venture. The two are nothing alike in any of the particulars. It wqas understood well before this action began that we would be in Iraq in some capacity for a great deal of time following the initial war.

It's disgusting that the left is attempting to turn the sacrifice of those soldiers into campaign fodder with incoherent reasoning and poisonous charges

 

[Spartacus]

nailed it,we had to maintain a military presence in SA to police Saddam, This irked the extremist Arbas to no end and it was escalating. Everyone wants to know why we didn't go after SA because thats where the lion's share of the hijackers were from,well ther's your connection. This is extremely simplified,but we had to "lance this boil" at some point as the situation was only going to get worse.

 

[Burning_Inside]

In the Marines we had a saying, "God, Country, Corps." Your loyalty flows in that direction. Maybe as i said before you don't understand duty, having never served. But all military members are taught from day 1 that your duty is your duty. If he had such strong opinions, he should have waged his war internally, and looked externally ONLY as a last resort. Kerry, however, didn't do this. Why? Because he wanted the spotlight. He had early aspirations of gov't service and knew that this would get his name and ideas out there in the public eye. Every military member understands their duty, and they agree to it when they sign up. If you have a problem with it, don't sign up. Same goes for John Kerry; unfortunately, he only cared about what suited him.

No I don't understand the mentality of the whole duty thing cause I've never been in that position, but I can somewhat try and imagine. All I'm saying is I perosnally think it's silly to place ideals of a man made group above ideals of humanity.

I'm not really convinced tho' that when someone signs up for military that they expect to be able to go around and commit war crimes without anyone having issues with it. Killing is one thing, but other things that were done, that's another.

As for him using his background as a spotlight of sorts to get recognition, I can't blame him, wether or not it really means anything in the grand scheme of things.