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To: Interesting Times
I hate to say it, my friend, but I don't see this as a particularly damning story, even--or perhaps especially--by Kerry standards.

The photo shows Kerry in Vietnam as part of a U.S. delegation that went at the behest of the Clinton administration in 1993. If the Vietnamese communists want to present that as something that helped their war effort--some 20 years after the fact--they can do that, but it doesn't cast much of a reflection upon the people who attended.

Believe me, I want to see this Com-symp get nailed to the wall for the aid and comfort he gave to the enemy during the war. There's plenty of evidence out there that he did just that, but this ain't it, I'm afraid.

64 posted on 06/06/2004 7:54:42 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: Physicist
The point of the story is the context of the photo. It's in a room specifically dedicated to honoring those international activists who helped North Vietnam and the VC win the war.

From the article:

The existence of photographs showing Senator Kerry meeting with General Secretary Do Muoi is not in question. In the course of pursuing the POW and MIA issue, it is reasonable that Senator Kerry would seek to meet with the communist leaders of Vietnam. The critical issue is that the Vietnamese communists have chosen to honor Senator Kerry in their War Crimes Museum for his assistance in helping them achieve victory over the United States. The sign outside the entrance to the room where Kerry's photo is displayed reads: "The World Supports Vietnam in its Resistance." Also exhibited inside the room are protest banners and emblems from various nations and photographs of international leaders who supported North Vietnam's cause.

The people who placed John Kerry's photo there knew exactly what they were doing.

65 posted on 06/06/2004 7:59:27 PM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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