On the other hand he and 999 other guys were absolutely right about the need for some warcrimes trials.
I'd probably find myself in some disagreement with Kerry regarding "who" ought to go on trial, but I doubt that back then in 1971 he would have stood in the way very long to drag Robert McNamara before the bar of justice.
It's truly unfortunate that these days Kerry is so much a part of the establishment (married to the ol'gal who owns ketchup for goodness sake!) that he'd probably say it's too late to hold such a trial.
All I can say to him is "Nixon's dead already" and "McNamara is still there, rich, fat, self-satisfied, time to bring him to justice".
Wonder what John would say to that?
A fatigue be-medalled Beatle begging a murderer .........
or perhaps discussing how to send Catholic charity money to the IRA
or "Why did you leave Mary Jo in the Car?"
Who do think you're kidding...?... Even Zell Miller has been stained well past getting clean by reamining a democrat.. Mr. John Kerry you're a traitor of the highest order.. true, you're not alone.. Howard Deans brother(a traitor) gave his life for the same reasons, suggest you do the same..
I do not advocate that we should go back and prosecute any soldier for engaging in these acts; but I see this as bad conduct; poor judgment under pressure; and the kind of decision making process that would fail the country if exercised by the President. The individual who makes his decisions like this should not be a candidate.
As to Vietnam, the real American objective was to stop the expansion of Moscow Communism; the objective was achieved. Vietnam was the end of the expansion of Communism.
Did we do a good, or effective, or defensible job of conducting the war effort? No. Should have been accomplished in a year and over. But the war was run by Democrats trying to satisfy political and political correctness objectives; having no military management skills; having little in the way of foreign policy expertise. Dem's and liberals have historically done a bad job of conducting foreign policy and making war. We get it done under Democratic administrations but it is no accident that all of our wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have been caused by Democratic governments administering foreign policy.
In the present case, the war with the Mohammadian terrorists results from Clinton's failure to address the early terrorist attacks and develop foreign policy and military responses to respond to the enemy before they became an organized force. Really exactly like the Liberal response to Hitler in Chechoslovakia and Poland.
He did not then, and apparently does not not now, understand or acknowledge the forces which threaten the freedom, culture and philosophy of the United States. He is CERTAINLY not someone who should be in the oval office. He really should not be serving in our Senate either!
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Old thread bump!