The Left trotted out “research” that “proved” that not one Vietnam Veteran had ever been spat upon. They even created an expert out of VVAW member Jerry Lembke<\/a> who couldn’t really prove it didn’t happen so he pooh-poohed it down to an urban myth – the Left, of course, gobbled up the “research” of this Ph.D. In this Slate article<\/a>, he provides the unassailable proof that it never happened;<\/p>\n He writes that he never met anybody who convinced him that any such clash took place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well, that’s enough proof for me. How ’bout you?<\/p>\n Then, the Left held their last successful anti-war demonstration in January 2007. When they spray-painted steps at the Capitol and defaced the statue at the Navy Memorial, Vietnam Veterans said enough was enough.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n They put a call out and thousands of Vietnam veterans flocked to the Vietnam Memorial two months later and formed an impenetrable human shield around “their”memorial. Ever since then, the Left has been disparaging Vietnam veterans. I don’t know how many exchanges I’ve had with IVAW veterans who think that only their service is relevant and they’ve called Vietnam veterans fat, old has-beens. Even my buddy, TSO, an Afghanistan veteran, was physically threatened by IVAW thugs at Winter Soldier when they found out he was a member of Vets For Freedom.<\/p>\n Every time the Left planned an antiwar protest, Vietnam veterans showed up to stand in stark contrast to the anti-war side. Vietnam veterans announced that what had happened to them when they were fighting our nation’s wars would never happen again.<\/p>\n Support for the Left dwindled from thousands at their protest in January 2007<\/a> to hundreds at their last big event in March 2008<\/a>. Now, they’ve decided that they need to focus their rekindled hate for Vietnam Veterans on John McCain.<\/p>\n It began with Jay Rockefeller<\/a>;<\/p>\n \u201cMcCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit,\u201d Rockefeller told the newspaper, which published the article on the interview Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn\u2019t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues,\u201d he is quoted saying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Then Wesley Clark, because he got away with it defending Hillary back in March<\/a>, disparaged McCain’s Vietnam service using nearly the same words. It’s signaled the Left’s attack poodles that McCain’s Vietnam experience is fair game.<\/p>\n My buddy, Robin at Chickenhawk Express<\/a> quotes Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin;<\/p>\n “I wouldn’t characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero,” said Medea Benjamin, a co-founder of the theatrical anti-war group Code Pink. “In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that were killed and there’s no heroism to that.”<\/p>\n “Anyone who can’t look back and admit how wrong it was to be in Vietnam and be killing civilians deserves to be challenged,” she said, though she stressed that her group is more focused on McCain’s present support for the war in Iraq than on his past.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n At Lew Rockwell<\/a>, Michael Gaddy uses McCain’s “I’m a war criminal” confession given to his captors against McCain. At the Daily Kos<\/a>, they ask “What’s so special about McCain’s service?;<\/p>\n Getting shot down, tortured and then doing propaganda for the enemy is not command experience….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But being a Harvard-educated lawyer does?<\/p>\n Politico<\/a> even exhumes the corpse of Vietnam activist Noam Chomsky for a quote on the subject;<\/p>\n Noam Chomsky, the linguist and activist, said in an e-mail that he thought Americans should question whether McCain’s torture in an unjust war is relevant to his campaign.<\/p>\n “The questions could scarcely even be understood within the reigning intellectual and moral culture \u2014 though I don’t doubt that much of the population would understand,” Chomsky said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"2001784008875464499_rs.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2001784008875464499_rs.thumbnail.jpg\")
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