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Posted on 09/18/2004 1:10:28 PM PDT by wagglebee
(AgapePress) - A former Air Force pilot who spent almost eight years in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp says John Kerry's anti-war activities helped extend the amount of time he was incarcerated by the Communists -- and encouraged the Communist regime to prolong the war.
Smitty Harris, who now resides in Tupelo, Mississippi, is one of 17 former POWs who was interviewed for Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, a video that investigates how John Kerry's actions during the Vietnam War impacted the treatment of American soldiers and POWs. Their combined time spent in prison during the war amounts to more than 109 years. Harris, who was a POW from April 1965 to February 1973, says he has come forward to tell his story now because he does not think the Massachusetts senator should be America's next Commander-in-Chief.
The Democratic presidential hopeful, says Harris, "helped extend my incarceration in North Vietnam" through his well-documented anti-war activities made after returning stateside. "I would label him, personally, as a traitor," the former POW adds.
Kerry has made his service in Vietnam the leitmotif of his presidential campaign -- to which Harris responds: "People say, 'Well, he served in Vietnam, honorably, got all those medals.' Well, that's questionable -- but let's take it on face value that he did. So did Benedict Arnold, the great general."
And like his comrades who appear in Stolen Honor, Harris says Kerry made things very difficult for Americans staying at "The Hanoi Hilton."
"[Kerry] was still in the inactive reserve when he was making those libelous statements to Congress in April of 1971. That's enough for a court martial right then and there,." Harris shares. "And his dealing with the enemy, Madame Vinh in Paris, while we were still at war and while he was still a member of the armed forces, was also traitorous."
It is that testimony before Congress that Harris claims gave the enemy the confidence that they could ultimately win the war. "They had a long history of just wearing out any foreign forces, but they were just given more encouragement by people like John Kerry," he says.
Harris credits Kerry with having more impact on prolonging the war -- and giving aid to the enemy -- than even "Hanoi Jane" Fonda and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. He says his captors "virtually told" the prisoners the North Vietnamese could not match the military might of the U.S., but that "they would win the war because they would win it in the streets of the United States."
"He had probably more impact than anyone else that I can imagine ...on prolonging the war and giving encouragement to our communist enemies to continue their struggle," Harris says.
The 45-minute documentary Stolen Honor, released on Thursday, features a group of highly decorated veterans, two of whom are Medal of Honor recipients. It was produced by Carlton Sherwood, himself a decorated Vietnam veteran as well as a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
You should donate the spare copies to a local school, just make sure they'll show it first.
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Have you been taking lessons from backhoe? Nice work.
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>>I can state without any doupt that John Kerry has the blood of 10's of thousands of people on his hands.
I'd say a good chunk of those who died in Cambodia, when that domino fell, could be added to the ledger. That was around 2 million, according to Rummel.
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
Whom to believe? Someone who survived eight long years in VC captivity, or John Kerry himself?
Americans: believe your former POWs. No one serves this country the way they have. No one believes in it more. No one loves it more than they do. No one would stand up for you the way they have.
No one.
Exactly! Benedict Arnold was a hero...who then went bad. So even if you give Kerry all he asks for while in 'Nam...it just makes his betrayal all that much worse when he got home...just like Arnold. Benedict Kerry to all of the vets who continued to fight, who were POWs...who never made it home.
Leonard Magruder, President, V.V.A.R.
Says Kerry was a signer of the“People’s Peace Treaty.” A “people’s” declaration to end the war, drawnup in communist East Germany. It included nine points, all of which were taken from VietCong peace proposals at the Paris peace talks as conditionsfor ending the war
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=59#59
I've tried contacting Leonard Magruder directly to see where we can get a copy of this document; but I've not heard back.
No, I am just anti-Communist!
>>>I find several instances where the VVAW is receiving money, directions, and non-monetary support from Communist Organizations in the USA, Europe, Soviet Union, France and Southeast Asia, as well as other countries.
Adding onto Stockpirates observations:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=61#61
In the spring of 1992, he wrote a story about Clinton's conscience - wrestling about the draft while at Oxford. Theses stories by Talbott were big lies. Clinton rewarded Talbott by making him the number two person at the State Department. Sidney Blumenthal - The top White House spin master is a long time friend of the Clintons. Blumenthal is a former member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Look here, from From “Mutiny Does Not Happen Lightly: The Literature of the American Resistance to the Vietnam War”
The game of the rich has caught up to Pig America. The Vietnamese have kicked ass out of U.S. occupational troops. More and more G.I.’s will no longer listen to Pig Nixon’s orders and are turning their guns around on the real enemy. The Provisional Revolutionary Government in Vietnam (Viet Cong) has led the Vietnamese people to complete victory.
