BLITZER: Under pressure from Republicans and the news media, John Kerry's campaign today said it's working to release the Democratic presidential candidate's Vietnam-era military records and put them on his campaign Web site.
Kerry's long public career has been linked to Vietnam since the very beginning. He first rose to public prominence as an opponent of the war.
Just damn.... I clicked the link, figuring I'd get passages from the book and.....YOW!...Yippy skippy whole lotta hippie! LOL...I didn't recognize the URL but yeah, that's a great website!
May 3, 1971: Some twenty Vietnam Veterans Against the War and several supporters, tossed bags of cow manure on the steps of the Mall Entrance of the Pentagon, then offered to clean up the mess in return for a chance to talk to one of the Assistant Secretaries of Defense. Their offer was rejected and some twenty-eight were arrested. All were charged with disorderly conduct.
-- from a District of Columbia government report detailing demonstrations in the District during 1971
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We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans' Day waving small flags, calling to memory those thousands who died for the "greater glory of the United States." We will not accept the rhetoric. We will not readily join the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars -- in fact, we will find it hard to join anything at all and when we do, we will demand relevancy such as other organizations have recently been unable to provide. We will not take solace from the creation of monuments or the naming of parks after a select few of the thousands of dead Americans and Vietnamese. We will not uphold traditions which decorously memorialize that which was base and grim.
-- John Kerry, in "The New Soldier"
How did Kerry serve TWO tours of Vietnam, yet he was reportedly only there 4 or 6 months?? (I forget which one)
I keep hearing that but can't figure it out.
Somebody tell MICHAEL MEEHAN no one "wins" medals...
"O'NEILL: Actually, what he said was -- or at least the part I got was that it was a little bit excessive. It's really not a matter of forgiveness. It's a matter of fitness to be the commander and chief of all U.S. forces.
There's a book that he published, it's a book called "The New Soldier." And I hope you can see this book. It costs $1,700 to buy the book now that he published because they won't permit the reprinting of the book because they don't want the American people to see the book. He's the author of the book "The New Soldier." And every American should take a look at this book. It begins with a caricature making fun of the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima.
My father was on Iwo Jima. The damaging lies that he told about war criminals have haunted people's entire lives. So it's just a little bit late in the course of a presidential campaign to say it's a bit excessive after, you know, coming forward with lies for a period of more than 30 years. "
And the media STILL acts like he has done nothing wrong!
There is a GI movement in this country now as well as over there, and soon these people, these men, who are prescribing wars for these young men to fight are going to find out they are going to have to find some other men to fight them because are going to change prescriptions. They are going to have to change doctors, because we are not going to fight for them. That is what they are going to realize.
-- John Kerry, testifying before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 22, 1971
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No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
-- United States Constitution, 14th Amendment, Section 3
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The Viet Cong didn't think they had to win the war on the battlefield, because thanks to these protestors they were going to win it on the streets of San Francisco and Washington.
-- Paul Galanti, P.O.W. from 1966-1973
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Then I was sent on to advanced genocide training down at Fort Polk, Louisiana. And this is where I got, you know, this is where I started to hate, hate anything that wasn't exactly like me. Anything that wasn't a fighting machine. Gooks.
-- Jim Weber, VVAW, in "The New Soldier"
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War Anti-Imperialist is part of a network of anti-imperialist veterans who are proud of our resistance to U.S. aggression around the world. In the 1970s, to be a Vietnam veteran was to be against the war. That proud legacy must be carried forward into the new millennium. As veterans, we have been to the edge and seen the viciousness of Amerikkka unmasked.
-- from the VVAWAI web site
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My plan was that, on the last day we would go into the [congressional] offices we would schedule the most hardcore hawks for last -- and we would shoot them all.
-- VVAW leader Scott Camil, in the University of Florida Oral History Archive, October 20,1992
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Losing a war is a state of mind.
-- Tom Hayden, co-founder, Students for a Democratic Society, after attending the Winter Soldier Investigation.
He was there for a total of 4 months.
Kerry is teetering on the precipice of free-fall if this starts to get some real airplay and focus. I just hope he can retain the nomination through the convention when it will be too late to replace him. Let's cross our fingers.
Let me ask you this: how could Kerry have SEEN all that atrocity if he was on a boat at the Delta?
