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To: Hon
...if the United States were to set a date for withdrawal the prisoners of war would be returned.

And this genius wants America to trust him in dealing with terrorists?

70 posted on 03/06/2004 6:50:01 AM PST by aculeus
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To: aculeus
...if the United States were to set a date for withdrawal the prisoners of war would be returned.

And this genius wants America to trust him in dealing with terrorists?

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If you can stand to plow through the rest of his Congressional testimony, provided by the FRN at wintersoldier.com, you'll see he is laughably wrong on almost every point and prediction he makes.

For instance, here is holds forth on how many South Vietnamese will need to leave after the war:

Senator AIKEN. I think your answer is ahead of my question. [Laughter.]

SAIGON GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE TOWARD COMPLETE WITHDRAWAL DATE

I was going to ask you next what the attitude of the Saigon government would be if we announced that we were going to withdraw our troops, say, by October lst, and be completely out of there -- air, sea, land -- leaving them on their own. What do you think would be the attitude of the Saigon government under those circumstances?

Mr. KERRY. Well, I think if we were to replace the Thieu-Ky-Khiem regime and offer these men sanctuary somewhere, which I think this Government has an obligation to do since we created that government and supported it all along. I think there would not be any problems. The number two man at the Saigon talks to Ambassador Lam was asked by the Concerned Laymen, who visited with them in Paris last month, how long they felt they could survive if the United States would pull out and his answer was 1 week. So I think clearly we do have to face this question. But I think, having done what we have done to that country, we have an obligation to offer sanctuary to the perhaps 2,000, 3,000 people who might face, and obviously they would, we understand that, might face political assassination or something else. But my feeling is that those 3,000 who may have to leave that country --

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He was only off by how many hundreds of thousands?

89 posted on 03/06/2004 8:23:55 AM PST by Hon
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