Vietnam roles play out for Bush, Kerry

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, February 10, 2004 | By Nancy Banac

[JohnHuang2]

They were two years apart, these two Yale boys, these sons of privilege, and so the moment of truth came first for John Kerry, later for George W. Bush. Each faced the same life-changing question as did so many others of their generation: What to do about Vietnam?

[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Quote of the Day by Milligan

[GeronL]

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[bushfamfan]

Bush asked about a program to go to Vietnam. Don't hear that from most of the media.

[secretagent]

As an antiwar leader, he asserted in testimony to Congress that U.S. soldiers had "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads randomly shot at civilians poisoned food stocks" and committed other atrocities he later acknowledged he had not witnessed.

And not just off the cuff, but as the centerpiece of his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 1971.

He stressed that these atrocities were "not isolated incidents", but "daily events", committed with the knowledge of same at all levels of command.

Good to see this mentioned.

Hopefully Russert or O'Reilly will really grill him on this.

Not just the general "we were all war criminals' hand waving, but Kerry's saying, in so many words, that My Lai massacres were the rule, not the exception.