If they had more questions, designed to find the truth and how to prevent future such events, instead of pontificating and blabbering in a partisan manner then maybe they would have gotten the answers they were seeking. But as usual those on the left don't want answers, they only want to raise questions.
The 9/11 commission is a disgrace and will only do harm to the US.
Kerrey's just upset that his attempts to trap Condi backfired and she reduced him to a stammering fool before the entire nation.
Poor Kerrey, got b!tch slapped on national TV and now he's crying. Guess Condi just proved a little too tough for the big bad war criminal.
Rice appeared to blame lack of communication between the FBI and CIA on intelligence matters, but that is not an acceptable response, Kerrey said.Did you just infer that Dr. Rice is lying, Bob? There was a "firewall" between the CIA and the FBI before 9-11. Stupid? Yes. Dr. Rice's fault? No way!
I'd like to refer Kerrey back to the Church Committee in the early 70s (I think). Another "wonderful" sinator. I believe this is when the wall was erected between the sharing of intelligence by the CIA and the FBI.
I would also like to ask Kerrey who gutted the eyes and ears on the ground (human intelligence) of the CIA. IIRC, sinator Torricelli was involved in that boner. Maybe Kerrey himself cast a vote to castrate that important element of intelligence.
Then there are the cultural reasons Dr. Rice referenced. Would that be racial profiling? We wouldn't want to single out any group of people, just because this particular group had everything in common with Bin Laden and his thugs, huh Bob? We needed to be sensitive to their feelings. Sensitivity and diversity are paramount, right?
Are you sure you want to "go there" Mr. New School? You and your liberal friends' fingerprints are everywhere. You left a stained trail.
[My memory is fuzzy. Please correct me if my recollections are off-base.]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1298289.stm Former United States Senator Bob Kerry, a possible contender for the White House in 2004, has admitted that his commando unit massacred civilians when he was a Navy officer in Vietnam, The New York Times has reported.
Mr Kerry was awarded a Bronze Star for the 25 February 1969 action in the village of Thanh Phong in the Mekong Delta.
Basically you're talking about a man who killed innocent civilians
Bob Kerry
The two-time Democratic senator from Nebraska says his unit of seven Navy Seals - elite commando troops - killed at least 13 women and children during indiscriminate night-time firing.
One of the men under his command at the time disputes Mr Kerry's version of events, claiming that the unit rounded up the civilians and killed them to hasten their escape.
Mr Kerry refused to contradict the man, saying their memories differed.
In-depth investigation
Mr Kerry, who stepped down from the US Senate in January and is now president of the New School University in New York, admitted his role in the massacre over the course of more than two years of interviews with The New York Times.
Mr Kerry said he has been haunted by Vietnam memories
A possible presidential candidate, Mr Kerry said it would be "very interesting to see the reactions to the story. I mean, because basically you're talking about a man who killed innocent civilians."
It is not clear what effect the revelations would have on any decision that Mr Kerry might make to run for office in the future.
In Mr Kerry's version of events, his group approached Thanh Phong near midnight on 25 February, 1969.
They encountered a hut on their approach, and men under his command entered it and killed the people inside.
Mr Kerry denied participating in the killings, but took responsibility for them as commanding officer.
Indiscriminate firing
When his group reached the village, they were fired upon in the darkness and shot back, firing some 1,200 rounds.
When they investigated after they stopped shooting, he said, they found they had killed a number of women and children. There were no adult men among the dead.
Gerhard Klann, a more experienced soldier who was under Mr Kerry's command at the time, remembers events differently.
He said Mr Kerry helped him kill an old man and woman and three children at the first hut, and that the unit then rounded up and shot the women and children of Thanh Phong to prevent them raising the alarm.
The Army Field Manual explicitly forbids killing prisoners "on grounds of self-preservation", but many people who served in Vietnam said the unwritten rules of the conflict made it clear that such actions were acceptable.
Witnesses
A Vietnamese woman who says she was an eyewitness supported Mr Klann's story.
I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you - I think killing for your country can be a lot worse
Bob Kerry
The only other member of the commando unit willing to speak to the press about the raid supported some elements of each account and contradicted others.
Mr Kerry - who was given the Medal of Honour for a later operation and lost a leg to a grenade in the conflict - says he has been wracked by guilt for 32 years since the event.
"I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you," he told The New York Times, referring to how he felt before he went to Vietnam as a 25-year-old lieutenant.
"I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts."
You see this every day; you see it here.
Someone makes an idiot of himself, in public (as Kerry did).
He has two choices:
1. He can admit it and deal with it like a man, changing his mind and doing whatever repairs need doing.
2. Or he can dig in his heels and redouble his efforts to prop up (and supposedly cover up) his initial idiocy (as Kerry is doing).
And nine times out of ten, folks seem to opt for #2.
Here's the verse that says it:
"He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper,
But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion"
Proverbs 28:13
Dan
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