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To: OrioleFan
He should be asked if he stands by the testimony he gave to Congress and if not then did he know he was giving false testimony at the time.

I agree! The Jane Fonda photo might just mean he wanted to be around a famous "babe", but I'd like to see him confronted with his 1971 Senate Testimony:

Statement of Mr. John Kerry

...I am not here as John Kerry. I am here as one member of the group of 1,000 which is a small representation of a very much larger group of veterans in this country, and were it possible for all of them to sit at this table they would be here and have the same kind of testimony....

WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION

I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command....

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

http://www.richmond.edu/~ebolt/history398/JohnKerryTestimony.html

No one has confronted him with the graphic, specific, atrocities he described as "not isolated incidents".

81 posted on 02/10/2004 1:10:00 PM PST by secretagent
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To: secretagent
From Kerry's testimony:

"We are also here to ask, and we are here to ask vehemently, where are the leaders of our country? Where is the leadership? We are here to ask where are McNamara, Rostow, Bundy, Gilpatric, and so many others."

Doesn't Kerry now claim Vietnam to be "Nixon's War?"


82 posted on 02/10/2004 1:44:47 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, DemocRATs believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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