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To: commish
Disgusting dishonesty, ain't it?
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.

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

We who have come here to Washington have come here because we f eel we have to be winter soldiers now. We could come back to this country; we could be quiet; we could hold our silence; we could not tell what went on in Vietnam, but we feel because of what threatens this country, the fact that the crimes threaten it, not reds, and not redcoats but the crimes which we are committing that threaten it, that we have to speak out.

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19 posted on 02/20/2004 6:17:23 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
wow.
20 posted on 02/20/2004 6:21:53 PM PST by rwfromkansas ("Men stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up as if nothing had happened." Churchill)
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To: LibWhacker
Best thing for Kerry to do is admit that it did happen.
23 posted on 02/20/2004 6:34:46 PM PST by Rebelbase (The gravy train makes unscheduled stops.)
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To: LibWhacker
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....

Am I reading that wrong, or is he smearing every single person who served in Vietnam?

24 posted on 02/20/2004 6:37:36 PM PST by Howlin (A Loyal Member of EggsAckley's Troll Patrol)
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To: LibWhacker
Oops...should known somebody would have posted that before me. But thanks. Too few people are paying attention to that. His testimony is the reason I detest him and have been out to get him for years.
63 posted on 02/21/2004 6:35:43 AM PST by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: LibWhacker
." 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, "

It amazes me how commie/leftist/socialist/evil dums ALWAYS think that a handful of them, always means EVEYONE thinks like them.

Dums are so pathetically arrogant, and give themselves this level of self-importance that normal people find ridiculous.

71 posted on 02/21/2004 7:19:00 AM PST by marty60
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