Posted on 08/26/2004 6:37:19 PM PDT by FesterUSMC
Here is the John Kerry Testimony including questions.
Here is the Testimony in .pdf format
go to page 2 and look at Senator SYMINGTON question its about 1/2 way down and listen to Kerry talk about how soldiers report what they want to see NOT what actually happens
Tonk, here is a PDF of the entire testimony
thanks Fester
I dont see your reference
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its on page 35 of 40 in the pdf
Thanks
I don’t know where they came from, sir, maybe Vietnam. I had direct experience with that. Senator, I had direct experience with that and I can recall often sending in the spot reports which we made after each mission, and including the GDA, gunfire damage assessments, in which we would say, maybe 15 sampans sunk or whatever it was. And I often read about my own missions in the Stars and Stripes and the very mission we had been on had been doubled in figures and tripled in figures. The intelligence missions themselves are based on very, very flimsy information. Several friends of mine were intelligence officers and I think you should have them in sometime to testify. Once in Saigon I was visiting this friend of mine and he gave me a complete rundown on how the entire intelligence system should be re-set up on all of its problems, namely, that you give a young guy a certain amount of money, he goes out, sets up his own contacts under the table, gets intelligence, comes in. It is not reliable; everybody is feeding each other double intelligence, and I think that is what comes back to this country. I also think men in the military, sir, as do men in many other things, have a tendency to report what they want to report and see what they want to see. And this is a very serious thing because I know on several visits — Secretary Laird came to Vietnam once and they staged an entire invasion for him. When the initial force at Dang Tam, it was the 9th Infantry when it was still there — when the initial recon platoon went out and met with resistance, they changed the entire operation the night before and sent them down into the South China Seas so they would not run into resistance and the Secretary would have a chance to see how smoothly the war was going.43
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I have seen that self admission by him before.
Kerry is all over the place on this stuff. Seems his only solution is to somehow rise above being human. No war. think good thoughts. etc
Kerry just focuses on the shortcomings of man over and over.
the man is a walking hatred of mankind
He should be shot at the very least, for treason.
But too many people say that is not fair or nice.
"Mr. KERRY. Yes, sir. I think we have a very definite obligation to make extensive reparations to the people of Indochina."
Wonder if he still believes this ?
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