Yeah, but no big deal, there was only one Senator killed under questionable circumstances in that time frame.
o The Winter Soldier Investigation was financed by pro-Hanoi radicals such as Jane Fonda and Mark Lane, who hoped to undermine American support for the war by framing American soldiers as mass murderers. At the same time, the North Vietnamese military was torturing American prisoners of war to make them confess to identical crimes. At least one former POW has stated that Kerry's testimony was used by North Vietnam to demoralize American prisoners during interrogations.
o John Kerry has denied any association with Jane Fonda, but he attended the 1970 VVAW leadership meeting that chose Fonda and Executive Secretary Al Hubbard to do a national speaking tour to raise money for the VVAW and launch new chapters. Fonda was also the primary source of funds for the Winter Soldier Investigation, where Kerry was a moderator. In fact, Fonda had been a key supporter of the VVAW as early as 1969, when she did a fund-raising tour for AWOL GI's, the VVAW and the Black Panther Party.
o The VVAW signed the People's Peace Treaty during Kerry's tenure -- the VVAW even sent a delegation to Hanoi. The document was a laundry list of North Vietnamese bargaining points, including the key concession that the United States must agree to withdraw all troops before any negotiations could take place for the return of American prisoners.
o The VVAW was at the heart of the propaganda effort that so effectively smeared American servicemen in Vietnam as murderous, drug-addled psychotics that returning veterans were cursed and spat upon in the streets. In fact, as shown in B.G. Burkett's book "Stolen Valor," Vietnam veterans are more psychologically stable and successful than their civilian counterparts.
o The VVAW was a radical and potentially violent organization that formally considered assassinating prominent supporters of the war. As reported in the New York Sun by Thomas Lipscomb, during a November 1971 meeting in Kansas City the VVAW leadership and chapter coordinators voted down a plan to murder several U.S. Senators, including John Tower, John Stennis, and Strom Thurmond. Two VVAW members who were present, Randy Barnes and Terry Du-Bose, place John Kerry at that meeting, as do the meeting minutes and FBI records. Kerry claims to have resigned from the VVAW at the meeting or shortly thereafter, but there is no evidence that he ever informed authorities about the conspiracy. Kerry continued to publicly represent the VVAW until at least April of 1972.
Kerry is toast. No way is this man fit to be CIC.
Great info here...
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04/20/2004 -- Kerry refuses to release more records -- Michael Kranish, Boston Globe
04/19/2004 -- Kerry's War Stories -- Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
04/18/2004 -- Kerry minimizes, defends 'war crimes' remarks -- Tim Russert, NBC News' Meet the Press
04/17/2004 -- In the shadow of JFK -- Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Baltimore Sun
04/15/2004 -- Outside View: Bleeding purple hearts -- Stephen Crump, UPI (via Washington Times)
04/15/2004 -- JOHN KERRY, WAR HERO? -- Editorial, New York Post
04/14/2004 -- How Kerrys Group Plotted Against Statue of Liberty -- Josh Gerstein, New York Sun
04/14/2004 -- Kerry faces questions over Purple Heart -- Michael Kranish, Boston Globe
04/13/2004 -- "When I Left, We Were Winning" -- Mackubin Thomas Owens, National Review
04/12/2004 -- Purple Hearts: Three and Out -- Stephen Crump, Insight Magazine
04/12/2004 -- Op/Ed: Senator John Kerry -- William Fielder, MichNews.com
04/11/2004 -- Debunking myths about Vietnam veterans -- Gil Spencer, Delco Times (Philadelphia)
04/11/2004 -- Kerry Talks With Hanoi Delegation Detailed in Missing FBI Files -- NewsMax
04/11/2004 -- Theft of FBI files 'has makings of Kerry Watergate' -- Julian Coman, U.K. Daily Telegraph
