Vietnam Vets Rally Against Kerry

AP ^ | September 12, 2004 6:31pm

[Former Military Chick]

Washington (AP) - With the U.S. Capitol as a backdrop, hundreds of Vietnam veterans rallied Sunday against fellow veteran and Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry.

The event was sponsored by Vietnam Veterans for the Truth. The group's president, Larry Bailey, accused Kerry of lying three decades ago when he returned from Vietnam and gave testimony before the U.S. Senate alleging widespread atrocities by American troops.

Bailey's speech was briefly interrupted when a shouting match broke out between a lone Kerry supporter - another Vietnam vet, in a wheelchair - and several of the anti-Kerry vets.

Before the rally, Kerry supporters held a news conference nearby to defend Kerry and denounce TV ads attacking his military record.

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[Former Military Chick]

IF there were doubts how they felt, after reading this, should remove them all.

[Merry]

It looked to me like there were more than hundreds, try thousands.

[writer33]

If a lot of Americans saw this today, it's lights out for J.F.K. He was smoked by his fellow veterans.

[keithtoo]

One thing we know for sure - from experience - the AP cannot be trusted to give the straigh story.

[KeyLargo]

Great stuff!

This should be seen by everyone! CSPAN will replay it early 1:57 AM ET tomorrow.

Rally
Vietnam Veterans Rally
Vietnam Vets for the Truth
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 183440 - 09/12/2004 - 2:00 - No Sale

Warner, Jim, Prisoner of War
Burkett, B. G., Author
Crowley, Carol, Daughter
O'Neill, John E., Spokesman, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth
Bailey, Larry, President, Vietnam Vets for the Truth

[LisaMalia]

FYI, this will rally be replayed on C-SPAN at 2am.

I missed most of it the first time around, so am going to either try to stay up, or tape it.

[Imaverygooddriver]

I saw it today, freggin` great. Effen was exposed for was he is; Nothing more that a two bit good for nothing yellow bellied self serving backstabbing traitor. And this putz has the gall to run for President? He shouldn`t even be Senator!

[Restorer]

The group's president, Larry Bailey, accused Kerry of lying three decades ago when he returned from Vietnam and gave testimony before the U.S. Senate alleging widespread atrocities by American troops.

Here we go again with the L word.

If JK believed what he said, it was not a lie, regardless of whether the stories he told were objectively true or not.

Similarly, when GWB said Saddam had WMDs, and it turns out he didn't, this is not a lie if he believed it when he said it.

There is certainly an ethical problem of making statements, as JK did, about repeating as true stories of atrocities you did not personally witness or verify through other means. But that doesn't make such statements LIES.

Of course, he may have been fully cognizant of the untruthfulness of what he was saying, but nobody but he knows or can know this.

[TXBubba]

I need to find the LIVE post for this. I don't trust specifics from the AP after the "booing" report.

[risk]

Was the guy in a wheel chair really a vet? Was he really disabled?

[FranApple]

They will be selling a tape of the Rally, to raise funds. It was powerful.

http://kerrylied.com/
Vietnam Vets for the Truth, LLC
God Bless those vets and honor their mission.

[Liberty Valance]

Bump!

:o)

[xrp]

I have doubts about your ability to use the SEARCH feature!

[SpeakingUp]

Edwards, Kerry and Ted

Ready to attack

[Former Military Chick]

>>FYI, this will rally be replayed on C-SPAN at 2am. I missed most of it the first time around, so am going to either try to stay up, or tape it. <<

Thank you for the update will pass it along.

[LisaMalia]

Thanks for the info! I will certainly buy a tape, because I believe very deeply in their cause. I'll pass the link onto family and friends via email as well.

[pipecorp]

The New EX-MEN. :^O

[Cagey]

I was going to watch the JETS football game today but could not pull away from the C-Span coverage of this event. In addition to the men and woman vets who spoke, I was touched by the daughters of two men, a Sergeant and a Lt. Colonel, who were killed during the Vietnam war. When Laura Armstrong said "We need a leader, not a weather-vane", I wished I had been there to cheer her on. She put into one sentence what this election is all about.

[macsmind76]

I can say they were lies. I know of people who were there at the Winter Soldier Meetings in 1971. Kerry's statements were crafted and scripted and designed during these meetings to specifically to change public opinion about the war He was the spokesman, he volunteered, and knew that they were generalized and not true, yet to this day he has yet to recant, and in fact has stood behind the statements.

More about Kerry's deceptions are forthcoming in the weeks to come in ads and a new book, as some of the witnesses begin to get their story out.

[A2J]

He shouldn`t even be Senator!

For what he did, he shouldn't even be free!