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"KERRY: There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones."

Hiding behind the 'everybody does it" excuse for his misdeeds.

This man is a war criminal and a traitor to his comrades and his country.

You sure get a lot of BS and nonsense in a single Kerry answer. He puts it all in a "sincere" wrapper, but he's an idiot. He's also criticzing us for building missile defenses because it upsets those who would attack us, and this is way after 9-11 and with the N Korean missile threat looming.

Important Reminder: This is a man who recently explained his opposition to all the Cold War weapons systems as follows. He visited Moscow once and saw the airport didn't have its phones networked in a modern way. Based on that he knew the Soviet Union was not a threat! Never mind their thousands of ICBM's, nuke submarines, huge tank armies, tactical nukes, etc. He made his decision based on the phone system at the airport he stopped in.

Republicans have to zero in on this stuff and make a laughing stock of him.

RE: "This man is a war criminal..."

This seems more than a little over the top. He appears to have been a liar and a coward, but war criminal? Vietnam was a mess, let's face it. We had lots of guys out of control over there, and the responsibilty lies with the leaders at the top, the Robert NcNamaras, et all.

It's good to know how Kerry won his silver star, and that his actions weren't exactly heroic. But calling him a war criminal? C'mon. Half the time our guys didn't know who friend or foe was. Guys did shoot Viet Cong women and children in these "free fire zones." The Vietnam war was a disaster all around, for everyone.

John F'n Kerry is not Presidential material, and George W. Bush definitly is. His consorting with Jane Fonda after the war, and his Senate voting record, etc. bears this out.

But we don't need to call him a war criminal. That's going too far, and smears a lot of guys who went to Vietnam, and came back all messed up, because of politicians who tryed to win a war, based on "body count."