04/11/2004 -- Stolen files recount John Kerry's anti-war days -- Stephanie Salter, San Francisco Chronicle
04/09/2004 -- Police Report Sheds Doubt on 'Theft' of Kerry's FBI Files -- Marc Morano, Cybercast News Service
04/09/2004 -- Noam Chomsky: Unrepentant Stalinist -- Anders G. Lewis, FrontPage Magazine
04/08/2004 -- John Kerry's Trail of Treachery -- FrontPage Magazine
04/07/2004 -- FBI files on Kerry create havoc in author's life -- John M. Glionna, Baltimore Sun
04/06/2004 -- Kerry counting on veterans to help him win -- Jill Lawrence, USA Today
04/06/2004 -- Kerry Ready for Duty -- staff report, FilmStew.com
04/05/2004 -- Don't Expect Vets to Rally Around Kerry -- Robert J. Caldwell, Human Events
04/05/2004 -- B.G. Burkett: Navy Commanders to Cast Doubt on Kerry's War Record -- Steve Malzberg, NewsMax
04/05/2004 -- The Massachusetts butcher -- Armstrong Williams, TownHall
04/02/2004 -- Kerry's past -- Mona Charen, TownHall
04/02/2004 -- John Kerry 2004 = John Kerry 1971 -- David Limbaugh, TownHall
04/01/2004 -- Communists Infiltrated Kerry's Anti-War Group, Historian Says -- Marc Morano, Cybercast News Service
04/01/2004 -- Kerry can't recall being at '71 parley -- Michael Kranish, Boston Globe
03/31/2004 -- Slinging Slime or Citing Facts? -- James Lileks, Newhouse News Service
03/31/2004 -- ATTACKING THE ATTACKERS: -- Don Bendell, SunValley Online
03/30/2004 -- No leads in Corte Madera document theft case -- Richard Halstead, Marin Independent Journal
03/29/2004 -- Kerry's Other War Record -- John Fund, Wall Street Journal
03/29/2004 -- Witnesses Say Kerry Participated in 1971 'Assassination Summit' -- The Insider, Insight Magazine
03/29/2004 -- Questioning Kerrys Service -- Judson Cox, TruthNews.net
03/28/2004 -- Murdering troops? What could Kerry have meant? -- Editors, The Union Leader (New Hampshire)
03/28/2004 -- Historian: Kerry FBI files stolen -- Phil Hirschkorn, CNN
03/27/2004 -- Radical Veteran Has Ties To Kerry -- Bob Arndorfer, The Ledger (Lakeland, Florida)
03/26/2004 -- An Open Letter to John Kerry -- Larry Purdy, FrontPage Magazine
03/25/2004 -- Kerry spoke of meeting negotiators on Vietnam -- Michael Kranish and Patrick Healy, Boston Globe
03/25/2004 -- Lying when not necessary makes most wonder -- but not the media -- Jack Kelly, Jewish World Review
03/24/2004 -- Kerry Still Backpedaling on Presence at 1971 Anti-War Meetings -- Marc Morano, Cybercast News Service
03/24/2004 -- Kansas City Kerry -- Paul Beston, American Spectator
03/23/2004 -- L.A. Times Overlooks Details of Kerry's FBI Record -- Scott Stanley Jr., Insight Magazine
03/23/2004 -- FBI Tracked Kerry in Vietnam Vets Group -- Laura Blumenfeld and Dan Balz, Washington Post
03/23/2004 -- Documents reveal FBI surveillance of Kerry in early 1970s -- Phil Hirschkorn, CNN
03/22/2004 -- KERRY'S CAMPAIGN ASKED A VETERAN TO CHANGE STORY -- Thomas H. Lipscomb, New York Sun
03/22/2004 -- FBI Shadowed Kerry During Activist Era -- John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
03/20/2004 -- Was John Kerry Involved in a Plot to Murder Members of the Senate? -- AdamYoshida.com
03/20/2004 -- Kerry Friend Beau Dietl 'Shocked' by Assassination Plot -- NewsMax
03/19/2004 -- Reported Kerry aide 1 of 'Gainesville 8' -- WorldNetDaily
03/19/2004 -- Kerry hedges on 1971 KC meeting -- Scott Canon, SunHerald.com
03/19/2004 -- KERRY RETREATS FROM HIS DENIAL ON VIETNAM MEET -- Josh Gerstein, New York Sun
03/18/2004 -- Kerry Lying About Anti-War Past, Supporter Alleges -- Marc Morano, Cybercast News Service
03/17/2004 -- A Man For All Sides -- Thomas D. Segel, Washington Dispatch
03/17/2004 -- Video Shows Kerry Conducting 'War Crimes' Interviews -- NewsMax
03/16/2004 -- Nixon Aide Colson: Kerry a 'Complete Opportunist' -- NewsMax
03/15/2004 -- New Witness: Kerry Was Present at Dark Plot Meeting -- Thomas H. Lipscomb, New York Sun
03/15/2004 -- Left-Wingers' Attacks on Bush Are Slap in Face to Servicemen -- John H. Wambough Jr., Insight Magazine
