Losing the Media War
on purpose
This week (Mar 13-16) the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) will be holding its Winter Soldier Investigation (WSI), patterned on the Vietnam Veterans Against the War event from 1971. That highly fraudulent event became a foundation of the longstanding smear of the Vietnam veterans. IVAW has claimed that it will have testimony provided by its own members as well as Afghan and Iraqi “survivors”, and according to The Washington Independent, citing IVAW sources:
"A network of journalists currently in Iraq will reach out to Iraqi civilians in the relevant cities and towns for independent eyewitness accounts."
Denis Keohane of Obiter Dictim has being doing a bang-up job of tracking the IVAW’s frauds—go learn how these Kerryesque throw-ups from the 70’s have been trying to recapitulate the slime job done on our Viet Nam era vets. It took years—decades for some—to disprove the libel perpetrated by the original “Winter Soldier” propagandists; and the meme itself is still around.
Let’s make sure in this age of the InterToobs that these perfidious mongrels of the New Progressives and the KGB do not succeed this time around.
photo courtesy of ZombieTime.com
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