Posted on 08/04/2004 12:53:43 PM PDT by kattracks
Three Vietnam veterans who were held captive for years in the prison known as the "Hanoi Hilton" revealed Tuesday that their Communist jailers repeatedly cited John Kerry's 1971 Senate testimony branding them as war criminals to justify threatening them with execution and drive down their morale."These statements [by Kerry] ... were proof I deserved to be punished," former POW Air Force pilot Jim Warner told United Press International. During every interrogation session, said Warner, his Vietnamese jailers echoed Kerry's charges that he was a war criminal. "The memory of that was still pretty fresh in my mind, and I was extremely uneasy. ... This officer said I committed crimes, that this war was illegal. ... All along they told us they would execute us for our 'crimes.'"
His captors even waved a four-page transcript of Kerry's Senate speech, Warner said, where the Democratic nominee had accused his brother soldiers of raping, torturing and mutilating innocent Vietnamese civilians.
The ex-POW pilot said also that audio from Kerry's speech was regularly played on Radio Hanoi and piped into the prison camp.
But what particularly incensed him was efforts by Kerry and Jane Fonda to use his parents for propaganda purposes - by persuading them to appear at the Fonda-sponsored Winter Soldier Investigation in 1971.
"His sisters had told him that Fonda and Kerry were involved in getting his parents to appear," UPI said.
"The [North Vietnamese guards] were always talking about that [anti-war demonstrations], and they picked right up on Kerry's throw-away line, 'Don't be the last man to die in a lost cause,'" ex-POW Kenneth Cordier told UPI. Cordier, an Air Force pilot who spent 2,284 days as a prisoner, said his jailers "repeated [Kerry's quote] incessantly."
He also remembers his captors using photographs of the protest march where Kerry famously threw his war medals over the White House fence.
"They kept talking about the Vietnam Veterans Against the War [Kerry's group]," recalls a third ex-POW.
Navy pilot Paul Galanti told UPI that his Hanoi Hilton jailers would cite Kerry as a shining example of someone who had seen the light and had "crossed over to the people's" side.
No.I for one would be very surprised.
"Don't be surprised if EX POW Johnny McCain comes out and defends Kerry".
I would not be surprised, but it would not make any difference. There are far too many voices singing in the choir on this subject. Rooters, and AP have both carried it, and controversy will sell papers.
LLS
"The [North Vietnamese guards] were always talking about that [anti-war demonstrations], and they picked right up on Kerry's throw-away line, 'Don't be the last man to die in a lost cause,'"
First time I read Kerrys tag line.
One would think a glimpse would occur.What I think about the biased news is that they have really no affiliation with anything but making news and interesting times for the rest of us.Many of them would lead the Country into complete disaster just because it's exciting and sells news.They'll run it right up until their own butt is afire and then do stories about how Somebody Else should have prevented it.
bttt
Why is this man a Senator, much less running for President? Kerry has got to be the most anti-American presidential candidate ever.
You're a troll. Bush served his country; Kerry didn't. End of story.
My uncle came back and had nightmares of the treatment he got in the POW camps... He was a mess, he HATES fonda with a passion because of all the rhetoric she spewed and the viet-cong used to replay ALL hours of the night. As was much of the kerry testimony (which we know was all lies... is it too late to prosecute him for false testimony to congress?)
Would your poli-sci teacher consider the LA Times "legitimate"? Galanti's account is at:
http://www.latimes.com/la-na-vietnam17feb17,1,5556450.story
Also former Admiral, Senator and POW (7 years) Jeriamiah Denton's story is in the Mobile Register, at:
http://www.al.com/opinion/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/opinion/107882739575630.xml
That's the question.
How to get out the truth about Kerry.
I'll never see that day, though.
What was Georgie up to in '71?
What does that show about who is more committed to the safety of fellow Americans
Just proves that intelligence is genetic. Some people are just born dumb.
dead wrote:
My Dad's a Vietnam vet, and is behind Kerry 100%.
Your dad raised a liar.
NOT forgetting....
;-)
My father's a vet (USMC), though luckily the closest he got to Viet Nam was Okinawa and Japan. He thinks Kerry should be shot for treason.
bump
You're right.
Democrats = EVIL, Republicans = STUPID
BUMP right back!
( And I hope the shores are free of Godzilla for the moment! )
Stupid people are everywhere. You are proof of that.
Hope you don't mind--me butting in but Katr's doing other threads now anyway.The "Truth" about j kerrey is not what his supporters are concerned with.It's about gaining and maintaining political power and paying off a lot debt.They are stuck on this guy or Mr.Ed or whatever they had to digest like glue. DeMonacrats.
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