Posted on 09/22/2004 5:31:32 PM PDT by Angry Republican
A significant effect of the John Kerry-led 1971 protests was it strengthened the resolve of the North Vietnamese to continue to hold American POWs (see here).
The Nhan Dan daily newspaper of the North Vietnamese Communist party wrote that the protests in the United States were "a wave among the big waves which are rising higher and higher."
The paper also referred to the Kerry group as the "millions of American troops who have participated in the criminal war in Vietnam and were sent back to the United States to the ingratitude of the U.S. administration and indifference of many of their compatriots." (see here).
In an editorial, the Saigon Post newspaper of democratic South Vietnam viewed the anti-war demonstrations in the U.S. "with sorrow." The paper went on saying "It is indeed sad when the very witnesses to aggression, terrorism and inhumanity now turn their backs on truth in the safety of home."
The Kerry-led protests emboldened Communist forces to launch offensive operations against American and South Vietnamese defensive positions only days later.
Kerry's hometown newspaper, The Boston Globe reported: "Enemy troops launched two attacks on U.S. and South Vietnamese positions in the north yesterday and staged commando and mortar assaults elsewhere across South Vietnam inflicting severe losses and ending a period of relative calm."
The most persuasive evidence of the devastating effect Kerry, his testimony, and his planned protests had on American troops are summed up by 5-1/2 year POW, Mike Benge.
Mike Benge, Vietnam War POW said, "But they (the North Vietnamese) named John Kerry themselves. Because of what he did. That gave them the encouragement to continue fighting and prolonging the war."
Kerry has a lifetime of experience in foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a lifetime of supporting Communist forces opposed to the U.S. in Vietnam, in Nicaragua, in pushing for unilateral U.S. disarmament while the Soviets continued their military build-up or by doing their bidding by voting against nearly every major defense program in 20 years of Senate service.
John Kerry may make a good president. Just NOT for the U.S.
And that's The Point.
I'm Mark Hyman.
Why doesn't your link work?
Sorry. The URL is http://www.newscentral.tv
Thanks. This one works.
Well done. Presume this is a radio commentary.
Actually it is a television commentary. I watch him daily where I live.
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