03/15/2004 -- Kerry camp hiring 'assassin'? Man who plotted murder of congressmen offered job -- WorldNetDaily
03/15/2004 -- Brinkley Details Kerry's Meetings With 'Hanoi Jane' -- NewsMax
03/15/2004 -- Kerry And The Unaccounted For -- Notra Trulock, Accuracy in Media
03/14/2004 -- Brinkley: Kerry Faces Questions about Senate Hit Plot -- NewsMax
03/13/2004 -- Vietnam Replays -- Tom Bray, Washington Times
03/12/2004 -- Kerry Says Credibility Not Damaged By Former Comrade's Lie -- Melanie Hunter, Cybercast News Service
03/12/2004 -- HOW KERRY QUIT VETERANS GROUP AMID DARK PLOT -- Thomas H. Lipscomb, New York Sun
03/10/2004 -- Political Attack Ads Thriving Online -- Gene J. Koprowski, Insight Magazine
03/10/2004 -- A Former Senator Dishes on Kerry -- Jeremiah Denton, FrontPage Magazine
03/10/2004 -- Kerry needs to answer -- Gary Aldrich, TownHall
03/09/2004 -- The Rest of the Kerry Transcript... -- Scott Swett, GOP USA
03/09/2004 -- Vets Slam Kerry for Vietnam Atrocity Claims -- Fox News
03/08/2004 -- The Red President? -- Adam Yoshida, TheRealityCheck.org
03/08/2004 -- Kerry's curious foreign policies -- Jack Kelly, Jewish World Review
03/08/2004 -- Tom Hayden Defends Kerry on Fonda Connection -- NewsMax
03/06/2004 -- Revealed: how 'war hero' Kerry tried to put off Vietnam military duty -- Charles Laurence, U.K. Daily Telegraph
03/05/2004 -- Kerry Exploits Vets for Hanoi -- J. Michael Waller, Insight Magazine
03/05/2004 -- In '72 speech, a different kind of Kerry -- Matthew Kelly, The Dartmouth Online
03/04/2004 -- That's politics! -- Peter Roff, UPI, Washington Times
03/04/2004 -- John Kerry: On the Losing Side of History -- David Freddoso, Human Events
03/04/2004 -- You Gotta Love Her -- Tom Hayden, The Nation
03/03/2004 -- Dear Mr. Kerry -- Jay Bryant, TownHall.com
03/03/2004 -- Most Media Refused to Expose Kerry's Anti-War Cohort -- Marc Morano, Cybercast News Service
03/03/2004 -- Kerry-Linked Anti-War Group Can't Bury Deceit -- Marc Morano, Cybercast News Service
03/02/2004 -- WINTER SOLDIER: John Kerry's turning point -- Jim Schaefer, Detroit Free Press
03/01/2004 -- Kerry offers Bush camp abundant material to scrutinize -- Cal Thomas, Miami Herald
02/28/2004 -- Kerry's outrageous claims about Vietnam Vets -- Bruce A. Seibert, RealityCheck.org
02/28/2004 -- 'Hanoi Jane' Speaks Out for Kerry - Again -- NewsMax
02/27/2004 -- The truth about Kerry -- Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily
02/27/2004 -- Setting Straight Kerry's War Record -- Thomas Lipscomb, New York Sun
02/26/2004 -- Kerry Candidacy Awakens Old Divisions Among Vietnam Vets -- Voice of America
02/26/2004 -- Why I Wouldn't Vote For John Kerry -- Sgt. Stryker's Daily Briefing
02/26/2004 -- Kerrys Soviet Rhetoric -- Ion Mihai Pacepa, National Review
02/26/2004 -- Is NBC conspiring to help Kerry hide his past? -- Hugh Hewitt, WorldNetDaily
02/25/2004 -- John Kerry, the anti-war antihero -- Brent Bozell, TownHall
02/25/2004 -- Kerry's FBI File -- Gary Aldrich, TownHall
02/24/2004 -- Doonesbury and the Winter Soldier -- Scott Swett, TownHall
02/24/2004 -- John Kerry, the Sunshine Soldier -- Joel Mowbray, FrontPage Magazine
02/24/2004 -- Website Exposes Kerry's 1971 Antiwar Book, Activities -- Jeff Gannon, Talon News
02/23/2004 -- Kerry's denial -- Greg Pierce, Washington Times
02/23/2004 -- Softball at CNN -- Editors, Washington Times
02/23/2004 -- Kerry's Vietnam whitewash -- Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily
02/23/2004 -- PROTESTING AMERICA -- John Podhoretz, New York Post, via Free Republic
02/22/2004 -- Kerry's Anti-War Legacy -- Craig Gordon, Newsday, via Free Republic
02/22/2004 -- Foes lash Kerry for Vietnam War words -- David Jackson, Chicago Tribune
02/20/2004 -- Kerry's Denials at Odds With 1971 Book He Authored -- Marc Morano, Cybercast News Service
02/20/2004 -- Vets refuse to forgive Kerry for antiwar acts -- Charles Hurt, Washington Times
