{"id":1677,"date":"2008-03-16T16:26:09","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-03-16T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T16:27:15","slug":"playing_winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1677","title":{"rendered":"Playing Winter Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ivaw.org\/wintersoldier\" target=\"browser\">Winter Soldier II<\/a>&#8221; conference is on, and I&#8217;ll have a lot more to say about it later today. For now, let me suggest that you read two things:<\/p>\n<p>Wintersoldiers.com &#8211; &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wintersoldier.com\/index.php?topic=Historians\" target=\"browser\">Busted by the Historians<\/a>,&#8217; an account of how the original Vietnam-era &#8216;Winter Soldiers&#8217; claims were pretty thoroughly eviscerated. Which makes one wonder why, exactly, IAVA chose to wave that flag.<\/p>\n<p>Democracy Project &#8211; &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracy-project.com\/archives\/003700.html\" target=\"browser\">Washington Post Duped Instead of D.U.P.E.S.<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;m deeply shocked that the Washington Post is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/03\/14\/AR2008031403887.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"browser\">doing such a piss-poor job of covering it<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>More later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post &#8216;covers&#8217; Winter Soldier II<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}