Can't Bury Deceit
While many former Vietnam veterans support the candidacy of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, there is no sign of the man who appeared with Kerry on a nationally televised news program in 1971 to allege widespread atrocities by U.S. soldiers in Vietnam.
That man, Al Hubbard, remains out of the spotlight, perhaps because the war record he touted in directing a prominent anti-war group that included Kerry, was fabricated.
Marc Morano/CNSNews Mar.03.04
I have to confess to a sense of relief at the odor of partisan smear that comes off this story. Because if Kerry does get hit by these guys hard, and repeatedly, it means he's not a stooge. And that will mean we might have a chance at real reform.
One question that won't get asked is "How many members of the V.V.A.W. were government plants?"
Anybody who was active back then knows there were some groups at some moments made up of more undercover cops than genuine activists.
But like all true criminals, the scum responsible for all that misdirection will deny it to the end.
The FBI, COINTELPRO, all those chumpy nitwits with their bug-harvested hip lingo. Even Dan Rather, early days, doing a story on the vets, running around Santa Rosa in a combat jacket, scared to death someone might out him; not to mention any names or anything.