02/19/2004 -- John Kerry's Anti-War Book Riles Former Green Beret -- Marc Morano, Cybercast News Service
02/19/2004 -- Kerry and Jane -- Robert Novak, TownHall
02/19/2004 -- The Kerry Files, Volume II -- Hugh Hewitt, Weekly Standard
02/19/2004 -- ...and Kerry's past speaks louder than his words -- Laura Bartholomew Armstrong, Marietta Daily Journal
02/19/2004 -- Vietnam POW: Hanoi Hilton Torturers Cited Kerry's Speech -- NewsMax
02/18/2004 -- Hanoi Jane Memories -- Anne Hendershott, National Review
02/17/2004 -- Fonda Defends Kerry's Anti-War Past -- Jeff Gannon, Talon News
02/17/2004 -- John Kerry: Further Left Than He Lets On -- John Perazzo, FrontPage Magazine
02/17/2004 -- McCain: Hanoi Hilton Guards Taunted POWs With Kerry's Testimony -- NewsMax
02/15/2004 -- A few questions for John Kerry -- George Will, TownHall
02/13/2004 -- Why Families Say Kerry Betrayed POWs and MIAs -- Dave Eberhart, NewsMax
02/13/2004 -- Kerry vs. Vietnam vets -- Rich Lowry, TownHall
02/13/2004 -- Kerry Accused U.S. of War Crimes -- David Freddoso, Human Events
02/13/2004 -- The Kerry moment -- Mona Charen, TownHall
02/12/2004 -- Kerry: Shredding documents, abandoning veterans -- Benjamin Shapiro, WorldNetDaily
02/12/2004 -- Heroic John Kerry? -- Gary Aldrich, TownHall
02/11/2004 -- Kerry after Vietnam -- William Hawkins, Washington Times
02/11/2004 -- Kerry photo a 'big lie,' Fonda says -- Robert Stacy McCain, Washington Times
02/11/2004 -- An Open Letter to Sen. John Kerry -- Jonathan M. Stein, NewsMax
02/11/2004 -- Kerry takes new fire over Vietnam -- CNN
02/11/2004 -- Jane Fonda defends Kerry -- Marlon Manuel, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
02/11/2004 -- The Winter Soldier Investigation and John Kerry - Frozen in Time? -- Kevin Fobbs & Lisa Sarrach, GOP USA
02/11/2004 -- Kerry called for strong U.N. role in 1970 -- USA Today
02/11/2004 -- Photo of Kerry with Fonda enrages Vietnam veterans -- Stephen Dinan, Washington Times
02/11/2004 -- The Antiwar War Hero -- George Neumayr, The American Spectator
02/11/2004 -- War hero Kerry shows no policy leadership -- Jonah Goldberg, TownHall
02/11/2004 -- Old Crimson Interview Reveals A More Radical John Kerry -- Zachary M. Seward, Harvard Crimson
02/09/2004 -- Kerry doesn't deserve veterans' support -- Joe Crecca, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
02/09/2004 -- Vietnam roles play out for Bush, Kerry -- Nancy Banac, Washington Times
02/09/2004 -- Kerry More Commanding as Chief? -- Mackubin Thomas Owens, National Review
02/09/2004 -- Kerry no hero in eyes of Vietnam-era veteran -- Christopher Ward, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
02/04/2004 -- Kerry: War Zero -- Don Feder, FrontPageMagazine
01/28/2004 -- John Kerry: forged in the fires of Vietnam -- Yahoo, via Free Republic
01/27/2004 -- Vetting the Vet Record -- Mackubin Thomas Owens, National Review
01/26/2004 -- Veterans Should Politically Banish Kerry for Disgracing The Marine Corps Memorial -- Major Richard G. Erickson, Men's News Daily
01/26/2004 -- Conduct Unbecoming -- Steve Sherman, GreenBeret.net
01/20/2004 -- What You Don't Know About John Kerry -- Chuck Noe, NewsMax
12/16/2003 -- The Campaign of Hate and Fear -- Orson Scott Card, Wall Street Journal
12/14/2003 -- The truth about Kerry -- Dateline DC, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
06/17/2003 -- John F. Kerry, Candidate in the Making. Part 3: With antiwar role, high visibility -- Michael Kranish, Boston Globe
05/25/2003 -- Viet Vet charges urges Kerry to come clean -- Larry J. O'Daniel, JenMartinez.com
12/02/2002 -- THE LONG WAR OF JOHN KERRY -- Joe Klein, New Yorker
10/15/2002 -- An Open Letter to Sen. John Kerry on Iraq -- Brian Willson, CounterPunch
06/08/1971 -- John Kerrys America -- William F. Buckley, Jr., Commencement Address at West Point
02/18/1970 -- John Kerry: A Navy Dove Runs for Congress -- Samuel Z. Goldhaber, Harvard Crimson
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