A deserter and much more-
Referring to the POW/MIA families and activists, who were demanding an honest accounting "Kerry labeled them "professional malcontents, conspiracy mongers, con artists, and dime-store Rambos" who were only involved in the POW/MIA issue for money. "
Who's really the professonal malcontent conspiracy monger con man----KERRY!
I read that was McCain, not Kerry.
It was McCain. For the record (from the Senate transcripts):
Mr. McCAIN. Madam President, I quote from it, Madam President. It states:
The highest-ranking U.S. officer to visit Hanoi since the Vietnam War said this week he will report that its `cooperation across all fronts has been excellent' in the effort to account for missing Americans.
`I don't think they're holding anything back,' Adm. Larson, commander of U.S. military forces in the Pacific, said in Pleiku Tuesday.
Joint Task Force personnel have, often at great risk to their own welfare, crawled through some of the worst and most remote terrain in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, searching for any clue as to the fate of our missing. Their efforts have been dismissed as a charade by many POW/MIA activists who--unlike my friend, Senator Smith, whose opposition is honorable--cloak their opposition in character assassination. In truth, JTF personnel are responsible for locating more information, for resolving more of the mystery surrounding this question than all the professional malcontents , conspiracy mongers , con artists, and dime store rambos who attend this issue have ever or will ever contribute collectively. They are truly unsung heroes.
Everyone involved in our efforts in Vietnam will testify to the greatly increased cooperation from Vietnam. It is their word, not mine, nor Senator Kerry's that Senators should listen to as they consider our amendment. Everyone of these fine individuals believes that the time has come to lift the trade embargo against Vietnam. They recognize that the accounting process has not and should not end, and that there is more cooperation we will require from Vietnam before our efforts can conclude. But they feel, as do I, that lifting the embargo will facilitate and accelerate that cooperation.
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