Wade Sanders, Historian
Winston Smith Was Never This Persistent
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Today's Washington Times brings us more proof — as if we needed it — that liberal crusaders will say virtually anything to promote their agendas. The example we see today does so without the slightest hint of concern for truth... or even reality.
Wade Sanders, a former Clinton Administration official, demonstrates his skills as a bogus historian in a breathtakingly dishonest column entitled Kerry and the swift-boating victims. The column is part of a never-ending stream of revisionist history gushing from the left intended to convince the public that their own eyes lied to them; that Senator Kerry — a one-time anti-war activist who smeared an entire generation of military veterans while meeting with and cooperating with our North Vietnamese enemies — was an innocent victim of dishonest campaign practices.
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That John Kerry lied to the Senate, and to the public, is beyond dispute. His testimony that American servicemen "razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan" was based on fabrications from individuals who weren't even veterans, individuals whom Kerry knew at the time were not really veterans. John Kerry organized and used fraudulent veterans to prepare fraudulent testimony, and delivered that fraudulent testimony to the U.S. Senate. Senator John F. Kerry is a documented liar. He is on film telling his lies. Yet to hear our leftist historians tell it, Senator Kerry is the victim of the Swift Boat Veterans, who ran a television advertisement featuring Kerry's 1971 testimony in order to show the American public just what sort of "military hero" John F. Kerry really was. The public was certainly never going to find out about Kerry's meetings with the North Vietnamese from the news media, which had studiously avoided saying a single word about Kerry's history as an anti-war activist.
Mr. Sanders would have us believe that the Swift Vets' efforts represented "one of the nastiest, dirtiest negative campaign ads of the entire 2004 presidential campaign, if not in presidential history." Apparently, telling the truth about Democratic candidates for office is a terrible and nasty thing. For make no mistake: virtually everything the Swift Vets said about John Kerry is documented. If there is a dirty, nasty, dishonest campaign afoot, it is the one by revisionist historians like Wade Sanders to prove — by louder assertion — that John Kerry was horribly wronged... instead of the liar and poseur that he actually was and is.
The author served as a consultant and webmaster to Swift Boat Veterans and POWs for Truth
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We still don't know who authorized Kerry's first Purple Heart.
Kerry had to bureaucratically maneuver around his own Commanding Officer (of Swift Boats) to get that first medal. In fact, Kerry's Commanding officer, Lt. Commander Grant Hibbard, practically threw Kerry out of his office for suggesting that he (Kerry) was eligible for a Purple Heart on that particular mission, and the officer in charge of it (the Mekong skimmer boat recon mission,) Ret. Admiral William Schachte Jr., says that Kerry was injured (just a scratch from a metal sliver) by the ricocheting shrapnel from Kerry's own mis-aimed M-79 grenade. Schachte and Kerry thought they saw something move on the bank of the river, and Kerry fired his M-16, which jammed. Kerry then picked up a M-79 grenade launcher and that's what injured him. All fire that night came from them. There was no return enemy fire. So says Admiral Schachte. And without the first Purple Heart, that Kerry supposedly "earned" that night, Kerry wouldn't have been able to leave the Swift Boat fleet after only four months in harm's way. He would've had to serve out the whole year. So Kerry used at least one unearned Purple Heart, probably two unearned Purple Hearts, to get his "three-Purple-Hearts-and-out" ticket home. And that's before any of the slander of his comrades after he got home. It's the slander ticked off the Swift Boat Vets most of all, and that's not even disputable.
The more it just slips away.
Kerry is not only one of the least effective Senators, a gigilo and a pathological liar who helps the enemy. He is a prideful actor in the street theater of American politics.
He never has released his full Naval records, has he?
... that the Swift Boat Veterans were scandalous liars was absolutely essential to Kerry's election hopes. Had he admitted that even 10 percent of it were true, he was toast.
The normally honest Susan Estrich was on Fox the night the Swift Boats Veterans became big, big news. I remember thinking it was odd that she was so belligerent, so soon. There was no possible way for her to have the facts yet. Only later did it occur to me how important it was to Kerry and the Democrats that the Swifties be silenced -100%.
That incident was the last straw for me in terms of media bias as well. A story that important wasn't even lightly investigated by the major media (except for a pointless exercise by the New York Times that proved, basically, that Texas Republicans help each other get elected) -- simply because the answers might endanger the Democrats. Truly sad.
Now, a few years later, that initial outrage is the conventional wisdom among the non-curious.
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We would also like to know your advice for somebody like my daughter, who's going to graduate in two years, advice that you would give a young person.
SEC. RUMSFELD: Advice for a young person. Study history.