[longtermmemmory]

This is an amazing transcript. He dug up ONE vet after months of accusation. He also was "conected" to the politics of the anti-war machine for political advantage then too.

Kerry's own words damn him then and now.

Couple this with his senate record whre he supported the USSR,

sKerry is unfit for command.

[EdReform]

Bump & Ping

[unsycophant]

Thanks for posting this. It's especially relevant today.

[elbucko]

I remember watching this interview in the ready room of a Nike Hercules site, while serving out the rest of my time. It made me sick then, it makes me sick now.

John Kerry is no better than Lyndon Johnson. Johnson used Vietnam to insure a second term as president, Kerry to gain a first term as president. "JFK" is nothing more than a New England "LBJ". They'll do anything to get elected.

[JPJones]

I think further that the justification that Hanoi uses for keeping our POWs is that they were engaged in criminal acts there, and I think that someone who comes out and says exactly the same thing could be doing nothing but serving those purposes, although I'm not – obviously those are not your intentions. There's no question about that.

Maybe that's why Kerry's picture is in Hanoi on the wall of "heroes of socialism" or some such wall.

[joesnuffy]

There it is...for any who have a mind to...to read for themselves... Truth....about John Kery....

But to quote JK

There has been – there have been cases of censorship in this war. There are hundreds of reporters, not the least of which Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer prize winning reporter, who will testify to that.

Just ask Peter Arnett.....bwahahahahahahaha......birds of a feather....

[angkor]

C-SPAN ran this debate in the entirety a couple months ago, and I hoope they run it again.

IMHO O'Neill kicked butt, but Kerry had the weight of the times and a sympathetic audience on his side (what could you expect, it was the Cavett show from NYC).

However it does reveal Kerry at his most pompous, detestable, and un-American best.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

This man has attempted the murder of the reputations of two and a half million of us, including the 55,000 dead in Vietnam, and he will never be brought to justice. We can only seek justice and equity from the American people. Every man kills the thing he loves. By each let this be told: The brave man does it with the sword; the coward with the word.

Kerry has had his 15 minutes, now we should let the SwiftVets have theirs.

[NeoCon_21]

Great to see, awesome post.

This put things in perspective. We have been fighting the same people, (John Kerry, Peter Arnett, Socialists) for over 30 years now. We lost Vietnam Politcally here at home not militarily. These people are self-prophesizers they take a subject and oppose it on the basis of ideaology for their own political expediency rather then in terms of what is best for freedom for America and for others around the world. There is no differnce for them between socialist governemtents or communists or western democracies (except the latter are especially despised because of their overwhelming success)

The bottom line is this is a cultural, ideological war for the survival of America. The enemies from abroad are never as dangerous as the enemies at home.

[Choose Ye This Day]

I think there's something particularly pathetic about me having to appear on nationwide television and trade polished little phrases with you to defend the honor of the 55,000 people that died there, the two and a half million of us that served there.

That should have left a mark.

[farsighted]

This is an amazing transcript. If only the talk shows of today would let the participants talk like this one. This shouting liar, liar has got to stop.

[Mr Rogers]

Bump.

10 months after this debate (27 Apr 72), my Dad was killed in a helicopter crash in Vietnam. I was 14.

According to Kerry, my Dad wasted his life. Since he was a Colonel, I suppose, according to Kerry, he was a war criminal.

Neither was true. Which is why I've donated to Swiftvets...