The “Winter Soldier II” conference is on, and I’ll have a lot more to say about it later today. For now, let me suggest that you read two things:

Wintersoldiers.com – ‘Busted by the Historians,’ an account of how the original Vietnam-era ‘Winter Soldiers’ claims were pretty thoroughly eviscerated. Which makes one wonder why, exactly, IAVA chose to wave that flag.

Democracy Project – ‘Washington Post Duped Instead of D.U.P.E.S.‘

I’m certainly not shocked that IAVA is raising the stakes on the war at a time when it might et them political leverage; Move America Forward is doing the same thing. I am more than a little shocked that they would hitch themselves to as discredited an example as the John Kerry/Winter Soldier drama. And I’m deeply shocked that the Washington Post is doing such a piss-poor job of covering it.

More later.