[greasepaint]

Has Kerry visited a Navy base or ship, recently?
If so, how was he received?

[greasepaint]

Has Kerry visited a Navy base or ship, recently?
If so, how was he received?

[XHogPilot]

Bump

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP*!

[jveritas]

Kerry and the Democrats wanted to make Vietnam a center issue of the campaign by portraying Kerry as the war hero, but to their great misfortune, this issue of Vietnam will destroy John Kerry. People will know his dark anti Vietnam war record and they will deeply detest him for betraying his fellow soldiers.

[Intolerant in NJ]

... I've always fought for the soldiers," he said......and when your anti-war testimony and writing is linked with statements from former POW's about how your efforts were used to shatter their hope and morale, and with statements from former NVN leaders about how your efforts encouraged them to keep fighting and killing those soldiers you claim to have been fighting for - maybe then you'll finally understand what you really accomplished, though of course you still won't be man enough to acknowledge it to the American people......

[Treeless Branch]

JFK supports the U.N.
He would clearly be in support of allowing U.S. citizens to be tried for war crimes. There is no statute of limitations for war crimes.
Then the predicament arises that by signing such an act, Kerry would subject numerous Vets, including himself, to imprisonment by the U.N. - BASED ON HIS OWN TESTIMONY.

[backhoe]

Cross-link:

-John Kerry- some selected, informative links...--

[KSCITYBOY]

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[pttttt]

Here's a good website.

Lest one think he came up with it on his own - his 1971 Senate testimony was reportedly ghosted by leftwing speechwriter Adam Walinsky. It's a classic of anti-American propaganda. Kerry hasn't made a speech that "good" since.

[cake_crumb]

"Kerry was referring to his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April of 1971 as part of his involvement with the anti-war group Vietnam Veterans Against the War."

He did TOO say it...WHY do so few people bother to look it up?? It's no flipping secret!

"It is impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in Detroit, the emotions in the room, the feelings of the men who were reliving their experiences in Vietnam, but they did, they relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do. They told stories that 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.

"We call this investigation the Winter Soldier Investigation. The term 'winter soldier' is a play on words of Thomas Paine's in 1776 when he spoke of the Sunshine Patriot and summertime soldiers who deserted at Valley Forge because the going was rough."

Kerry organized Winter soldier, along with the rest of the VVAW and Jane Fonda and some guy who wrote a book of bogus interviews with bogus soldiers. Winter soldier was based on the book. Winter soldier was a proven scam, a lie. Hanoi John organized it. He KNEW it was a lie, he KNEW he was hurting his own former brothers in arms. He did it anyway.

[oldgrunt]

Received this in my email this morning. I did my year in the delta in 1967 with 3/47th Infantry, 9th Inf. Div.


An Open Letter to John Kerry:


My wife had rotator cuff surgery earlier this year, and the recovery is terribly painful. Then, she developed a staph-epi infection, and they had to cut the same scar open and operate on her again. Just thinking about the pain and anxiety of facing that painful surgery a second time in the same wound, makes me cringe. That experience, however pales in comparison to what I am going through right now, in my heart.

The old hurts are surfacing and the feelings of betrayal by fellow citizens, and their leader stirring them up, are breaking my heart again. I am being cut in the same scar. How did we who served in Vietnam suddenly become cold-blooded killers, torturers, and rapists, of the ilk of the Nazi SS or the Taliban? Most of us were American soldiers who grew up idolizing John Wayne, Roy Rogers, and all the other heroes. That was why I volunteered. But for political expediency, John Kerry has rewritten history, again. After spending only four months in the country of Vietnam, John Kerry testified before Congress in 1971 with these exact words about incidents he supposedly witnessed or heard about from other vets: "They 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, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam."

I was a green beret officer who volunteered for duty in Vietnam and fought in the thick of it in 1968 and 1969 on a Special Forces A-team on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, just for starters. We were the elite. We saw the most action. Everybody in the world knows that. But we did not just kill people, we built a church, a school, treated illnesses, passed out soap, food, and clothing, and had fun and loving interaction with the indigenous people of Vietnam, just like our boys did in Normandy, Baghdad, Saigon, and everywhere American soldiers ever served. We all gave away our candy bars and rations to kids. Our hearts to oppressed people all over the globe.

My children and grandchildren could read your words, and think those horrendous things about me, Mr. Kerry. You are a bold-faced, unprincipled liar, and a disgrace, and you have dishonored me and all my fellow Vietnam veterans. Sure, there were a couple bad-apples, but I saw none, and I saw it all, and if I did, as an army officer, it was my obligation to stop it, or at the very least report it. Why is there not a single record anywhere of you ever reporting any incidents like this or having the perpetrators arrested? The answer is simple. You are a liar. Your medals and mine are not a free pass for lifetime, Senator Kerry, to bypass character, integrity, and morality. I earn my green beret over and over daily in all aspects of my life.

Eight National Guard green berets, and other National Guard soldiers, have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and you totally dishonored their widows and families by lumping National Guard service in with being a draft-dodger, conscientious objector, and deserter, just so you can try to sabotage the patriotism of our President who proudly served as an Air National Guard jet pilot. I have a son earning his green beret at Fort Bragg right now, and his wife serves honorably in the Air National Guard, just like President Bush did, and I am as proud of her as I am my son. I volunteered for Vietnam and have no problem whatsoever with President Bush being our Commander-In-Chief. In fact, I am proud of him as our leader.

John Kerry, you personally derailed the Vietnam Human rights Bill, HR2883, in 2001, after it had passed the House by a 411 to 1 vote, and thousands of pro-American Montagnard tribespeople in Vietnam died since then who could have been saved, by you. Earlier, as Chair of the Senate Select Committee on MIA/POW Affairs, you personally quashed the efforts of any and all veterans to report sightings of living POW's, when you held those reins in Congress. You have fought tooth and nail to push for the US to normalize relations with Vietnam for years. Why, Mr. Kerry? Simple, your first cousin C. Stewart Forbes, CEO, of Colliers International, recently signed a contract with Hanoi, worth BILLIONS of dollars for Collier's International to become the exclusive real estate representative for the country of Vietnam.

"Hanoi John," now that it works for you, you beat your chest about your Vietnam service, but to me, you are a phony, opportunistic, hypocrite. You are one of those politicians that is like a fertilizer machine: all that comes out of you is horse manure, and you are spreading it everywhere.

Medals do not make a man. Morals do.

Don Bendell
Canon City, Colorado

[Don Bendell served as an officer in four Special Forces Groups, is a best-selling author with over 1,500,000 books in print, a 1995 inductee into the International Karate Hall of Fame, and owns karate schools in southern Colorado.]

[Libloather]

Is this it?

[FourtySeven]

Also, "They told stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires with 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." - John Kerry, before the Senate's Foreign Relation Committee, 1971

Sure sounds like atrocities to me John!

[Natural Law]

Kerry left Vietnam early after getting three dubious wounds. Does anyone know the fate of the guy who took his place?

[XHogPilot]

How this book continues to be suppressed is beyond me. We should demand John Kerry release The New Soldier to print again. I want to know what the Democrat presidential candidate thought was so important to put into print 30+ years ago...