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| Great wahrks! Traitor John coerced testimony! |
| 2004-09-09 |
| A witness in the 1971 Winter Soldier investigation, which was organized by John Kerry and bankrolled by Jane Fonda and formed the basis for Kerry's Senate war crimes testimony later that year, is accusing Kerry of coercing his account to make the military look bad. "When I got [to the Winter Soldier investigation], I had no intention of saying anything," Vietnam combat veteran Steven J. Pitkin told WABC Radio's Mark Levin on Wednesday. But when Kerry and other members of his group Vietnam Veterans Against the War pressed him to give an account that painted Vietnam soldiers as war criminals, "that was a real shock to me," Pitkin said. "He wanted me to "No, you beauzeaux, I didn't." "Say you did. This is an oiffer you cannot refuse." As Kerry pressed him to give him false testimony, Pitkin said, other VVAW members surrounded him and began urging, "C'mon, people need to hear this, man." "Dude, honesty is SO establishment." "It was a big pressure job," the Special Forces veteran told Levin. "[Kerry] did what I call extreme coaching." Pitkin, who was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, Army Commendation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal, RVN Cross of Gallantry, Air Medal and Purple Heart for his Vietnam service, said also that Kerry's famous medal-throwing protest was staged, with some VVAW protesters discarding phony ribbons in a show for the media. "I heard that they had been scouring Army surplus stores and asking everybody to bring in various ribbons," Pitkin said. Kerry has told reporters he kept his medals that day, but threw away ribbons belonging to somebody else. In a sworn affidavit filed last Tuesday, Pitkin said. "During the Winter Soldier Investigation, John Kerry and other leaders of that event pressured me to testify about American war crimes, despite my repeated statements that I could not honestly do so. . . Kerry and other leaders of the event instructed me to publicly state that I had witnessed incidents of rape, brutality, atrocities and racism, knowing that such statements would necessarily be untrue." Pitkin's account flatly contradicts Based on Pitkin's admittedly false account and other witness statements, Kerry told the Senate Foreign Relations committee that soldiers fighting in Vietnam were "monsters" who raped and pillaged South Vietnam "in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan." |
| Posted by:Steve from Relto |
| #4 John Ricardo Kerry's Fantasy Island has worked for him for 40 years. Why would he not think this election would be any different? All of Kerry's fantasies have been common knowledge since he first created them. But he has never been challenged. Christmas in Cambodia could have should have been debunked by anyone in the media at any point since it was first uttered. But nobody bothered or cared, or it fit the picture of what people wanted to hear. So Kerry enhanced in his delusions, and the NYT/BG/WP are so embarrassed that have played in this charade for forever they cannot admit they have been suckered. As Lt.Incredible Kerry's credibility goes in the tank, it drags all of complicit mainstream media with him. The election of 2004 is no longer about a Republican incumbent and Democrat contender, it is about the future of information control. We are all Swiftboat Vets. |
| Posted by: john 2004-09-09 10:50:25 PM |
| #3 This can't be publicized enough. I made reference to this earlier this week. So now let's look at these items - Seems we have one of the the Cabal's main Goebbelites, Dan Rather, giving much hoopla to a man recanting sworn testimony in order to try to hurt the Prez... Then we have Sen Dole and some POWs today offering a view as to what the result in the N Vietnam prison camps was of Kerry's testimony. And, what about those senators that were threatened at the meeting you were at? Mr Pitkin's story seems to jive with this sort of behaviour. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-09 12:42:11 PM |
| #2 I see another Swift Boat ad in JFK's future. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-09-09 12:37:30 PM |
| #1 I'll take Treason for 500 Alex. "He knowingly testified before congress in 71, met illegally with enemy agents in time of war while in the naval reserve and gave aid and comfort to the enemy." "Who is John F'kin Kerry?" |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-09-09 12:33:40 PM |