USE OF DRUGS BY U.S. SERVICEMEN IN VIETNAM
Senator SYMINGTON. There have been many reports of widespread use of drugs by U.S. servicemen in Vietnam. I might add I was in Europe last week and the growth of that problem was confirmed on direct questioning of people in the military. How serious is the problem and to what do you attribute it?
Mr. KERRY. The problem is extremely serious. It is serious in very many different ways. I believe two Congressmen today broke a story. I can't remember their names. There were 35,000 or some men, heroin addicts that were back.
The problem exists for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the emptiness. It is the only way to get through it. A lot of guys, 60, 80 percent stay stoned 24 hours a day just to get through the Vietnam -
Senator SYMINGTON. You say 60 to 80 percent.
SOOOOO according to Kerry not only are the VietNam veterans all baby killers...the MAJORITY are drug addicts too!
No wonder the VETS hate and distrust him so!
A friend of mine was a Special Forces officer on missions to assassinate Viet Cong officers. Whenever anyone in his squad was smoking dope and he found out, they were taking to a shed and the living daylights were beat out of them by this officer. His men loved him! No doper was going to get them killed.