"Kerry draws heckler . ."
"On the April 18 Meet the Press, Tim Russert played a clip from Kerry’s April 18, 1971 appearance on the show. Kerry had asserted: - “There are all kinds of atrocities and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free-fire zones."
- "I conducted harassment and interdiction fire."
- "I used 50-caliber machine guns which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people."
- "I took part in search-and-destroy missions, in the burning of villages."
- "All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare."
- "All of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions and all of this ordered as a matter of written established policy by the government of the United States from the top down."
- "And I believe that the men who designed these, the men who designed the free-fire zone, the men who ordered us, the men who signed off the air raid strike areas, I think these men, by the letter of the law, the same letter of the law that tried Lieutenant Calley, are war criminals.”
