Posted on 06/21/2004 4:03:38 PM PDT by lancer
Monday, June 21, 2004 Official news agency says 1971 testimony shows war crimes
The official Communist Vietnamese news agency is citing presidential candidate John Kerry's 1971 testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as proof the U.S. committed war crimes in its conduct of the Vietnam war.
A report in the Vietnam News begins: "The Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal calls forth questions over the American War in Vietnam: "How were captured U.S. troops treated?" and "How did the Americans treat the Vietnamese?"
The report goes on to charge, "like in any of the dozens of countries they invaded, it was the Americans who perpetrated well-documented atrocities in Vietnam, both at the individual and mass levels."
While the report shows America POWs enjoying "a refreshing game of volleyball" while imprisoned during the war, it contrasts that photo with reference to the My Lai massacre.
"Candidate in this year’s American presidential elections, John Kerry, who fought in the war, went further in his criticism," the report continues. "In a statement to the U.S.' Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 1971, he said the war crimes committed by U.S. soldiers in Southeast Asia 'were not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.'"
The report insists that despite such abuses, "the Vietnamese did not reciprocate in kind; instead, they treated captured U.S. troops humanely."
November is get-even time and we can only hope that the "payback is a bitch."
"Calling John Kerry, pick up the 'you're screwed' phone"...
Let's see - AlQuaeda and Hezbollah demand that they be allowed to support Michael Moore and Farenheit 911 in the ME movies...
Kerry has his picture hanging up in the North VietNam Heroes Hall of Fame...
Kerry is cited as a terrorizing reference AGAINST the US Soldiers in VietNam, by the Commies...and his recorded and videotaped words support them completely...
What war?
Who's side?
I often thought that Walter Cronkite was on the North Vietnamese payroll. Then I began to think that Hanoi John was also on their payroll.
Hmm, I suppose when the Committee on Vietnam (you just know there'll be a committee) Kerry will confess to his atrocities.
War crimes...Pol Pot, who`s that? Just like Saddam, Bin Laden, who`s that? Liberals, best friends a psychotic killer ever had and they prove it everyday.
Whew, it is a good thing that the ultra-left wing media will NEVER publish anything related to Kerry's fake awards, his cowardice under fire, bugging out on his unit or his post-summer vacation treason. The extreme left media views Kerry's very brief time in Nam like a six year old views Santa Claus.
ping
Kerry aiding and giving comfort to the enemy, Nothing has changed.
The commies really jammed it up his moon. Well, they would have if another news source other than WND would pick this up and run with it.
I wonder if he can now take the 5th?
FYI
Big bump for payback in November.....
Looks like somebody at WND reads FR, or possibly WinterSoldier.com...
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