Truespeak

Can somebody please explain to me how John Kerry's statement to Congress in 1971 got American soldiers killed? We heard this same bullshit about Iraqi war dissenters. How is my saying "I think Iraq is a mistake" going to get a soldier killed? I keep hearing this from the Swiftboaters and their supporters. To my knowledge, not one person died in Vietnam that wouldn't have died otherwise because of John Kerry's statement. That has got to be the most outrageous claim I have ever heard.

Somebody, please explain this to me!