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.
My dad is a Vietnam Vet and a democrat.
He even serves on local Dem committees (e's also a NE University Professor)
He told me he would never vote for Kerry. He can't stand the guy.
Democratic Presidential nominee Senator John Kerry (news - web sites) leaps to touch a Vietnam era Huey helicopter at a Vietnam memorial as he stopped to greet supporters along route 61 in Grandview, Iowa, August 4, 2004. Kerry was campaigning on the 'Believe in America' tour, a two week trip across the country that started in Boston Massachusetts following the Democratic National Convention. REUTERS/Mike Segar US ELECTION
Ping!
You Dad is a Democrat, and those people are faithful to the party.
Never did see the the original post from duodenum but it musta been a real rotten peach.
I don't feel left out - I knew you'd get to me... just like I know you'll get around to reviewing that over-analytical protracted whine document I sent you
yeah... now we can listen to him brag about when he was on a helecopter from VN.
What was Georgie up to in '71?
What does that show about who is more committed to the safety of fellow Americans?
Let's peruse your bravo-sierra statements, just for a moment. First, if he's a "young lying twerp" then Kerry committed perjury in congressional testimony. Perjuring oneself in front of congress cannot be validly interpreted as trying to make "his country a better place". It is criminal - and should be a disqualifying factor for any federal office.
Second, if he wasn't lying, then he committed crimes under the UCMJ for not reporting direct knowledge of the alleged atrocities to the military authorities - and please remember that Senator Kerry was still in the Naval Reserves at the time of his testimony.
In either case, Kerry was not "misguided". He committed a crime - under either scenario.
It doesn't matter a whit who your father supports, BTW. One out of 23 of Kerry's fellow swift boat commanders (from the picture that Kerry likes to use in his campaign) is also on board Kerry's bandwagon. IIRC, 16 or 18 of the other commanders have gone on-record against Kerry.
I'm a Gulf war vet. Does that fact mean that my opinion should be weighted more heavily than yours? Of course not! (But, then again, my opinion is based on facts - not empty rhetoric and contempt).
Finally, President Bush was a trained fighter pilot during the Vietnam war. Senator Kerry was in command of a swift boat, before he either perjured himself or was an accomplice to war crimes (take your pick).
But you'd rather shill for the perjurer or UCMJ criminal.
Stated in terms timeless definitive and leaves little play.
Well that about wraps it up for me.and if I've insulted someone I apologise.I thought I saw duodenum and guess I don't know it from dccolon with my bad eyes.I'm medically challenged anyway so time to go.
Re Freeper dcoleum:"He's dead, Jim!"
America does not need "Snivel Chamberlain" in the White House!
John F'n Kerry is a lying traitor ~ Bump!
I know it doesn't do any good, but I email quotes from our guys who suffered because of Kerry's treason to all of the liberal press. I have never recieved a reply.
King Prout wrote:
I don't feel left out - I knew you'd get to me... just like I know you'll get around to reviewing that over-analytical protracted whine document I sent you
Missed it!
Oh well.
:-)
you were/are moving - no problem: I have waited 3 years, I can wait a little while longer :)
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