–Roxboro School SDS- Cleveland Heights – June 4, 1972
Recently many articles have appeared in the movement press expounding the virtues of deserting and going AWOL. “Come to Canada and be a man.” “Soldiers are pigs,” “To remain in the imperialist U.S. Army rather than leaving is comparable to being a Nazi.” Last year there were, by Pentagon counts,, 250,000 AWOL’s and over 53,000 deserters. This has not made much of a dent in the fighting strength of the U.S.Army. That dent has clearly come from the heroic struggle of the Vietnamese people under the leadership of the NLF and the Provisional Revolutionary Government.
–New York Regional SDS distributed at Boston University - Feb. 22, 1969
Students for a Democratic Society = SDS
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=62#62
Now THIS group: Youth Against War and Fascism was on Ho Chi Minh's Pen Pal list. Now THIS gets interesting!
My Dear -------
I have received your letter. You and the progressive American people, especially the youth, feel indignant at the barbarous crimes perpetrated in Vietnam by the U.S. imperialists who have thus besmeared the honor of the American people and the noble traditions of the United States. I am glad to learn that you and many other young Americans are actively endeavoring under varied forms to help push forward the movement against the war of aggression in Vietnam and in support of the Vietnamese people.
With affectionate greetings,
Signed, Uncle Ho
June 18, Nov. 25, 1965
On February 7, 1965, the U.S. began its systematic air massacre of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). The U.S. also plans to bomb the system of dikes in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam which helps the North Vietnamese from drowning and starving. Just as the U.S. is attempting to drown in blood the liberation struggle of the South Vietnamese people because it is the model for liberation struggles everywhere, so North Vietnam is being bombed to bits because it shows all colonial and former colonial countries, by living example, that Socialism can solve their problems.
–Youth Against War and Fascism, Free University of New York - Aug. 27, 1966
As far as the Vietnamese are concerned, we are fighting on the side of Hitlerism, and they hope we lose. You are supposed to be fighting to “save the Vietnamese people from Communism.” Certainly Communist influence is very strong in the National Liberation Front, the rebel government. Yet most of the people support the NLF. Why ? The war in Vietnam is not being fought according to the rules. Prisoners are tortured. Our planes drop incendiaary bombs on civilian villages. Our soldiers shoot at women and children. Your officers will tell you that it is all necessary, that we couldn’t win the war any other way. We believe that the atrocities which are necessary to win this war against the people of Vietnam are inexcusable.
–Vietnam Day Committee, San Franscisco - Aug. 2, 1966.
Signers of the People’s Peace Treaty:
Look at the major leaders of the anti-war movement:
· Al Hubbard, John Kerry (currently researching if Ramsey Clark was a signer) - Vietnam Veterans Against the War - signed the People’s Peace Treaty of 1971
· Jane Fonda - actress - signed the People’s Peace Treaty of 1971
See post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=59#59 for People's Peace Treaty
· Noam Chomsky, MIT
· Rev. William Sloan Coffin, Jr. Yale
· Rennie Davis, May Day Collective
· Rev. Daniel Berrigan,S.J.
· Dave Dellinger, People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice
· Daniel Ellsberg - MIT
· Richard Falk - Princeton
· Tom Hayden - Berkeley
· Abbie Hoffman - WPAX, NewYork
· Sidney Peck - People’s Coalition for Peace and justice
· Bobby Seale- Black Panther Party
· Benjamin Spock, doctor
· Gloria Steinem - author
· George Wald, biologist, Havard
· Cora Weiss - Women Strike for Peace
Many of the people who signed the various documents in “Mutiny Does Not Happen Lightly: The Literature of the American Resistance to the Vietnam War” appeared again as signers of the “Not In Our Name” ad that appeared in papers all over the country, denouncing Bush and the wars on terrorism and Iraq.
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I've put on my tinfoil hat. Is it just coincidence that f'kerry got all those purple hearts just as fast as he could? Was his agenda in volunteering for the Swifties part of a master plan? Is there evidence of any contact with subversive (read that as 'communist') organizations before he volunteered for that duty? Or did he suddenly decide to become a leader in the anti-war movement only after he returned? Was he a mole or plant all along? Is he truly a 'Manchurian Candidate'?
And IMO what he did was far worse than Hanoi Jane Fonda and even MORE worse than Tokyo Rose as he spewed his seditious garbage from right here in the USA & Senate floor. The maggot should be doing 20 life in Leavenworth.
Hell at least that puke Clinton ADMITTED that he detested the US Military.
there was also a peace treaty that the VVAW signed from a group in CA. The peace treaty was drawn up in North Vietnam but I can't think of the name of the group. It was something like People Peace Treaty of Southern California, PPTSC...
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